A Thought Worth Considering: The oath-bound among us might consider the Donovan's correspondent : [M]aybe we should beat them to the pun...

Security and Disaster: Theodore Roosevelt, born weak and asthmatic, went west and grew strong with his country. He hunted bandits and cattl...

Creating Brotherly Love: The Cowboy Way : This cowboy wasn't about to let a crook rustle him out of a good truck. A Kalispell man chased...

The Boar's Head: Joe was right: this is a fitting tune for the feast. Joy to you all.

Popeye's Brotherly Love: This cartoon happened to be playing on television today while we were over at Grandma's house. It's a ...

Merry Christmas to all the guests and friends of the Hall.

Respects, Sir: Via SWJ , an obituary: Retired Army Col. Robert L. Howard, 70, who died Wednesday in Waco, was a Medal of Honor winner who at...

Christmas at the Movies: Mark Steyn has a list of great war films featuring Christmas . Greyhawk, meanwhile, had the best Christmas-and-war...

So... Did We Win? Today has some very odd stories all over Memeorandum . I'm starting to think that the health care bill has died on us...

The Rule of Three: Jokes get funnier the more often you tell them. It builds expectations in your audience, who know the punchline is comin...

Pollution in China: A far better photographer than I am captures a few images of the 'miracle of China.' He has a real talent for ...

On the Need for ROTC: Observe. Anyone who had ever studied cavalry tactics would know better than that . Actually, you'd think that anyo...

Thou Shalt Not Steal: Far be it from me to argue theology with a priest , but... But his advice was roundly condemned by police and the loc...

Foolish Congress Tricks: This is not the best idea that anyone ever had. There ’s one provision that I found particularly troubling and it’...

Two More on "Who Wants This?" Ezra Klein has an unusually useful piece, responding to Jane Hamsher. Perhaps because it's blue...

Mastering the Topic Sentence: Writing courses will tell you that you need to construct a sentence that will express your main point in a cle...

A Toast to Miss Langtry: Judge Roy Bean, as portrayed by Walter Brennan. He was rarely given the lead, but he was a fine player all the sam...

Constitutional Issues: On the left, Riverdaughter writes that the health care bill is an unconstitutional violation of her freedom of relig...

Nothing for Anyone: So, why are we considering passing this health care bill? It's vastly unpopular, yes; and not for no reason! It...

Geologists Love Beer: One hundred seventy-five kegs is quite a bit for a single week, but God love them for it! “Science doesn’t work when ...