Jim Bowie at the Alamo: This day 1836, Jim Bowie arrived at the Alamo with thirty volunteers. I've occasionally thought of the Alamo o...

No Business in the White House, But: Huckabee's not someone I'd endorse. On the other hand : "You don't like people from o...

Readings for Today: Iowahawk notes the media menace : A Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject. In Cincinnati, ...

Our Friend the Half-Wit: We like you anyway, BloodSpite .

Danton Loves Her, Too: Hillary , that is. Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Sunday that Barack Obama's campaign had injected rac...

Iraqi Heroes: Michael Totten writes : Iraqi Army soldiers have a terrible reputation for cowardice and corruption – especially in Baghdad – ...

The New Fight: The Marines are bored : After preparing to confront one of the most deadly insurgencies America has ever faced, and steeped i...

Moral Instincts: Steven Pinker's latest is in the New York Times ; and while I'm sure several of you will scoff at the idea of looki...

Snow in Baghdad: When I flew in last year, we got rain even though it almost never rains in the summer. People remarked that Iraq must love...

Greedy Geezers . These sorts of shenanigans are what I'm talking about: On the eve of a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Indi...

Dawson County, GA: Today was my last day home; bright and early tomorrow I return to the fray. I spent the last two days here doing some im...

Lose All The Weight You Want for $500: Plus, you get to keep the $500 .

Writing your own epitaph. Or something like that. Blogger Andrew Olmstead was killed in Iraq, and left something behind to be published in c...

Friday Lyrics: Sometimes the right song can cheer me up just by thinking about it. During my first tour overseas, at the worst times, when ...

A Splendid Answer: At Gene Expression , I found a link to Edge , where many scientific and other figures were asked the simple question: Wha...

The Land Without A King: THEN stood the realm in great jeopardy long while, for every lord that was mighty of men made him strong, and many ...

The Great Fall of China. Via Instapundit, this article from the LA Times, in which the World Bank reports that China's economy is smalle...

Christmas Cheer: Via our old friend Dad29 , a pointer to another of the great stories from LawDog : Tactical advice for those intending to r...

The Arvel at Yuletide: Last spring, we held the arvel for my father-in-law . Unsurprisingly, his wife of fifty years did not long survive...

EVANGELICALS AGAINST HUCKABEE To my knowledge, no organization with the above name exists. That is a pity because it should. If, as many p...