Ah, a day of gentle South wind In August, when the mercury, heat-hardened as an artery of bacon, readily sends a comforting wake to eac...

We can see the inequality inherent in the system in Marine Corps regulations on umbrellas : Per Marine Corps uniform regulations, the men ar...

A look at the real thing .

Funny thing about this recent IRS scandal: the guy taking the fall wasn't really in charge while the problem was at its height. No, th...

It is perhaps surprising to find a most insightful a comment on the sacrament of confession composed by a Jew. Nevertheless, André Maurois,...

The Gaboon viper has impressive camouflage: But even more impressive is the black-black-blackness of its black spots, which achieve a ...

Literally, the weak . Physically strong men tend to have right-wing views, and physically weak men tend to support more government interven...

One step forward, two steps back .

The IRS commissioner has been canned.

Maggie's Farm is having fun with this one, but it's truly an eerie video:  

Guy Benson at HotAir asks : "But why did Lois Lerner secretly monitor Susan Rice’s talking points for two months before trying to coerc...

I visited FireDogLake out of curiosity to see whether they would acknowledge the Gosnell story (no, of course not), and was amused to see t...

Also from a Hoyt commenter:  what the week feels like in some corners.

One of Ms. Hoyt's readers recounted this story about a man who, in his small way, stood up for reasonable principles at his office (see ...

Biggest difference?  One of them had enough class to resign. I can't do better than Jim Geraghty on this week's news: Wh...

Sarah Hoyt urges us to " Get up off the Floor ": And right now you’re going “It’s all done, we’re done, we—”  Get up off the f...

Here's a proposal so wrong-headed in so many ways I hardly know how to begin.  Kristin Wartman's NYT Op-ed observes that: The hom...

It's rare that I read a review that very much makes me more (or less) inclined to read a book than I would have been just from knowing t...

How we get from here to there:   France is toying with Step 3 now. (1) We want to spend more than we have. (2) People who will get the ...