For my Father: I think they mean you , Dad. No better man could lead them.

More On the National Parties: Caerdroia's Jeff Medcalf explains his own thoughts on equal protection, which is never equally protected ...

Liberia: Today's Washington Post has the first potentially convincing argument I've heard for US intervention in Liberia: washingto...

More Proof of Communist Trechery: Having just last night enjoyed AMC's showing of "The Quiet Man," imagine my particular horro...

Can We End the DNC? Long term readers know that I am, by political affiliation, a Southern Democrat. This is one of the least comfortable p...

Arts & Letters Daily: Arts & Letters Daily has linked to Mr. Robinson's piece in the Spectator . They have also today a very i...

Scooping InstaPundit: It's not often that one beats InstaPundit , Sage of Knoxville, to the punch. I thought based on yesterday's f...

Alas for DARPA: It appears that DARPA's plan to create a futures market for speculation on terrorism has died an undeserved death . Thi...

Wisdom from an old CIA hand: James Woolsey writes: I would add that, just as we eventually won the Cold War - and when I say 'we' h...

Arts & Sciences: Outrages Jonah Goldberg takes on a survey from the "science" of psychology that purports to demonstrate th...

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 ...