The only problem with the mountains is how early the afternoon sun vanishes behind the ridge. The Nantahala gets its name from a Cherokee wo...

Granted, fall down here may last a month, week, or happen intermittently between October and February.  Still it was a great day to take the...

These leftist kids today are a little slow on the uptake. Some are just now figuring out that "the most potent weapons known to manki...

I know it's a lot to hope for, that Youngkin could actually pull this election out, but it sure would make me feel better about the di...

I have never spoken to Dr. Mason, but Jim had a long talk with her on an alternative to Charles Mills' theories of embracing racial iden...

Margot Cleveland on the Virginia race, and what it portends for 2022. Earlier this month, Fairfax County, Virginia... previewed the attacks...

Ann Bauer has not had good luck in her life, but she seems to have a tough core, a commitment to truthfulness and rationality that will see...

 Roger Pielke unwraps the brand-new IPCC report: For my technical readers, the scenarios judged unlikely by the IPCC are high emission (“su...

Maybe it's a sign of creeping old age to have lived long enough to see the better part of a century lurch from one racist extreme to ano...

Wisconsin's Racine County Sheriff is partially just restating what we already knew from the Time Magazine article: several states violat...

This guy is one of my Senators. Both of their names always turn up every time there's an establishment compromise, because he's rea...

The scary thing about progressives wailing when people won't listen to their wisdom is how quickly they're willing to conclude that ...

The Washington Examiner looks at a recent John McWhorter analysis of wokeness as a religion.  Part of McWhorter's approach is almost ge...

 The flip-side of trust is self-government . Control yourself, or others will control you.  Many will try, anyway, but we don't have to ...

I sometimes find that I watch nearly all dramas through the filter of the "Prisoner's Dilemma": how will people behave so tha...

That is the name of the mountain to the right, which is more obvious when the sun is on the rock face. The basin below is the headwaters of ...

 As Glenn Youngkin ties up Terry McAuliffe in the race for governor of Virginia, the forces of blue are getting a little wild-eyed .  First ...

The Panthertown Wilderness borders Lake Toxaway, and US 64. 

For the last decade or so, I've been hearing about Modern Monetary Theory and how the government can just print money to buy whatever it...

Suddenly the chief mystery of Jan 6 — to whit, why the more-than-ample security forces available to the Capitol were close to unemployed, th...