I'm sure that the Filipino troops charged with exercising these extraordinary powers will be measured and responsible . Philippine Presi...

So, today we're hearing theories about why the loss of a cowboy poet in Montana to a man charged with assault on election day is great n...

This is a good point . (H/t Insty ) Trump is plausibly guilty of some very bad judgment in his sharing of American secrets -- the deploym...

Just the introductory guitar, which is lovely.

These questions are posed in a military context, but they have broader application. Indeed, most of them are drawn from the broader debate...

Trump to a roomful of Israelis: "We just got back from the Middle East." Slate 's correspondent is extremely dismissive. ...

Donald Trump may be a lot of things, but a Crusader is not plausibly one of them. That's not to say there aren't Crusaders on sta...

On ex-Muslims , who must meet in secrecy even in Portland, Oregon.

Mentioned in the comments to the "American Gods" post below, Lars Walker pointed out that he wrote another book featuring Odin as ...

(Thanks for noticing this, Douglas.)

Spiked Online argues that the Manchester attack marks the right moment to "get angry." After the terror, the platitudes. And the ...

"MacLeod," for your information, means "Son of Ugly."

Not to make light of a tragedy, which will be devastating to the families who lost daughters tonight.  I just happen to notice that the arti...

Police: Denver man arrested after removing transgender woman's testicles ...A police affidavit says James Lowell Pennington, 57, remov...

In case you were wondering, there's some video -- as well as the usual sneering HuffPo commentary -- available here . It sounds like ev...

America’s first female Army Infantrymen are here, but not all of them made it through. In fact, only eighteen of the thirty-two female inf...

Security removed a school principal from his campus after he was photographed at the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, near a Confedera...

The author of this piece thinks it was a racially motivated killing ; perhaps it was. Of greater importance is that he was a lieutenant in ...

No kidding . His argument that the recent Mad Max movie fits this plotline is basically right, though. It just ends with the release of a...