A Companion Piece: Once you've read Doc Russia's piece, below, you might try Mark Steyn's latest : I hope if ever I find myself ...

"The Death Throes of Hope" Doc Russia has a post you really ought to read. Brace yourself, first.

Blues: The mother-in-law is sick, so the wife and boy are off visiting them this last little while. As I was telling Sovay yesterday, when ...

Indonesia at the Belmont Club Wretchard has a thorough piece on reactions to the Bashir sentence. Those interested in the Southeast Asian ...

More Fun From PACOM I'll bet Admiral Fargo is glad to be retiring : Tensions in the Sulawesi Sea rose a notch yesterday when three Indon...

Leathernecks: I had occasion last night to play poker with a World War II Marine. There isn't much to say about it, even thought I thoug...

Bakar Bashir: Well, he didn't walk . Not exactly. The death-penalty prosecution, in the most important terror trial in Asia, did manag...

Sign & Sight That is the name of a new website, devoted to European thinking. It is to be published in English, which Arts & Lette...

Chains: The Mudville Gazette has a photo essay on the breaking of chains. De Oppresso Liber . Al Basrah.net invites US military men to...

Chinese Animal Parks: Via the Best of the Web today, I saw this article on Chinese animal parks : While some of these visitors may be anima...

The March of Science: Yeah, okay . But I'm still planning on eating one now and then.

Car Bombs & The Fourth Generation: It's things like this that have spurred me to teach the military science classes online. It isn...

Reviews: Mike the Marine has some movie reviews for you: Regardless of all that, "Gung Ho!" is a film for the ages. It lets us s...

And a Little Child... BlackFive links to this column from the Tennessean . The land of Davy Crockett continues to produce men who volunt...

Why We Love Medics: This story from GruntDoc tells the whole tale. What these guys did is harder than anything I've ever been asked to...

With Trembling Hands: Noel at Sharp Knife has secret details from the exchange of letters between Ted Rall and David Horowitz. He has the ...

Mecha Warriors: That's the title of this article on efforts to build giant robots for the Army. One reservist has built one in his bac...

*Grumble* Why, oh why, must these manufacturers of automobiles make battery terminals out of such poor quality steel? Battery died in the...

Handguns to a Gunfight: The GeekWithA.45 has a story today that is both proud and tragic. It is tragic because it involves the death of a ...

No Punishment: China e-Lobby has a piece that points to an interesting fact: Huawei Technologies is a "principle supplier of Iraqi co...