More support for Jonathan Haidt's thesis that conservatives have a clue what progressives think, but progressives cannot return the favo...

From Nicole Cliff at The Hairpin , via Never Yet Melted via Maggie's Farm: If you haven't spent a lot of time around horses, you ...

He has spent eight years churning out hundreds of thousands of copies of “The Hangover,” “Gran Torino” and other first-run movies from his ...

"Warming Hole Delayed Climate Change Over Eastern United States," declares the headline at Science Daily , describing the results ...

Another good American Enterprise Institute review , courtesy of Maggie's Farm (which by the way is also the source of my last two posts...

"It's your money, use it when you want it" -- so goes the late-night J.G. Wentworth TV commercial  aimed at beneficiaries ...

John Gray, emeritus professor of European thought at the London School of Economics, has an interesting review of Jonathan Haidt's ...

Via Arts & Letters Daily, a review of a new book on Rome .  As always, I'll defer to Eric for a read on the quality of the thing; Ro...

Here's a cheerful song about finding the good in a hard life, built around friendly lyrics and a playful arrangement.

Popular Mechanics has a delightful article called "The 13 Most Dangerous Car Interiors in History."  Runner up is the Lincoln Con...

Foreign Policy has an article that claims that the best predictor of a state's stability is how it treats its women . What's more...

These are not words a lawyer wants to hear from the bench, especially if his only honest answer is, "Your Honor, I got nuthin'....

Chemistry World discusses a new technique for recovering the original beauty of Medieval illuminations .  (Hat tip:   Medieval News .)  ...

...the Washington, D.C. bureaucrat . The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor...

Let's leave aside the question of whether there is a "war on boys" or a "war on women," or whether the system is sta...

Philosophy is being made obsolete by science, claims a theorist cited by  The Atlantic : In January, Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physic...

My notion for a simultaneous attack on three problems:  (1) uninsured free riders on the American healthcare system, (2) the unconstitutiona...

I personally believe that it is proper to carry arms openly whenever possible; the benefits of this are something we spoke of years ago, an...

Shāh Māt , meaning king-kill in ancient Persian, or as we say today:  checkmate. It seems the game of chess may have  originated in India ...

PollingReport.com  consolidates polling from a number of sources over time.  The link takes you to a summary of public attitudes to immigrat...