I’ve just finished the book Warlord , by Ilario Pantano (on Amazon ). It is an excellent read on several levels. Foremost (for me, at least...

About six weeks ago, I told you about the arrest and jailing of prominent Egyptian blogger Alaa, and several other less well-known bloggers ...

Much has already been written about this. Michelle Malkin has an excellent roundup , and Pajamas Media is running another . Just in case yo...

Ten years ago, on June 25, 1966, terrorists exploded a huge bomb outside the Khobar Towers U.S. Air Force barracks in Dhahran, Saudia Arabi...

Tip of the hat (again!) to Jim M. for pointing this one out. The Gods Are Laughing Tom Harris, National Post (Canada) June 07, 2006 Scientis...

Tip of the hat to Jim M. for this gem… When someone puts in for Child Support, the proper thing to do is to find out who the father is and s...

For anyone located in the Northern Hemisphere, as I am, today is the longest day of the year (in the Southern Hemisphere this is the Winter ...

This post is related, in a very tangential way, to the series of “formative events” posts I’ve been making. But what I’m discussing here is...

One of my 11.5 regular readers asked for a discussion of my early memories, where “early” means around four years old. That’s easy — I have...

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. By choice and preference, I am not a father in the sense that term is used on this day — my “...

It doesn’t get much better than that. So says Michelle Malkin at the end of her current Vent on “Hot Air", which is all about the flap...

Yesterday afternoon I headed home from my week on business in San Francisco. My company’s offices are on the Embarcadero, and I was flying ...

The hotel I’m staying in (tonight’s the last night!) has remarkably little to commend it, though it’s not actually awful in any particular w...

Forwarded by SimonM… Never Argue With A Woman One morning, a husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Altho...

Yesterday morning I left my hotel room at about 5:30 AM, and headed for the Starbucks in the lobby — my usual routine on this business trip....

Big cities are not exactly my favorite kinds of places — I’m pretty much a country bumpkin at heart. There are many things about big cities...

I will be working away from home (in San Francisco) this week. I’m not sure what this will mean for blogging, but my guess is that it will ...

Via Tammy Bruce : Just wanted to write to you and tell you another story about an experience we had over here. As you know, I asked ...

The rightmost photo is Mt. St. Helens; the leftmost is Mt. McKinley (Denali). As usual, click on the photo for a larger version. From Jim M...

This is the third of a series of posts on the formative events in my life. Search for “formative events” to see all of them. If you could so...