...at the UKIP celebration party....

You do have to wonder how all the smart people could keep getting so gobsmacked by popular votes: Although most polls showed roughly equ...

I used to get some very hostile looks from young mothers when I would take my boy to the park, O these long years ago. So I get where this ...

As my FB feed noted, "Texit" is obvious, but here are the handy nicknames for each of the rest of the states when they decided to...

Joel and I disagree about this, but I still think Trump will last like a week and a half before impeachment proceedings start -- I mean, as ...

Headline: " Americans Confused By System Of Government In Which Leader Would Resign After Making Terrible Decision ."

It appears to depend on our elections as much as their recent one. Donald Trump : The people of the United Kingdom have exercised the sacre...

They have the chance, at least, now. This vote was in their best traditions. May they make the most of it. UPDATE: "Some who voted...

To my surprise, the Brexit results are still too close to call.  Minute-by-minute updates at the WSJ and the Telegraph .  Evidently Scotlan...

Today and tomorrow are the anniversaries of the Bannockburn, 702 years ago. Bruce, whilst surveying the English army, wore his crown and t...

Only one other indie movie has ever done this well , and it had a more traditional distribution. Range 15 did it with tickets only availab...

The Supreme Court has deadlocked on immigration , resulting in a sort-of defeat for President Obama. No precedent is set by the ruling, but...

Some words from our Founders . They were serious about this. They were also right about it. We need to figure out how to restore the loc...

In general and with some exceptions, I think this author is on to something . The one thing that would have stopped the Orlando shooting, m...

One thing that caught my eye in Grim's post yesterday about what Northerners secretly think was the idea that New Yorkers don't have...

So, following a filibuster, Republicans agreed to votes on four gun bills earlier this week. All four lost, as all four deserved to lose. ...

Funker530 has the video . It's the sort of thing you probably thought you'd only ever see in movies about WWII, but it's happen...

Every culture has its prejudices, and here are some Yankee ones . I actually think the South would have fewer hick towns if it had won the...

We were just discussing, in the comments to the "off the street" post below, the usefulness of the State Department Foreign Servic...