I am enduring it, having left my mountain fastness for another trip to the Swamp. I’ll be back when I return to places where it is cool enou...

Cross-posted from my blog. Ron DeSantis, Republican candidate for Governor of Florida, suggested in an interview shortly after h...

The Maldives hosts an Eid celebration with, ah, ' September ' oriented themes.

This discussion of "b******* jobs" is very interesting, even though the move to support UBI as an answer is less so. I have defi...

The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece today on one of my favorite subjects, the barking madness that is our federal emergency manage...

Glenn Greenwald gets profiled in the New Yorker . This is a great line: Leading American progressives—speaking off the record, and apologizi...

For all you Scots out there, Netflix is going to tackle the Bruce. And so all you Irish won't feel left out: Plenty o'mud  and...

A thoroughgoing accusation .

Far from perfect, and a man with whom I have regularly had differences on most serious matters, all the same John McCain was a man who spoke...

Four years after its discovery, a Viking ring fortress has begun to offer some answers to archaeologists. First, why was it built at all? ...

Somehow I don't feel that this trial fully satisfied our need for answers to all of the questions associated with this case. UPDATE:...

Americans continue to see government as the top threat to their lives. Since it is , that's a good way to see things. Agencies, too, ca...

The UK has hit upon the idea of hiring criminals to be magistrates , because diversity. It is true that you run into few convicts on the ...

Not a terrible idea , really.

When you've spent ten years trumpeting 'growing inequality' as the chief economic measure , well... Take the economy, which is f...

Last week she had a proposal to introduce 'corporate citizenship,' which is a more interesting idea than NRO gave it credit for bein...

Carry the American flag in public? That's a beating .

A letter from the Bishop of the Diocese of Madison, Bishop Robert C. Morlino was published Saturday.  It is repentant, emphatic, serious, a...

It should be a source of shame to Germans that their refugee policy has made present-day Iraq seem safer to those most victimized by ISIS. ...