Horn'd helmets all around: Hagar the Horrible , the Movie. More likely: Hagar, the Horrible Movie.

Bless Harold Bloom: The Atlantic Unbound has an interview with Harold Bloom . It is worth reading in full, but of course I won't quote ...

Is It Vietnam Yet? Iraq certainly is not Vietnam. Indeed, even Vietnam isn't Vietnam. These days Vietnam is Indochina : French ambassa...

Defending Iceland: The heroic ethic in Ancient Greece is often stated by historians as, "Help your friends, harm your enemies." I...

Honored Guns Good revolutions are not a thing understood by the UN. No surprise. We who honor the old American way can not agree. For my...

Bush, Saddam and al Qaeda: From InstaPundit , sage of Knoxville, comes an article from a judge for whom he used to clerk. The fellow, a lif...

War with DPRK Watch: Open sources, including the Straits Times of Singapore, are reporting that North Korea is doing pre-nuke bomb tests an...

Lied? Apparently not. I've been giving my friends on the left a lot of leeway with the "Bush lied about..." claims that they h...

More on Iran: Iranian agents may be behind the jamming of all US satellite transmissions to Iran. Neither private nor government signal is...

Iran: Although I'm not sure why I would follow the advice of Andrew Sullivan, I will include a link to Iranian issues today, via Arts ...

Arguing Against Heroism: I am always surprised at how many people want to take up a stick to beat the notion of heroism. It seems to me tha...

Grandma: Not my own dear grandmother, but a heroic woman nonetheless : Grandma set broken bones, dug lead out of men that had been shot, and...

Magna Carta: Here is what almost passes as a conservative case for radical socialism, if such a thing can be imagined. It references the Ma...

Anti-American: Did you know that the current stream of anti-American thought has its roots in Nazism? Did you know that there were four pre...

Ah, yes, California: The Golden State screws us again: Shorn of LaLaLand [that is, California], in May America would actually have seen a n...

Ah, the Turks: On April 24th, US forces captured a dozen Turkish commandos who had come to Iraq to cause mayhem: The Turkish Special Forces...

I've Seen This Movie: Send in the Marines ? I can't think why, when we will surely need them elsewhere soon enough. The threat of ...

Our Predecessors: Many of our Islamist enemies have come to consider "Crusaders" to be just another word for "American" ...

A Bolt from Heaven: An evangelist calls upon God for a sign, and God delivers : A member of the First Baptist Church said a guest evangelist...

All hat, no... Cowboy hats on the runway in Milan. It's supposed to be a 'virile' symbole of an 'American tough-guy image....