Raven asked toward the beginning of this series for some "libertarian country."  I don't think they were thinking in exactly t...

A surprising unity of right and left seems to be forming around the news that American regulators were fully informed of fraudulent LIBOR ra...

Via Instapundit , " Women and motorcycles :  ridership is on the rise."  (Alternative title by Arlo Guthrie .) There still aren...

Hot Air is giving him a hard time about it , but really, this is a perfectly accurate description of the President's experience. There...

Admirable anti-rejection letter . H/t Rocket Science .

We've talked about the way that the drug culture of the 1960s and 1970s was involved in bringing the Outlaw movement to endorse a fair...

It was not my fate to have a daughter, but apparently Timothy Dalrymple did . Your daughter is waiting for you. She will expand and softe...

The year is half over, but we're still not quite to Cost of Government Day this year! Actually, it turns out that we are if you live i...

Johnny Cash at San Quentin That song really seems to capture what was going on in the Outlaw movement of the late 1960s through the early ...

Anne Applebaum notes that both of the candidates for President this year are members of the elite ... two different elites, she posits. Wh...

Today's Bain Capital story is serious stuff, one that opens him to a powerful attack by the Obama administration that his remarks appe...

Last week , Congressman Issa bolstered the contempt charges against Attorney General Holder with incriminating admissions contained in seale...

So now we're coming to my favorite part of country music -- probably not coincidentally, the stuff I grew up with -- the movement that w...

Paraguay is being touted as a repeat of the 2009 ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.  If you'll recall, that ouster was widely r...

One of the success stories of the recent decades has been the decline in the crime rate.   Rape, especially, has plummeted: When it comes...

Politico has a headline that is rather striking , but the emphasis is probably not wholly wrong.  One of the warning signs that Eric Blair a...

A new Nature article reports a cooling trend for the last 2,000 years suggested by tree ring data.  The cooling trend is statistically corr...

I've discussed this sort of crap previously. As I noted here , Do your duty. 

Try this one, from Benny Goodman.     This particular recording is from his set at Carnegie Hall, and it's been digitally ...

The Dawsonville Pool Room is still closed , even though the state has lifted the liens filed against it.  Apparently the IRS became interest...