The House approved the Upton (R) version of "Keep Your Plan" by a solid but not veto-proof majority, 261 to 157.  Thirty-nine Demo...

A peer-reviewed account .

On reading as a form of happiness . And of course it should be, because we know from Aristotle that happiness is an activity. If the readi...

...which he has. Now you can too!

Unlike the legendary kingdoms of Númenor or Atlantis, this was a slow and quiet fall : Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched fr...

An author at the Boston Review suggests that members of the all-volunteer force should be allowed to opt-out of wars on an individual basis ...

From Thomas Sowell , that lovely thinker: No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to he...

While it's true that it's pretty late to expect insurance companies to reverse course on policy cancellations that have been in the ...

Jonah Goldberg indulges in a big dollop of schadenfreude today, observing that the Obamacare website couldn't be more like the "t...

Who killed the Witch-King of Angmar? I couldn't stand the first movie, so I never saw the others. Jackson's infatuation with the ...

I tried something new at a doctor's office today.  I'm trying out a new GP in a nearby community, someone with great patient ratings...

Where the authorities have all the time in the world for trivia and none for anything that matters. Update :  link fixed!

I realize it's the smallest thing wrong with this , but somehow it seems to tie it all together.

From Jim Geraghty's Morning Jolt, some statistics from a recent Esquire survey of the political "center," which is looking pr...

I like letting vets tell their own stories. Luke Stricklin served as an infantryman in Iraq, where he and a couple of buddies wrote this son...

Just in time, a story about the Corps that is after my own heart . The MWTC near Bridgeport, Calif., has begun teaching an advanced horseman...

Tom Cruise: 'My job is as hard as fighting in Afghanistan.' Picked a great week to stick your foot in that one, son. Certain Ma...

A remarkably restrained account of the demise of a Louisiana man who had been holding his kidnapped ex-wife hostage since last Wednesday in...

Normally I'd wait until the actual days to post, but all the active duty folks I know are so involved in the 4-day weekend I figure I...

A comment I admired: The GOP needs to heavily advertise the fact that the only, yes only, reason that people are losing their current poli...