GEORGE WILL, ENEMY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT George Will has written an article decrying the bureaucratic abuses of government officials in Pinal ...

Limits of Imagination Query - The recent tributes to the late and rightly-admired Arthur C. Clarke lead me to think of imaginative fiction, ...

A Remarkable Lapse: Stephen Hayes responds to a Pentagon survey of 600,000 documents captured from Saddam's intelligence service. He f...

The Obama Speech: This was a tremendously good speech. Read it , for speeches are better to be read than heard, as you can more easily sepa...

An Experiment: In fairness to Wright and his mentors, consider this post at a Catholic website. The post is simply an American flag, with ...

Wow: An alternative vision of the proper view of enemies in religion , courtesy of Obama's preacher of 20 years' service. Black theo...

Finding a Home: It is Easter week. I want to offer two pieces on Christianity and warriors. The first is from Robert Graves , describing b...

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...