The Democratic Party Gets A Bit Healthier: Or, meet the Green Party's nominee .

The Hound of the Hall: I mentioned a while ago that the 20th of June is a major celebration around here, for various reasons. This year, my...

Freedom At Work: Cassandra is doing ethics today. I love ethics -- it is one of the most interesting branches of philosophy. Studying it,...

Heroism in Hollywood: James Bowman has penned a confused critique of Hollywood that nevertheless contains a large kernel of truth: Hollywo...

Buns & Guns: I'm not sure I think much of this Lebanon concept restaurant , except for one thing: I have to admit that the sandbagg...

The Graves Act: I kind of understand this story , except for this part: Now, the simple unlawful possession of any firearm can bring mandato...

The Great Backlash Begins: We all knew the day would come. Probably the fellow did just what I saw a guy do at a bar in Charlotte, NC once. ...

"Public" Online Space: There was an interesting article on Yahoo/Flickr today, which touches on a topic that interests me. To wh...

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...