An Old Song: Sign And Sight is the online magazine that translates European, and particularly German, intellectual writing into English so ...

On Thinking Things Through The headline reads, "Man Tries to Steal Gun to 'Rescue Schiavo.'" A man was arrested after tryi...

America, As Seen From Germany: Kim du Toit has a link to this story, which sorts German sterotypes of Americans by how evil they think we ...

Duty, shirking thereof. I saw at this and immediately thought: "Ok, send him back so he can be shot." AND, I suppose that's g...

Wow, Indeed: It's a banner day for Southern Appeal, which is also the source of this link. From The New Scientist , it's called ...

Serenity: We have a tradition in my family of naming vehicles, in the same way that you would name a ship or a horse. I recently came to ow...

What About Federalism? There's been a lot of talk about this whole Congressional intervention. I was rather surprised by it, but assume...

Ok, I'll Bite: Niall Ferguson asks, "Could Globalization Collapse?" It may seem unlikely today. Yet despite many warnings, pe...

A Question for Soldiers: On the train home tonight, I saw but did not have a chance to talk with a Major of the Special Operations Command ....

Training: BlackFive has a story to tell about a fellow soldier who died right in front of him. He's also got some links. Training i...

Come On, Dean: You've got to be kidding : 'Keep it simple' is the key to the White House, failed Democratic presidential candida...

On Vice: It's not every day you see an article in a serious publication approvingly cite Modern Drunkard magazine : When you look back ...

Blogger: Both Blogger and HaloScan are acting up. As soon as I can force them to let me, I'll have more.

Bolton and the UN: Joe Conason has a piece this week called "Bolton's Nomination an Insult to the U.N.: Latest in Bush Pattern of ...

On the 17th of March: I went by my favorite pub north of Savannah, Molly's of Warrenton , for a pint or two today. Edsall Road was pla...

Matters Abroad: Our honorable brethren across the sea, Samizdata , have two interesting posts today. One is on what they call a "count...

Scalia Is Right: I had time this afternoon to read this transcript of Scalia's remarks . I think he's right, from first to last. ...

Heroism's Alternative: Noel picks up on an interesting fact: In 1996, when Canadians were asked to name both the greatest living and th...

Today was my grandfather's birthday. Had he not died at the age of eighty, he would have been ninety-three today. I will shortly raise...

Notice: While pondering Joel's comments to the TR post this morning, I decided to switch the comments section to "oldest to most r...