Happy Birthday, BlackFive: Two celebratory posts in one day? Maybe we should just declare this a holiday . And he's only sixty-seven ...

Welcome Home, Jarhead: Everyone here knows JarHeadDad, frequent commenter both here and in several other places on the web. I thought you...

The Challenger: John Derbyshire, a longtime Shuttle opponent , reminds us that today is the 20th anniversary of the Challenger disaster . I...

What About This Torture Case? The Armed Liberal, who is one of the more honest and pugilistic folks in the blogosphere, threw down on the Ar...

On the Radio: I'm sure you've seen the Hugh Hewitt beating of interview with our Mr. Stein. I have to say that, for me, it can be...

A Second: Joel Stein seconds the "military men are like toilet cleaners" comments of earlier this week . He, like the Kossak com...

Bangladeshi Rumors: Bill Roggio has links to a potentially huge story out of India and Bangladesh. Bill mentions that Bangladesh has two I...

Revolutions, In & Out of the Hemisphere: Congratulations to Canada , which has done what was unthinkable even two years ago -- broken th...

On Ideology and Closed Systems: I'm going to respond here, because what started as a comment turned out to be far too long for Haloscan....

Open Mind, Closed Mind: After a day spent toiling away at academic work, I took a pleasant break over at neo-neocon's place. More specif...

CIA Blocks Reports: Via Secrecy News , I see that the CIA is blocking critical reports on its intelligence gathering. At least three uncla...

One of the Sharp Ones: Uncle Jimbo, during an interview with Sgt. Boggs , lets the sergeant ask him a few questions back. Here's one o...

Hanging! Fire! If, like me, you haven't gotten over to The Gun Line lately, don't miss this story about mortar practice with a rea...

JohnKerry@DailyKos.com: I've been reading some interesting reports that J. F. Kerry has decided to engage the folks at Daily Kos (the la...

To Insufferable Guests: I notice all to my grief, My vegan guests will not eat beef; But if I roast them in beef's stead, And boil their...

A Crazy Game of Poker: I spent last night playing poker at the house of a former neighbor of mine, who is the groundskeeper at the local Cat...

Global War: (also posted at Wilde Karrde ) I seem to recall saying, shortly after the London Subway Bombings last July, that this is another...

Whiskey in the Jar: The COUNTERCOLUMN reports on the EU and Irish ballads . Short version: apparently, you have to be in a union to sing a...

Bin Laden offers truce. Sorry... but I'll only accept their surrender... preferably at bayonet tip. I especially loved the: "We are...

"The Whiskey Wars" Are Finally Over: Unconditional surrender has at last been achieved. Only took 131 years; but our cause was j...