According to Vice magazine , Can you imagine that? Arming women and preachers ? Unfortunately the NRA isn't offering to put guns ...

Just how many Deputy Sheriffs would it have taken before they got comfortable enough to do their jobs and save the lives of the children dy...

Or maybe you can .

I'm impressed with the thoughtfulness of this essay on wall-building as fortification technique. It contains at least two insights tha...

I'm gonna predict that the hoopla over the massacre now goes away, if this is true: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The armed school resource o...

An officer was on the scene of last week's shooting. He hid . But by all means, let's all disarm and trust the government to prot...

This book review is encouraging that the book is worth reading; the review itself goes further than the book, into a criticism of liberalis...

An argument from Mark Cuban that such degrees will soon be worth more than computer science degrees. Advise your children accordingly.

U.S.— Despite offering thousands of thoughts and prayers to the victims of Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s latest flurry of moronic tweets , the nati...

A cartoon from xkcd implies a point that the author may or may not have intended to make.

Jim Heath of the Reverend Horton Heat shows another way in which bluegrass techniques influenced rock and roll.

The opening graph is interesting , but it's quickly criticized in the comments for selection bias. So defenders produce other graphs -- ...

The law that the Special Counsel has been using to obtain guilty pleas needs to be changed. It is inhumane in the most literal sense: it ...

Empty private lives can make for inappropriately violent public ones.  I was struck by this comment from David Foster in a comment at his s...

What would happen if we seriously tried to apply Robert Mueller's legal analysis to everyone who was active in the 2016 election?

An implausible theory, says the Spectator . But the border country hosting it certainly has an interesting history. The debatable land in q...

My husband, as I may have mentioned, spends much of his time working on Civil War games, the old-fashioned kind with paper maps and cardboar...

My father was born in the Year of the Dog. He would have been 72. The Chinese cycle is 12 years long, so when it's your year, your ag...

They're not always fake news .

I think we've all made up our mind about gun control, mass shootings, etc. I haven't got anything new to say on the subject, and th...