Although the US Army dates its founding to June 14, 1775, the flag of the US Army was only adopted in 1956. According to the US Army Quarter...

Unlike most people writing about this, which the NYT published a thoughtful piece today, I don’t have this problem. I also lost many friend...

The sword thought to have been the one surrendered by General Cornwallis at the British surrender in the Revolutionary War is going to be on...

My old friend Jim Hanson currently is the editor for the Middle East Forum, an Israel-aligned think tank. If you're interested in his op...

We must consider it , ["it" meaning this general inquiry into ethics] however, in the light not only of our conclusion and our pre...

Historian and former merchant mariner Sal Mercogliano tells the story of the Merchant Marine's first battle.

Days of riots in Ireland follow a reported rape attempt by Romanian immigrants. There are reports that the Ulster Volunteer Force and its a...

The IAEA has formally declared that Iran is violating its nuclear obligations; and that is of course true and always was true, but it is sho...

Life seems to be common even to plants, but we are seeking what is peculiar to man. Let us exclude, therefore, the life of nutrition and gro...

It's the same song, sort of. It's not, though.

I stopped by this place once, and it's a good shop. I was in town for a firefighter training course that was being taught at the local ...

My usual reaction to Babylon Bee headlines is to SWS* and check the first sentence or two of the article to see if it's funny as well. U...

Let us again return to the good we are seeking, and ask what it can be. It seems different in different actions and arts; it is different in...

To follow up on a comment I made at AVI's place, I don't think of 'empathy' as an unalloyed good ; but this study makes an e...

I will restate what I told Thomas Doubting in the comments below: take heart. Not all of the Nicomachean Ethics is as dense as the passages ...

  Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, is credited with the quote, “In war, truth is the first casualty.” This maxim can also be applied ...

We are going to have to slow down even more, and take a couple of days to go over this section . There is a lot going on here. We will only ...

Charley Crockett, descendant of Col. Davy Crockett, singing a cowboy tune.

What's the over/under on how long it takes a Federal judge to tell the President he can't deploy the National Guard in California ? ...

Another person points out something I've been suggesting for years: Trump learned his political rhetoric from his time with the World W...