The Foundation of Liberty: In a book review on a new work treating the problems of immigration and Islam in Europe, a remarkable quote : The...

A Shopping Trip: The Aristotelian mean between the Clinton and Obama administrations on how to use your interns continues to prove elusive....

Health Care: Homestretch Going into the final push, things look good : Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health c...

"We Could Trade It For A Dog": Doc Russia considers the business of raising a daughter : The best part about it is that from this ...

Sucks To Be Ya'll: So today the President announced that we would not be building anti-missile defenses in Eastern Europe. There were ...

So, if they take our guns away, can we use swords instead? They appear to work : Hours earlier, someone had broken into John Pontolillo'...

You'd Think Someone Would Grasp... ...that this is not the right time for this particular idea. This week the House is scheduled to app...

History & Tourism in China: When we were in Hang Zhou, we used to encounter Chinese tour groups occasionally. Hang Zhou was the capital...

OK, I Got It: I wasn't that put off by Ms. Dowd's column , because... well, because it was Ms. Dowd. The NYT's rival, however, ...

A Better World Through Piracy: What happened to that good old king-beheading sentiment after the English Civil War? This pirate, too, began...

A Poem of Adventure: From Sir Thomas Malory : In this country, said Sir Marhaus, came never knight since it was christened but he found stra...

A Poem of Torment: From A Celtic Miscellany , entry 52. The poet is an Irish man called Uilliam Ruadh (which is to say, "Red William...

A Sign: Two million people came to protest creeping socialism; one of them brought a sign.

Enid & Geraint: Once strong, from solid Camelot he came Glory with him, Geraint, Whose sword tamed the wild. Fabled the fortune he won, ...

Up The Trail: Just a pretty afternoon ride in the late summer of Georgia. Nothing special about it; but the wife is aboard her new Tennesse...

ACORN: Via Southern Appeal , I learned quite a bit about the kind of services ACORN can offer. I'd like to believe this video was faked....

I skipped the umpteenth rendition of the Obama-Health-Care speech -- either the twenty-eighth such speech, or the 121st, depending on how yo...

大跃进: China is better than us in some ways, says Mr. Thomas Friedman : One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by...

This Should Work: So you want to "regain traction" on health care/insurance reform. What does that mean? Well, it means you ...

Kill a Man - Marry His Widow? In childhood, I remember having one of those books of random facts and trivia (I believe it was Felton & F...