Just when you thought the world was safe from KetchupWoman, she rises up out of the pickle barrel and utters some more nonsense. Now she...

A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her faithful aged pet poodle along for company. One day the poodle star...

I recently reconnected with Anton (whom I worked with at Previo/Stac), and somehow in the course of our email conversation cats came up. Im...

The old farmer's mule had finally died of old age just before spring planting, so the farmer made a trip to town to buy another mule. Hi...

Mark Steyn's latest column is an even-better-than-usual (and that's a high bar in his case) example of his trademark combination of...

Scott hardly ever fails to make me laugh out loud with his ScrappleFace columns, but this latest one resonated with my funnybone...

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.    Herodotus

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.    Hermann Goering

I have taken the liberty of reproducing this letter in its entirety. Dear President Bush, I count among the very few intellectuals in Paris ...

Whatever you think of Giuliana Sgrena (the rabidly communist, anti-war reporter for the Italian Communist journal Il Manifesto ), the fact t...

Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.    John F. Kennedy

Bill Gertz writes in today's Washington times that the U.S. targets spy services abroad . All I can say is "Sheesh — it's abou...

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin for finding this. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's article 'Good guys' show just how easy it is... ...

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.    Clive James

Maria Olivia da Silva, 125, poses for a portrait at her home in Astorga, in the Brazilian state of Parana, on Feb. 10, 2005. She was born on...

This afternoon, tiring of the programming I've been working on, I took a walk with my dog Lea. We tramped along a trail that is usually...

A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromise...

What an amazing feat! The GlobalFlyer is a remarkable technological achievement all by itself. But what really amazes me is that someone cou...

I haven't linked this, as it's a paid site — but if you happen to be a WSJ subscriber, it's well worth reading the whole thing (...

Writing at townhall.com, Joel Mowbray observes that thought leaders in the conservative ranks seem to have picked their next target: the U.N...