Defensor Pacis : ...Her flag had seven stars, significant because Chavez had arbitrarily added an eighth, making any use of a difficult-to-f...

Pirates! From Hoover's Policy Review , a piece on Corsairs : What was to become the manual on how to deal with pirates appeared in 1618 ...

Calling Down the Thunder:

The Case for Womens' Suffrage: At one time, I had an advisor in college who had this poster on her door. I was reminded of it today bec...

Plato, Public Virtue, and Australia: Cassandra had an interesting post yesterday that I've already cited a couple of times, but let'...

The Christian Party: I've long thought -- and occasionally argued here -- that the future of the Republican Party would be in transition...

Counting Crowds Regardless of what you think of either Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin, I'm getting tired of the MSM's complete inability ...

Voting Mechanics Once you figure out who can vote, you still have to run the election in a way that inspires confidence. For at least ten y...

Principles and the Franchise: Many of you have been following the debate over the last few days, mostly conducted at Cassandra's but als...

Afghanistan The always-helpful Assistant Village Idiot directed me today to the new Weekly Standard's cover article on Afghanistan by P...

Snakebite Redux I don't believe it. The little booger got snakebit again this morning, right on the schnozz. We're guessing a cott...

...And Shall Never Sound In Slavery:

UN Asks: "Who Are You Gonna Believe?" Us ... The U.N. said it would not be deterred by violent threats. ...or your lying eyes ?

The DEA and the 9th Circuit: Continuing to Drive a Wedge Between Americans & Government So let's say you're lying in bed one ni...

The Last Days of Deepwater Horizon Maybe we won't get a good disaster movie out of this until the litigation is over, years from now, bu...

Sing, Pallas: Archaeologists claim they discover the palace of Odysseus ! An 8th BC century palace which Greek archaeologists claim was the ...

You're WEIRD: Did you know that the famous Ultimatum Game doesn't play out the same way in other cultures? Westerners famously reje...

The Timaeus : Plato's Timaeus is a story about the creation of the universe. Some of it is very resonant today, and some other parts a...

The Airbag for Horses? You know, I have a certain sympathy for this fellow... Spectators gasped and expected the worst when the horse ridde...