A military historian blogger I discovered on St. Patrick's Day has begun a series of posts on the historical Arthur .  It's eas...

In deference to Lars Walker's report from Beyond , let us start with something appropriate.   "St. Patrick's Breastplate" ...

Peggy Noonan has an excellent column today.  As you know, I refuse to give attention to those who behave in this way, because it is such at...

A few days ago we had a long conversation about the problems of assuming that markets (and contracts) were good models for handing other soc...

When a man with a long grey beard tells you that he's going to teach you a secret about shotguns that he had from his father, it's a...

There may be principled objections to the idea behind the Violence Against Women Act -- for example, the assumption it makes that women nee...

Three little rules today -- two of them from Health and Human Services, a foreshadowing of the increased importance it will take on in every...

If you'd like to see how my friend's home-schooled young son is coming along on that great big piano I posted about a while back, he...

A rather dire warning from a woman who was once an Iranian judge... until the revolution of 1979 , after which she found herself promoted to...

Let's say that you're outraged by the position of Jesuit universities such as Georgetown with regard to access to birth control.  Yo...

Having seen the destruction of one Medieval masterpiece this week, a self-described "human rights" organization is advocating t...

Krásna Hôrka , a thirteenth century castle in Slovakia, burned this week due to children playing with matches inside of it.  It is a great t...

"Errant" High, the painful mountains, Covered with thorny blue pine. Mists rise from falls like fountains; Under trees,...

I thought I'd touched nettles before, but this is a new one on me. Twenty-four hours later, I still felt as though I had electrodes hoo...

H/t Maggie's Farm , part of a quotation from the 17th-18th-century Shawnee leader Tecumseh as rendered in the recent movie, " Act ...

You all remember my little girl Avalon, right?  She'll be two this spring.

More links from Not Exactly Rocket Science . Your brain knows more than you think . Your gut won't give you a good answer about a compl...

A nagging millstone, or the "still, small voice"? A mild electro-therapy to the brain is said to quiet the internal cacophony an...

The New Criterion has an article called "The New Old Lie," which treats the current demand that war always be treated as essenti...

xkcd has it nailed . You can't beat this without hitting bottom.  And once you've hit bottom, you're not looking down on other...