Get your highschool diploma and an advanced degree in Awesome, all at the same time. Not bad.

Put this one in the “credit where credit is due” file. The Obama Administration’s new blue-ribbon commission on overhauling the space program is superb.

I ain’t a singing feller, but when the thunder is hollerin’ I holler back. Tain’t in the hymnal, but I reckon this here song is all right. (more…)

This calls for the red cummerbund sash thing. A touch of the jolly old hidalgo, don’t you know.

The Junior Ganymede regrets to announce that the Generalissimo has declined our invitation to guest blog.

What’s your favorite? I’ve read Shelby Foote’s Civil War several times, though more as an American devotion than for the military history. And I always skip the epilogue. Davis might have been a fine fellow but he still should have been hanged.

Keegan is always very readable.

King Solomon says, uh, you want I should cut this infant horizontal or vertical?

None dare call it patriarchy.

You kin eat beef but you caint eat national prestige.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. (more…)

The horse that the stewards rejected is now become the first place finisher, as someone once said.

Randy Barnett has modified his new Federalism Bill of Rights. It’s great. I wish it didn’t read so much like an omnibus Federalist Society wish list, though. It would be nice to think that it had some chance of getting adopted by a state or two.

This here Waxman-Markey strikes me pretty much lahk shootin’ yerself in the dadburn foot in the hopes the other feller will do the same.

For the first time ever in a Gallup poll, a majority of Americans are pro-life. As many support the Church’s moderate prolife position–that abortion should be illegal, but with some exceptions–as support the extreme pro-choice and the moderate pro-choice positions combined. (more…)

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)