The London Olympics, 2012. Stonehenge, Midsummer Day, since time immemorial.

Bthun sends a tale by Charles L. Black, Jr. , on the magic of Louis Armstrong. [O]ne never entirely knows the ways of the power of art. I k...

In 2003, the Bush Administration's blue-ribbon commission to study the United States Postal Service issued a list of recommendations for...

Applying the same approach we applied yesterday to Southern politics, let's look at this analyst note on President Obama's 83% appro...

If you're filming an apology to post on YouTube concerning your earlier and universally reviled post on YouTube, and your first instin...

An interesting observation, on the assumption that Romney might win: the power structure of the United States would not include any Protest...

...it looks like Senator Bob Corker's job is pretty safe . Via the Tennessean , the Tennessee Democratic party has condemned [Tennessee ...

Politico has an article today entitled "Obama's problems in the South." They talked to some of the right people, but it appea...

Before I forget, the piece that Lars Walker wrote was linked to another article of his, on the difficulties we encounter in teaching young A...

Lars Walker links to a piece on Inca society , which mysteriously managed to create a vast empire without inventing a few things we take to ...

Since the Thunder Road piece was such a hit, how about one linking a gorgeous Western with a real-life story about ghost towns on the rail l...

Taranto is on to the shell game : The federal government has been making such too-good-to-be-true offers for decades--the "Social Secur...

. . . but not to teach, unfortunately.  Louisiana recently passed a bill to expand school vouchers for kids in failing schools.  The teacher...

Lately we've been discussing at VC the question of 'Gridlock good, compromise bad,' or 'Compromise good, gridlock bad?' ...

Once a year in the cool fall weather, Dawsonville, Georgia, hosts the Mountain Moonshine Festival .  Since moonshine is illegal, however, th...

You may remember my preference for outdoor cooking in the summertime, to keep the heat out of the house.  This is never wiser than when...

Apparently the IRS doesn't think any more of altering the law by executive fiat than the Labor Department. It creates an interesting q...

Looks like the Mighty 9th is going to a runoff . It's a shame we can't send them both to Congress, really. Dan Collins is endorsed...

The meat-axe budgetary process called "sequestration" will disproportionately target Defense spending, mandating the loss of untol...

Steyn is irresistible this week: Americans, so zealous in defense of their liberties when it comes to guns, are cheese-surrendering eatin...