Choosing a Stetson: Doc Russia wrote the top post on first aid kits , giving us the benefit of his skills and knowledge. I'm going to w...

Howdy, Anyone feel like having a "movie night" next weekend? I was thinking of 'A Bridge Too Far'. That said, I won'...

"Thank God for the Chinese." China Daily is an English-language, state-run mouthpiece publication for the People's Republic of...

PJM Straw Poll: Pajamas Media is running a 2008 Presidential Straw Poll. You can vote here , just click on the flag. It's a little unus...

"Haditha Unmasked" I haven't said anything about the Haditha case, except that we ought to keep silent about it until the proc...

Freedom of Choice: Thanks to reader CC for this piece on military counsel . In our society, people have long had the right to choose to hav...

Abu Sayyaf Leader Killed: It's a good day for the GWOT in the Philippines. That means it's a good day all the way around, as the i...

In Praise of Zippo: Last month we had a discussion on survival , in which I suggested you ought to carry a matchbook in your wallet or about...

A Peaceful Teacher: Michael Totten's latest from Lebanon visits a moderate imam , one of a high degree by the accounting of such things....

Mindset: Professor Glenn Reynolds, known of course as InstaPundit , has a piece in the New York Times . It is on the subject of communities...

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...