Perhaps it's too soon to say, but it's starting to look as though everyone aboard the Asiana flight out of Seoul got out safely afte...

This sounds like fun: Mud bogging has been a popular activity for decades, especially in the South, but the mud world's musical tradi...

It's too bad this didn't come before Independence Day, but it's still worth looking at now. Here is a large collection of some...

A new dilemma in Washington, D.C.:  how to impose a job-killing minimum-wage hike without killing the unionized employers we approve of?   E...

If only we could curb that terrible profit motive.  I know!  Let's implement price controls and prosecute hoarders . They probably bel...

Because the employer has no right to close it, if workers would be unhappy.  Ever. You can pull that trick once.  Then try getting the ne...

If you're like me, you know someone who periodically shows up at your door and says, "Hey, let's see a movie." "Gr...

From Douglas's link: To Max:  Viet Nam vet, business owner, indefatigable builder, good neighbor, and the kind of solid citizen that...

In honor of the Australians who took in Tex's immigrants, I added fried eggs to the cheeseburgers. But of course the hamburger is alr...

1 — Staggering Increase in the Cost of Elections, with Dubious Campaign Funding Sources: This is nothing new, and the purposes for which t...

The Sage of Knoxville points out this story about Saturday Night Live and NBCUniversal being sued by their hordes of unpaid interns , and n...

We are diving into a new Vietnamese cookbook this week, " Secrets of the Red Lantern ," by Pauline Nguyen.  Following the author...

What we celebrate today is the formal break of ties with Britain, and the commitment to war in order to make that break good. Foreign Polic...

Lars Walker is writing about the distinction between civil society and government, which many Americans fail to recognize. (Not Tex, thoug...

Our resident Roman expert can enjoy the pleasure of debunking this article from Salon . Some of the cracks in it are pretty obvious, but I ...

Sixty billion , that is. Bigger numbers than that require government involvement.

You wanted to improve workplace conditions, so you passed some laws about how employers have to treat their employees. Guess what happened?...

Via the Daily Mail, A man was arrested for filming the police and they shot his dog . Of course they did. What I find interesting about th...

If it should ever be my fate to fall into the hands of jihadist murderers, I hope one of them will have a better tool for my execution than ...