The Royal Marines were formed in 1755 as the Royal Navy's infantry troops. However, the marines can trace their origins back to t...

As appropriate for the afternoon, let me introduce you to the goddess Nemisis , whose purview is "fair distribution of rewards." ...

Some 98 percent of ballots cast from the demographic have been from veterans who are registered Democrats. “This is tremendous news for th...

A huge win in Oregon .

In previous posts on persuasion, I've been sloppy with language and that's led to some confusion. I've also changed my mind on s...

Not all of the propaganda works all of the time. Two polls show that the American people have rejected two of the Left's beloved causes...

Scientists have recreated an ancient mead from 2,500 years ago Dogfish head brewery in Delaware has done something like this with residues...

" Everything conservatives predicted about Obamacare is coming true ." Well, and it has been for a while now. But you don't u...

Jonathan Haidt's video on this topic, which I mentioned in a previous post , turns out to be excellent. It's 66 minutes long; I'...

Headline: "Aetna CEO Says Young People Pick Weekend Beer Over Obamacare." So would I.

The Declaration of Independence says: [W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., the securing of unalienable...

Remind me how stupid this idea was . About one-year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the state’s assisted-suicide bill into law.... Now, one y...

Seriously, no commentary. Just roll the tape . Aspiring United States Air Force pilots can skip the fitness test if they are transgender an...

Steven DenBeste has died . I didn't always agree with him (imagine that), but he was an important early voice in blogging that I read ...

Of 1,000 voters polled by Rasmussen Reports on October 18 and 19; 65% believe that Clinton broke the law with her use of a private server — ...

Clinton ally donated half a million bucks to a political campaign... led by the wife of an FBI agent who was subsequently promoted and place...

Trump leads overall and with enlisted , among whom Clinton doesn't break 1 in 5 and finishes in a distant third place. Trump is narrowl...

Jonathan Haidt has a very interesting article up at Heterodox Academy by this title . The article itself is really just the bare outline o...

It was a lot harder to start a fad diet before the printing press, but there was a trade in ideas. One was the Regimen Sanitatus Salernitan...

This image is part of a whole series of newspeak lessons in political correctness from a university I'd never heard of before. I gath...