In New Jersey as elsewhere , the gun crime rate has declined as gun carry permits have sharply increased. One point of interest in the NJ re...

Nearby Asheville is having soaring population growth since COVID taught Americans that (a) some of them could work from anywhere, and (b) th...

On his new album, Willie Nelson covers Rodney Crowell's "The Border." Here's the original.

 Just in case you need to travel to the Roman empire ...

Neil Young comes crawling back to Spotify after his alternatives also pick up the Joe Rogan podcast, which occasioned his departure as he v...

Washington Post headline : "Whistleblower death compounds bad news for Boeing." Ah, yes. "Poor Boeing!" is exactly what ...

The spin on Hur's testimony is not impressing me, except with its gall. MR. HUR: So during this time when you were living at Chain Bri...

Tom and I were talking about purity and its discontents a while ago in a post on theology. I want to talk about it a little more, in terms o...

PowerLine asks this question about a City Journal article by Martin Kulldorff, formerly of Harvard University and the CDC, who lost both po...

There's a commonplace in Russian humor about Hussars, cavalrymen whose lives of adventure and danger -- and livestock -- have given them...

Here’s a good use of these graphics AIs. What a film this might have been, had the timing been right to make it. 

New Orleans police have a rat problem, which has created an evidence problem. 

One animal frightens the beasts of Africa even more than lions.  Small wonder. 

Now this is an interesting argument, with graphs to back it up: the Gaza numbers aren't real . Even if you take the numbers at face val...

A columnist named Kathleen Stock has penned a piece on what's wrong with academia, which she summarizes as a failure to replace the kind...

We live in the birthplace of headwaters. The creek that runs by my house joins the Tuckasegee river, which flows to the little Tennessee and...

Texas Monthly , a supremely annoying publication, is sad about the "lurch to the right" in this week's Texas primaries. The p...

FPC has a proposition.  We usually avoid that sort of language around here, out of courtesy and a desire to accommodate people of gentle tem...

Might as well keep on riding if you manage it.