The Belmont Club As has been pointed out to me in several emails and in the comments, the Belmont Club has quite a bit of speculation about...

The Peril of Anecdotes: Today the Guardian , whose journalists are so antiwar that they wrote a book entitled The War We Could Not Stop , ha...

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries : A poem, by Alfred Edward Housman : THESE, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's ...

Overdue: Demonstrating that I am not the technological genius I wish I were, I have only just today figured out the mysteries of trackback. ...

The Daily KOS: Sometimes in a society, such as the society of bloggers, someone says something that deserves condemnation in the strongest t...

The Mad Piper: From Absinthe & Cookies is an astonishing story that I'm stunned I've never heard before: Bill Millin, 81, found...

Daniel, USMC: Friend and commenter Daniel, a former member of the USMC, has begun a new livejournal . I've linked to it under "oth...

"A House Divided" Here follow excerpted remarks by The Honorable Zell Miller on the floor of the Senate. The full remarks are in...

Fallujah Delenda Est : What is the right thing to do with a town whose citizens kill my brothers in the mercenary service , and then dance b...

Derbyshire: As he often does, today John Derbyshire closes his column with a brainteaser: Augustus De Morgan, the 19th-century English math...

Aidan Hartley: A too-rare treat, Aidan Hartley has a piece in this week's London Spectator . He's writing on sacrifices, accident...

Nailing it Down: As one of you pointed out to me in email, Doc Russia nails it . I spend a lot of time talking in reasoned tones to people,...

Oof!: Via The Sage of Knoxville , we have this from David Frum: This administration came into office to discover that al Qaeda had been allo...

Fitness Tips: A few days back I linked to An American Soldier . The blog is down for the next few days, but even so, you might go read thro...

Uzbek Bombings: Sovay has been following the reports on today's Uzbek suicide bombers. She thinks the fault may lie with the brutality...

Rules Repost: Just because I haven't done it in a while, allow me to repost the rules for the comments section. I take these in whole b...

Politics: I've begun a "Politics 2004" links section, which will be around until the election. For now it has just two links-...

SOCOM in the Sahara: This is a particularly interesting piece about the efforts of US Special Forces in West Africa . The Reuters bias is p...

Stryker: Reports are coming in that a Stryker unit has been hit by guerrillas in Mosul: Insurgents have fired two rocket-propelled grenades...

Iraqi Booksellers: This is an AFP report that--as I don't see it available in English on the web right now--I'm going to post in who...