Before this morning, I had never heard of Trey Gowdy , Representative for South Carolina's 4th District.  He's been a member of the ...

Via BPOD , of course:

Via reader Jim M.: Rumors are circulating in California that radical Muslims are planning to go on a rampage in Los Angeles, killing anyon...

On Thursday, June 6, there was a meeting of Jamul residents opposed to the construction of the Jamul Indian Casino, organized as “Jamulians ...

The lead: PASADENA, CA­—Nearly a year after Curiosity’s triumphant Mars landing, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced ...

The snapshot I took of the wind map doesn't really do it justice – the real thing is animated and interactive (you can zoom in on any p...

At the University of Cambridge (UK), Bert Vaux has been running a survey of English dialects for some time, collecting a large amount of dat...

Dr. Roy Spencer is a climatologist and long-time anthropogenic global warming (AGW) skeptic.  He's just done all of us a favor by plotti...

This morning I finished the last of the masking, and set up all the parts for painting.  Some parts are going to be half orange gloss enamel...

...why I don't have photos of my workshop as I'm building the FJ Cruiser dog/storage platform.  Joey M. would like to see where I...

This is what it looks like when my America is being destroyed:

Working on the FJ Cruiser project has been wonderful therapy for me.  While I'm working on it, all my concerns about what's happenin...

Reading the news over the past few weeks has been tortuous for any American who cherishes the freedoms our Founding Fathers intended us to h...

On the morning of June 6, 1944 – D-Day , 69 years ago today – tens of thousands of Allied troops began the invasion of Europe to attack th...

Apparently roadside ear cleaners (that is, people who specialize in cleaning ears who ply their trade at the side of the road) are common ...

Someone in England has complained to the BBC Trust that the clock on the BBC website isn't necessarily accurate . I'm envious.  It...

Sonar has come a long, long way since the primitive gear I worked with in the Navy some 40 years ago.  Back then, state of the art was detec...

Here are 22 animals that are all really weird , 19 of which I had never heard of before.  For example, at right is a sunda colugo.  Look f...

If you've ever used a Windows computer, then you are surely familiar with the “three-fingered salute”: pressing the control, alternate, ...