Maggie's Farm

Some pics of Monhegan

Dangerous Cold Grips Northeast; Buffalo Records Coldest Day in 21 Years

It is chilly out - invigorating. Still, we pray for global warming

Large Hadron Collider detects ‘Superparticles’ - A brighter vision of “dark matter” to be expected

Here’s a Big Secret For Overcoming Fatigue In Your Strength Training - Lift heavy weights fewer reps, rather than lighter weights many reps. (h/t Insty)

The Un-Retiring, Increasingly Disabled Non-Working American Dream

Second-hand smoke does not cause disease

It's science

Greek Life Allows Students to Find A Second Family

I think Greek life can be great for many kids - especially shy kids. It's not all "Boot and rally."

Feminist punished for sympathy for men

How the Welfare State Penalizes Parents Who Marry:

Given the effectiveness of marriage in reducing poverty and other social problems, you would think that strengthening marriage would be a top priority for the welfare state. Wrong. The welfare system does the opposite. Welfare actively penalizes marriage by reducing benefits when low-income couples do marry.

Retired Teacher Faces 10 Years for Flintlock Possession

Throw the book at this monster

Did you ever read this?  Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics

Red Cross Volunteer Rejected for Christian View

For heaven's sake, it's a red cross is it not?

Quant Guru Ray Dalio Talks Up Risk Of Ruin At Bill Ackman's Stock Picking Summit

"We are long and short everything."

A new study shows climate skeptics have more knowledge on climate science than alarmists

Climate Change Totally Means Bigger Snow Storms And Cold Snaps

Pension crisis: Most realize the problems, but they don’t want tax increases or spending cuts to fix them.

Scott Walker: Update on the New York Times/Ron Fournier Epic Fail

MoDo:  I’LL pay for this column. The Rottweilers will be unleashed. Once the Clintons had a War Room. Now they have a Slime Room.

Bill’s libido threatens to derail Hillary — again

It's not his libido, it's his behavior

Meet The Corrupt, Serial-Marrying, Tree-Hugging Femme Fatale Who Brought Down Oregon’s Governor

Think Scandinavia Is Paradise? Think Again

Greece Continues to Bite the Hand That Feeds It

ISIS Threatens France and Belgium

Students at University in South Africa Demand the Expulsion of Jews

The terrorists win: German parade cancelled due to chance of Islamist violence

Je suis Lars Vilks

When a large number of foreign-policy experts—both Republicans and Democrats—falsely attribute many of the world’s ills to the Jewish state, they are channeling an ancient hatred. The time has come to say so.

Leon Panetta Interview: 'You Have To Deal with Russians from Strength'

Russia and China love watching the US getting mired in the Middle East insanity. They are laughing.

Nothing ‘Random’ About Copenhagen Attacks

Defiant Mother Who Hosted Bat-Mitzva as Terror Struck Copenhagen Synagogue Recounts Harrowing Ordeal – ‘No One Can Tell Me Where I Can Live My Jewish Life’

Secret Iranian weapon supply unit revealed

Sisi says Egypt will avenge IS beheadings of 21 Egyptians in Libya

Good. Not America's job

Nearly all the Islamic State’s decisions adhere to what it calls, on its billboards, license plates, and coins, “the Prophetic methodology.”

 There is a temptation to rehearse this observation—that jihadists are modern secular people, with modern political concerns, wearing medieval religious disguise—and make it fit the Islamic State. In fact, much of what the group does looks nonsensical except in light of a sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh-century legal environment, and ultimately to bringing about the apocalypse.

It's a challenge to be multiculturally-understanding when the cultures want to kill you but, like the Swedes, Danes, Germans, Brits, and French, we must try anyway.