King Arthur in Baghdad: Though not a Paladin , King Arthur was Charlemagne's chief competitor as a legendary symbol around whose court c...

Pandora's Box: Let's watch this video: Did you guess who this ad was for before the end? The New Republic and I, for once, had the...

Who Do You Love? Foreign Policy asked a few thousand field-grade and general/flag officers, serving and retired, some questions : When aske...

Yes, We Can! Victory through mockery; at least, where mockery is deserved. InstaPundit : INTERESTING NEW POLL: Pew: Majority now believe U....

Respect & Honor: From a fourteen year old, at that : When I think of an American soldier, four words come to mind, Honor, Respect, Freed...

Prince Harry wins his spurs . I'm sure Grim approves. I want to know if he helps clean the .50.

On Mead: Slate has an article on resurgent meads : Judging by the prominence of honey these days, you'd think there's a run on suga...

Have Gun, Will Travel: We recently had a side conversation on Rome v. the Middle Ages, and whether our modern age is more like one or the ot...

Goodnight, Mr. Buckley: There were two things I admired greatly about William F. Buckley, Jr. The first was that he could cut to the bone o...

The Pacific Command: Pacific, in both senses of the term. NPR interviews CDRUSPACOM , Admiral Timothy Keating.

The Mandate of Heaven: God, and the Tourist Board, need you to marry . Lots. Here’s an official plan submitted to invigorate tourism in Sau...

Oliver Twisted. LT G among the urchins. One of his men may end up acting the part of Mr. Brownlow.

And it starts . Killadelphia is the city of brotherly love after all. (via American Digest)

The Wisdom of Crowds: In Iran, at least, the people are more decent than the law . It happens every day on the streets of Tehran: a police s...

"Who Among You Will Not Embrace Emptiness?" Obama has a signal advantage, that is also a signal problem: he is empty. He is the ...

The Wisdom of an Attorney: Cricket asked if we'd like her to drop in and share some things from an attorney, who wrote a book called ...

A Map to Canterbury: Since we were talking about Chaucer a few days ago, and apropos of a discussion at Cass' place, here is an interact...

"A Pledge Pin ? On your Uniform??" Mr. Juan Cole finds a few people who seem to think a pledge pin is a uniform. H/t Commie .

"A Cub in the Yard, a Comfort sent by Heaven" The title of this post is a line from the Haney translation of the Beowulf .

How many Feminists does it take to change a Lightbulb? I was reminded of the old joke when I ran across the all-pink site HillaryIs44.org , ...