I've got a new viewer page up for the HPWREN cameras on Lyons Peak (permanant link on the sidebar at right). This page makes it easy ...

Glenn Reynolds (aka The Instapundit ) succinctly expresses one of my feelings about the Obama administration: Meanwhile, with this gang in ...

The fellow at right is Robert Melia, Jr., a former Moorestown, New Jersey police officer.  He has an interesting hobby : MOUNT HOLLY, NJ --...

By Charles Krauthammer: When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom. Heh!  Read the whole thing ...

The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully made the last of three planned “slingshot” maneuvers in preparation for Mercury orbital insertion on ...

Fascinating story about a African kid creating a wind-powered lighting system from scrounged materials such as shock absorber pistons, bicy...

A nice collection via my nice cousin Mike D.  As always, click to enlarge. My personal favorite: “The Great Financipator: Four score and s...

And very welcome it is!  We had a couple of brief rainstorms last night, just enough to wet the surface and to produce that wonderful “rain ...

...even in wartime.  Via my mom:

Mark Steyn lays it out for us: When you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, the danger isn’t that they'...

Via my cousin Mike D.: A father asked his 10-year old son if he knew about the birds and the bees. “I don't want to know!” the child...

Jim M. continues his theme from last week: Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl 'Will you marry me?' The girl said, 'NO!' A...

Don G. passed along this little story: Pocket Taser Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife. A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Taser...

Now comes word that authorities are suspicious that a paroled arsonist was responsible for setting “several” fires in East County: On Mond...

There were some surprises for me in the chart at right (click to enlarge).   For instance, I had no idea we imported significant amounts of ...

From the San Diego Union-Tribune : A man accidentally shot himself in the hand and his wife in the knee as he was taking apart his gun to c...

Via my cousin Mike D.: As we get older we sometimes begin to doubt our ability to make a difference in the world.  It is at these  times t...

More of my readers have written me about this video than anything else I've ever published.  On one level it seems perfectly innocent; j...

An excellent speech by Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.  My favorite moment is when he asks the delegations gathered at the U.N...

From my cousin Mike D.: An elderly man suffered a massive heart attack. The family drove wildly to get him to the emergency room. After wha...