Crimson Skies: Popular Science has been running a series on zeppelins of the future . Sky pirates can only be around the corner.

Horses on the Border: An article tracks the mounted Border Patrol . Photo 2 in the slideshow is beautiful.

Down with the General! Order #1, that is . Best of the Web reports: Our item yesterday on a homeless-vets story brought numerous responses ...

Hitchens on Thomas Paine: An interesting review of what is probably an interesting book.

Since Janne Liked It So Well: The NYT has decided to make a series out of their blunders; and therefore so has Iowahawk . Click through the ...

"If they get out of line, just slag 'em." That's the message I got from this article in the Guardian this morning: "...

Democrats Beat Each Other With Sticks: Cage match primaries are always fun : Obama told the former first lady he was helping unemployed work...

Embracing the Suck. I've now followed a number of soldiers' blogs as they write about their experiences 'over there'. The mo...

Evil Black Gun meets Hello Kitty . Ain't that the cutest lil' thing? I truly think the magazine is just the right touch. (via Americ...

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...