Beauty, Love, and Distance: Roger Scruton, perhaps the finest intellectual mind writing today, has produced a new work on Beauty . It is ri...

A Coup: An article from The Atlantic Monthly: From long years of experience, the IMF staff knows its program will succeed—stabilizing the e...

High Meadows, Tennessee River Country:

What Will Rogers Was Talking About: The Will Rogers piece below is really quite remarkably relevant. Bthun points out a PBS piece that sta...

Will Rogers: A re-enactor does a 1926 piece on debt, government spending, and so forth.

The Pecan Tree: If you come to the Natchez Trace State Park in Tennessee, you will find a document that reads precisely as this webpage : Pe...

Guns for San Sebastian , Love Theme:

Civilian Scouts: The two famous "Bills" of the Old West period in American history -- "Wild Bill" Hickok and "Buff...

Obscene Amenities:

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"Applied Human Nature": Our friend and commenter Piercello has started a blog for his thesis regarding human nature. It's an...

On Revolution: The probability of severe social turmoil in the United States seems to me to be quite high over the next few years. I would ...

Conservatism Without a Net: Charles Murray of AEI has quite an interesting argument in The American . It's remarkable in several ways....

Six Years and Counting: Congratulations to the Mudville Gazette, now on year seven . Greyhawk lists his favorite post, and other highlights...

Happy St. Patrick's Day: Today was Gene Easley's birthday. I owe him for the hand of a lovely daughter, and remember him with grea...

How Progressive Are You? The Center for American Progress suggests that the mean score is over 200 on their quiz, with "conservative R...

A Shocking Revelation: Yesterday my wife sent me this article via email. LONDON – An academic says he's found evidence that Britain...

Felafel: The puppy's name -- for those of us who cared to give her a name -- is "Felafel." She lives at a patrol base we'...

The Wisdom of Jim Bowie: Our chaplain had a few free classic TV DVDs, including a selection of a show about Jim Bowie from the 1950s. The h...

The Finest Words: Rolled under a young buckskin's side he had started to train; Slipped under his side in the mud and the September rai...