The Ten Second Problem: I have a post at Winds of Change on free will , Aristotle, and answering a problem posed by some new research into c...

Lily Pads: 2008: Floating Lily Pad cities! 1930: Torpedo cars travel 120 mph through New York! Of course, we have advanced computer modeli...

Happy Birthday, USA. Bob Krumm has a report of 1,215 soldiers reenlisting this day in Iraq. This country is lucky to have such citizens. The...

Independence Day: We've just finished talking about patriotism, so I won't discuss that again today. I will just link to a few wort...

Good work . BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian spies tricked leftist rebels into handing over kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt a...

Looking Abroad: I take notice of this study on blog readers , which suggests that liberals are more likely than conservatives to read opposi...

Rev Up The Bus: From The New Yorker : Obama, whatever the idealistic yearnings of his admirers, has turned out to be a cold-eyed, shrewd pol...

Patriotism in Time : I have written more about patriotism in these pages than is easy even to link to; all of you know how to use Google if ...

The Death of a Good Dog: Attention, fellow Georgians: if you have not already seen the news, I am sad to report that Uga VI has died . We ...

A New Banner: My beloved and faithful wife has given me a gift: she has sewn a large cloth banner in the colors of my heraldry. I've de...

The Natural Right to Arms: Dave Kopel believes it most important that the Heller decision considered the right to self-defense a natural r...

Congratulations, Mark Steyn: I see that Mark Steyn has been vindicated by a kangaroo "human rights" court that previously had a 1...

"This You Can Trust" We sometimes overpraise guns. I know a boy who loves the things. I tell him: A gun can always jam, misfire...

Not Helpful, Boys: Dana Milbank gives the view from the other side on yesterday's hearings: "When Anonymity Fails, Be Nasty, Brut...

The Best Laid Plans: From The Chronicle of Higher Education : The idea that video games and explicit media content are a threat to society i...

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: I was looking over Memeorandum this evening, and I see there's a whole knot of liberal blogs bent out of shape o...

Looks like the Supreme Court affirmed the Heller Decision. (I'm watching the SCOTUS blog) The right to bear arms is an individual righ...

Mandatory Ethics Training Video: I was asked to review this video, which is the Joint Contracting Command's proposed ethics video for ci...

Rape and Death: It's not uncommon for the SCOTUS to come up with something I think is flatly wrong, so it is no surprise to see it done ...

The Incas and Bad Philosophy: Since we were debating -- somewhat far afield of the original topic -- relative blame for the destruction of t...