The Winchester: Kim du Toit has a piece on the closure of the Winchester plant , and the end of an American era. It is an ode to one of the...

"Just a Victim of Being in Congress" Can we all agree that, once you get yourself elected to a Constitutional office in the Federa...

A Fair Fight: We've all read numerous pieces about the anti-male nature of modern American legal society and education. I think the pro...

You Go, Cynthia -- And For God's Sake, Don't Come Back: You know, there are days when I almost sympathize with Massachusetts : Accor...

But What's It A Model Of? Negotiations are ongoing between the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Mor...

Movie Club: The Alamo Back in November, we decided to have a Grim's Hall movie club . We got distracted by the holidays, I think, whic...

More Good Reading: Doc Russia gets angry at himself , and thereby proves he is a good man. The Belmont Club asks a question about the 4ID an...

Even Heathen Things: For reasons to esoteric to explain here, I was looking at an old 2005 post at Gypsy Scholar . The thing is fascinating...

The Garden of Turbulence: If you had the standard American social studies classes as I did, there came a point at which you were introduced ...

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...