The cylindrical slide rule at right was made by the Swiss company Loga, probably between 1915 and 1930. It is about 8 inches (21 cm) wide a...

A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft’s electronic navigation a...

Said by Ann Althouse, explaining why she’s blue about the election results : It’s the failure of Americans to support the war. It’s the fold...

Ralph Peters, in today’s New York Post: THE Democratic dog just caught the Iraqi firetruck it’s been chasing for almost four years. Now what...

The ponder sets in on this morning after the election, with a cup of coffee in me and the sun about to rise: what does it all mean? What do...

A piece of free advice: whenever you see an article with the byline James Q. Wilson , read it . In yesterday’s OpinionJournal, Mr. Wilson ha...

From an unlikely source — the London Telegraph — comes a well-researched, well-written article that is skeptical of global warming. It eve...

Reported by James Taranto in Best of the Web Today : Last Friday we attended a dinner, sponsored by the Soldiers', Sailors', Marines...

Jules Crittenden, writing in the Boston Herald: It’s that time of the election cycle when we get ready to take one for the team. I’m talking...

Saddam Hussein, convicted of crimes against humanity (along with two co-defendents). All three sentenced to death by hanging. I cannot thin...

This morning I was installing a new outlet strip I just purchased, and I noticed the largish “warning label” attached to its cord. It’s mad...

This could be the quote of the day: IRONY SO THICK YOU CAN BATHE IN IT Rick Moran of the Right Wing Nuthouse coined that phrase to headline ...

WorldNetDaily wondered whether Islamic terrorists are following the U.S. elections, and if so, who were they rooting for. Aaron Klein is th...

My post yesterday about (not often) voting brought me quite a few emails, and those emails pointed me to some interesting reading. In a cou...

Edward (Ted) Kennedy is (unfortunately) a living, breathing reminder of how democracy in the U.S. isn’t working. A rational electorate woul...

If you pay attention to the news at all, you’ve probably heard about the “Stern Report” on global warming. It’s a very cleverly packaged Al...

Anyone who knows me even slightly knows that I have strong views on many political issues, and that I avidly follow political events. But u...

From John Kass, in the Chicago Tribune: So Kerry’s ridiculous elitism, burbling out of him as if he lives, as I suspect, entirely on a diet ...

The dead-tree publication Science News is one of the few that I still subscribe to. They do have a web site , but it’s quite awful and obv...

John Kerry, speaking yesterday at a rally for Phil Angelides (the hapless Democratic challenger to Arnold Schwatzenegger): You know, educati...