I survived the wedding festivities and have only to show you all now how lovely my young niece was.  My niece the doktah.  She's a tiny ...

Once upon a time, the CIA used to wage cultural and psychological warfare against communists and other baleful influences.  Of course, so d...

This woman has an excellent grasp of the strategic situation . Withdrawing health insurance (like Franciscan University at Steubenville, O...

Apparently some of those marsupials can have malice aforethought .... A hostile kangaroo launched a savage assault on a mother after spen...

Mentioned in our recent discussion of A Clockwork Orange , B. F. Skinner is one of the least-beloved figures of modern history.  A new artic...

One thing about history. There's always more of it. Wikipedia article on the Cristero War . (Because I know nobody has ever heard of...

You may remember this clever political theory from 2008 . I presented to an anxiously waiting world a Meta Theory of Recent Presidential E...

On occasions like this, I always feel like it is impossible to say what needs to be said.  I am always afraid of leaving unsaid the most imp...

Oh, for goodness sake . [Ann Romney's dressage trainer] Mr. Ebeling was at ease with the wealthy women drawn to the sport of dressage,...

Today is the day to swear again the old oath. [Arthur] charged them never to do outrage nor murder, and always to flee treason; and to ...

A Smithsonian article traces the 10,000-year-old domestication of these descendants of the dinosaurs by their upstart rivals, the mammals...

These pipers are not from a military service but from the intimate, traditional, and highly satisfying memorial service we gave to honor m...

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...