Southern Appeal on Prophecy: Francis Beckwith at Southern Appeal offers some advice to Obama on how to answer the latest McCain ad: Here ar...

Too Far: Eric will be delighted to know that I have found the limit beyond which I will not accept something into my life simply because it ...

False Prophets: We've all seen McCain's newest piece on Obama: So what about this ? A new video which features popular talk show hos...

Trolls among us. In the late 1980s, Internet users adopted the word “troll” to denote someone who intentionally disrupts online communities....

A Followup on Clubs: Again via FARK , a worthy followup to the post on clubs v. guns. Sometimes, older arms still work just fine : Iwasaki,...

The End of Racism: Jake Tapper is not happy : There's a lot of racist xenophobic crap out there. But not only has McCain not peddled any...

Politics Aside: This is the reason to visit the wounded : “We have come … to express our gratitude and appreciation for the sacrifices made ...

War Movies: Cassandra is compiling lists of great war movies today. This is something we've done a few times, but I have to remark on ...

Guns, Yes. Clubs, No. Via FARK , a story about how Texas animal control officers can't use a stick against an angry dog : Harris County...

Go, Iraq! I've never been a big fan of the Olympic Games. I did my best to avoid them in Atlanta in 1996, at a time when I was living t...

Science @ Work: A new study, which got attention from slick Time Magazine, purports to show that moderate exercise won't help you with ...

Literary Sins: I think my favorite of these confessions is the professor who got top marks for his paper on Wuthering Heights . (H/t Arts ...

Muzzle Discipline Is So Important: Via The Donovan , the funniest thing I have seen in ages. This guy looks exactly like an Army Reserve Ca...

Military Deception: As a continuation of yesterday's post on the ethics of manipulation, an interesting example from the Hundred Years...

Manipulation As A Virtue: One of the writers I admire most is Judith Martin, better known as "Miss Manners." Sometimes, though, s...

Disconnection: A little while back, I wrote : It's interesting, in terms of how disconnected this election is from reality. If you want ...

Smartocracy: John Derbyshire has an article on America's issue with intelligence. On the one hand, it's an amazing change in the w...

President Batman? As Grim likes to use movies to instruct and inform on morality, this item caught my eye. Andrew Klavan, writing in the Wal...

Yikes: From Ireland (via Kim du Toit ): ON THE one hand, I expected some uproar in Ireland over my piece about Ethiopia on July 10. But the...

OK, But... Actually, the McCain one is a really great poster. It frames his age and experience as "wisdom," which is a traditiona...