Tex is having a historically low ebb in her trust of pollsters, so perhaps this is an artifact of bad methodology. Still... All of these ...

Via Maggie's Farm, Matt Ridley : The IPCC actually admits the possibility of lukewarming within its consensus, because it gives a rang...

From 1965, a film about that wise advice. You should all watch it, especially if you have not seen it before. It so nicely ties together s...

It's really hard , I know. The rules are simple. Every time a Republican who is a Catholic is asked for an opinion on the encyclical, pl...

From SlateStarCodex , a thoughtful article about trying to look at things from both sides, sometimes irritating but worth reading if only fo...

Of course, 99 percent of southern whites will never go into a church, sit down with people and then massacre them. But that 99 percent is re...

Gallup's annual "Confidence in Institutions" poll is out . From a broad perspective, Americans' confidence in all institut...

The Marines will rename several special operations units as Marine Raiders at a ceremony Friday, resurrecting a moniker made famous by Worl...

Cassandra points us to a story about a central figure in the capture of the Charleston killer : a florist and minister named Debbie Dills.

A long read, but iconoclastic for something published by Leavenworth . Normally when I see a publication from there with a length over six ...

While these acts are probably not related, the Charleston shooting occurred alongside another shooting at a historically black church in Mem...

Not that the rule would cover him anyway. He was a Marine, and encountered the stuff more by having it dropped on him in reconnaissance th...

Mollie Hemingway : [I]f Lew is right that our currency is supposed to express our values and capture the spirit of our age, a man as good as...

Like thousands and thousands of Americans, I've filled out an SF-86, the Questionnaire for National Security Positions. In order to let...

A surprise vote on that TPP fast track bill was called last night, just after news of the Charleston shooting began to flood TV news and soc...

It is a great sorrow to learn that decent people, brother and sister Christians engaged in Bible study, were murdered by a strange and paran...

"...and it was all about the Pope."

This ruling makes sense to me. The Confederate Flag is, inter alia , a symbol of rebellion against Federal power. Even as a heritage symb...

A forester in Denmark uncovers the weapons of giants among his pine trees. The axe heads measure 12 inches (30 centimeters) in length and e...