Many of you may have seen the (in)famous movie Paint Your Wagon from 1969. If you haven't it's a classic that I've written abou...

Dissent magazine has a lengthy discussion , with fully-formed rebuttals, of why Mexico's left-wing progressive "Morena" party ...

In the rush of over-heating but not particularly well-informed articles reacting to the Supreme Court's striking down of IEEPA tariffs t...

No! But, at the same time, also yes . 

Shooting News Weekly (h/t Instapundit ) has some valid criticisms of "violence interrupter" programs from Blue states, but  this i...

I also missed this bit .  Apparently the sense of safety and entitlement among these upper middle class women is such that they assume that ...

Just yesterday we were celebrating a positive change on a core Constitutional right; today, a negative one that will discourage effective tr...

The Veterans Administration has for decades been undercutting the Second Amendment rights of many of its members. It has finally stopped do...

My experience of taking a dry month last September/October in preparation for my last Strongman competition was encouraging. I have decided ...

Lent begins today, it being Ash Wednesday . As mentioned, the Lunar New Year just occurred, which occasions lengthy celebrations in the Far...

Happy Lunar New Year. This is the Year of the Fire Horse, the least auspicious year in the 60 year Chinese astrological cycle (12 animals x ...

An actor with many memorable roles, Robert Duvall described "Gus" McCrae as his favorite and most meaningful. There are many mem...

AVI is reflecting on Sunday School. I was thinking of something by CS Lewis in relation to this - something about the world as a hotel vs. a...

I came across this picture this morning while looking for something else, but since I was just talking about some of those meetings and conv...

In academic or legal publications, one occasionally sees the abbreviation " cf .," which means " confer ." It usually fo...

I went to the event. Nobody was checking voter registration cards or IDs. There was no obvious security or LEOs with pepper spray either. Th...

Not long ago... ok, it was nearly twenty years ago... I was in Iraq working with the tribes as we were trying to bring peace to a long-troub...

I can't recommend highly enough a biography of John von Neumann, " The Man from the Future ," by Ananyo Bhattacharya. The auth...

  It was a good day. 

The 2nd was always about being able to resist.