A Clintonian Birthday: Russ Vaughn has composed some birthday wishes for Bill Clinton. It's just as off-color as you'd expect, giv...

Ooh-Rah: Here's a great story that shows why we should be proud to have the allies we have. This guy is what "British Sergeant Ma...

Plato Sucks: I feel a lot better after reading this critique of Plato from the London Guardian . [ The Republic ] is long, sprawling and me...

Swords and Songs and Beer: Today is a day I mark with celebration each year: the day that I first encounter a seasonal Oktoberfest brew for...

Swords: Kim du Toit has cause this week to recommend the keeping of swords . Good on him -- there is nothing better than a sword. Let me re...

Off Again: I am taking advantage of three days' unseasonably cool weather to go into the Wild. I will return Monday, or thereabouts. In...

Chicken, Road, Crossing: John's post at MilBlogs is very funny. The comments include some additional suggestions which are just as fun...

Hate Crimes & The South: Via Southern Appeal , a truly remarkable piece on the accounting of hate crimes. I had always opposed the leg...

Goodbye, Now: Lest anyone think that I am totally opposed to all forms of innovation, allow me to congratulate my Fourth District countrymen...

A Marine finally makes it home after 44 64 years . Its sad that this gets ignored by the news, because something like this has happened eac...

A Foolish Headline: From the Associated Press: "Mideast fight ramps up despite diplomacy ." One might better say, "due to di...

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...