Michael Yon's latest post , from the troops with their boots on the ground in Mosul. An excerpt: Deuce Four headed downtown this mornin...

APOD brings us the moon, with a jet and contrail in the light of a sunset... Remember when the Moon was young? It was just last Monday. On ...

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That'...

From Lance In Iraq (with more pictures) , the pictures say it all. But here's what Lance said: Some of the soldiers here have adopted a...

The man who does not read good books is at no advantage over the man that can't read them.    Mark Twain

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Eric Stakelbeck at the Weekly Standard have an interesting article that tells about Uday Hussein (Saddam's...

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot his whole life, which created an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very lit...

His latest photo blog is at right, and below is an excerpt (the conclusion) to his latest post : While the medic tried to stop the bleeding,...

But the American liberal left somehow has managed to keep their blinders on with respect to the ongoing discoveries and investigations of Sa...

Chrenkoff cites this familiar poem by theologian Dr. Rheinhold Niebuhr as a way to understand President Bush's foreign policy: God, gra...

According to press reports, President Bush's short visit could hardly have been more friendly (if you'll discount the alleged "...

Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.    George Orwell

The idea of countries helping others become free, I would hope that would be viewed as not revolutionary, but rational foreign policy, as de...

Publius Pundit has a nice piece today, with lots of links, about an ugly incident from World War II: the Yalta conference in which Churchil...

From the APOD : When stars form, pandemonium reigns. A textbook case is the star forming region NGC 6559. Visible above are red glowing emis...

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the g...

Strategy Page has an interesting report today: The Sunni Arab media in the Middle East has gotten tired of blaming the United States for ev...

In the words of the Astronomy Picture of the Day : Our Earth is not at rest. The Earth moves around the Sun. The Sun orbits the center of th...

Courtesy of Subzero Blue : Wishing does not make a poor man rich. Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good thin...

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beaut...