America Holds Her Breath: It seems that way, on Christmas Eve. This has been a most eventful trip. I've had work to do, plenty of it -...

Life Gets Worse: Uncle Steve just dropped by on his way down to Florida, and gave the boy an early Christmas gift: a crossbow . As a conse...

I Agree With Jimbo: These guys are doing great work. This is just what we needed to deal with Fred Phelps et al -- a group of patriotic bi...

At Last: A furniture design after my own heart . I assumed at first that the "safe bedside table" would be a bedside table with a...

A Post for my Wife: The next time you get around to reading the blog, I think you'll enjoy this link .

A Belle's Weather: It's been a while since I mentioned my mother . The last time was in regard to the 2004 election, when I was ver...

Iraq Election Results: InstaPundit has several links to some early hand-wringing over the Iraqi Election results. I'm disinclined to i...

Christmas Presents: For five years, ever since we moved to China, from time to time my wife would look frantic and go searching through all ...

Holiday Travel: Yesterday, I spent more than eleven hours making a trip from Virginia to Georgia. The actual flight from the one place to t...

MCMAP: The Washington Times has an article today on the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program. It's a good read, but like most articles a...

While the American press is doing its best to ignore the elections in Iraq, and try to figure out under what authority the President can ord...

More From The Post : As of this morning, I see the "Experts Cautious" story is still about the fourth story, rather below the stor...

You've Got To Be Kidding: OK, so I saw the reports that leftist bloggers weren't talking much about the elections in Iraq. Fine --...

A Great Day: The main body of Iraq voting is now underway. Pajamas Media has Omar and Mohammed of Iraq the Model , plus reports from conta...

Camp Katrina and the AP: Specialist Van Treuren is annoyed with the AP on Rush Limbaugh's behalf. He compares how Rush's drug prob...

Let Them Go To Hell! I am sure that it does not get any more plain than that. (She reminds me of my dear departed Grandmother, accent and al...

The Nation of Volunteers: This is a link to a very lengthy post by Kim and Connie du Toit , which begins with a long description of financia...

Domestic Military Counterintelligence: Pajamas Media has a roundup on blogger reaction to this MSNBC story on the domestic counterintellig...

Paging Dr. Dean: I'm told he has a call on line 1 .

Punishment: Theory and Practice In the comments to the post on execution, below, we have had several thoughts on how execution ought to wor...