The Invisible Hand is Writing: Walter Russell Mead has been producing a lot of interesting stuff lately. I think I almost wholly agree wit...

Hostage-Taking In the recent blanket coverage of the debt crisis, the ongoing story about Congress's failure to extend funding for the F...

The New Civil Discourse "If the budget is balanced, the terrorists will have won." I need that on a T-shirt.

"8 Things You Should Never Say to Your Husband" This is one of those pointless humanizing pieces that news agencies run more for ...

Italy: Home of the Coolest Sports This seems like it would be fun. What strikes me about a lot of these sports is that they've been re...

We're Here to Help In " The Compassion Trap ," James Delong at The American Enterprise notes the dilemma we create when we obe...

A Pollster Gets It Right: A left, or "center-left," pollster actually listens to what people are saying . It's fairly amazing...

Baby Guards I'm thinking it would be a bad idea to make a threatening move toward this distant baby relative of mine -- a first cousin t...

"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"