The Conservative Wahoo

Well, not a very good showing, was it. I was (mercifully) not able to go to the game or watch it on TV, but nothing sounds too compelling a...

I have not worked for pay since mid-February, when I started 45 days of terminal leave en route an April 1 retirement from the Navy. I had ...

I think Barack Obama made a great choice in Joe Biden. I continue to be impressed with the way Senator Obama has conducted this campaign, a...

Just back from the trip to the dude ranch; lots to talk about after a very interesting week both in Wyoming and across the country. I have d...

We're busy packing up here, getting ready to head out to Wyoming for nine days. Then the summer is over, the kids go to school, and my ...

Well, just as I'm about to go on vacation and leave the site unattended for nine-days, good news on readership arrives. Google analytic...

I am a season ticket holder for UVA Football and I love the University more than any institution with which I have been associated (once tol...

Many of you are aware of my aversion to the death penalty. I'm not squeamish on law and order, mind you, I just don't like irrevers...

A group of university presidents has come under a great deal of criticism recently for apparently advocating a re-think of the 21 year old ...

Who are these "privacy" advocates anyway? You know, the folks who bristle at the possibility that the government...charged with k...

There was a FRONT PAGE ARTICLE on synchronized swimming in this morning's WaPost. I am baffled. Why this is considered a sport worthy ...

The cost of college textbooks has always been a pain in the butt. One of the great bennies of a Navy ROTC scholarship was that they paid fo...

This is my first visit to Nantucket, and it is truly a nice place (though we did pay $5.10 a gallon for gas today....). Lots of 19 th cent...

Richard Cohen asks a few good questions in his column today. President Bush has been pushing hard for Georgia and the Ukraine's inclus...

I have thought in the past few years that no world leader faced as many challenges as Pakistan's Musharraf. He recognized from the star...

I've added a polling feature. Let me know what you think.

From a very learned friend: "P.S. In economics as you likely know, they talk of the concept of adverse selection that focuses on the no...

Fascinating read this morning on the differences in the way men and women invest their money. Surprise, surprise, men are less risk-avers...

My goodness, but those shorts are fetching!

Interesting article this morning on the shortage of Majors in the US Army. Lots of folks leaving the Army after multiple pumps in "th...