What took me to Asheville was that a great Outlaw Country band was playing at the local music hall. Tonight they’re playing in Nashville at ...

Several of the articles about Biden’s (or more likely some junior Twitter staffer’s) declaration on the ERA held that it might somehow grant...

Elise asked me for names of charity organizations still helping in western NC. I visited Asheville and Swannanoah and checked around. Most o...

When I was in Iraq, periodically somebody at higher headquarters would send an email down and then act offended when the unit in the field d...

Buncombe County is considering that most hateful of things to a government, cutting spending . What could drive such a drastic step? Much of...

It's common for great ideas to be stolen -- Quentin Tarantino admits that he rather wantonly stole from earlier filmmakers in his work. ...

Long-suffering readers know that I have spent a lot of time with Aristotle's works, which I integrate regularly into analysis of contemp...

As the days grow longer again, the flock has resumed laying. They’re keeping me stocked up with protein including all the great amino acids ...

Since it was a topic so recently, this is an amusing additional note : In his 1896 biennial report to the Texas Legislature, the Superintend...

Whether there is war or peace in Israel is none of my concern, although I have hospitality bonds with some Israelis that mean that I ought t...

Build Back Better was a sweeping agenda of economic reform on the scale of the New Deal, meant to solidify its author as the “FDR-sized” pr...

De Santis gets a law passed to require audits of teachers unions. Jacksonville union officials retire abruptly. So at least they got to ...

Participating in fighting the California fires are a number of volunteer prisoners. California pays them a pittance of under three dollars a...

Michael Ignatieff at the Washington Post is another who can plainly see the damage that he and his have caused. He's willing to admit i...

Following last week's Surgeon General broadcast about the cancer risks of alcohol, there's been another set of fulmination on the su...

The Appalachian stack cake apparently has an Icelandic cousin.

A few people have noticed that the Federal response to California has been a little more emphatic than the Federal -- or even state or local...

Foreign Affairs is one of those publications for those who think that managing the world is their calling in life. They've published a ...

  It has begun. We're expecting, according to the weather service, somewhere between 2 inches and a foot of snow. Given how unpredictabl...