Tex's post about tin made me think of this claim I read recently about the quality of Viking swords . [T]he majority of iron they had ac...

I'm not sure if this would be characterized as "white nationalist" or "anti-semitic" or both by Facebook; but it act...

"RealClearScience" is doing a series on the elements, including today's " tin ."  This kind of thing is always inter...

Well, that explains it: That's a useful term, "colloquial" rather than the "legal sense," especially for a pros...

Favorites of my father's, these guys were often on the turntable when I was a boy. This was their biggest hit, I guess: But this is...

There are two ways to know if someone is an expert. The first one is to have some expertise yourself, so that you can judge the quality of ...

Ken Paxton (Texas Attorney General) summarizes in USA Today: It’s a sad commentary that alarms go up among Washington elites when the Tru...

No snark on this one, despite this week's unusually rich pickings.

Soldier of Fortune magazine has an article about this very interesting career : OSS, Marine Corps, smuggler, Hollywood actor. Unfortunatel...

Another study on the issue, this one doing actual brain scans of fetuses.

As the Trump administration makes bump stocks a felony , the GOP-led Senate is considering allowing the police to pre-emptively seize your g...

It may rise again , but it garnered zero "yea" votes in the Senate -- not even from its co-author, not even from its co-sponsors. ...

The law hasn't changed, but the prosecutor has taken it on herself to alter the way in which the law is applied. Not that I'm a ...

I know this is long, but please make it to at least 4:30.

I would prefer that you could come up with a way to improve the human body's ability to handle alcohol, rather than coming up with a sub...

That actor who filed a fake hate crime report? All charges dropped, records sealed. Many years ago there was a populist politician in K...

These judicial picks are good news .

It's been a tough week for the major narrative .

An Army vet loses 25 pounds on his Lenten fast . When Lent began March 6, Hall initiated a fully liquid diet in order to become less depende...