Here's an interesting story. You may know that there have been some mysterious drone swarms in the EU recently . Seven German journalism...

The Orthosphere has a post arguing that Islam's god is the closest to the god of Judaism, and that it is is in fact Judaism and not Chr...

Most of you I think read AVI's place as well as mine, but definitely don't miss some of his excellent pre-Christmas warm-up posting ...

The Washington Post did a creditable job of covering the controversy about the order to deliver a second strike to complete the sinking of a...

A functional atlas of the many Roman roads of yore has only just finally been prepared. [This article should be paywall-free; if not, here...

The VFW posts an open letter to the President regarding the recent attack on National Guardsmen in DC, the late Specialist Sarah Beckstrom ...

Many years ago when I was in high school myself, I recall that we had a class in which we were debating education as a preparation for citiz...

The experts think the Supreme Court will at least limit the ability of Congress to create 'nonpartisan' institutions to restrain the...

A National Security Strategy that is honest has advantages. That was also a positive feature of the first Trump term; it was not so during t...

 With maritime historian Sal Mercogliano

Grand Olde Station Pub decked out for Christmas The greeter was a local before his career at the pub. The mountain lion was also a local: t...

Strict red chili. All these recent comments about chili had me wanting some. This is strict Texas Red, made with dried chilies — anchos and ...

We've had a lot of philosophy lately, so I'll keep this one very short. There is a view called dialetheism  that some contradictions...

Adeste fideles with Alison Krauss: Sherburne (i.e., "While Shepherds watched their flocks by night." Another Alison Krauss, ...

The DC pipe-bomb case is in the news due to a surprise arrest having been made after many years now of nothing at all. The charging document...

Rahmanullah Lakanwal is the name of the Afghan who murdered a National Guardsman -- a female, actually, Specialist Sarah Beckstrom -- and tr...

This young lady is a hunter, and if you kill and clean your deer you can cook it however you want. She’s also from Tennessee, as her accent...

Forty percent of Stanford students are classified as having a disability; over half of liberal white women under 30 have a diagnosed mental...