Flares into Darkness

I think it's really kind of bad form for commentators on any topic to announce that they predicted something when they can't point t...

"The issue was whether Florida's Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court [would decide the election.] What did you expect...

The moment the free flow of packets over the Internet is no longer substantially guaranteed, it will cease to be trusted. Companies which ar...

Every once in a while I click on over to Arts and Letters Daily . They often point to interesting stuff around the web. I did so just a fe...

Most readers in the conservative blogosphere will be familiar with Theodore Dalrymple's critiques of how the British welfare state has c...

And you thought Underwater Basket Weaving 101 was bad? Via An Englishman's Castle comes a link to a Whilshire College class entitled A...

Don't miss this . More fun than fractals. And while you're at it, don't forget the links page .

I hate to reproduce the whole thing, but I can't bear to excerpt it. Please follow the link to the original. The Liberals' Creed Ro...

An underappreciated analyst, Britain's Melanie Phillips, has a piece quoting the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut , on the ongoing ...

"They are dying for their own self-respect," he said. "It's a terrible thing to deprive someone of their self-respect. It...

This is great! OSM and Glenn Reynolds have put together a Carnival of Pre-War Intelligence . No, not the Kerry "History will show that ...

The Australian: Muslim fanatics terrorise a nation [ 21nov05 ] : "Islamist murders and threats have transformed the once-tolerant Nethe...

The generosity index, which calculates the amount people give to charity in each state as a fraction of their total income, has been compute...

From The American Thinker Americans justly pride themselves on having the most open government in the world. Aside from our intelligence ser...

ShrinkWrapped has begun a new series with the easy to remember title of "Narcissism, Disintegration, Suicidality & the Fall of th...

Results. Another goal was to advance freedom and democracy in the Middle East--not just to help the people there but to change the mind-set ...

It's been a big couple of weeks for news of leaks of intelligence. There is, of course, the continuing saga of the Valerie Plame Identit...

(From James Hamilton via Jane Galt ): Sometimes I like to base exam questions for my students on recent news. Here's an exam question t...

...Western, or "Why There Is No Force On Earth That Can Resist Us At This Moment In History..." (For better or worse.) Via Warren ...

Right after I posted that last post I happened to come across something immensely cool. Since it's a slow night I'll take the opport...