Independence Day: A merry, and free, one to all of you. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve...

Catching Up: One of the things I've been catching up on since getting back is Schlock Mercenary . This one has a certain high quality.

Trotto : Eric often tells me, and rightly, that we live in an age in which the great things are there for those who have an ear. Here is on...

The Taliban's No Good, Very Bad Day: Get some, Marines . Our hearts are with you.

Alchemy: One thing that strikes me on returning to America is how much garbage is on sale. Every city and town is covered with malls and sh...

Paganus : The Latin word from which we derive "pagan" means something like 'of the countryside' or 'rural.' There...

DEVO + Neil Young. Yeah. I didn't believe it either.

Cuts: So I'm learning what's been going on back here in the states while I've been gone. I see we're discussing health care...

A New Adventure: One of the luckiest men in the world has proven his luck again . He deserves it, though -- I hope you all will stop by to ...

"The Crusader's Return" 1. HIGH DEEDS achieved of knightly fame, From Palestine the champion came; The cross upon his shoulder...

Some Cavalry Videos: Bthun sends a couple of remarkable videos. You knew that the great desert tribes had sometimes ridden to war, not on h...

Vrroom: Mark Steyn notes the political success of fascists in Europe: [I]n the western half of Continental Europe, politics evolved to the ...

"Tolk"? A list of reasons someone likes Tolkien : 3) The Watcher in the Water Dude. That totally was cool. I mean, say what you li...

Men & Women At Work: Cassandra has a good post today on women and the workplace . Her aside in the comments is also an interesting conj...

Bitter: So, the APA has come up with yet another way in which you might be crazy. Last time it was something to do with spending too much t...

Water Maids: SO THEY RODE till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an...

Fear and Hate: So this was written even as John Bolton ponders an Israeli strike on Iran. This brief survey demonstrates why Israel's ...

Battles Lost and Losing: The American Knife and Tool Institute (AKTI) finds itself, today, in a difficult position. It wants to draw your e...

Chastity: Along the way to defining 'right drinking,' Scruton imagines what he calls "true chastity" for an analogy. This...

Virtue and Vine: Roger Scruton has a piece on the virtue of drinking. He is aiming at the Aristotlean balance between vice ("vicious ...