Somewhere I came up with a postcard of this piece by Wendy Ellertson , although I haven't been to Boston in ages and I can't recall ...

Come on, now, Dr. Althouse : this is surely the best thing we've ever read about the Honorable Chuck Schumer . The man's only d...

Since we're talking about Kickstarter programs, here is one I particularly like. It won't revolutionize the world like maybe mini-...

"Kickstarter" is a website where inventors can try to raise money for projects.  I just plunked a little money down on two guys ...

. . . This makes you say "Awwwwww."  My husband, who has my number, forwards me this image, from Ace, I think.  Sort of a William ...

The use of the didgeriedoo in a Celtic composition may strike you as odd, unless you are aware that it moved into northern European roots...

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has a proud enough history that its current misbehavior needs to be condemned with some care. Even t...

Ah, the autumn is coming. Have you had a taste of the fine air yet? And autumn means fairs. It's coming, boys and ladies. Just be...

Mr. President defends his VP : "Most folks know that's just sort of a WWF wrestling part of politics," Obama told "Entert...

Harry Harrison wrote a number of good books, most of them more fun than serious, but good books all the same. My particular favorite of his...

In 2010, after James O'Keefe had taped his ACORN sting operation, one of his sorry victims sued him for invasion of privacy.  O'Keef...

Via Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News , it appears that the Congressional Research Service c ompleted and published a report on Gun Control ...

It's a Zogby poll, so who knows if it's right, but it would make some sense . Youth unemployment has been horrid during this recess...

Headline: "Scientists: Vegetarian cavemen died off ." Meat-eating cavemen? They're your ancestors! How about the beer-d...

Vice President Biden's remarks, today, are surprising on several levels . One of them is that they weren't a thoughtless or careles...

Has ObamaCare turned Medicare into an issue that should scare the Obama campaign more than the Romney one?  Yuval Levin at National Review ...

I suppose one could get that reading out of the plain language Gov. Perry used here, although I don't think that's what he meant. ...

The SEALs were also circumspect about death in a way that only those confronted with it regularly can be. “I either want to die in combat,...

This site has an unfortunate addiction to exclamation points, but the photos are great. A sample:

So this morning I felled an oak, only to have it hang up on a tree about a third of its size.  It looked pretty comfortable.  The wife said,...