This coming September 11 will mark the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. A fellow named D. Challener Roe had a wonderful idea: that b...

This essay was published in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ($) ; I’ve taken the liberty of reproducing it in its entirety, after the fold (...

News today the Jamul Indian tribe has revised its plans for the Jamul Casino: instead of building a 30+ story monster as a single project, n...

From an editorial in today’s WSJ ($) about state governments' booming revenues: At least 40 states are in the black, and only a handful...

This is the latest in a series of posts about the key events that shaped my life. Search for “formative events” to see them all. When I fir...

Konstantin and Vera Stankevich visited us yesterday, the first time we’d seen them since they returned from their epic travels to Estonia, R...

When I got up this morning, one of the first things I did was to check the temperature and humidity — and it was 84 degrees and 24% relative...

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...