Colonel North: Old Ollie gives Congress both barrels today. They've got it coming, on several more counts than he had room for in his ...

America, the Beautiful: Though I think the last post points to a real concern, it should be noted that free speech is still very strong in A...

New Media: InstaPundit cites a report that bloggers may have been strongly influential in the "no" votes in Europe this week: ...

The Good Sense of the American People: Via the Dawn Patrol , a survey from the RAND Corporation on civilian support for the war . If the su...

An Old Soldier: Ever wonder where the phrase "Women and Children first!" came from? The story is a remarkable one, recounted in ...

Saving the Rainforest: Is it worth doing, if you have to give credit to a Texan ? Mr Carter is an unlikely bridge builder. As a child in San...

One Hundred: It's a good day. A 64-year-old Central Florida woman killed an intruder in her home over the weekend with a single shot fro...

SitRep: BlackFive has an excellent update on Ops Mongoose and New Market. It contains this, from an unnamed Senior Marine Officer: No shoc...

This Seems Familiar: Via Best of the Web today, an article entitled "Army Wants Soldiers to Get Used to Guns." On his third day o...

Philosopher Kings: A brief word on Plato's political thinking : Plato accepted the world of the phenomena as a mere shadow of the real w...

Memorial Day: I had planned to do a roundup post, but Winds of Change has a better one than I could have done. So, instead, I'll do so...

Marxism: Strongly advocated in the New York Times . This time, though, I think I pretty much agree.

Two from PACOM: Here are a couple of interesting articles from PACOM. The first is an interview with AEI's chair in political economy ,...

"Gun Bigotry" The Geek with a .45 refers to gun control advocates as "the forces of organized gun bigotry." Here are a...

Arts & Letters Daily: I should mention that the last two stories came to me via Arts & Letters Daily . I've hat-tipped to them ...

Bloom Off PostModern Rose: Here's an interesting article from the Los Angeles Times , called "Postmodern Fog Has Begun to Lift....

Bolivian Cattleman Whips Stanford Professor With barbed wire. And shoelaces. Truly, my friends, a brutal but well-deserved beating is adm...

Another Landmark Ruling: Or something like that : An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge's unusual order that prohibi...

The Boy Scouts & the Gentleman Commenter Ron Fox wrote an extensive piece on the Boy Scouts on one of the posts below. I thought it des...

Another Voice in the Chorus: Southern Appeal cites a report by the Manhattan Institute that says more or less the same thing as these rece...