Share Lynn Mitchell has just about the best one-post resource in Virginia for filing your Notice of Intent forms for home schoolers.
Share Holidays in Mongolia aren’t much different than any given holiday in Central Virginia. We all go out, go hunting, have about a quart of arkhi to get drunk stay warm, and find some local varmint to shoot: The first thing you’ll want to do is get fantastically drunk; Exceptionally so. There are many ways to [...]
Share Having just tried a clay pipe at home, I noticed a couple things about it. Not only is the smoke much cooler, but it burns extremely well. Thought the bowl itself is small — no larger than the size of one’s thumb — I surprisingly enjoyed the very brief smoke to contrast a good [...]
Share “Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln” – Carl von Clausewitz, On War (1832) The handicapped are the model citizens of tomorrow. That sounds like the very worst of what many Americans would consider to be a conservative viewpoint. Cold, meritless, individualistic, and unfeeling — it is the perfect caricature [...]
Share Do not watch this if you are squeamish. Liberia is a nation suffering from a 20-year civil war that stands on the brink of re-emergence at any given time. It is also the 4th poorest country in the world, and one a very direct history with the United States. If Liberia had oil…
Share One has to admire certain British MEPs for their candor. In this instance, I’m pretty certain Farage missed wildly… So what was the point of this exercise? Certainly no one would talk to the British Prime Minister or the President of the United States like this… or any other foreign dignitary for that matter. [...]
Share …seems they are more connected than you’d imagine: The researchers compared the women’s responses to 12 people with undamaged brains. They noted this kind of study usually involves only a few people as it is not possible or ethical to deliberately damage a person’s brain to see what happens. The volunteers were asked to [...]
Share Government knows better than you. Didn’t you know that? Of course, I tend to believe that individuals are best fit to sort out their own lives, without the government telling you or coercing you into how you should live — whether that’s regulating fast food or telling a business whether they should allow smoking [...]
Share Yes, I give you Earth… with rings like Saturn and a beautiful rendition of Ave Maria to boot!
Share The question comes from the pages of The New Republic no less, and from writer Marty Peretz after President Obama refused to meet with the Dalai Lama. This op-ed targets Obama for his failure to address Afghanistan, even as he was travelling to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago’s bid for the Olympic Games: So, while [...]