As always, discount the last week's data, but the couple of weeks before that should be solid. This wave barely affected anyone under 7...

We got a wild hair and painted the living room a deep orange with green trim. This is the view from our upstairs bedroom, across the sta...

The whole time I was in Iraq, 2007-9, I wore a Stetson hat that looked like his . Not outside the wire, of course: I wore a helmet for that....

Do they really think this kind of penny-ante censorship applied even to jokes on small FB accounts is going to make people trust them more ?

Assassination is on everyone's mind thanks to the arrest of an armed felon apparently attempting murder at Kavanaugh's house. Assa...

Among young Democratic men and also young Republican women, a larger percentage approves of assassinating than of threatening "a polit...

A confession, of sorts, by Naomi Wolf . (H/t: D29 )

 '...that we are canceling your auto insurance policy because our underwriters have determined that your back seats are too large and c...

This guy  may be a coyote, but he’s got brass. 

Chesa Boudin, the "DA" from San Francisco, went down in flames in his recall election. Republican Caruso has a narrow early lead ...

This is not only weird, it violates what I would have thought a universal law of hospitality. 

Today the nearby small town of Sylva had a lockdown. It was occasioned by the police chasing a car that had been stolen in Asheville.  It ha...

In the last couple of years I keep picking up books attempting to explain the abrupt collapse of Bronze Age civilizations in the Near East i...

The two lawyers handed out Molotov cocktails to the crowd, and Rahman tossed one into a police car before fleeing the scene in Mattis's ...

How predictable it was that the United States fled Kabul, abandoning not just billions of dollars worth of sophisticated weapons to terrori...

I’ll be in the river all weekend in training as a  Swift Water  technician. You’re on your own for a couple of days.

I did not include this in the text of the letter because I doubt the sincerity of the politicians raising this issue, and therefore its real...

An open letter you are all free to deploy if you like. Dear Senator: School shootings are a problem, but they are a problem that is easily r...

Just a collection of news here. Buzzfeed ( BF ): Secret DOJ report clears itself of political wrongdoing in Gen. Flynn unmasking AP : Clinto...