Google, which owns Blogger as well as Picasa, apparently decided to automatically edit my last photo to show off Picasa's tricks.  ...

An excellent piece by a theoretical physicist on the proper structure of scientific thought (and philosophy). This takes me to another poin...

Tyler Cowan proposes an interesting take on global income inequality .  Is it more important that members of a particular nation resemble ea...

Approach from the South

At least they had the grace to be appalled at what they'd done.  Sort of.

Israel equips its domestic aircraft with anti-missile defenses, the only country to do so.

Megan McArdle ably expresses something we were arguing about recently at Cassandra's place: the recent trend to consider everything pe...

William Deresiewicz takes on Lawrence Buell's " The Dream of the Great American Novel ," a turgid new contribution to the sch...

Sadly, I have to agree with this assessment from a commenter at ChicagoBoyz : I think Romney would have: 1) Failed to repeal Obamacare, in...

Shrinking your consumption to match your income?  That's crazy talk .

More recycling , this time of hard drives in the FEC belonging to a former Lois Lerner crony who was under investigation for violations of H...

The President argues that it's ridiculous to imagine the border can be controlled. That's just primitive "moats and alligators...

OK, it's the Daily Caller, and maybe they made it up out of whole cloth.  Hillary Clinton is reported to be working on a new book that ...

An interesting theory about whether the coordination between the White House and the IRS took place via the IRS employee's union. H/t...

This AEI article includes seven charts comparing the shape of the recent recession to the average of all post-WWII recessions. Each graph ...

This guy is exactly of our way of thinking. If you're patient, there's never any reason to work hard on a compost pile, or to over...

Jim Geraghty: Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal told Al-Jazeera last month, “Hamas is comprised of a political wing and a military wing.” Really? Beca...

I don't care if Rick Perry did forget the third of the three most useless federal agencies that should be jettisoned instantly, I still ...

I expected to be outraged by an article entitled "UAW decides to skip election and form union at VW plant anyway," but I found in...