I've never done this badly on an internet quiz before: only 50%.

The White House is taking that letter more seriously than I expected: Sure, it’s tasteless for the American president to go over the heads ...

A joke I heard today: An Englishman and a Scotsman go to a pastry shop. The Englishman whisks three cookies into his pocket with lightning ...

As I assume is well known to readers here, in the United States Marine Corps it is a standard that leaders do not eat until their men are fe...

Way back in 2004, Newsweek writer Evan Thomas admitted that "the media ... wants Kerry to win. They're going to portray Kerry and E...

Apparently in China, they should be left lying .

Grim's Hall, 2008 : I looked up the definition for "sexism" today, and I find that it is defined as "the sense that one s...

The main piece of news to emerge from the session was her confusingly worded disclosure that she has already deleted the emails that she bel...

... how about the Logan Act? ...critically, the citizen must act “without authority of the United States.” Although most assume that means w...

The polling did not just show the lack of faith in national institutions and leadership; it also shows that people increasingly feel that th...

A Small Victory : The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) said it will not seek to issue a final framework for the ru...

As permaculturist Joel Salatin likes to say, sometimes a problem is just a system that worked well but was split into two systems that creat...

The NY Daily News goes all-out . Do these people think Americans owe a personal duty of loyalty to the President? That Congress is not a...

"Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests." - United Nations Universal Declarat...

A Roman cavalry project along Hadrian's wall.

People are really mad about this letter to Iran . But to directly communicate with a foreign power in order to undermine ongoing negotiation...

It's the Socialist Worker's quiz , so they'd like to convince you that the answer is "yes." But they had to admit tha...

Today's novel economic concept to come across my desk: " degrowth ." If you watch the video at the second link, you'll...

Guess what happens when a single-payer system is unsatisfactory enough to allow a vibrant cash-only market to spring up next to it.

From Cafe Hayek : Under such rules (along, of course, with basic laws of property, contract, and tort) – and in a culture that honors bour...