Lanny Davis — a key member of the Clinton team — writes today (in a piece he calls “Liberal McCarthyism" ) about the bile-filled politi...

Late this afternoon, in the last good light for photography, I went out and took about 75 photos of the relatively few hummingbirds that wer...

Last night just before sundown, and again this morning just after sunrise, I did something I’ve been doing a lot of recently — enjoying the ...

A “palimpsest” is a manuscript written on parchment or paper that was reused from an older manuscript. In the case of parchment, the old wr...

An organization called “ Global Liberty ” combined four published indexes of various perspectives on freedom to form a more comprehensive in...

Some Saturday morning ponders… You win and lose by the way you choose. — David Avezzie — I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not tryin...

Earlier this year, my father and I visited the arboretum at Palomar College. We traveled about 50 miles from south San Diego County to see ...

Israel’s war with Hezbollah is acting as a kind of flashlight, illuminating the dark corners of politics all over the world. A few things se...

Tip o’the hat to JimM for this gem: The Pope is visiting Washington, D.C., and President Bush takes him out for an afternoon on the Potomac,...

And pretty soon, you’ve got a half inch of rain. In these parts, a half inch of rain is not the usual July experience — July here is norma...

For the past couple of days we’ve been marveling at the huge number of hummingbirds and orioles that suddenly appeared at our nectar feeders...

Put down any hot beverages, swallow anything in your mouth, then read: "If a drunken Mel Gibson did indeed call out, 'Jews are resp...

Nasrallah, of course, is the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon (and currently rumored to be cowering in the basement of the Iranian embassy in ...

Over at the FreeRepublic , there’s a post that makes the case for why the world should stand aside while Israel beats the living hell out of...

The map at right shows the satellite data (both WF-HMS and MODIS) overlayed with the Horse Fire’s perimeter (determined after the fact by hu...

The recent Horse Fire was close enough to our home to make us very worried that it might burn us . During the fire, our biggest frustration...

James Taranto notes this news story: “Tour de France winner Floyd Landis denied on Thursday taking performance-enhancing drugs during the r...

Hat tip to reader Richard F. for these gems…actual comments that ordinary people made in 1955. I know a few younger folks that would have tr...

Last night at 6 PM the roadblocks on Lyons Valley Road came down. We were the first ones through the roadblock on the south side, waving to...

We got back from our reconnoiter yesterday afternoon and discovered that our satellite Internet connection had gone down. We’re working wit...