"Depression in Command" An article in the Wall Street Journal challenges a fundamental idea that we use in choosing leadership, a...

Modern Political Discourse: "I'd rather be a hobbit than a troll," says one Congressman to another, in reference to the premi...

Tropical Storm Promise We're under what I like to think of as a tentative promise of a tropical storm. We've had only 8 inches of r...

Countdown: Two weeks from today I should be headed back to the Hall from the "undisclosed location" that has taken up the last few...

Phoenix Claws Our neighbors started up a small-scale chicken operation this spring. Earlier this week, it was time to slaughter the excess ...

"The Left-Leaning Tower" Give it up, would-be conservative academics , argues the New York Times : Dr. Yancey, who describes himse...

Hanging Tree: Variations on a theme.

The National Endowment for Humanities on Robert E. Lee: The NEH continues its assault on Robert E. Lee. The piece is worth reading, I supp...

"Mercenaries" Greyhawk has a piece on Hillary Clinton's Mercenary Army . As to which, I always think of the poem by A. E. Hou...

Charity, Women, and New Media: Susannah Breslin writes a rather biting piece on women at blogging conferences. The most important part of ...

"Dear Yankee" Via HotAir , I found this Texas Monthly piece by a local journalist who, though obviously no fan of Governor Rick P...

Heh. "There are monsters that need pummeling"

Templars my @#$: The attack in Norway apparently had a long-standing fantasy of belonging to a revived Knights Templar . Variations on thi...

Where's the Middle Ground? All the talk lately about how the powers that be must reach a compromise assumes that there's a middle gr...

CRS On the Debt, Market Confidence: Via FAS's Project on Government Secrecy , some Congressional Research products on the debt and marke...

Chinese Pizza: "Slice" has a review of a fusion pizza attempt out of Queens, NY. They weren't terribly impressed, but the id...

Heh.

Looking in the Right Places: An editor of the Atlantic looks at the Thirty Years' War, and learns something important . In sober fact, ...

And in other news.... From the Secretary of Defense: Secretary Panetta’s Statement on Certification of Readiness to Implement Repeal of Don’...

This Isn't Even a Right-Wing Push Poll I'm easily discouraged by national polls. So I was shocked to my toes and pleased as punch t...