The Overpraising of Dissent: I'm going to write a bit more about happiness and ethics. This post picks up where yesterday's left of...

Ahem: A short article from the Associated Press, by a writer with the glorious name of Robert Burns . It begins: The U.S. military command...

Some Good Reads: The Monday-Wednesday corridor is a very busy time for me, so I will have to direct you to other reading today. Wretchard h...

Play Deguello , If You Dare: Back in Eighteen Thirty-Six, Houston said to Travis 'Get some Volunteers and go 'Fortify the Alamo....

A Geek Girl: Gwa45 is a very proud father . And so he should be. It was only the other day that I bought Beowulf's first toy gun , afte...

History & Irony: A small item of today's news: AT&T to purchase BellSouth . I can't help but notice how nearsighted the ar...

Defending the First: Junaid Afeef is a Muslim lawyer defending the publication of the Muhammad cartoons in the Daily Illini -- or, rather,...

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. ...