Aw, Man! Finally the government comes up with a worthwhile use of taxpayer dollars , and some pennypincher shoots it down. The Billy Carter ...

Global Warming Crusaders Target Marmots in Cruel Genocide Or is it "zoocide"? Whatever: they can't wash the blood off their ...

Enforcing Federal Law As It Ought to Be I understand federal pre-emption. I support federal pre-emption in the areas where it applies. I e...

Wealth Yes/No Remember the summer of $4 gas and the Lehman bankruptcy, when things seemed so crazy that we elected a wannabe Socialist witho...

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Sierra Charlie? South Carolina has some explaining to do. Exactly how did this happen? Via LiberalLand , which notes...

Life & Death at Stirling Castle: The skeleton of a young knight killed in battle proves that it was a man's life, indeed. Even thou...

The End of the Cosmopolitan Ottomans: Via Arts & Letters Daily , which is indeed a daily read of mine for several years now, a story abo...

There'll Always Be a California What is going on out there? The tiny city of Maywood (1.2 sq. mi.), just southeast of downtown Los Ange...

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How About If the USDA Helps Farmers Spread Dirt Around Instead of Wealth? Here's what I don't get. The new take is: Sherrod sounde...

Georgia Primary Results: I wasn't aware that Sarah Palin had made an endorsement in the race for governor, but apparently a whole lot of...

My Weekly Rant on the State of Public Education Actually, I may be a little past-due. I meant to update my education rant when I read that t...

The Race Card, from IMAO Via Little Miss Attila , who has some of the best links I've run into lately, the IMAO site weighs in on the n...

Love Thy Enemy: I met Christopher Hitchens once, when I went to his protest-in-support of Denmark . We have all heard of his condition, and...

On Fighting Fair: There is no such thing as a fair fight. So, the key to fighting is always to maximize the unfairness to your own benefit. ...

Faithless Security: Six in ten workers expect nothing from Social Security when they retire. Count me among them; I've never expected ...

Let's Make Sex a Lot More Heartless Could this Episcopalian youth counselor be any more wrongheaded? He sees that young people are for...

What'll They Think of Next I confess to never having received a flu vaccination in my life. I can't explain why. It may be a frien...

This, Too: Via T99's introduction, I found this little piece of playfulness. This is why it is still worth trying to find a way to hold ...