UPDATE: Elise reports hearing from Tex. She & house are ok. Friday 1728 Romeo: Tex reports internet down, power and other comms stil...

Mathematicians have finally figured out an ancient set of carvings. Turns out, the Babylonians were very solid on their trigonometry . The ...

An interesting counterexample: a favored deputy of Robert E. Lee's who is largely uncelebrated in statuary . Why? Senator William Maho...

New York City's Saturday Night Live has deigned to allow us to feel pride in some features of our heritage. The following are authoriz...

On the return of the Red Guards .

If you start to hear "Rockport" or the "Lamar Peninsula" on the national weather, think of us.  We're just north of ...

A farmer in England knows how . Firefighters in Wiltshire, England rescued 18 piglets and two sows from a barn that was going up in flames i...

"I can not be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance. He is not my Sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this p...

ESPN is getting a lot of well-deserved flack after pulling a reporter of Asian heritage from a UVA football game. His name, as I'm sure...

As longtime readers know, I always prefer to read transcripts of speeches instead of listening to them. Many rhetorical tricks don't wo...

Reagan made the same point, without the language that some are objecting to in Mattis' statement. I suppose it's fair enough to sa...

Not guilty on almost all charges for the Bundy crew, with a few that the jury refused to decide one way or the other.

A strongman competition that looks like a good time . I understand there will be beer for drinking, too.

It's all part of a grand design, writes an academic in the pages of the Washington Post : Here’s the dilemma college presidents face in...

That is the title of a longer essay at The Art of Manliness, the essay being written by Brett & Kate McKay. There's no problem (I ...

I rode up into the totality footprint yesterday. It was really something. I'm glad that America had a moment of something special that...

There has been a raft of articles and petitions on the topic recently. What I don't find in any of them are statistics to back up th...

Rosanne Cash wrote an open letter condemning supremacism in any form. It was in reference to someone wearing a shirt with Johnny Cash'...

Posted without comment. Dulce et decorum est "Let me tell you a story. Once, there were two brothers, Milton and Calvin. Milton was e...