You can skip the rest if you like, but the space exploration bit should be seen.

Fareed Zakaria's notice of the increased death rate in blue-collar white Americans , from suicide and drugs, draws this comment from Gl...

I was thinking back this evening on how much 2015 has been a difficult year.  I decided it would be good to go back through my photographs ...

An interesting simile : Can the celebration of wine drinking be Islamic? To Ahmed, the answer is: obviously, yes. It is Islamic insofar as t...

Chuck Norris' role in bringing down Communism.

I don't mean to imply by this post that he is not innocent until proven guilty, but I am encouraged to see such a celebrity brought befo...

Richard J. Davis thinks Hillary Clinton should set some ethical standards for herself . This then may be the ideal time for Clinton proactiv...

I mean, many of them are members of the political opposition -- and talking with foreigners , no less. Obviously the President needs to kno...

From an amusing list of ' best (or worst) media corrections of 2015 .' “Norma Adams-Wade’s June 15 column incorrectly called Mary An...

...unless he agrees to sign a release form that forbids him to discuss the evidence with the press . Callahan’s motion states he has not bee...

A satire, sort of . I’m not just talking about vaccines, but we can start there. A lot of people have judged us harshly in recent days for n...

Just about everything in this article seems like a good idea.

Not a good in itself . Fatwa 64, which effectively justifies the systematic rape of women and girls, says it is necessary to set out rules b...

So you might think, from reading Reuters' report on Gitmo . Since Obama took office in 2009, these people said, Pentagon officials have ...

Charles C. W. Cooke : As I write, the president of the United States is openly promising to finish off his second term with a flurry of extr...

I find this decision surprising given that Ohio, where the shooting occurred, is an open carry state . Now, children are not allowed to op...

Let us pause to note the passing of Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister , who has died at the age of 70. UPDATE: Just to archive this photo...

Brief summaries only, but not bad introductions . Here is Aristotle's, which is of course the best one: The others are Plato, Kant,...

This focuses on the Icelandic sagas , but it's a feature of Northern European literature more generally. Culhwch and Olwen , which appe...

I wrote about this last year . It is a somber moment in the Twelve Days of Christmas.