In honor of Bilbo and Frodo's birthday. The second experiment towards Beorning Honey Cakes is a recipe called "Twelfth Night Cake,...

Robert M. Gates is a former Secretary of Defense, controversial CIA officer -- including its Director just after the Iran-Contra period -- ...

AVI has had a series of posts on a revisionist history by an anarchist activist and a professor of archaeology. His latest quotes a review ...

A couple of months ago I sold my Jeep; a couple of weeks ago, my Ford decided it needed a new transmission valve body. This is an ideal time...

A New York judge has just ordered the Trump Organization destroyed . A Manhattan judge on Tuesday found Donald Trump and his real-estate com...

Frodo as well, as I recall, was born on the 22nd of September in Middle Earth. However, there is a slight difference in the calendars of Mid...

Only Rasmussen would even ask this question. A police state is a tyrannical government that engages in mass surveillance, censorship, ideolo...

If you, like me, were absolutely astonished by the manner in which the withdrawal from Afghanistan violated all the established principles o...

The Washington Post published an op-ed today with a title that I found surprising: "A memorial to the war on terror is coming. Here is...

Grilling over a Swedish Torch I cut one tree this year that proved unreasonably difficult to split, so instead I cut it into Swedish Torches...

I have not forgotten that I promised to develop a more authentic recipe for Beorn's Honey Cakes. To that end, I am experimenting with a ...

A mountain home. Today is the first day of Autumn, at the end of a long summer. To celebrate, my wife and I rode over to the Great Smoky Mou...

In line with yesterday's announcement, the Department of Justice has just announced a "rule change" that would enact a very si...

The newly-announced "Office of Gun Violence Prevention," which will be led by several big names in Gun Control organizations, is ...

Another fun little tune that came up this week. Reminds me of some people I know. 

As Col. Kurt points out, a private who lost his night-vision goggles in the field is treated by the military as a major failure that can res...

This video , which I don't think I can embed, is an demonstration of why mathematicians like to describe imaginary numbers as "orth...

The question is rhetorical; I assume you all know the answer. It is not a Constitutional organ, but rather an old executive office , an outg...

One of the co-bloggers at Insty linked to an article on anorexia. The Instapundit crew was mostly interested in the contemporary commentary ...