Life & Death: I returned to Shenandoah National Park today. Bruce Dearborn Walker wanted to know if last week's missing hiker was...

What a Marine . What a hero. As Countercolumn notes , no media but the local paper has picked up on the Sergeant Major's story. And that...

Somebody hasn't been fact checking again, I think. This morning, this item on the BBC caught my eye: Builders who drank a barrel of rum...

The Amnesty Report: Amnesty International is one of those organizations I really want to like, but find I can't take seriously. I want ...

Juan Cole & Farsi: I'm sure most of you have been following the Hitchens / Cole fight. An interesting question arising from it is...

Froggy Five: Good news -- BlackFive's place has been improved by the addition of a new co-blogger. Matthew Heidt has come aboard. Mr....

A MilBlogger In Need: The Mudville Gazette asks for prayers for a fellow MilBlogger , Greg of Greg Note's . The guy has just returned f...

Blood Pressure Medicine: There is a scene, early in the classic Disney movie Lady and the Tramp , in which Lady brings back the newspaper wi...

CENTCOM & Bloggers: John Donovan has this post in which he proposes to test CENTCOM's PAO/blogger system. He'd like you to rea...

Two from Mudville: Thanks to the always-excellent Dawn Patrol , two links with comments. First, former Marine officer Chester agrees on hiri...

Whee: Tim Russert asks the hard questions: MR. RUSSERT: Mr. Secretary, if, if demand is up but supply is down, why are the profits so high...

The Post on Chaplains: I read this story in the Washington Post , entitled "In the Hands of God." It's a good piece, in eve...

"Down Mexico Way" MilBlogger poet laureate Russ Vaughn sends one of his older, but still quite appropriate, works. Down Mexico Way...

Quagmire: There's an article in today's Washington Post that shows us the way to the First Great Chinese Quagmire . Militants in Ni...

May Day: May Day used to be a day for celebrating the fullness of spring; the entrance into "the Cathedral of May," which in Engla...

A Shirley Temple: TC Override and FbL have posted the "Shirley Temple" photo featuring Uncle Jimbo. Jimbo's a good sport.

The Coalition for Darfur: Stephen "Feddie" Dillard, founder of Southern Appeal , has a coalition blog with liberal blogger Eugene ...

Please, Don't Tease The Rangers: I went hiking today in the Shenandoah National Park . I took the wife and little boy, and we went out ...

Cowboy Obituaries: The life of the American cowboy is alive and well -- as proven, in abundant irony, by a pair of this week's obituarie...

Post Coverage: I see from this morning's Washington Post a piece of very good news in Iraq: the killing of al Qaeda's emir in Sama...