Bad news at a bad time for a reasonably good man, as politicians go.  I hope it gets better fast.

In Beyond Good and Evil , Neitzsche scribed a warning : "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monste...

Today's headline:  "Cleaver aids woman in trouble."

Here's a limited-time opportunity for people interested in death penalty litigation. Next week, the Army Court of Criminal Appeals is h...

...When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the ...

Watching tonight's debates, I have these impressions: Ron Paul gets all the best lines.  He's still not a serious candidate, but m...

...our VP definitely is one . UPDATE:  Apparently FOXNews decided to change their headline on this one, and the URL changed with it.  The ...

Aristotle makes a claim in the early part of the Rhetoric that seems like it ought to be the case, and yet is clearly out of order with the ...

Now a University of Cambridge researcher is putting forward a compelling new theory about the identity of the murder victims . The document...

I'm no Pauline Kael , but I guess I'm not exactly a woman of the people, either, according to this Pop Quiz inspired by Charles Mur...

Inflation adjustment is a little tricky, but this still seems like a strange claim : However, Aaron Blake at the Washington Post finds t...

It seems many Americans perked up when they heard Mitch Daniels's opposition speech after the State of the Union, prompting a heated deb...

Elberton, Georgia, is an interesting place.  The wealth of the city is based on granite, quarries, that sort of thing.  But the history is ...

Went out to detox from the internet.  The few little towns around here are pretty disconnected from the internet-world, as demonstrated by ...

From Mitch Daniel's rebuttal to the 2012 (as well as the 2011 and 2010) SOTU address: An opposition that would earn its way back to lead...

From The Chronicle of Higher Education , a surprising historical metapho r for the difficulties we face in making good use of the Internet. ...

Foreshadowed tonight in a comment by a "Top Romney Advisor": So the argument here is that party elites will let you vote for ...

Can we agree that, if a man kills someone's family pet over a political campaign , and that man is later hunted down and killed, we wil...

Charles Murray has a new book out, and an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal summarizing its argument. He maintains that the richest ...