Maggie's Farm

We're still waiting for the 17-year cicadas. Too wet and cold for them.

The Italian Invasion of American Culture

Another Reason for Daily Wine

Hot Dog Toppings Open Thread

Does high fructose corn syrup deserve such a bad rap?

Deep sea mining 'gold rush' moves closer

Mankiw:  What Stock to Buy? Hey, Mom, Don’t Ask Me

Irish potato famine pathogen identified

Mimi Sheraton’s 10 Most Memorable Meals

Judge slashes sentence for Virginia teacher who slept with student, citing diagnosis of hypersexuality

They're calling her a nympho?

Time to leave – California wants to ban campfires at the beach

Mead: The Tyranny of College

Superstorm Who? Sandy’s Hard-Hit Beach Towns Reopen for Business

It’s easy to be smug when you think you’re smart and virtuous. Exhibit A: Lois Lerner

Reforming Social Security Benefits

Obama's long history of scandals--and escapes

London Beheader’s Imam: “When You Meet [Westerners], Slice their Own Necks.”

College Fix:

 “Women in particular often fall prey to an extreme environmental agenda, and it’s important to offer a fact-based educational documentary that offers a different view on these important energy issues, like the film, FrackNation,” Brown said.

Get a gun, lady

Reality Bites… Union Leaders Discover They Were Lied to and Millions of Members Will Lose Health Insurance

Via Coyote:

 The banning of catastrophic-only plans infuriates me the most. Those are the only plans that are actually financially sensible for a healthy individual to purchase. Everything else on the market is a perverse by-product of the employer-based insurance system.

The Sharyl Attkisson approach

How Prosecutors Fought to Keep Rosen’s Warrant Secret

Imams beg to differ with PM Cameron:

Scholars of Islam like Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson insisted that the gruesome murder of a British soldier by two Muslims shouting “Allah Akbar” and quoting the Koran had nothing to do with Islam.

However Imam Omar Bakri Muhammad, who influenced Mujaheed Adebowale, the London beheader, disagrees saying, “Under Islam this can be justified”