Chivalry & the French Revolution: One of the periodic articles about the alleged death of chivalry has garnered a strange reply from St...

Infants Behind the Wheel H/t Zero Hedge

An angry rant about taxes . It's going to get worse before it gets better. via Instapundit

How to Meet Nice Guys It's an old problem: where to go, what to do, to meet nice fellows you might want to date and even, some day, mar...

The Joys of Urbanism Here's how big a city containing the entire world population of 6.9 billion would have to be if it were the same de...

Most of You are Idiots with Nothing to Say: Present company excepted, of course. However, that is the conclusion of two separate articles t...

A Solution to Global Warming According to the San Francisco Business Times , marijuana grown indoors is responsible for 1% of U.S. electrica...

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON MARGINAL TAX RATES Discuss amongst your ownselves. While I mostly agree that raising taxes on the rich isn't t...

I find this simply fascinating . In a blog post that I thought was about Congress, a self described progressive suddenly takes a hard left t...

Eat the Rich Obviously last week's budget drama -- the impending doom of a shut-down of non-essential federal government activity -- wa...

MORON WATCH The United Nations, an organization that never met a pressing human rights issue it wasn't willing to pretend to care about ...

Eek -- a Republican Another Maggie's Farm find: this essay in Slate by a woman who's struggling to understand how her best friend ...

Republican Virtues vs. Servile Institutions I recommend these two video lectures from the American Enterprise Institute website , recommende...

Western Waters: I imagine some of you are getting curious about my continued absence. A few weeks ago I got a call from BLACKFIVE's Mr....

QUOTE OF THE DAY: I just wasn’t cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I’m more of an Irish Setter Dad. Here are some of the things my daughters...

Still Gone: I'm beginning to doubt I will ever be back. Carry on.

WHY DOES LINDSEY GRAHAM HATE OUR FREEDOMS? MILLER TIME EDITION In the last post I threw out a few Inflammatory Debate Questions : 1. Is it r...

SINCE I'M FEELING FEISTY TODAY... ...here's Yet Another Potentially Inflammatory Set of Debate Questions: 1. Is it really a threat t...

HOW POLITICALLY INCORRECT OF HIM... Apparently, Charles Murray is just a big, mean spirited misandrist : Note the discrepancy between what I...

Criminal Faces See how proficient you are at identifying a criminal , relying only on his face when set in a "neutral" expression....