A clean majority, too: 53% of Democrats in California, a state that has elected no Republicans whatsoever to office, say that they prefer t...

This is for you, the Marine, soldier, sailor, airman, or whatever other title we give to the living tools of imperialist aggression . Look o...

UPDATE: Lars Walker pointed out yesterday that a noted scholar on women in the Viking age made the same points raised here last week (h...

This decision is about honor, which will make it very difficult for some to understand. Praising and celebrating someone, or creating sinec...

I always think of this when I read about the relentlessly negative portrayals of historic American figures, destruction of their statues, ...

83 Year old man ends hours long standoff with police of man jumping from roof to roof in residential neighborhood.  The police spokesman- ...

The new Clinton book is garnering a lot of commentary today, and some of it is from people who have actually read the thing . I can assure ...

Apparently Ted Cruz and/or an intern of his 'liked' a porn video last night, which led to a huge amount of publicity today. I didn...

I am not myself the least bit Jewish, and thus might not be thought to care very much about this subject; however, I do have some Jewish fri...

Two left-leaning legal groups are suing in Federal court, arguing that President Trump's recent pardon limits the power of the courts . ...

Outside of Savannah and its environs , things went reasonably well for a hurricane. Here it was a day of a few hours of strong gusts, plus ...

Sixteen years on, patriotism is bad: [T]he opening weekend also began with an increasing number of players sitting down or kneeling for the...

By custom and tradition, the only post on 9/11 is this recitation . However, this year, posts related to the hurricane or similar emergenci...

This Dr. Seuss rhyme comes to you from a candidate for the United States Senate. There's quite a bit of cursing. Also a beach ball.

A study making the rounds has gotten attention because it has confirmed, again, that Vikings sometimes buried women with what researchers ha...

Macon, yesterday. Notice that both sides of Interstate 75 are now northbound. You don't have to march all the way through Georgia, t...

You can see our lot before and after the storm here .  Could be worse, obviously; the buildings are fine.  The poor trees!  But they're ...

Waters reeled off a long list of domestic terror , including the Ruby Ridge standoff in 1992, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the U.S. Ho...

There are four famines in Africa , CSIS notes. If there were a global siren to signal that a humanitarian crisis has tipped over the thresh...

A new artificial intelligence test shows that it's actually quite easy to pick out who is gay and who is not from facial features; it...