A Fascinating Discussion: Via Southern Appeal , an example of blogging at its best. The initial proposition is well-formed, and the debate...

The FBI and Lawlessness: Those who are charged with enforcing the law on others have a special obligation to obey the law themselves. The F...

GUILT BY ASSOCIATION. As I was eating breakfast this morning I watched Joe Scarborough and his co-hosts on Morning Joe discuss the inflammat...

Magical Thinking: Psychology Today has an article (h/t Arts & Letters Daily ) on several nearly universal types of magical thinking . ...

Ethics: On the Flag Today's ethical discussion will treat the following video. (The knife used, by the way, is a US Army-stamped Kabar ...

The Feast of St. Patrick: As we are nearing the 17th of March, I would like to offer readers the service of linking to this collection of ly...

Evolution and Laughter: Apparently Christopher Hitchens (amid what I gather was an unforgivable rant) suggested that laughter is necessary f...

A Collection of Bad Ideas: Christina Hoff Summers on the equity movement in higher education. It's a long piece, but keep going: the ...

Two from the Dawn Patrol: From Mudville's Dawn Patrol , two items. First, al Qaeda makes excuses : It is true that we have lost several...

A Brief Followup: Eric is right: I do approve. Allow me to followup his post with a few links. We've had the Schola St. George on th...

Grim will approve. Rapier wit . SEATTLE — The golf cases propped up against the walls are full of swords, daggers and the occasional bit of ...

The New Rome(?): Apparently Cullen Murphy's new book omits the question mark in its British title , but when publishing the same work i...

"Resolve to Win" Some veterans and supporters of the military are making a sixteen-day hike across country to DC. Read about the...

Marine Combat Artists: Miss Ladybug posts on the subject, with links and some commentary.

South Baghdad Film Society: Tonight we had the first (long planned) meeting of the South Baghdad Film Society, which will probably be also t...

A Protest: I realize that The Wall Street Journal is in New York City, but this is still unacceptable : Other nations, though, should be as...

China's Doom: All that rapid progress, growth and expansion you've been reading about for several years? It's over -- they'...

Miss Ladybug: ML kindly sends me updates to her stuff on a regular basis; I always intend to link to her, and always forget to do so. Pleas...

You Get All Dressed Up, You Get Taken Somewhere Fun: Doc would like you to meet Vera . If you were here, Doc, you could take her to church ...

Well, heeeelllllooooo Ashleigh. Iowa Soldiers Deploy