Of one of our warriors who took an RPG to his thigh, and lived to tell the tale – because of his fellow warriors who took great risks to sav...

If you're a tea drinker, as I am, I highly recommend these strainers (under $15).

Awesome, with Tea Party snaps:

Ran across this fascinating story from World War II, about British prisoners in a Japanese POW camp who built a working radio receiver from...

One of our warriors, caught by a firefight with the Taliban at an, err, inopportune moment. The photo made him famous. Now this : FORT WO...

Two hundred and thirty three years ago today, our ancestors declared this country's independence from Britain. Our soldiers fought the ...

The entire planet knows that the state of California is in the midst of an awful budget crisis. The legislature has been unable to agree on...

The Obama administration's total commitment to respecting the science .

No animal was hurt in making that meat at your grocery store. Oh, my. I really don't know what to say. But consider this: the person wh...

How the original Declaration of Independence, handwritten in ink on parchment, is preserved .

On July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote this letter to Abigail Adams (his wife): Had a Declaration of Independency been made seven Months ago, it...

Astrology is a blatantly inexplicable waste of time. Its proponents fall into two categories: informed, soulless charlatans who profit from ...

Iowahawk improves an already great parody:

Well, that's not actually his theme , but it might as well be – at least in this passage: This is the sort of thing Justice Ruth Bader G...

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John Bolton is one of the consistently sane and adult voices on Iran. From his piece in today's Washington Post : Only those most theo...

A slight exaggeration, perhaps. But Warren Meyer of CoyoteBlog has been consistently making the point nicely illustrated on the graph at r...

Felix Salmon (Reuters) offers this handy chart (click to enlarge) of who California will “pay” with IOUs and who will get cash. There seems...

When Helen Thomas bludgeons Obama's press representative over the White House's tightly controlled “town hall” meeting, you know th...