The 2008 Presidential race is starting to firm up as being a Obama versus McCain faceoff. Early in the race (I'm talking about, oh, fou...

It's been working reliably for me now, for about four days straight. I haven't had any reports of problems since Monday. My reader...

Here's an excerpt from his letter to the people: To my dearest compatriots, who have recently honored me so much by electing me a member...

Not from the Iraq War – but from World War II. This is a fascinating series of letters written by Edward Ryan, who was an engineer in Patt...

I hesitate to even say this out loud, but…I haven't had a problem accessing my blog for 48 hours now. I've still had no feedback fr...

Every year, United Van Lines publishes a study of internal American migration patterns , using the data from their own moving jobs. The map ...

Debbie and I have been married for almost 27 years. At this point, I'm a fairly well-trained husband when it comes to Valentine's D...

In referece to Hillary Clinton: At a minimum, a head of state should have a head. So says Vladimir Putin. Well. You can't really disagr...

Circulating via email right now: Last night I had the strangest dream. It was so real, so life-like and so vivid I woke up in a cold sweat a...

Yesterday a storm hit the San Diego area, dropping 3/4" of rain on us, along with some sleet and even snow. As I arrived home from wor...

For just a couple of days, it seemed like Blogger was working better, and that you could usually get to my blog. Then for the past couple o...

So often we hear, from the opponents of the war on terror, that somehow we are at fault – that if only we were more understanding, or appea...

Miki, our youngest field spaniel, is two years old today. I took him out for an evening stroll around our yard, at about 7 pm. We got down...

The military command in Iraq released a diary captured recently – the diary of an Al Qaeda leader (“emir”). Though heavily redacted, it sti...

Well, nobody got the right answer to last week's puzzler: how did the vacuum tube manufacturers get the high quality vacuum in such an i...

By James Taranto, in Best of the Web Today : It's remarkable how many on the left think their free speech rights are violated when th...

Richard D. Lamm has a plan : I have a secret plan to destroy America. ... Here is my plan: 1. We must first make America a bilingual-bicul...

Starting last night, I have been able to get into the blog most of the times that I've tried. This is still bad, but an improvement ove...

We've been having major problems with Google Blogger (the hosting service for this blog) for the past week. We don't know what the ...

Most of you got the right answer to last week's puzzler: the orange and yellow flames in a wood fire are caused by particles (mainly car...