Rating Stars: I really have no idea why Haloscan is popping up this annoying "rating stars" code. I'll try to shut it off. I...

A Rhetorical Slap: Yesterday we noted the President's odd use of religious rhetoric. Professor Althouse slapped down one piece of that...

Smack! Our friend Lars Walker does not generally believe in signs and portents. I won’t go so far as to say that signs never come in our da...

Oddities in Rhetoric: Religious rhetoric from the Left : "We are God's partners in matters of life and death." From the Right...

The Future of the Past : In the early 1960s, curators at the Philadelphia Museum of Art noticed something funny about one of their modern-ar...

Trust: I can see only good in this : The left likes to say that conservatives hate government. The truth, and it holds for many people beyon...

Volte: It's time for some more early music: If you have eighty-nine cents to spend, try track nine here. If you've double that, an...

"Ex-Soldiers Don't Need to Be Told They're a Burden on Society" So says the sub-title of this report , looking at "li...

Profits in Health Care: The AP has an odd Q&A piece on the "co-op" idea that ObamaCare advocates are floating, now that they...

Hospitals Kill: The Atlantic has an article that blames a father's death on the American health system . Almost two years ago, my fathe...

The Zombie Menace: A screen shot from Memeorandum : Hmm...

170th Infantry Brigade: Perhaps the Army's newest unit heraldry -- technically, it isn't even active yet, since it's approval d...

NO FAT CHICKS A new PETA billboard campaign that was just launched in Jacksonville reminds people who are struggling to lose weight -- and w...

Man on Fire: Dennis, over at Dennis the Peasant , has been laid up of late, and is using his convalesence to blog up a storm, principally on...

Like anybody should be surprised at this: For the Left, war without Bush is not war at all Remember the anti-war movement? Not too long ago,...

Skara Brae in Peril: Not the cold, as you'd expect, but the sea threatens the oldest city in the North. The city was abandoned five th...

Conservative Nation: I'm working on a piece on Federalism v. Progressivism; self-described "progressives" seem to be the chief...

A Crocodile in Frolic: I don't know what I like better about this story: the second photo , or the comment by Woz from York. "Tic...

Dr. Emmanuel: In the comments to a post below, a commenter called "RV" stated that "Emmanuel is the new Ayers." Both Y...

Gene Wolfe on J. R. R. Tolkien: In the last days of my second tour in Iraq, I found myself with a sudden excess of time on my hands. I was ...