H/t Zombie .

This Emeril recipe is one of the best things I've tasted in a while.  It's called "Oysters, Scallops, and Crawfish Bordelaise ...

Here's one way to ensure that the Second Amendment's purpose of equalizing the power between the government and citizens is not unde...

She may lack personal ethics, but that doesn't mean she can't make it uncomfortable for those who lack professional ethics!

From Jim Geraghty:  "Finally. A 14-day waiting period for all assault cabinet nominees."

A meteor blew up yesterday about 25 miles in the air above a small Russian city about 1,000 miles east of Moscow.  The AP article said it w...

People with damage to the amygdala are strangely unable to feel fear of external threats.   It turns out that they can feel fear generated ...

In " The Rational Optimist ," Matt Ridley argued that evolutionary pressure operates not only on genes but on cultural innovations...

From Moonbattery :  

My beloved homeland came into practical reality 240 years ago today, when Sir James Edward Oglethorpe landed on a high bluff and founded the...

Jamie Weinstein of The Daily Caller interviewed Elliott Abrams, former deputy National Security adviser to President George. W. Bush, and a...

I've always wondered why God found it necessary to tell us this.  Or, if you're not a believer, why did a culture find it necessary ...

I'm enjoying browsing a site called " Skeptics/Stack Exchange ," not only because its members try to get a collective handle o...

Their sacrifice will make them easy to round up when the revolution comes , but it does force the Feds to step back and rethink how much the...

Instapundit takes note of this item , from the National Review Online, which encapsulates nicely just what a police state the US is turning ...

Apparently this is the day that everyone decided to run their pre-written obituaries, rather than wait for the man to die. They read a litt...

Walter Russell Mead pokes some gentle fun at David Rothkopf , who fears that the shale boom will distract the country from its real work, l...

Love this very short  video , from House of Eratosthenes.  Our curious monkey brain.

We knew that corporations would do this -- probably almost all of them, and to the greatest degree they possibly can -- but apparently state...

A friend of mine with environmentalist leanings directed me to this site tonight. It's opposed to Palm Oil manufacture. It begins: Bo...