More from a series of "best of 2024" Powerline features: this excerpt from a piece by Michael Barone pitching, in part, his then...

Shadow-banning of books arouses my stubborn streak. Sometimes I buy a newly published book even without a strong wish to read it, just to gi...

The twelve days of Christmas are all feasts, but the 30th of December is not always the same feast. Some years (but not usually, and not thi...

My wife’s chicken population was reduced by two this afternoon, as she has finally conceded the necessity of eating some of the monsters. Wh...

Christmas continues with a celebration of "Thomas a Becket." In Ivanhoe his bones are sworn by on occasion by Prince John and the...

One might reasonably ask whether America wants to fight a war on three fronts, or indeed on any fronts if it can be avoided. The author seem...

Over at InstaPundit, Ed Driscoll is pointing out how foolish Nikki Haley is to have fallen for the perennial trap of a Republican being aske...

Today is the most terrible day of the holiday. 

The third day of Christmas honors John . 

By coincidence my son and I happened upon some women with a dead battery. They were trying to jump it but had hooked the jumper cables to so...

It's surely a sign of age to be increasingly irritable about changes in grammar and usage. Does anyone else notice that published piece...

 

Notre Dame de Paris may be fully repaired by next Christmas. The rooster weathervane atop the destroyed spire was heavily damaged during t...

Several months ago we built three spacious 6x12 kennels for foster dogs that had to be rescued from the county shelter's kill list. Sin...

The storm that blew in last night brought hard winds and rain, and knocked out the power on the mountain. Some poor lineman is doubtless hav...

While I have been preparing for Christmas for a month, there was much to do in the final day of Advent. I prepared the feast for tomorrow, w...

Today is the winter solstice -- tonight , actually, at 10:27 PM EST. Advent continues until Sunday, but the old Yuletide would begin today. ...

A mass shooting in Prague happened at the philosophy department of a major university. An armed man opened fire in a university building in...

Do you people hear yourselves? "In some ways, Aidan’s act mirrored that of Anne Frank..." Come on . 

Colorado on the Nile ! I was an election monitor in Egypt in 2018 . The election was conducted in a verifiably secure and honest manner, as ...