Let us Render a Proper Salute! I saw this photo over at the Cold Steel Blog . Like you, I assumed he was planning on cleaning that boar wit...

The Adjunct Professor: Grade inflation continues apace, but the amount of time students spend studying continues to fall across the board . ...

A Revolutionary Battle: Via Red State .

A Kindred Spirit? My Chinese is still good enough to recognize that the first two characters read "Middle Ages." It's a coll...

Njal's Saga , First Week Discussion: Image from here . We are reading The Saga of Burnt Njal . This week we are to discuss sections 1-2...

Fake Tests, Fake Schools The Texas Education Agency must be staffed with refugees from the Enron smoke-and-mirrors factory -- except that th...

Yay, 10th Amendment! Or, a gay "marriage" ruling I might be able to support. We all know that marriage as an institution has nothi...

Anti-Business: The White House has had it . The White House has launched a coordinated campaign to push back against the perception taking h...

"The Austerity Contagion" Bill Bonner, writing at the "Daily Reckoning" site I've been enjoying lately, asks what wi...

Insurgence: To go with the music, this thought: "To be alive is to be a murderer ."

Calling Doctor . . . Doctor . . .? Joseph Rago has an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal today about the Massachusetts universal ...

I had no idea this even happened. Amedeo Guillet, who died on June 16 aged 101, was the Italian officer who led the last cavalry charge face...

Economics As a Mystery Religion I've felt as if I were drowning in irrationality all day. I've been trying to conduct an online dis...

"Natural Libertarians" Some people apparently react from the heart on these matters; these are my people. Not shockingly, the st...

Brains and Consciousness: A Neuroscientist you may have heard of, James Fallon, reveals two things: first, that his family includes a numbe...

I'm thinking of putting in for compensatory damages. A Canadian university study finds a correlation between cigarette taxes and obes...

Kindness to Widows: Not always a good idea. Found today in the tomatillo patch.

The National Aeronautic Self-Esteem Administration Speaking to al-Jazeera on a recent trip to the Middle East, National Aeronautics and Spac...

Wall Street and San Francisco Are Revolting Per today's Washington Post , contributions to the Democrats' House and Senate congress...

The Romans Took Out Themselves: A post from the Anchoress, who is guesting at Hot Air. Eric's point is her own. It goes with this vide...