Some good stuff on House of Eratosthenes this morning.  On Hillary Clinton's strange testimony this week: We have our Secretary of S...

A federal appeals court has found that when the Constitution says the President can make recess appointments, that means he actually has to...

A helpful article from McSweeny's medical journal entitled, "FAQ: The 'Snake Fight' Portion of Your Thesis Defense."...

From Instapundit, quoting a friend: If Republicans want to stop gun control legislation in the US Senate all they have to do is attach a b...

Paul A. Rahe addresses a question about whether there is a non-Marxist literature on what occasions revolutions (he misses Hannah Arendt )....

There is much to mourn at this hour . We watch the nation fall ever farther from the moral life that formed it, and informed it at its d...

A very short story by Lord Dunsany , one of the greats of his age. Fame singing in the highways, and trifling as she sang, with sordid adve...

Last night we tried something so obviously wonderful that now I can't understand why we haven't been doing it all our lives.  We bro...

If you are among the people who occasionally receive presents from me, do not follow these links because you'll ruin some upcoming surpr...

It's injudiciously phrased, so take that as a warning, but consider this article . 67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50...

You've probably read about the latest report on the dangers of right-wing terrorism to come out of the US Federal Government, in this c...

Lars Walker tells the story of being robbed at gunpoint as a young man. Phil provides a link to an i nteresting disquisition on the orde...

"...and long before I was born, my grandfather used this little Smith & Wesson here..." Used it to do what, you may wonder...

...It's plainly wrong for local law enforcement to try to help enforce Federal immigration law ... ...but it is obviously mandatory fo...

The assertion that opposition to the President is racist has been repeated so often, in so many forms, that it has become something of a jok...

Apparently an important component of today's gun control efforts is going to be getting doctors to quiz you about guns . Doctors and oth...

...the Georgia General Assembly is back in session. This looks like an interesting term, because the legislature can only meet for forty da...

There's been a lot of ink spilled just lately on the South in the Obama era . I'm disinclined to respond to it, mostly, because I ...

An open letter from the UK protests the American invocation of how interested we think we are in having the UK remain in the EU . There...

Some months ago I posted skeptically about the idea of requiring schoolkids to spend 50% of their time reading bureaucratic white papers of ...