Rick Lowry, of the National Review, has made a short but good homage to courage and the first responders of 9-11. In it he uses a quote tha...

I had to laugh . Striking faculty members at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus were informed by e-mail that their health-care cov...

The Late Summer Fare: There are an amazing number of things you can do with bay leaves . It is used in many kinds of cooking, as an astring...

We're from the Post Office, and We're Here to Help The Post Office's impending bankruptcy is much in the news. My husband ridic...

ZOMBIE: I'm not particularly offended by the Bachmann-Zombie portrayal , but I am a bit bemused by the idea that Uzis might be the road ...

An Angel in Tellico Plains: I passed by a public library today, and spent some time there with the works of Lewis Grizzard. I suppose some ...

"...With Terror And Slaughter Return." The Western Experience notes remarks by the CEO of Deutsche Bank, along with an assessment...

New Business: Apparently one can become a philosophical counselor now. This sounds like a great racket, which is why there is already a ce...

Now, If We Could Only Manufacture the World's Tiniest Violin . . . . Nanotechnologists are learning to make machines out of single molec...

Climate and Its Uses From Steven Hayward, an American Enterprise Institute fellow, at PowerLine : The German newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung ...

The Road Not Guessed How often do we guess wrong what's over the horizon? A lonely, impoverished Samuel Morse took up his interest in a...

Race and the TEA Party: The headline reads "Academics dub tea partyers devout, racist." That's pretty aggressive; what's ...

En Passant : Sometimes, like the chess move where a pawn moves in an unusual and oblique way, it is the smallest things that move the game ....

Hypotheticals: If you should ever be sitting on your front porch in the dusk, smoking a long-stemmed pipe that a friend sent you because he ...

NASCAR v. POTUS: One thing we've probably learned over the last few years is that NASCAR fans are more likely than not to dislike the Pr...

Another Dumb Law: I hope none of you in California ever use babysitters . Dubbed the babysitting bill, AB 889 would require families to prov...

Speaking of Errors: Iran unhappy with Made-in-China Korans . Iran's Organization of the Holy Quran is scolding Iranian publishers who...

Oh, You Meant Mr. Crow: I don't have it in me to even be annoyed by this sort of lazy paranoia . However, I'm amused by CNN's ...

Brains, Bodies, and Symbiosis Until quite recently, I've always been Hygeia's darling, particularly when it comes to digestive heal...

The Constitutional Right to Denial A federal district judge in Dallas has just struck down a Texas law requiring a physician to supply a pr...