Dad29 wants to update us that he has found a version of the old Catholic Encyclopedia online; the entry on the Cathars is here . The whole e...

Following the British decision to adopt a left-wing government that is now prosecuting thousands on free-speech issues, both Canada and now ...

Willrich, Michael.  American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Centur...

  By an 'independent investigation' they mean exactly what our Democratic friends mean when they say that the Department of Justice ...

Harmeet K. Dhillon,* Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, has joined the Solicitor of the United States in asking the Supreme Court...

  By the end of the year, although Trump is still president, Rubio runs the entire government. Hey, we're only 100 days in. It could hap...

The NYT/Esquire style guy didn't like Hegseth's , but apparently I spoke too soon in saying they wouldn't like mine. They just d...

The sponsor of the EMS bill here in NC that we were recently discussing has given way a bit . HB-675 would eliminate the state standard — a...

The Fugio cent coin of 1787, also known as the Franklin cent because Benjamin Franklin reputedly designed, had a different national motto t...

This is the first time I've ever heard it suggested that we don't know what the Cathars believed. “Cathars”–the target of (a) the fi...

It must be some feature of human nature to want things to be 'the greatest' or 'the worst' ever . Perhaps that increases the...

Robin and His Mother Go to Nottingham Fair  Oil on canvas, 1917 N.C. Wyeth The first of May opens one of the two best months of the year, th...

The French seem to be turning up in their youth the same finding we have had in ours: " the most satisfied young men  with their lives...

Happy birthday to one of the few remaining Outlaws . Former wife Connie Nelson: He’d open every show with “Whiskey River” and he got so si...

All analogies always break. Analogies are comparisons of two things that are not perfectly alike, otherwise they'd be the same thing bei...

Still reading American Anarchy , a remarkable book that was well worth the time it is taking from my evenings. I had not realized how incred...

Some impressive advances being talked about here.   When I started in EMS in the early 90s, artificial blood was a hot area of research. Mor...

Here is a rather thorough debunking of a claim about former CIA director Casey's remarks on disinformation, which prove themselves to be...

Totally destroyed by Hurricane Helene, the Bobarosa Saloon  is now back in business. Any of you motorcycle riders who decide to head up ther...