Chris Norman, the Briton who participated in the salvation of the French train against a mysterious young man with unknowable motives said t...

Someone has come out with a list of 99 of the 100 best novels in the English language, presented alongside a ten-question quiz about their ...

The author likes the idea of America paying reparations to blacks to repair the damages of slavery, but doesn't want money. He wants a ...

Name these 12 famous people from the Middle Ages. It's tricky, since of course we don't have photographs! My first-time score was...

You know the song, but let's hear it anyway given the news of the day . More, let's hear it a cappella since their brothers appare...

Way back in 2003, during the initial invasion of Iraq, a soldier named Hasan K. Akbar fragged two of his comrades while deployed at war. A ...

A former Blackwater contractor has been writing a short series mocking State Department 'war tourists' in Afghanistan . I sympathiz...

Ronda Rousey , again: In a recent interview with CNN, [Trump] spoke about women fighting in facets of the military. For some reason, he lump...

Our six-week drought is breaking, with good rains yesterday afternoon, and more early this morning.  When the sun comes up, I bet I'll f...

Tim Carney in the Washington Examiner examines new depredations by the unstoppable Reichwing machine in eroding the government's power ...

Uber is having a hard time getting a foothold in China:  the regulators keep raiding its offices there.   AirBNB has a different strategy, ...

The good news in automation :  as brute-force jobs decline, jobs providing caring and service increase, fulfilling the new demand created by...

The NYT describes it as a 'race to the bottom,' but it's the one beneficial effect of the Trump Show that the Republican primar...

Headline: " Hillary's latest defense: What is classified information, anyway? "

More likely than this, you just haven't seen the videos . The media has done its best to play them down. The people I know who still ...

The Ranger School says that the President will not be attending graduation.  They also want to dispute a series of additional rumors that h...

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From the Washington Times : The list says there are 44 emails registered on the Ashley Madison site with a "WhiteHouse.gov" addr...

A former US Army counterintelligence officer who now works for a watchdog group says he believes that Secretary Clinton used what I describ...

From Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker, a disturbing analysis of Katrina's forcible relocation of many of the residents of the worst b...