Cassandra reminds me in the post below that it's been too long since I did something really wrong.  A man has to sin once in a while, or...

It looks like Newt Gingrich is about to have his best day on the campaign trail ... ...and also his worst . It's rare to get so man...

I have just finished reading Lars Walker's Troll Valley , which is available for the Kindle and for the Nook readers.  Since we hav...

Via D29 , an answer that may surprise : “Wages?” I ask.  His dark eyebrows arch as if I were clueless, then he explains the reality of r...

The blackout is in support of the anti-SOPA movement. An article describes the issue : For example if you post a link to the story on ...

Eliza Griswold reports from the edge of Europe, an island in the Mediterranean called Lampedusa .  It's an interesting piece, if only st...

By coincidence, it appears that the McCain campaign's oppo book on Romney has been released to the web.  Given our ongoing discussion, ...

It is possible to ask questions about the recent shipwreck, and we may choose to draw wider lessons or to resist that temptation .  One narr...

It is the wise man who knows that the answer to a contemporary puzzle is often best sought in the ancients . In the Western heroic tradit...

Theodore Dalrymple writes of Belgium , in a way that sounds very familiar: As I write, Belgium has not had a central government for more ...

Since I spend most of my time with ancient and medieval writings, I'm sometimes a little surprised when I run across what contemporary t...

So there's this woman in New Zealand who decided to answer her bills by auctioning off part of her backside : Bids on a cheeky online ...

Cassandra has apparently decided to begin posting again , in spite of her many previous threats to be done with it forever.  You'd have ...

This has to be very encouraging for the Santorum campaign, and also for any of us whose hope for 2012 lies in consolidating conservative opi...

The concept is Appalachian, but the execution is Irish enough.

Interesting infographic .

With h/t to Power Line , this image makes one aspect of the question pretty clear. Regardless of where one falls on the abortion question, ...

What were those Taliban doing in those Marines' latrine anyway? To put this in a little perspective, In WWII, Marines were boiling the...

It's not every day that you see our Supreme Court decide an issue 9-0.  On the other hand, given the merits of the case, any other split...

The "Young Americans Foundation" reports : Young people today face a three-pronged attack on their financial security—educationa...