Mark Steyn, noting the degree to which the country shut its eyes to the world outside yesterday: ~George Orwell in a famous passage from 19...

Kissing up to Iran: that's a job for the most dishonorable man in America. Fortunately, he's the Secretary of State . A report iss...

From Small Wars Journal .

What modern animals would look like if we drew them the way we reconstruct dinosaurs .

How to create a black market in salt, pepper, and sugar, and incidentally nurture some budding adolescent entrepreneurs.  We'll need sp...

Will the Democratic Party officially apologize for supporting slavery and the Klan , asks the American Spectator ? The history is doubtless...

A helpful guide from the University of Wisconsin . I have trouble taking some of their examples seriously. "That's so White of y...

Via a friend on FB, there have been four more black churches burned in the last week . I wouldn't normally link to Daily KOS, but this ...

This eventful week's third blockbuster Supreme Court decision mostly upheld the use of "disparate impact" arguments in housin...

For those of you who'd like to read the decision instead of the commentary. The ruling is that no state may prohibit same-sex marriages...

Coordinated attacks in France, Kuwait, and Tunisia . The attacks combined with a propaganda statement calling for a month of disaster for i...

"His gun is jammed," the observer states, suggesting that the misunderstanding of the situation here was even greater than it ap...

OK, I'll talk about the words even if the concept of meaning has taken a small beating this week. You know, if they'd said "s...

They are . And Che, of course .

We've heard a lot about what the media, business, and political classes think about the flag issue. What we haven't heard about is ...

You may have seen Ed Driscoll making fun of a movement to question what liberals will ban next, given the week's successes. Upworthy r...

An Army Ranger responds to Charleston, with reflections also on the loss of friends in the wars .

England selects a banner for its Women's World Cup team. Totally inappropriate content warning, but it's seriously an official ba...

In keeping with the discussion around Tex's post, a story from Russia : Vladimir Putin 'wants' to reinstate the Russian royal f...

The worst thing about slavery was, well, slavery.  A distant second bad thing was that in the mid-19th century, Americans with deep convicti...