Marine Corps University: Here's a Master's thesis from Marine Corps University that's worth reading (PDF warning). It treats G...

Zell Miller: I get the Honorable Zell Miller's weekly newsletter. I don't think it's available online, so I'd like to post ...

Marine Corps Memoirs: Friend and former Marine Bjorn sends this website, Marine Memoir . It's a great resource for sea stories and tale...

Broder: David S. Broder has an article in the Post today called "Time to Watch Edwards" . He's arguing that Edwards should g...

The Spectre of Vietnam: For about twenty years, every time the United States has considered an intervention we have heard about the "sp...

Shadow Government: We've heard the term tossed around now and then, but it ought to be remembered that there really is one. Since the E...

Iran: If you're curious to see what the US Air Force's people, and the NSA, think about the Iranian government, you can read this un...

Taxes: Today Samizdata has a story on taxation in the Middle Ages. An interesting point: medieval peasants worked fewer days of their yea...

For Eric: A few days ago Eric was questioning my numbers on the percentages of the military who are Southerners. I explained that I was fol...

On Moderation: We are told that politicians, if they are to be entrusted with any power, ought to be "mainstream" or "moderat...

"Five Gallons of Gasoline" If you haven't read this essay by Ali at "Iraq the Model" , you might want to do so. It ...

Sharp Knife: Sharp Knife has some incisive questions for John Kerry. He's right about all of them--keep scrolling. If Kerry is the no...

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...