The Tribes Together: I think this article is an interesting case study. It shows the effect of an authoritarian government on a once-indep...

A Christian Muslim American: Sovay tells me -- and sends a link to back it up -- that our self-described "Muslim American" was a ...

CENTCOM Still Cares: More news stories CENTCOM would like you to see: Iraqi Army captures four terrorists . MultiNational Division, Baghdad ...

Body-Mind-Spirit: Jake Ross, one of Matt Furey's disciples, has a similar business built on the idea of teaching you hand-to-hand combat...

Proportionality: The Economist has a good overview of what the Just War tradition has to say on the subject, and how it applies to Israel ...

Israel's War Comes To Seattle: He says : "I’m a Muslim-American. I’m angry at Isreal." So he shoots six unarmed women. What c...

OP-FOR on NRO: John at OP-FOR has a piece at National Review (a good piece, Eric?). He's chastizing, properly, so-called "elite...

Arganti: Praise a day at evening, a wife when dead, a sword when tried... and beer when it's drunk. -The Havamal Today I can praise a ve...

"The Web of Trust" Bill Whittle's latest is, as always, a remarkable explanation of the things that underlie our lives. Whit...

Things To Read Today: The discussion, as soon as I have time to sit down and discuss, will be on Bill Whittle's newest piece . Give it ...

A case of verification. Or sock puppets. Or both. In this post , Karrde muses on basically "How do we know what we know and how do we k...

PJM Sends: The folks at Pajamas Media are proud of their coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, and have put out a press release to ge...

JHD Sends: JarHeadDad wants you to know about Pat Dollard's interviews . "Just WOW!" he writes, which is a pretty good endor...

CENTCOM Sends: Continuing the regular series of things CENTCOM wants you to know, a press release they sent this morning on Iraqi Security c...

"From the scissors of Delilah, and the tenpenny nail of Jael, to the scimitar of Goliath..." In which the Geek w/a .45 and compan...

Reader-Sent Links: A few links that turned up in my email box this morning. Reader JW sends a link to an editorial that explains US behavio...

Politics Central: I am somewhat remiss in not having mentioned the PJM "Politics Central" site, about which Pajamas Media tells m...

The Somme: This year is the 90th anniversary of the Somme. Our faithful friend Arts & Letters Daily points us to an article, from The ...

Trust but Verify: In my continued thinking about history and historical sources (and following up on Grim's excellent comments below abo...

"Megadeath in Mexico" A fascinating article by that title appears in Discovery 's online site this issue (h/t Arts & Lett...