1836: Remember the Alamo . If you happen to think the brave old days are gone forever, they're not . The Free State Project is still ...

USMC in Georgia & Points South: This is the other Georgia . The USMC is training Georgian security forces in combined arms, still a new...

Georgia Primary: I spoke to the family over the internet--we here at Grim's Hall have one of those cheap video-com webcams so that the g...

No, And Hell No: Our boy Blackfive has the story of a teacher and soldier, called up for duty, who has been told he has to fork over the co...

Gun Control: As you know, today is the Senate vote on S. 1805, which is the bill to protect the gun industry from assault-by-lawsuit. The P...

Interservice Abuse: Well, not abuse, exactly--the Army has it coming. :) Mike points out that Blackfive's excellent suggestions on h...

Iraq: Constitution & Religion: Iraq approved its interim constitution today. The LittleGreenFootballs blog is not at all happy about i...

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 ...