A University of Chicago economist named Casey Mulligan deserves some credit for causing Washington bureaucrats to pay unaccustomed attentio...

Steampunk. Interesting how this has become a full blown sub-genre of science-fiction/fantasy literature.

Via Jonah Goldberg, a map matching each American state with the country whose GDP is closest to it. Probably because we're unfair or so...

There are days when even I almost feel sorry for the Obama administration. On the one side, there are ugly headlines because the Congressio...

' Pope's Harley Davidson sold at auction for charity.' Great looking bike, too.

A few weeks ago I put up Henry Rollins' attack on Toby Keith . It was not sympathetically received by the guests of the Hall. Still, ...

Gawker has an unusually insightful response to the story about 1 in 6 men now being liberated from work . They just decided to post some o...

This article claims the Obama administration is thinking of patching up the grandfathering problem on existing health insurance coverage fo...

We've all taken those political quizzes that plot you on a rectilinear graph according to your place on the left/right libertarian/autho...

I can teach my children that it is wrong to steal with a mostly clean conscience, because it’s been a long time since my preteen shoplifting...

Writing about the current trend for beards, the Atlantic produces a piece suggesting that American beards have a "racially fraught...

I’m done, guys . If we’ve reached the stage of welfare-state decadence where it’s a selling point for a new entitlement that it discourages...

Not a parody: In response, Susan Rice, the US national security adviser, issued a series of tweets on Tuesday denouncing the criticism . ...

Drudge is a very effective propagandist, or would be if he worked for a government (since part of the definition of "propaganda" i...

Bookworm Room linked to this article about a new product for battlefield medics. I was just reading a early-twentieth-century piece musin...

Here are two articles that do not rhyme, but do harmonize. The first is by Spengler, writing about the factors that are holding up the econ...

This would make a good elevator .  Not a lift, but what Heinlein would have called a bounce tube, something you step into in order to be gen...

I understand there's some kind of sporting event on TV late this afternoon.  I made the mistake of going to the store hungry on the way ...

He was ninety-two years old, more than fifty spent working around horses, so he knew what was about to happen when he saw it. Fortunately,...