The Mouths of Babes: Meghan Cox writes at NRO: [T]he Francophone pachyderm is riding on his mother's back when a hunter shoots her. Bab...

A Regional Candidate: John Kerry writes off Tennessee , saying he's not running a "regional" candidacy. Well, he's certai...

Bioterror at the Capitol: The bad news is it looks like today produced a ricin attack at the US Captiol. The good news--today was the day ...

Kerry: Doc Russia has some damning details from Kerry's military career. Surely he didn't write himself up for three Purple Hearts...

"Islam: A Threat To World Stability": Intelligence, we like to say, is always speculative. Sometimes, though, speculation is rig...

Sick? Doc Russia is sick. As this is the season for it, I offer as a kindness to my readers Mark Twain's "Curing a Cold." ...

A Disrespectful Prayer? The Arizona Republic has an interesting story today: "House Democrats claim prayer is 'disrespectful'...

The Sarge is Being Clever: I had a good laugh at Sgt. Stryker 's post on the News today: Stealing a page from the 2000 Election, Democra...

OpSec: I join Blackfive in condemning the Chicago Tribune , and especially Ms. Spolar. Even the anti-war Human Rights Watch noted, in thei...

The South and the Democratic Party: Slate has today an article by one Timothy Noah, entitled "Forget the South, Democrats - Stop coddl...

Samizdata: You have probably noticed that Samizdata has a new look. I've been trying to sort out what the pistol is they're using ...

Milblogs: I've joined Milblogs . I wasn't sure how they'd feel about a former member of the USMC who was currently in the merce...

Marriage: It's marriage day at Arts & Letters Daily . Staney Kurtz of has a piece suggesting that marriage may cease to exist: Con...

Winning in Iraq: The Honorable Zell Miller , Senator of the great state of Georgia, has a new page up on his recent trip to Iraq. You ought...

New Links: I've added two new links to the "Other Halls" section: Bloodletting , another Marine blog, and Liberty Dad . Both...

Bad Conspiracy Theorist! Down! Sovay McKnight reduces another 9/11 conspiracy theory to dust.

Dean Campaigns in NH: From The Corner , we have a glimpse at Dean's campaign in New Hampshire: I arrived home from shopping today to fin...

From the Command Post: The Command Post reports that the Dean campaign has "paused" its nationwide ads, in favor of a focus on Ne...

"We Have Always Stood Up for Freedom" De Beste commented on the strength of the Australian-US relationship a few days ago. I not...

Chaplain Corps: Hail a hero , "12-year Green Beret, Persian Gulf War combat veteran, Special Forces company commander, demolitions expe...