The Feynman lectures on physics...   Long time readers know that Richard Feynman is one of my personal heroes.  His lectures on physics (at ...

Low-information leadership...   Peggy Noonan at The Wall Street Journal .  She's getting a lot of flack from conservatives and libertari...

Something to make you feel better about U.S. politics: Afghan politics .  A great summary by Strategy Page .  I do feel a little better.  ...

Good thing my dad never had this problem!   Prune a shrub, go to jail ...

What happens when Amazon's drone doesn't deliver?   Click the thumbnail to embiggen...

New ObamaCare site...   Via reader and friend Simon M., this alternative site .  Try clicking on the button – you'll have the same succe...

Ha!   California's legislators building a Rube Goldberg set of fixes ... If you're not a taker, the only sensible reaction is to v...

California leads the way...   In welfare insanity.  An Assembly committee in Sacramento is considering giving electric or hybrid cars to th...

Pater: the “Holy Rock”...   At right is a cherished artifact that sits on one of our bookshelves, one of the very few physical mementos of...

The once great city of Havana...   Michael J. Totten is in Cuba, and has posted his second report .  Like all his work reporting from the ne...

U.S. High School students slip in global ratings...   Wall Street Journal ...

Food City advertisement...   Kudos to them...

That One's approval numbers continue plunging...   The Real Clear Politics poll average shows yet another drop, now to below 40% appro...

The I-400 has been found!  This is the first giant bomber-carrying submarine built the Japanese in World War II with the objective of at...

World's largest stone Buddha...   He's a big fellow, all right: 233 feet tall !

About that consensus...   When the American Meteorological Society (comprised of weather scientists) surveyed its members to see how many th...

Don't wash that coffee mug!   Funny article about an unlikely U.S. Navy tradition: never, ever washing out one's coffee mug.  I can...

Abolish the TSA!   So says Glenn Reynolds , aka Instapundit ...

Rock music...   Some experts think that Stonehenge may actually have been built to make music !  I've seen one of those “ringing stones”...

ObamaCare debacle update...   Because, debacle! Oregon's exchange director on leave of absence .  You may remember that the Oregon exc...