Medieval Life, or, Another Argument for the Dogged Preservation of Tradition: Here is an article from the University of Adelaide on Medieval...

IRNA Says We Got Him: The Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, is one of the state propaganda--er, news--outfits in Iran. They are reporting...

Shameful Charges: I am fully in support of hanging traitors. The government of the United States, however, had better be damned sure of its...

Curious about Gay Marriage? A lot of people seem to be. If you're looking for vigorous debate, FreeSpeech seems the place to be. Ther...

Doc: Doc Russia--the poor fellow is getting a lot attention here today--had a post a while ago about Corpsmen . For those of you who don...

Special Operations: Quite a few papers have been turned out lately on the post-9/11 role of Special Operations forces. A partial list, with...

Kerry's Medals: Doc Russia had been asking some questions about this earlier. It appears that Snopes has been looking into it, and giv...

What did he say? From Atlanta, we have an astonishing story : Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has sent a letter to President Ge...

A Bet, II: Dear Sovay , In regard to our bet , which we made last year, I think it may be time to consider paying up . May I suggest Sierra...

"A Reply to Emerson" This poem, by me, is in reference to a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem: Cincinattus was a legend, And legends are ...

You're Drunk, You're Drunk, You Silly Old Fool : The diplomats have another whopper for you to swallow: US Praises China's comm...

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...