Democracy in the Philippines: The Manila Times ("Since 1898") has an article today on the upcoming elections. Looks like about o...

Happy Birthday: My baby sister was born on this date. She's grown up and run off to Minnesota since then, and I haven't seen her in...

A Little Mountain Feud, Part II: Part I here . I promised to keep y'all informed, so here we are. The wife saw Captain Moonshine driving...

"That's Actually Kind of a Dream of Mine." OK, so an illegal immigrant got past the FBI's background checks, got a job as ...

The Fang Fund: Nobody who navigates the blogosphere regularly will first learn here about Venomous Kate's lost teeth . Still, I know a ...

Reagan, Reagan Everywhere: The folks at the Corner are having an idle debate today over whether enough things have been named after Ronald R...

Searches on the NY Subway: Baldilocks is on the track of the NYCLU's suit over the NYPD's random searches on the NY Subway. I have ...

Hey... So this is why all of you keep coming around here... A study of 7,000 people in their early 20s, 40s and 60s found that those who dr...

Guns in the Parking Lot: My wife, who reads the blog though she has never commented here, asks for fewer gun-related stories, as she finds t...

5.56mm: Amid this excellent bit of photoblogging by Michael Yon, there is an insightful comment. He was right there during a firefight wit...

The Remote: While reading over the worst short story I've seen in ages (and who knew that Valerie Plame was really a KGB officer?) I ca...

Ooh-Rah! Kim du Toit knocks one out of the park.

Woman Marines: Military.com has an article today on women who are Marines, one that raises again the old debate about the proper role of wo...

The Hackett Thing: Looks like Rush gave a part of his program over to this today. I'll tell you what, this guy to me sounds like a typi...

For The Kingdom, If I Can... Kim du Toit points to what might be a very serious business indeed. A renegade band of Mexican military desert...

Piracy: If I were not in such a foul mood, I would laugh loud and long at this : Hackers found a way around Microsoft's Windows Genuine ...

An old anecdote comes to mind: "A mule that has made 20 campaigns under Marius is still a mule." I just noted this over at the Co...

Remember you the butterfly As a child you had to let go, For she was born freedom to know to chose to stay or to hie, And she chose the hori...

The Gun Watch: Here's an enlightening story about a teenage girl who shot a rapist who was attacking her. The incident took place on C...

Hospitality: I should not be shocked by infamous behavior, when it comes from members of the EU's ruling class. The EU is the natural h...