Professor Glenn Reynolds is not joking around anymore . As a tenured law professor, his accusation that the President has betrayed his oath...

We've all seen the galleries of Putin photography. The man is a master of the art -- or else he employs one. But until today, we did...

Relationship advice from a doomed machine on a one-way trip to a (probably) lifeless planet. H/t Not Exactly Rocket Scienc...

The Northern French version of the troubadours , the Trouvères inherited the love song from their southern brethren. Those had it, in turn...

From Ricochet , this comment from a tutor observing the effects of the Chicago teachers' strike: A minor vignette from the perimeter o...

In church we sing this as "Be Thou My Vision," but the old tune is "The Banks of the Bann."  I prefer the old harmony th...

Eleven years to the day after the 9/11 attacks, a mob in Cairo attacked our embassy -- sovereign American soil -- and was allowed to tear d...

It's high time I read Moby-Dick , a work I somehow escaped in my formal education and early life.  I've really been missing somethin...

Once strong, from solid Camelot he came Glory with him, Geraint, Whose sword tamed the wild. Fabled the fortune he won, Fame, and a wif...

...when he was king of all England and so reigned, that there was a mighty Duke of Cornwall who held war against him long time. And the Du...

So, you've probably seen the photo . Hot Air has a caption contest. Here are some amusing entries: The Clinton Bounce gone a little ...

A nice post from a lady who grew up out West . It's about her "Daddy," and how important he was to her life.

The Economist writes : IT IS worth pausing from time to time to reflect on the remarkable features of the modern economy. As Deutsche Bank p...

Did this young lady get into her mom's yogurt, which mom had carefully placed up on the dinner table while she had to leave the room ...

Hummingbird Festival comes to our little town in mid-September every year:  it starts next Thursday.  We've been worrying a little wh...

The main headline, in my view? The new science has established a radically new insight: that there is such a strong brain-vagina connection...

But, on the other hand, I can remember how to say "Wo yao yi ping Pijiu." Da ping. The occasion for all of this is that a poor...

Rep. Allen West has cut the first ad leveraging last night's vote. The fact that he happened to call the vote three times is an inte...

Peasants .