Talk about biting off more than you can chew! Since taking up the Civil War (War Between the States, War of Northern Aggression, whatever) as a part-time study, I’ve been getting emails from friends and readers asking me what I’ve learned. The main thing I’ve learned is how ...

Something's cock-eyed ...

It’s coming up to new laptop time, so I headed down to Best Buy. All they had were Windows 8 machines. The assistant gave me a tour of this new operating system. It was different from Windows 7, which I’ve been working with happily for two years"€”a lot different. I don’t want ...

I'd just prefer it if we were a little more ... Roman about ...

From Daily Mail Online, September 8th: ...director Steve McQueen…is dividing viewers with a new film about the horrors of slavery….The movie, 12 Years a Slave, caused a sensation at the Toronto Film Festival this weekend….Critics expect the bold film to score Oscar nominations in ...

These are children of the Civil Rights era, remember, taught from childhood that good people must go out and confront ...

Here is David Gelernter’s classic take on Virginia Military Institute being forced by the US Supreme Court in 1996 to admit women: The elite hated VMI, and no doubt VMI hated the elite"€”another even match-up, except that, when it occurred to the elite one afternoon on the way to the ...

When the Mayor of your town announces that five thousand Syrian refugees are to be settled along Main ...

This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. I have no recollection of the 1963 event myself, but I have good excuses for not remembering: (A) This was not my country at the time; and (B) I was in the Styrian Alps. Well, this is my ...

There's been a minor outbreak of random killings by ...