Are you ready ? I mentioned in this space a few weeks ago the IMF’s calculation that China will become the planet’s leading economic power...

Today I took the motorcycle up into North Carolina, across the rim of NC 106 toward Highland, and then down into the National Forest near ...

From the Gator Gainseville Tea Party : Why S&P Downgraded the US: U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 Federal budget: $3,820,000...

Retriever has written a moving post about death and loved ones . She ends: Lately, I keep roaming around my familiar haunts with different ...

Walt Harrington is a reporter who knew the former President for a long time. How long? In Midland all those years ago, the normal distance ...

The closing remarks from VodkaPundit sum up the debate thus : In the war of ideas, it was all Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson, Herman Cain and...

While we are talking about the death penalty, you should read this piece by Steve Earle .  The guilt of the accused is not in doubt in this ...

Georgia carried out the execution we discussed the other day; I've been thinking about it a great deal.   The Atlantic has a long piece...

The skipper of this sloop is a man of skill and prowess at his craft. These gentlemen , on the other hand, show room for improvement.

Historians are now suggesting that the Civil War killed a lot more people than we had previously understood.  Relying on census data, they ...

"In a move without precedent in the modern era , Republican congressional leaders... have penned a letter" to the Fed. The shock...

T99 says she is off to France, on what sounds like a well-earned trip.  (She also added that she'll be trying to check in by blackberry,...

It sounds as though we may have profited from Mr. Huntsman's attempt at the Presidency, after all . About a month after his arrival in...

Based on the general commentary, I've restored the Blogger standard comments -- which, oddly enough, are very much like the old Haloscan...

A hymn from Georgia's own late, great Jerry Reed, complete with shotgun and straight razor.

The argument, familiar to bikers , is now being made about electric and hybrid cars . Of course, since (as Glenn Reynolds points out ) a ca...

The most important feature of this Hall is the community. For that reason, I'm interested in making sure that it is easy for you to com...

Not a bad bit of origami , I'd say.

I have been absent, struggling with the sudden catastrophic illness of a dear aunt just as I prepare to travel to France with my sister, our...

A great headline : "Violent Crimes Drop 12%, Reason Unknown; In Other News, Record Number Of Americans Carrying Concealed Weapons....