I just finished listening to The Big Short , which was pretty good. It was odd not to hear the least mention of the role of the Community Re...

The trip to the desert went as well as could be hoped, and better than expected. I’ve touched down on American soil, and with one more hop w...

Earlier this month, Seattle KEXP had the band on to play a few tunes and to interview them. Apparently, they were getting ready to pack it i...

This Politico coverage of the sacking of VA secretary Shulkin is bizarre.  I must be so far in the conservative echo chamber that I'd l...

Over in The Guardian, Dylan Curran goes through many of the different kinds of data Google has on its users and how that data is collected ....

Robert F. Worth has an interesting article in the New York Times about a band of kidnapped Qatari falconers and the ransom paid for them. H...

Zell Miller passed away last Friday. Miller served his nation in the Marines, then served the State of Georgia as a state senator, lt. gov...

I've always liked John Bolton . Ronald Reagan famously said that no war in his lifetime ever started because America was too strong. ...

I'll be away overseas for a week or so. Keep the faith.

The man environmentalists love to hate has instituted the un-heard-of rule that EPA regulations must be based on public data .  Is there no ...

I am only showing this video ... because it makes this one funnier ... although I do have to feel bad for the folks caught in that...

Today, Wikipedia's "Did you know ..." section mentioned a hero of the Crimean War. From the full entry on Crimean Tom : Du...

So the family has decided that we are to stay in this evening and watch a movie. I'm well equipped with Guinness and Tullamore Dew, and...

If the Democrats take back the House or Senate with Democrats like Conor Lamb , what will the House and Senate look like? [W]ill Democrats...

This kind of thing really does not look good. Newly discovered text messages obtained by The Federalist reveal two key federal law enforc...

Dogfish Head brewery, in partnership with Birra del Borgo and Baladin, and biomolecular archeologist Patrick McGovern, have produced a repro...

My meter is pegged. From The Blaze : https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/974355843515895808 Eric Hines

What they lack in worldly experience, they do not make up for in knowledge of history. H/t: 5Bravo .

Arthur Herman on "Why Tillerson Had to Go": Trump thought he was getting a lion in Tillerson. Instead, he was getting a Saint B...