Today I am packing for another trip to the DC region, my second in a month. I will be there for a week in case any of you are passing throug...

In the comments to the post on arms below , Tom asks after two differences between the logic I offer and the one from the Declaration of Ind...

AVI mentioned the famous singer at his place yesterday. As I noted in the comments, he continues to be remembered. Here's Coulter Wall, ...

I added James' blog to the sidebar, the absence of which was merely an oversight on my part. If any regular readers/commenters have blog...

I. The Necessity of Arms to Human Dignity The necessity of arms to a dignified human being arises from self-defense. That already assumes di...

A fact about the United States that is apparently difficult to grasp is that almost all homicide happens in a very small number of neighborh...

In an attempt to find a different way to appreciate music during this time, I recalled The Charismatic Voice , which we looked at last year ...

The first since the outdoor festival was canceled during the early days of COVID, the festival was presided over by Jarl Magnus Gray. 

Can’t trust those weathermen. They lie.  Or as they prefer to put it, “Our models are based on statistical analysis, and are only probabilit...

We are today about halfway through the long, dark month of January. This year as usual I am engaged in the Dry January fast -- I used to do ...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) conducted a study of multiple outcomes should the Chinese invade Taiwan . The resu...

A metal interpretation of the sort of cursing described in Egils saga Skallagrímssonar .  [Egil] took in his hand a hazel-pole, and went to ...

I missed the first quarter due to Fire/Rescue training, which I suppose demonstrates my dedication to the latter. Tonight’s National Champio...

I noted  this article  last week, but I wanted to avoid politics for the holidays. It is highly unusual for the radical, normally-left site ...

A few years ago there was a famous study that showed that the early population of Iceland was made up almost 50-50 of Norsemen and Gaels -- ...

Writing from the southern Philippines, Georgi Engelbrecht describes a failed jihadist movement's attempts to establish a stronghold ther...

As the discussion in the comments has illuminated, today marks the end of Christmas and the start of Epiphanytide, though in another sense t...

The relevant festival for today seems to be informal: it is the eve of Epiphany, which brings about some duties and preparations. The formal...

I'm not doing political posts by intention during the Christmas season, so look for those to resume not sooner than Monday. This one is ...

Today is the feast day for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, an eighteenth century(!) saint who is by far the furthest removed from the events of Ch...