How Many Dogs Does It Take to Change A Light Bulb?" Golden Retriever: The sun is shining, the day is young, we've got our whole liv...

It's hard to imagine a more useful charity (from several perspectives) than this one . From their web site: Many American troops have t...

Michael Yon reports from Iraq on the death of an American Marine: First Sergeant Michael J. Bordelon. The picture at right is of Sgt. Bord...

APOD brings us... Similar in size and grand design to our own Milky Way, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 lies about 100 million light-years away tow...

The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.    Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

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...