Maggie's Farm

Review: The Iliad, Translated by Peter Green

1908 Sears Motor Buggy: Still in the Original Family and Still Running

UK Anglicans are in serious decline, say researchers

FAQs re sea turtles

Students With Failing Knowledge of U.S. History Miss Significance of Magna Carta

For the first time ever a computer has managed to develop a new scientific theory using only its artificial intelligence, and with no help from human beings.

No help?

Feminism being redefined on the college campus

Cheating is part of pro sports

LSU is Facing Bankruptcy but Building a Lazy River That Will Cost Millions

Watts:  My one-on-one meeting with Bill McKibben

A federal judge in New York, Kimba Wood (a Reagan appointee), has thrown out New York’s teacher exam as racially discriminatory

Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.

At Sea in an Alien Culture, Where ‘Normal’ Is Defined as ‘Deviant’

Why I defaulted on my student loans

Even Obama’s EPA Now Admits Fracking Hasn’t Harmed Water Supplies

The Democratic Party’s Growing Radicalism

The Incredible Entitlement of the Welfare Lobby

40 Years of Democrats Saying How Much They Want to Get Money Out of Politics

Report: Social Security overpaid nearly half on disability

Hillary’s Divisive, Reckless Rhetoric on Voting Rights

Scandals Only Make the Clintons Stronger

Poll: 13% of Illegal Aliens ADMIT They Vote

FAKE HATE: CAIR Activist Lied – Made Up Diet Coke Abuse Story …Update: It’s Not the First Time

Getting King John To Sign Magna Carta Was Only Half The Battle

25,098,000 Foreign-Born Workers Employed in U.S.A.

What a 95% failure rate says about the TSA

The New York Times Retro Report

New York Times Has Hissy Fit, Demands Transgender Troops - They never stop, they never sleep, they never quit.

Let’s face it: we’ve wandered into the realm of barking insanity at this point...

Walter Block makes the case for legalizing blackmail

The Gender Fluidity Industry’s Magical Thinking

Ranger School will eventually be turned into diversity seminar.

Is the New Political Correctness Already Dying?

When It’s a Crime to Withdraw Money From Your Bank

Connecticut:  Joe Scarborough’s Anti-Tax Crusade

Incredible: NOAA Gets Rid of 15 Year Hiatus In Global Warming Simply By Re-Weighting and "Adjusting" the Numbers

Climate Activists Slam Ted Cruz For Not Blaming Texas Flood On Climate Change

Chinese Hackers Snare Data From Millions of Federal Workers

Iran Will Walk

Iran’s Uranium Hoard - Whoops, Tehran forgot to shrink its enriched uranium stockpile.

An ethnic war in Iran is only a matter of time

The Anniversary Of A Miracle - Israel's Victory In The Six Day War

Attorneys at War - Inside an elite Israeli military law unit

5 Things You Need To Know About So-Called "Female Viagra"

Why Liberals Oppose Over-the-Counter Birth Control

Public ignorance about economic inequality

Friendly Fire: When Christian General Prays, All Hell Breaks Loose

New Music Festival Just Large Empty Field To Do Drugs In

Scythian gold vessels found with opium, cannabis residue

Mom on Child Abuse Registry for Letting Kids 11, 9 and 5 Play in Park Literally Across the Street

"Bruce/Caitlin Jenner is not a girl, he's a gelding." Saith a reader.

Minnesota Teachers Revolt Against 5 Years of ‘White Privilege’ Training

California's sexual re-education camps are coming soon

Any girl who feels “unsafe” on reading classical poetry belongs in an asylum

Is the Tide Turning against PC?

NOAA Fiddles With Climate Data To Erase The 15-Year Global Warming ‘Hiatus’

Wealth Creators Aren't 'Lottery Winners,' They Actually Built Something

BlockThat Image! ‘Clinton Rivals Pounce…’ - Challengers arise to the Dowager Empress of Chappaqua.

Hillary Clinton plays to raucous but HALF-EMPTY arena at black university as she claims opponents want to 'disempower
and disenfranchise people of color'

Even O never claimed that

New dimensions to the Hillary email server story?

To Hell and Back in the Chinese Healthcare System

Shantytown Sweden - The welfare-state country finds itself engulfed by international beggars.

Boomer Anthems: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - It was 48 years ago today......

Some Surprising Signs of Hope from Portlandia (The City, Not the Show)

"It was all explained to me on a bridge in London, some thirty-nine years ago, yet I still find it an unplumbable mystery, this “Holy Trinity” of Whom Christians speak."

Tom Paine

Calling Bruce Jenner a Woman Is an Insult to Women

Same-Sex Marriage: How Did We Get Here?

EPA Looks To Increase Cost Of Airplane Tickets To Save Us From Climate Change

First Church of Cannabis wins IRS nonprofit status

Dalrymple: "A Society of Emasculated Liars Is Easy to Control."

A Few Courageous Academics Fight the Rewriting of AP American History

Los Angeles Nonprofits Fear Wage Hike Will Require Program Cuts

Insty:

...the entire notion of academic freedom was boosted mostly to protect campus communists. Once lefties were fully in charge, their commitment to academic freedom evaporated. If lefties find themselves in the crosshairs again, I predict a newfound movement in favor of free speech and free thought.

Kimball: The Relevance of the House of Usher to the Way We Live Now - “If I owned shares in multiculturalism, I’d sell now.”

You might think I am making this up.  I wondered at first whether it came from The Onion.

Hirsi Ali: The Liberal Diversity Dilemma

Democratic vs. Republican by occupation

Sen. Whitehouse: Bring RICO Charges against Climate Wrongthink

Steyn:  Our nation's ruling elite is decadent and depraved

Hillary to Call for Expansion of Early Voting Scam Nationwide

In the middle east:  Anyone Seen the "Feminists"?

Confessions of a NATO Trip Wire: Why Poles and Balts Want US Trip Wire Forces

UK:  Child-Rape Crimes Covered Up

The Philippines to the US: We want you back

Ten Ways Men Oppress Women with Their Everyday Behavior

American woman killed by lion recorded her own grisly death

Amancio Ortega Overtakes Buffett to Become World’s Second-Richest Person

FDA Readies Its Bloomberg-esque National Trans-Fat Ban

Why?

College Board's Reckless Spin on U.S. History

Jenner:  Mutilating the Mentally Ill:

 The question... is why this other type of mental illness is being treated as a triumph, rather than insanity.

The next wave of “body diversity”: Disabled by choice

 “We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa.

Liberals Worship Caitlyn Jenner as Transgender “Goddess” - Cult-like adulation is downright creepy

If You Want to Be Rich, Choose Your Country of Birth Wisely "There is nothing more valuable than a U.S. passport."

The Media’s Race-Baiting Snipers

The Democratic Party's Growing Radicalism

Have you noticed your liberal friends on Facebook spotlighting some
unbelievably shocking comments from Republican presidential candidates
lately?

HRC Emails: Federal officials voiced growing alarm over Clinton’s compliance with records laws, documents show

Women-Only “Conversation With Hillary Clinton” Event Sells Only 50 Tickets, So Men Are Invited

Billionaire: ‘Clinton Cash’ Revelations Evidence of ‘An Unbelievable Shakedown’

TSA Missed Weapons and Explosives In Almost All Test Cases

Well, they got my jar of Amish mustard

Guardian:  Students: express yourself on the theme of austerity and protest, We want to see your placards, poetry and art – as well as hear your stories

The Bloodiest Conflict No One Is Talking About - Part I — Nameless, numberless and dead in South Sudan

California drought and climate change

Why You're Fat (Compared to a Chimpanzee)

Good news: Prominent Republican earns flattering cover feature from Vanity Fair

Great news: Professor cleared of Title IX harassment charges for … criticizing Title IX

Israel:  United Church of Christ and The "Big Lie"

Ebb Tide in the Golden Country - All is not as it was for Jews in America

American universities are addicted to Chinese students.

Is ‘Deliberate Deception’ An Unfair Description Of ‘Official’ IPCC Climate Science?

The Problem With Biofuel Mandates

Natural maize vs wild maize

VDH:  Disasters at Home and Abroad - From ISIS at Ramadi to riots at home, nothing is going right.

The Founders’ Model of Welfare Actually Reduced Poverty

How Martin O'Malley can beat Hillary Clinton

Fiorina continues attack on Clinton

...here’s a Moscow supermarket circa 1990, filmed by Rick Suddeth. As you
can see, the egalitarian retail experience is leaving shoppers happier
and more morally elevated

The Delusional World Of Imperial Washington

Boyhood Under Attack: Why Boys Can't Just Be Boys Anymore(Bill Whittle video)

Happy Birthday Patrick Henry: "This Constitution is
said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these
features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful."

"Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt."

Don't Ban Trans Fats

The guaranteed failure of Bill de Blasio’s plan to help failing schools

Average of 102 Climate Models Versus Reality

Black Workers Can No Longer Rely on Blue Jobs

Mexicans Discover Illegal Immigrants in Cancun, Not Amused

Say, Shouldn’t Illegal Aliens Be Given Political Clout?

Obama goes after the farmers

Deep secrets of racial profiling

The cash donations Hillary simply has no answer for

The Clintons’ Favorite Way to Lie

Forget 9/11, the Latest Airline Horror is a Muslim Woman Who Didn’t Get a Diet Coke

Meanwhile in the UK… be sure not to injure your rapist

The Islamic Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

THE WORLD SMELLS AMERICAN WEAKNESS

North Korean nuclear, missile experts visit Iran

The day McSorley’s bar finally admitted women

A sad day for NYC. Now the only all-guy pubs are gay bars.

World's first' robot kitchen cooks for visitors at CES Asia in Shanghai

Make your own hot pepper jelly

The Underappreciated Architecture of Waffle House

Climate Craziness of the Week – ‘climate change music’

How often do civil cases go to jury trials?

Here’s the Data to Prove School Choice Is Working

Nurses in the US:  Is there a creeping deregulation of health care?

Enough is Enough: ‘Mad Men’ and the Purpose of Consumption

What does not appear to be in the study is the IQ of the parents.

Chelsea Clinton: Lifestyles of the Rich and Mostly Useless

Who-d a-thunk it? A $12,480 per year ‘tax’ per full-time employee ($15 minimum wage) hurts businesses?

Walter Williams: liberals unintentionally treat me like a white person.

A Brief History of the Wristwatch - The military origins of wearable tech, a century before the Apple Watch

Insane Mountain Goat Photos

Markets know more than economists

How to Use Up All of Those Fresh Herbs

Throw them in salads

The all-male feminist support group.

The Perils of Paid Family Leave

...the real minimum wage is always and everywhere $0.00 an hour, as any unemployed person (or self-employed) can confirm for you.

Why don't more colleges compete for students?

"People are wasting valuable thinking time on meditation and mindfulness and should stop trying to clear their heads..."

Clean energy killing birds by the millions

The Civil Disobedience Charles Murray Wants Has Already Arrived

The Next Time the Media Complains About High CEO Pay.... It May be Projection

Republicans Push For Over-The-Counter Birth Control, Liberals Immediately Oppose The Plan

LA Union Leaders Who Successfully Backed Raising Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour Now Seek Exemption For Union Workers…

‘Massive Expansion of Federal Power’: EPA Issues New Rules Over Waters Near Rivers

All your water is belong to us

What is fascism?

Rand: The Republican Brand ‘Sucks’

He's a breath of fresh air

Clinton Foundation hit with racketeering lawsuit

Before the crash that she blamed on speculators, Senator Elizabeth Warren made a bundle by flipping houses.

Pray For Graccident—–It Will Trigger The Demise Of The ECB And The World’s Toxic Regime Of Keynesian Central Banking

North Korea’s Real Life Hunger Games - What it's like to fight for your life in North Korea.

Foreign aid scandal: UK money is 'STILL going to convicted Palestinian terrorists'

Scientists find way to create supersized fruit

In ‘Tomorrowland,’ We Get a Glimpse of the Left’s Vision for the Future

“Get over it, grammarians.”

Why It Pays to Be a Jerk - New research confirms what they say about nice guys.

Dining with Big Government

Sticker Shock for Some Obamacare Customers

Bill Clinton company shows complexity of family finances

The Railroading of Scooter Libby

FAA Hiring Scandal Barely Registers with the Media

It’s time for Stephanopoulos to go...

That Failed Philadelphia "Islamic Jew-Hatred" Bus Ad

Rubio: We’re at the water’s edge of mainstream Christian teachings being branded “hate speech”

It’s unfair to question Hillary’s accomplishments as Secretary of State?

CAIR Officials on Memorial Day: Do U.S. Troops Merit Honor?

Responsibility for American universities’ failure to confront anti-Semitism rests with administrators and faculty.

Why Iraq's Military Has No Will to Fight

Germany's "Demagogue of Armed Jihad"

Israeli women’s combat roles exaggerated, military traditionalists say

Toon above via Theo

McInnes:

It’s not just good for the individual young person to live life to the fullest. It’s good for society overall. We need you out there buying clothes and going to shows and eating in our restaurants. Nothing stimulates the economy like a twenty something trying to get laid.

Your Brain on Sports - Neuromarketing and the race to unlock the science of fandom.

A Structural Analysis of Deli Sandwiches

Are Women and Corporate Cultures a Bad Fit?

O'Reilly tells the harsh truth about race in the US

Updated NASA Data: Global Warming Not Causing Any Polar Ice Retreat

If You Thought The Coast Guard Was Supposed To, Y’know, Guard The Coast… Think Again

Lyndon Johnson was adamant. The Great Society would cure poverty.

Couple convicted of child abuse during satanic childcare hysteria still not exonerated

Baltimore:

 What no one wants to say, but everyone knows is that the cops are now in their cop houses filling out paperwork and doing as little as possible. They see no reason to risk prison for a city government that would rather arrest cops than criminals.

Let’s start with this fundamental observation: It is possible to reduce income inequality in one of two ways: lower the income at the top or
raise it at the bottom.

Milbank: Hillary Clinton’s hypocrisy

Top 5 Cover-ups Orchestrated by Clinton Consigliere Cheryl Mills

An Anatomy of Surrender - Motivated by fear and multiculturalism, too many Westerners are acquiescing to creeping sharia.

Some shocking trends pop up when nations' Muslim populations get high enough.

Why our prep-school diplomats fail against Putin and ISIS

 "Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." —John Adams

Farewell, Marine

The Rumford Meteor has a new look

Art Garfunkel on Paul Simon: 'I created a monster'

Inside the bizarre life of an Upper East Side housewife

Amusing re life in the Big City

Here's an amazing young woman

Emote, protest, get naked for your professor, and get credit

It's called Edumacation, and it's expensive

Teacher says she shouldn’t be fired for having sex with student

Sex Ed

"Hero Judge Rules Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Is Illegal."

Prosecutor encourages Notre Dame students to report rapes, assaults to county, not school

"I have just read in Army Times that, to my delight, the Army is making soldiers wear the prettiest red high-heels in the pursuit of gender-equality."

Life imitates Monty Python

Paglia: " I saw how feminism was completely removed from this reality. I also learned something from the men at the garage..."

Why I love 'hate speech'

Land of 1000 Microaggressions

Judgement porn and the shaming spiral

A Liberal Calls Out Intolerant Leftists Who Smother Free Speech on Campus

What Liberals Still Don’t Understand About Fox News

Janet Yellen’s Back-to-the-’50s Interest Rates

WATCH: Mitch Daniels on How to Cut Government & Improve Services

The Libertarian Moment is Everywhere Around Us (Increasing Social Tolerance Edition) - Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals want to keep the world tightly sorted into
two categories that describe fewer and fewer Americans.

Walter Williams: Ills Of Blacks Due To Government, Not Racism

Steyn Pushes ‘Socialist Lunatic’ Warren 2016 Run: ‘She Comes by Her Socialism Honestly’

 Hillary Slept Through Security Briefing on Benghazi Attack

March against Monsanto: World rallies in protest - Campaigners are urging those who can’t attend one of the marches around the globe, to make their own protest by buying local organic food

Good grief. Morons. I grow "organic" GMO watermelons.

UN Envoy Gets A Dose Of Reality ‘Sickened’ By Rampant ISIS Sexual Violence…

Pic: An old one of Bob in his tennis whites

Cahokia:  New Evidence May Solve Mystery of America's Huge Ancient City

Epic Leatherback Turtle Migration Tracked

A nighttime bike tour of the Matterhorn

I hiked that trail many years ago, up above Zermatt. Difficult hike up.

How to Use Oil Base Gel Stain Over Existing Finishes

How to Refinish Furniture - Refinish furniture in less time, with less effort and mess, and get better results

Three German Shepherds walk into a bar

When Do I Prune Daffodil Flowers?

Slavery in Senegal

In just 3 generations, our young men have gone from taking Normandy to Boy Scouts not being allowed to use WATER guns

The most obese group in America are  the people on food stamps.

New York Times: Eating food aggravates drought

An amusing campus poster

Ted Nugent speaks to graduates

N.Y. allowed to exclude “Choose Life” plates from specialty license plate program, because they are “patently offensive”

How about "Choose death"?

Noonan: The Trigger-Happy Generation - If reading great literature traumatizes you, wait until you get a taste of adult life.

Robot Medicine

Z-Man goes to the wrong doctor. Our doctor (guy with a solo practice, his wife works in the office and they care about their people) knows the whole family, we see him around town, he has known me for 15 years, knows my medical history, makes me get echo stress tests, goes through a lengthy interview touching on health, fitness, diet, emotional issues, work, family, etc. He will see anybody in the family at any time, and he will give phone advice. In fact, he was the one who advised my wife to fly my father-in-law from Cabo to UCSD Med Center this Spring.

Scandal Rap Sheet: 48 Reasons to Distrust & Despise the Media

How U.S. Workers Brought the 'Great Reset' on Themselves:

 College professors. Manufacturing workers. Recent college graduates. What do they all have in common?

They are all, as a group, seeing the terms of their employment reset downward. The average package available to those people is worse than what similarly situated people got a generation ago...

Carly Fiorina got fired once (for her decision to buy Compac?). But hey, MSM - do you remember this?

 Lifelong democrat Jerry Zeifman, in charge of the Watergate investigation, gave this reason for firing Hillary: "Because she was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer, she conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of this Committee, and the rules of confidentiality."

Were it not for “reporters” like Stephanopolous the comically inept and hopelessly corrupt Ms. Clinton would not dare run for mayor of Chappaqua.

Chris Matthews Defending Hillary: FDR Was 'Secretive' and Turned Out Best President of 20th Century

Hillary Clinton's dark whisperer is back - Sidney Blumenthal has been here all along. In fact, he never went away.

Visit By Pope To Cuba Will Test the Pontiff  As Well as the Castros

ISIS Rapes While Senator Whines About Fictional ‘Game of Thrones’ Rape

ISIS: We Thank Allah for Letting Us Rape Non-Muslim Women

Iran’s Supreme Leader Rules Out Broad Nuclear Inspections

Why Children Are Abandoning Baseball

Berry Gordy Jr. created Motown

Woman Says Her Wi-Fi Connection Is Making Her Sick

Riiiiight

Man Helps Boy Retrieve Ball. Don't Worry, The Police Are Investigating.

Railway Socialism and Safety - When you suppress the profit/loss system, people stop working for the sake of quality and endanger consumers

CNN: We Totally Need To Declare War On The Weather!!!!!

The social justice thought police has always been with us, but it’s the
rising impulse to trade liberty for power among the rest that should
have us worried — and speaking out in order to remain able to speak out.

VDH: Think like a liberal — or else

New Snowden doc: NSA targeted mobile phones, app stores

Washington Post Attacks Rubio: He’s Not Rich!

Iowa Democrats Can’t Name Hillary’s Accomplishments

Hillary vs. 19 Republicans - The GOP free-for-all is better politics than the Democrats’ coronation of Hillary Clinton.

Carly Fiorina Just May Be the Surprise Dark Horse of 2016

White House steps up warnings about terrorism on U.S. soil

Defining Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism and Jewish destiny

UC’s Napolitano Speaks Out On High Cost Of Public Ed, Anti-Semitism On Campus

I want the Win 3-barrel set. I will send a note to Santa. Guns International.