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Bjorn Lomborg debated Bill McKibben at Middlebury College recently, and a video of the event can be accessed online from the college libr...

Bethany over at Fair Trade Certified has a good chuckle of a story about Gay & Lesbian Pride weekend over at her site.

I made it all the way up and all the way back. That was goal number one. I'm old. We did not find the Bette Davis plaque. It is supp...

There was an essay from Daily Kos , perhaps the major liberal website, a few days ago (No offense meant to Huffpo, MyDD, Democratic Undergro...

Joe Scarborough at MSNBC asks whether Fred Thompson's wife Jeri "works the pole." This leads to the immediate question ...

Last year at this time I was putting a lot of energy into refuting progressive arguments by using Logic. That’s a good thing, because it’s ...

Today's linguistics lesson is about how words change in meaning from the specific to the general, and back again. The word "dope...

Feeding hungry people seems to us so obviously a good thing that we do not even take much time to justify it. It's something we all kno...

The closer you are to an irritating situation, the more certain you will be that the other person is acting purposefully. It will seem that...

Scene Setter: Will Herberg wrote the fascinating Protestant, Catholic, Jew in 1955, a clear and elegant summary of religion in American li...

Christian Andrew, Son #4, just barely squeaked by (squoke by?) in Senior English - I think his average was 64.8 with 65% passing - and will...

The Red Sox are unraveling in June. They must have done this before, but I can't recall when. Huh. They find a new way to kill us eve...

Someone at the PR department for Gay & Lesbian Pride did not do elementary research when setting up National Gay & Lesbian Pride Mon...

Over at Brussels Journal there is a short essay on whether Great Britain is indeed a nation of immigrants , using David Conway's new Civ...

We again have news that the educated young people are leaving the western European countries. This time it's Germany (again), which ha...

I will be backpacking this weekend with three of my four sons. I have even done a little training for the event, as a moderate hike is no l...

Once again I defend American youth against the sneers of the world. Reprinted from last May. I waited in line at 12:03 pm at the cafeteria ...

Cindy Sheehan’s announcement that she will no longer be an active public figure in the antiwar movement has provoked a revival of harsh crit...

If Birkenstocks are the shoe of choice for leftists, what should those of us on the right wear? Perhaps The Manolo has advice.

For those of you worried that these links might take you to places where you might have to think hard, not to worry. These are all structur...