Political Economy and Justice: In recent news, an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency has been fired for leaking classified informa...

God Save the Queen: Mark Steyn celebrates Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday. Allow me to extend my respects to the lady. Some may ob...

The First Amendment Doesn't Protect You : The Ninth Circuit rules that the First Amendment only protects approved points of view . Volo...

A Test Pilot: JHD sends an obit for a test pilot of forty years' experience, who died recently in the crash of a single-engine private ...

On Iran: I imagine some heavy-duty "what if?" planning is going on in corners of the military establishment, trying to develop a m...

A Close Shave: This is outstanding . It's an article on shaving by Andy Crouch of Christianity Today , and it is everything I want an a...

Press Right, Bush Wrong: The BBC has a story today on North Korean counterfeiting of US $100 bills. It's an interesting story on a ser...

A Good Idea, Shot Down: Via Southern Appeal and Orin Kerr , I see this excellent, if poorly written, motion: COMES NOW counsel for Defendan...

Some Poetry: It's been a little while since Grim mentioned it --I've been meaning to write something of my wn about G.K. Chesterton,...

Feddie On "The Most Dangerous Branch" Feddie of Southern Appeal has sent along a video of his speech to the Federalist Society of...

Echoes of the General Militia of Flight 93: Via The Geek , we can now see the Flight 93 recorder transcript . It's amazing to reflect t...

Howdy All, Being a Texan... I've had my head in the sand, excluding near everything to concentrate on this immigration travesty. Anyone...

Thievery: I'm afraid I'm quite ill, having contracted something unpleasant while at a two-day conference on Thailand. That's cu...

Straight Out of the Park: A home run from Cox & Forkum, with a good editorial for background.

"Malaysia Goes 'Green'" An article in TODAY Online examines the sharp turn in Malaysia. "Green" in this case d...

Heroes & Volunteers: I think I have mentioned that I spent a good part of my youth in the company of volunteer Firemen, thanks to my fat...

Just What Is Going On Over There? Captain's Quarters wonders after the recent arrest of Bryan Doyle . Specifically, they wonder how it ...

For What It's Worth: Not to get in between Mark Steyn and John Derbyshire , but... where I come from, it's pronounced "p'K...

Lies: The famous historian Howard Zinn (hat tip Arts & Letters Daily ) demonstrates why the Left will never capture America's heart...

Things You Learn Reading Comments: At Dr. Helen's place, on this occasion. I see that comment #14 is one of some interest to us here ...