I’m passing through West Virginia this weekend. That song makes more sense when you see the place. The mountains aren’t as high or rugged he...

A highly amusing thread , recommended by our old "Winds of Change"-era friend Armed Liberal.

This piece from the Atlantic hits the high notes from yesterday's piece, but it tries really hard to find a downside. Employers are ...

Z-Man discusses how not to be boring.  It's an engrossing topic for me, not only because I don't like to be bored ("conversati...

Manhattan Contrarian : On Monday, [New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)] housing officials unveiled the staggering price tag to remedy...

If I were in a position to do so, I would probably support something like a Starship Troopers model of citizenship: not a birthright, nor ...

It is a document that endorses violent revolution , I guess. And it has some very harsh things to say about King George. And after all, oth...

The booming economy needs more skilled labor . That means wages are going up. "Pressure is building for employers, and both hard data ...

Don Surber notes with amusement that the new President of Mexico's post-election rhetoric is not an exact match for his campaign-trail ...

Jill Abramson writes in the UK(!) Guardian , " Justice Clarence Thomas leading the US supreme court? A scary thought." She wind...

Stephen Green : "That the world’s most oil-rich nation has to import crude oil, and that a semi-tropical country can run out of water, ...

Allahpundit : “Abolish ICE” isn’t a solution, argues my colleague Ed Morrissey at the Daily Beast today, it’s a slogan. Indeed, and that’s b...

The piece is over a year old, but it just came across my desk this morning. Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues from his own experience that ...

Washington wasn't so civil that he wouldn't fight a war over a political point -- aye, and win one. But he was a man who aspired to...

Looks like a fun weekend on the Left Coast. Communists describing themselves as anarchists attacked a march called the Patriot's Prayer...

Worries in the New Yorker about what a "brazen conservative majority" on SCOTUS would produce. I for one doubt that Donald J. Tr...

In point of fact, it would be healthier for our politics if people would stop "feeling" their way to answers all together. I sho...

From the NYT: "Some liberals now say that free speech disproportionately protects the powerful and the status quo." What do yo...

I yield to no one in my contempt for much of the press, though of course I hesitate slightly in emphasizing it this week, for sadness about ...