I want to wish all of you a happy Memorial Day weekend.  I continue to be rather ill this weekend, and thus must regret that I am unable to ...

There's either a lot to be said about this story, or almost nothing.  I'm going to go with the latter because a lot of ink has been ...

The following is a South Korean training video.  It shows some remarkable infantry tactics, a kind of update of ancient infantry tactics.  S...

Cassandra has a post by this title today , treating some of the abuses currently coming to light.  It is starting to seem like there is a ne...

USA Today has been on this story for years , and they deserve credit for continuing to make the point and bring it back around to our atten...

A deputy sheriff in Texas has a suggestion :  how about we arm drones with rubber bullets and tear gas? Charles Krauthammer has a response...

Some time ago we talked about Dr. Martha Nussbaum's thoughts on disgust.   We shouldn't allow disgust to be a standard for making la...

FOX News came out to Dawsonville last week to report on the outrageous seizure of the Dawsonville Pool Room.  [UPDATE:  News video now below...

This is a remarkable and pleasant documentary, which I encountered while doing some research on the Spanish crusades.  I suppose it should b...

Niall Ferguson wonders after the majesty of a jubilee : A hundred years ago, the seemingly immortal Emperor Franz Josef was approaching hi...

The important line is this poem:   "Whar Stands Scotland Now?  Stands it Whar it Used To?  Whar Stands Scotland Now?  Stands it Whar ...

This is really impressive stuff , WaPo. On Sept. 11, 1857, a wagon train from this part of Arkansas met with a gruesome fate in Utah, wher...

Apparently this massive-debt-default situation has come around before... oddly enough, also in Greece.   Medievalists.net has the article (...

What happens when you share a currency with a political unit in a fiscal shambles?  No, I don't mean Greece : So JPMorgan makes a $2 b...

It's an interesting fact that severe brain injuries rarely, but sometimes, reveal remarkable talents in people that they never had befo...

I may have posted this before; if so, I apologize.  It occurred to me again because my neighbor's son is marrying a Jewish woman and wil...

Another squeaker.  I'm enjoying these:

If this is the plan, it's time to rethink the plan . If the law is upheld, Republicans will take to the floor to tear out its most con...

The general disruption of philosophy in the contemporary era is demonstrated by questions like this .  But that's OK; questions are a go...