Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darling: The linkage system at The Bangkok Post is nearly impossible, so I will simply print the following letter-t...

Troublesome news: In news that at first brush appears uniformly bad, there is a noteworthy criminal trial in Afghanistan. A man is charged w...

Foreign Policy After Iraq: For those interested, I have a post up on the topic at BlackFive . B5 is off sipping fruity drinks enjoying him...

Quirt Evans Returns: An update to last week's post , brought to you by the fighting men of the Coalition . We are glad to see that the ...

"...Defend the Right." Professor Hugh White, of Australia's National Defence University, is a fellow whose opinion I respect. ...

St. Patrick: (also posted here ) Patrick wasn't born in Ireland. As a matter of fact, his first encounter with the Irish was being take...

The Fighting Spirit: LawDog was talking the other day about aikido , and what he thinks of its ideas about fighting spirit : Both dojos were...

Riposte! I'm not sure I've ever seen a comment thread quite like this one . BillINDC defends Islam -- and in two quick comments, ha...

Things You'll Like Reading: You should probably be reading Dennis the Peasant's guide to blogging , including the introduction to th...

Angel & The Badman : In 1947, a young man named John Wayne -- already the star of many movies, including the classic Stagecoach -- deci...

Dissent & Treason: An article in The Australian outlines the tipping point between dissent and treason : The Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is b...

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...