Another Wide-Ranging Debate: Cassandra is writing about a proposal to eliminate the Electoral College, and invites bloggers and commenters ...

Still More Islam: Sovay has come back around to have another go in the comments to the first post. As often happens, the comments are now m...

A Great Idea: Credit where credit is due: even Senators come up with something sharp once in a while. This is a brilliant idea: U.S. Sen...

India and the NPT: We are long accustomed to seeing the concept of "international law" misused. There is no such thing as interna...

More on Islam: Another quote from the BlackFive piece : But rational, tolerant people do live in Muslim countries. I know they do. I have ...

MilTracker: Our friend Phil Van Treuren (who is now signing his emails "Officer Candidate" Van Treuren -- good for the Army, in re...

On Islam: I've gotten a couple of whole-mailing-list emails lately from Muslim co-workers, inviting me to learn more about Islam. One o...

Hero Tales : After Hitchen's manifestation of last Friday, I cut directly down the hill to where it ran to water, a long and pretty stre...

A Call for Revolution: A call to storm the White House and institute a UN-led government in the United States, brought to you by CODEPINK, ...

Pay Up, Jew: I realize this has been an issue for a little while, but for some reason this story from the AP strikes me as particularly funn...

The Manifestation: I sewed the White Cross of Denmark to the left shoulder of my coat, and went down to Christopher Hitchen's rally in ...

COUNTER-Insurgency: The COUNTERCOLUMN has a lengthy, and excellent, piece on US Army efforts to build and improve counterinsurgency trainin...

The Askariya Mosque: It has been the insurgent's primary strategy for quite some time to divide Shi'ite and Sunni through attacks. ...

Rape, Italy, Violence: Also at Cassandra's place, the Cotillion is having its regular festival. It includes several interesting pieces...

Showdown: If you're still in the mood for a long and thoughtful post on a difficult problem, our Cassidy has one over at her other plac...

Honor & Dishonor: We have come to a point at which there is a lot of talk about whether our fighting men are praiseworthy or not. We ar...

Test: This post is a test to see if the repair is successful.

Honor & Hackett: I'm going to write a post about honor and dishonor in the next few days; I just need a little longer to think it th...

A Toast: On the occasion of the first anniversary of losing one of our own . I never met him either, but those of you who recognize the nam...

You Say That Like It's A Bad Thing: The Commissar is deeply amused by a recent U. Washington resolution: IT RESOLVED BY THE ASSOCIATED...