Choices: Three items today. First : Moving to her criticism of the president’s spending, Bachmann pointed to a chart of rising federal defi...

Making It Work: The Economist has a strong piece on the subject of success in American politics . Why, they begin, are things looking so h...

Against Mothers in Combat: Hoover considers the question . Can we make this distinction? I'm putting the question particularly to my f...

He's had all he can stand . A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an office building in Austin,...

The Roots of Morality: Many modern philosophers are under the impression that humanity sort-of invents morality. This is not Protagoras...

Books Are Good: Some books are better than others , but what really matters is what you do with the books you read. If these books are to h...

Comments "Upgrade" The threatened promised upgrade to the Echo comments system has arrived. I realize that some of you didn'...

Mrs. Palin on Tea Parties: So, we just finished saying that one of the most important contributions Mrs. Palin might have to the Tea Party m...

Daring Young Men: What do you know about the Berlin Airlift? [An important work of history-since-1945 devoted] less than a page to the airli...

The Pirate Queen: So, via Dr. Althouse , some fellow has gone to a lot of trouble to photoshop Mrs. Palin to remove everything he calls ...

Cossacks: For Doc Russia. A good piece! Here's another:

Year of the Tiger! We were in China for the Lunar New Year in 2001, and let me tell you, it is a thing to see. This year is the Year of the...

Grim's Hall Book Club: Bendigo Shafter , Chapters 34-47 Perhaps due to the Super Bowl, we are a week behind here. With your permission...

Sledding:

Romantic Love and Practical Service: The Lady of the Lake , a post from 2008 that was one of the most discussed ever written here, talked ab...

St. Valentine's Day: This video is said to be the St. Valentine's Day concert at the "Guacheros Club" in Belgrade. Who was...

Strong Men Armed . WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2010 - U.S. forces in the Marja region of Afghanistan are engaged in a series of missions to prime t...

Snowfall: I have no doubt that my friends in the north are very tired of it, but for me, this is the first time I've seen falling snow s...

Abraham Lincoln: A figure quite controversial at times, at other times treated as a kind of saint, Lincoln is today celebrated at Powerline ...

"Forcing"? I mean, it is the French, but still ... Elisabeth Badinter, a leading French feminist, has warned the green movement is...