I think this is an interesting and challenging article , but it has a key flaw in its frame. The author, Patrick J. Deneen, is talking abou...

I came across this in an article about horrid Japanese fast food , which describes the tune as "the most cock rock anime theme song t...

Cassandra points out to us that Elise's blog is up and running again.  Moseying over there, I found links to two articles from a yea...

...And all we dwell to-day As children of some second birth, Like a strange people left on earth After a judgment day." For the en...

It's strange to hear children singing the song given its subject matter, though it's as true for them as for others. It's eas...

Nice work if you can get it:  just think how much trouble it would be to go into 50,000 homes where family members were receiving Medicare/M...

Yesterday's bombshell was a September 2012 email from Obama aide Ben Rhodes outlining a prep session that would enable Susan Rice to go...

This month's Gutenberg project has been a multi-volume work on Homer by W. E. Gladstone.  It took me a while to realize that the author ...

In a generally critical report on flagship state colleges and universities, this: A few institutions have held the line in one or more area...

Justice is done, according to our system's lights . A widow was given ample notice before her $280,000 house was sold at a tax auction t...

Spent part of the trip in DC having breakfast with an old Iraq comrade. He's retired from the military now, and is doing pretty well fo...

Due to the illness of an earlier family member -- one who did, Tex, end up having brain surgery -- I have made a ride up north this weekend....

The Pope has garnered an interesting comment from the UK Guardian . What makes Pope Francis's attack so significant is that his positio...

Bookworm Room lives in Marin County, California, and pays special attention to how blue politics work out there.  Her post today alerts us ...

Kevin Williamson looks at the fuzzy boundaries of the category we call "the rich": Far from having the 21st-century equivalent ...

I was reading what seemed like an ordinary article about coming attractions in the biotech revolution when I came across the casual stateme...

Are we?  Matt Ridley says " Nonsense ."  Did Stone Age civilization collapse because people ran out of stone?  Contrasting "e...

I'm pretty sure this was just a refight of WWII. With an exciting new ending!!

"Let's hope #Kremlin & @mfa_russia will live by the promise of hashtag " These people represent you. They represent me....