I went to the county fair last night. Good crop of beef on display, well-rounded and well-handled. Down toward the midway there was a dunk...

For the last hundred years or so, we've engaged in a political fiction in which we treated the Native American Nations as sovereign, and...

...how about some bagpipes? Rathkeltair will be there, and so will Marc Gunn, formerly of the Brobdingnagian Bards. I guess Saturday...

Our friend Lars Walker is apparently kicking ass and taking names: at least, so I judge from these modest words , taken with his usual aver...

From Theodore Dalrymple , exasperation with a French imam who purports to believe in freedom of expression but blames a French magazine for ...

The WARN Act is supposed to protect workers from unexpected layoffs, by requiring 60 days' notice of planned facilities closings.  A co...

As most of you will know, the armed forces of the United Kingdom have continued an old tradition called "mentioned in despatches,"...

This time, it's the Fars news agency . The original Onion piece is here . The best part is at the bottom, where they link to a page ...

Mark Salter points out that he has been a consistent critic of Mr. Romney's, which should (he appears to hope) raise his credibility as ...

One thing we rarely see is the admission by a political partisan that he is wrong, his opponent is right, and his opponent's arguments a...

Usually we have to wait until after an election for this kind of convenient discovery .

I don't know.  Maybe I'm in a perverse mood today.  I rather like many of these shoes .

"Women will remake the world." Well, maybe. Hey, did you ever see this old movie? UPDATE: She won.

Protestors in Texas are handcuffing themselves to construction equipment in order to block the XL Keystone Pipeline.  The pipeline's de...

This is a good piece . My favorite part: Why would minorities have a hard time getting photo IDs? Because… um… minority stuff that you ju...

Prof. Posner is stirring things up this week by suggesting that we Americans take our freedom of speech way too seriously.  It's a paro...

The incomparable Iowahawk had these people's number six years ago: Over the past five years, the volatile Midwest has produced violen...

Here's my retirement plan, friends and neighbors. By the way, when he says that he never thinks about the next moment when pushing o...

Before he died in 1999, a man named Aaron Two Elk led a campaign in Atlanta against the Tomahawk Chop, that sort-of chant that originated w...

It was a rather long address, but one that has some well-crafted moments . The fears that it would be an apology by the President of the Un...