On the Pope: You will have read much about the Pope's life, and his expected passing. The one thing that I read that struck me most cam...

A Bad Day: Some days just don't go right. This has sure been one of them. Absolutely everything I've tried to do today has gone ...

Grand Strategy: TigerHawk has a lengthy transcript of a lecture by professor Michael Doran of Princeton University. Wretchard has some add...

Defense Industry News: I apparently missed it, but Joe Katzman of Winds of Change -- who, as leader of the Pajamhadeen faction, was an ally...

Re-writing history. Sorta. So. I watched a new National Geographic special last night about the "Lost Treasures of Afghanistan" wh...

An Exception to the Kindness Rule: I have been to the Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial in Indianapolis, IN. It's down on the Whit...

To Bear Arms: Marine Corps Moms has become the center of gravity for the MilBlog and veteran response to this story : A picture of a Marine...

America's Worst Blogger Speaks: On Reconciliation . Kim du Toit, who was sent to jail for protesting aparthaid in his native South Afri...

Thinking Things Through, Journalism Edition: SlagleRock's Slaughterhouse has a small complaint to register against Harper's magazi...

Virtue Ethics & Kim du Toit: Mr. Barlow of Crooked Timber nominates Kim du Toit as America's Worst Blogger , based largely on the e...

Utah: The Salt Lake Tribune has an excellent opinion piece on the recent school shooting . Utah is, the piece points out, one of the only ...

Bad Clouds: The other day, Doc Russia had a post on the Minuteman Project . He noted that both the ACLU and MS-13 had decided to destroy ...

The UN, Seen From Oz: The folks down under are much bigger UN boosters than Americans, with UN critics still usually being supporters. Take...

Ostara: The half-heathen Angles, Saxons and Danes celebrated many old holidays even as Christianity was growing up among the elite of their...

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...