How Strange! What could account for this ? But the president, whose popularity and powers of persuasion may well make him the reform effort...

The Shia Women of Afghanistan: Some of you may recall that earlier this year, the Afghan government came under fire for approving a Shia mar...

Mrs. Palin Presses the Fray: One man shall drive a hundred, As the dead kings drave; Before me rocking hosts be riven, And battering cohorts...

Change the Music, Change the Story:

The New Axis of Evil: It's you , according to the Senate Majority Leader. He does have the good grace to be slightly ashamed of having ...

Palin on "Death Panels": Mrs. Palin -- who, as a private citizen, has the honor of having the President address her arguments by n...

A Ruling! Articles posted by Arts & Letters Daily are usually worth the time it takes to read them. Today, for example, there was a de...

A Unique Honor: "You know, this Congress comes home covered in a certain species of achievement. By the time the next elections roll a...

Debate Update: Things are not going well ! FreedomWorks’ August Recess Call to Action encouraged grassroots citizens to attend Congressional...

Best. Whiskey. Ad. Evar. Good job there, Bobby. (via American Digest )

Death Panels: One of the fairest and most reasonable points that I've heard ObamaCare proponents make is that there is already "rat...

The Horseman: Lars Walker's blog, which I've been reading since I discovered that he had one, contains a review by one of his co-blo...

Another Victim: The PA shooting we discussed below had another victim: the theology of permanent security . Ideas have consequences, and i...

"Great, Beautiful Half-witted Men/ From the Sunrise and the Sea." Almost 100,000 Swedes, many of whom viewed the clip on YouTube, ...

Good Food: Tonight I took down an excellent cookbook , and made a bread described by its recipe as: A Festival Bread From the Land of King ...

Miles in Shoes: The New Yorker begins an article by describing a Southern politician of the old sort. Big Jim Folsom was six feet eight in...

Iran: H/t: NR .

"Shut Up": I was waiting to post this because I thought perhaps it was old, and pertained to a different situation than what we ar...

What to Say? What to Do? Elise is very angry at how the nation has treated the murders of women by a loser unable to attract them. I wonder...

The Order of St. George: Lt. Col. Edward Bohnemann, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Caval...