Not having a heart attack? You probably shouldn't have a stent . Beta-blockers are iffy, too; it may be that they will have no effect ...

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he'd be doing: * Li...

We use wooden wasters for a lot of Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA). Via Insty , here's a video about how dangerous these littl...

In praise of Jim Mattis .

CPAC attendees were tricked into waiving little Russian tricolor flags with "TRUMP" inscribed in gold upon them. The protest gr...

People are all bent up about the 90-day by-country bar on entry in Trump's immigration Executive Order. The only thing it was meant to ...

Not for most Scottish children, more's the pity, but for four blessed ones .

Yes, it's real. Why? California .

We're also putting in a massive budget request for our beloved military. And we will be substantially upgrading all of our military, all...

There's a rich irony in finding such a succinct explanation of their view of the right use of power expressed in terms of actual witchc...

A gallery .

That's the title of a whole section of this Vox piece on how to deal with Trump voters. It's a more fair-minded piece than the t...

So, let's say you're a liberal judge -- or, in this case, a whole bunch of liberal judges ruling en banc -- and you really don'...

"I look forward to investigating the charges of a Russian cyber-hack of the U.S.," a grinning Snowden told reporters .... Though...

From the Kickstarter page : Le Morte d'Arthur & The Arthurian Concordance With great pleasure we offer this project to fund the b...

Despite being an avid environmentalist, I've come to despise the EPA in recent years.  Scott Pruitt's introductory speech included ...

Majorities of Democrats consider Trump "the enemy," but an exactly equal majority of Republicans consider Democrats "the ene...

The NYT asks . Liberals may feel energized by a surge in political activism, and a unified stance against a president they see as irresponsi...

This shouldn't be news, given that his grandkids and his beloved daughter are Jewish, as is the son in law whom he obviously respects an...

It's part of a bribery scandal that's ongoing. I'm not exactly clear on why it's a Federal offense, although it may be tha...