Darfur: The New Statesman 's article on Darfur is disturbing, as it ought to be. It also asks an interesting question: why doesn'...

GWB Hates Cowboys: A deeply amusing, and insightful, post at Cassandra's contrasts the disasterous Colorado blizzards with Katrina. Fo...

Crossbow: Today's headline: "Senators fear Iraq war may spill to Iran, Syria." I'm afraid that's not a typo -- appare...

Update on the Border Incursion: Heidi at Euphoric Reality ran a story that uniformed Mexican paramilitaries conducted the recent border prob...

Frisco Beatings: Is the great surprise in this story is that anyone at Yale still sings "The Star Spangled Banner"? Even when I ...

A High School Teacher Sentenced to Death: ...for writing an article. A story from modern France , where criticizing Islam is a dangerous bus...

California Seceeds? The fervent hope of many people I've spoken to over the years (actually, usually expressed less as a desire to see i...

Tolerance & Intolerance: There's a new book out called American Fascists , which posits that certain Christians are more or less Naz...

The Cowboy Test: Who knew there was a cowboy test online? That seems a little odd to me, but whatever. I was sent to it, and so here are t...

CENTCOM is Podcasting: Now this is a pretty good idea. Central Command is now doing podcasts, which shows that the folks at CENTCOM PA cont...

A Shameful Unlearned Lesson: A probing attack against our border overruns a US position held by National Guardsmen. How did this happen ? A...

The Long War: A Strategy I have an article on the subject at BlackFive . Due to the length, I posted it there (lacking "jump" co...

Massachusetts: The Female State I'm guessing this explains the flip-flopping of Senator Kerry. He's just a feature of the culture....

Cutting back on Coffee: It's not a new year's resolution, but I have been getting less coffee lately. That's because of my pie...

Condolences: Regular readers of MilBlogs are aware of that the author of "A Storm in Afghanistan" announced in September that his ...

New Year Pardons: It has, in several cultures, been the habit of kings and presidents to issue pardons to deserving (and sometimes undeservi...

Project VALOUR-IT soldier on the cover of Esquire : Fuzzybear Lioness has the story , along with a retrospective of the case. Bryan Anderso...

Good Work: The Virginia Citizens' Defense League is proudly reporting that a member stopped a bank robbery the other day. The crimina...

Relations: While in Indiana, I had occasion on Christmas Day for a long talk with my mother-in-law. She was raised in Alaska. A wise piece...

Iraqi Forces: I've always been opposed to those "team building" exercises that try to artificially create the unity of spirit ...