A couple of articles today: one on the potential for cheap shale oil to reshape the world in ways beneficial to America, and the other aga...

Lest we forget our mission to read through the Politics , let's finish the rest of book two today (or this weekend, as you have time). ...

Thank you for the apologies; although it was clear at the time that most of you were simply playing off the original jape. I think,...

After today, we're in the pre-Thanksgiving planning phase. It happens this year I'm doing the cooking for everybody. That's go...

"I learned that Jesus walked the earth to create a more civilized society, Martin (Luther King) walked the earth to create a more justi...

The National Review attempts to make sense of the exit polls, surely a Quixotic task.  If you ask voters what is the most important issue t...

Back during the summer, we discussed ( see comments here ) some finer points about cases in which there really is a moral argument for abort...

President Obama: 'If you've got a problem with Susan Rice, you've got a problem with me .'

This petitions thing is kind of a nifty tool. Here's a good one: A petition to allow any American to voluntarily opt out of Obamacare ...

Some guard dogs you are. What a sorry lot! Mine scared a tow truck driver to death the other day. A guy with mechanical problems had di...

WTF , Gentlemen, W. T. F.

Greece is seeing a spike in attacks against foreigners by organized groups of Greek men and women. Dr. Mead points to a survey in Der Spie...

As you probably know, a flood of petitions has hit the White House's web site asking for permission for various states to peacefully se...

They're holding the Twinkie hostage. People accuse labor unions of sending their employers into bankruptcy.  The Hostess baker's ...

Reading Tex's link from the "Liberty & Privacy" piece, I am struck by the examples, and how different they are from the de...

The Washington Examiner muses on coming assaults to religious freedom: Obamacare requires employers to pay for contraception and steriliz...

The most beautiful six-point stag ran out in front of me tonight. We were perhaps ten feet apart. He must have weighed two hundred and fif...

More wisdom to cheer us up.  It being my birth month, I'm fulfilling my continuing legal education requirements for the year, which I al...

"I’ll let you know when it’s over by putting you in the ground and throwing six feet of dirt onto your face.  Until you get that secret...

I only want to read one section today , because it touches on our current situation so nicely. I'm going to excerpt what I take to be k...