From " Don't Cross the Forces of Tolerance ," about the quivering sensibility of the leaders of Boston and Chicago in the face...

I want to take a moment to praise a book I have been reading recently. It's a new book by a professor at Indiana University named John ...

Michael ("Hockey Stick") Mann has reached the questionable conclusion that it's a good idea to sue Mark Steyn for defamation,...

" We tried our plan.  It worked ." Well, I guess it's a question of what the plan was meant to achieve. It's been born...

The Army military combative program is a strange sort of martial art: it is designed not to hurt people. I talked to Command Sergeant Majo...

The interest in 'social networks' has provided new evidence that several powerful ancient epics were based on real people . The Ili...

You have probably never heard this song, unless you've heard it here before.  I have never seen the film to which it pertains.  The movi...

At Bob's request, in honor of the gallant men who gave their lives in the Aurora theater. 

During the 2008 campaign, the Net began a tentative reverberation around the concept of "socialism," which had been an unfamiliar ...

We've been following this feud for some time here, so you may be interested in the latest salvo . The most interesting part of the art...

Heaven knows I'd love to be writing a post about how women rose to the occasion for heroism in the Aurora movie theater.  The fact is, f...

The USDA has a brilliant new initiative to heal the planet. I have a better plan:  abolish the USDA.  It doesn't seem to have any ide...

She made a racist joke ! Well, if "African" is a race... which it isn't, really... and if it's derogatory to suggest that...

President Obama said today ... I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers and not in ...

From Politico  via HotAir , this gem of an explanation from David Axelrod.  Polls show a public impression, by a 2-to-1 margin, that Obama i...

I found a poem in an old journal tonight, one I wrote when I was still just beginning to compose. At that time I was interested in the Old ...

We don't do a lot of hip-hop here, but Ice-T has always been the one I most respect. When he wasn't doing his over-the-top act, h...

Some of you sent me this . "Howitzers"? Like, the Civil War ones that require a team of guys to operate? Yeah, you can buy t...

Did you know that "Romney" was an Anglo-Saxon name ? This article asserts that it is , based on an Anglo-Saxon place name that pr...

Remember we talked about that paper by that professor out in Texas that purported to find worse outcomes for the children of adults in same-...