I enjoyed the following short clip from AEI about power and energy, even though (like many pieces of its type) it confuses the two c...

(Rings from here .)

Let's read Parts I - VI today, as they all turn on the problems of a polity trying to hold things in common. The suggestion isn't ...

The election appears to have turned on millions of voters who voted Republican in 2008 staying home this time around. The change was especi...

Let's finish the rest of Book I today .  It's not the part of the book that has garnered a lot of attention except for its analysis ...

Andrew Klaven is quite right about all this .

One advantage to yesterday is that it simplifies analysis of where we are going as a country.  We have returned the same divided government ...

The American people have spoken, and they want more unemployment, and free stuff.  They'll get free stuff for a while.  The unemployment...

In the wake of last night's election, it is time to reexamine our ideas about what makes a legitimate government, and our relationship ...

It's a good thing we did that Outlaw Country series this summer.  You're all Outlaws now.  Welcome to your new world . The state h...

Locally the county went for Romney, 77/21.  As I mentioned before, the black population in the county is under nine percent, so that's a...

I trust you all know how to use a KA-BAR , metaphorically or otherwise. We'll sort out the rest later.  For now, strike, and no m...

Today's xkcd .

I mean, that's just carelessness . I would have gotten there well before I hit the 90% mark. It's such a pretty country. Think of...

In the previous post on Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, I pointed to Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army -- two well-known, reliable...

Oh, yeah . A coal barge in Ohio.

We're all thinking about Ohio this weekend, so why not a blues piece that starts out there? But I-75 is a long road, from Canada to the...

Apparently we have some brethren in the frozen north . A couple of hours before the storm reached peak strength and before we lost power, my...

Mr. Silver has been the focus of a lot of attention lately, but mostly it has come from people who don't understand his model or probabi...