Caterpillar is coming home . Caterpillar Inc. said it chose a site near Athens, Ga., for a new $200 million factory that will employ about...

I had a horse do this once, with a couple of differences. First, he wasn't as athletic -- which means he didn't jump as far up in...

You've heard of the Black-Scholes equation ? Black-Scholes underpinned massive economic growth. By 2007, the international financial sy...

So, a minor issue:  the clothes dryer burned out a while ago.  Since I pretty much never buy anything new, I found a used one I could buy of...

Apparently Alabama is mellowing with age . Four-star junior tailback Alvin Kamara of Norcross, Ga., couldn't believe what he found in ...

This article from History Today begins in a gratifying way : Anybody who enters into even a casual discussion with a US citizen about the...

The Times (of London) has an article on Ben Johnson , "one of our greatest poets – I know not how good a one[.]" In his turbule...

...a discussion of the long winter of Europe, versus our own potential contention.

It's been such a warm winter here that, even with this week's short cold spell, I've kind of assumed that the winter was warm ev...

MEGADETH endorses him! No, not that. Actually, the news story that I found most striking today was this description of his economic pl...

A friend of mine who is a professor, and a specialist in the philosophy underpinning mathematics, told me that the major debate in that phil...

Allow me to offer a toast.  Let us drink to the best and noblest of women.  Naturally, I mean my own.  (But if you direct that toast to...

Those of you who have been anxiously awaiting Elise's return from exile will find that she is up and running again.  She has a simple so...

When better than Valentine's Day to discuss adultery? Belladonna Rogers at PJ Media ran a column last week about whether an adulterer ...

Wond’rous bird, she dwelt in a land With such glory as beauty assured. Her wild song rang a golden strand; Her throat band bright as...

...so here's to beauty and horsepower, two of the great loves of my life. UPDATE:  These two are not of the same type, but I t...

'A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged .' Guess we'll find out!

We've adopted a 10-month-old black lab from the son of some friends. Like a lot of kids of college age, he didn't understand how ha...

Dad29 sends some words from Dr. Russell Kirk: We are not called to material success . We are called to obedience. We are called to love. ...

A new paper asks , 'Who gave Arthur a Crippling Blow?' and answers that it was Saint George: [W]ith the Norman Conquest, a new for...