I've been enjoying these quizzes , recommended by Bookworm .  She warned me I'd waste a bunch of time on them.

Nature magazine discovers the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . You got to read about it here almost a month ago .  I think that may be the first ...

Cassandra links to a Bookworm piece lampooning the incoherent conspiracy mutterings about Chief Justice Roberts, whose Machiavellian prowes...

Well, we knew that already.  But now he's been held in criminal contempt by a formal vote of the House of Representatives, on a 255-67 ...

...about them things you did  and the medals you got for them   and not get hauled into court anymore. But, you'll still be a liar. I ...

BREAKING: Eric Holder releases new statement: Fast and Furious was a tax. H/t Ace .

Angela Merkel warned earlier this week that Germany will bail out the rest of the EU over her dead body.  A Citadel CEO and University of C...

Roberts is no judicial activist, I'll give him that . What a disappointing week.  Well, I suppose the lesson is the usual one:  some o...

As part of a discussion on another subject in the company of a bunch of Villains (that post and its extensive discussion are well worth...

Such is the title of an excellent article from The American Interest , which addresses the change of focus in American society to the fulfi...

Wait till the government thinks you're fat , too.

Police state.

Via the Chronicle of Higher Education , a history lesson. [I]t took place by order of the United States and Britain as well as the Soviet...

I'm seeing this decision described some places as one supporting "key" provisions of the state law, but as far as I can tell,...

A retired gentleman saves a lady from a mugger , just down in Athens, Georgia.  Turns out the attacker was armed, but lacked the guts to go ...

A 14-year-old takes good care of his siblings, 8, 10, and 12.  Someone in the article comments that they're not sure whether the boy ha...

Allahpundit at Hot Air loves to twig his predominantly-believer readership with periodic atheist headlines.  Here's the latest , which i...

Not much to love about heat and humidity, even when things aren't hard as they are for millions of our brother and sister Americans this...

I suspect a lot of Republicans are reading this question as, "Do you consent to what the government is doing?"  But the unaffiliat...

Apparently that's about it , now. I pray I might die in a manner more fit for a warrior; on the highway, or by blade or gun.  Yet such...