April Fools: I'm flying back to Iraq, so I won't be around for a few days. It's been an interesting and eventful leave, if not ...

Jingle Bombs. (Not that anyone complains, but it is humorous for everyone to see that the dogs get treated even better than Air Force perso...

Blow it out your ass. Heh. Somebody's got a sense of humor. "What is to be done?"

Ruining Your Life: Salon has a piece they've linked from their front page that wonders, "Does Having Children Ruin Your Life?...

Keep It Coming: Why not? (H/t: Gwa45 .) Congressman Alan Grayson (FL-8) today proudly introduced the Grayson-Himes Pay For Performance Ac...

Against Rand: Cassandra is quoting Rand at length. "But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it...

Something To Do With Death: Mark Steyn warns against the Obama project, and his terms are familiar . A couple of years back Paul Krugman wro...

As American Digest notes: "Because we can" .

Climbing the Ridge:

I Find This Rather Alarming: "GM Chief to Resign at White House Behest." I can't quite put into words why that bothers me, but...

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...

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