HunterByrd

View of public pier. Dauphin Island, Alabama.

I dropped back in. Isn't it incredible? No, not that one among billions of the faceless experiences consciousness. Rather, the fact that...

It's been a while since I cared to engage my First Amendment right. I have often referred to myself as "everyman", not because...

We have met the enemy, and he is us. Image by Zombie.

The Enemy I recently paid a visit to San Francisco. It is a wonderful city. Beautiful along the steeped hills. Fragrant aromas and colorful ...

His Excellency Thought about this, too "[T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them ...

War It's not a matter of crime. If you think so after nearly four years, then you are naive beyond reason. It's not a matter of u...

What's in a Name? From Ratzinger to Benedict XVI Frankly, being the light-weight Protestant I am, I wondered why Cardinal Ratzinger took...

Golden Gate Bridge

Krauthammer The international left's concern for human rights turns out to be nothing more than a useful weapon for its anti-Americanism...

Two Dogs digging moles in broom sage

The South. Lost Cause? Hardly. Our heritage Rocks! We've heard, for years and years and years, about the negative vibrations from the So...

Good Golly Joshua! Bono may be next World Bank Head I thought I had heard it all when Jimmy Carter won his Nobel Peace Prize. Now this. What...

Russellville house where ghost is reputed to reside in tower (note painted glass)

Morning in the Middle East Oh, my. Oh, my! Remember Ed Asner and "Not in Our Name?" How about Sean Penn's intellectual tomes f...

Identity Theft You may have felt the sharp pangs of "data rape", or you may yet be blissfully ignorant. As for me, I've seen i...

A Liberal Writer's 'Mea Culpa' The NYT article: " When Good News Feels Bad ". Writer Kurt Anderson confesses (for hims...

Rolling on the Steyn Line But Carter and Kerry and Old Europe were wrong, and the absurd absolutist simpleton was right. Iraq is free not ju...

Salt is in the water

Right Back At Ya! Kudos to our majority-elected President! Thank you, W, for placing those choked-off, obstructed judicial nominees back int...

"I'm Google for Loco Puffs" 98% (about $203497) of all political donations by Google employees went to the Dem cause last yea...

Truth is multidirectional Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from thos...

Captain at the helm

Bring them Lemmings on! (The Scream) So where are they now as the Democrats are set to name wild-eyed ultraliberal Howard Dean as the new ch...

Ten Reasons for Democracy in the Middle East As the debate between a largely neo-conservative 'red' America and a largely idealist-e...

Moon over White Barn

Ayn Rand at 100 No other modern author has had such extravagant claims of greatness made on her behalf: Followers of her philosophy, Objecti...

Bash me some more "'I hate America' is the world’s default position. Knocking America is a form of displacement. It helps non-A...

Vigilance

On interminable hiatus This exercise of posting into the ether is a strange experience indeed. I came to the conclusion that the only re...

As the World Turns W has been sworn in for a second term. His speech was earnest, well-parsed, and profound. The usual suspects, eg. the...

Winter passes

Global Warming takes a Breather Bing’s dream a reality I recall DC shutting down because of a blizzard. In fact, heavy snowfall is n...

Capitol Rotunda - Frankfort KY

The Captain's Belief ain't so red as blood red We can barely muster the Democrats to go after terrorists and to eliminate the e...

Why is Kim Jong Il the only fat man in North Korea? Here is a sweet travelogue about the third prong of W's 'axis of evil'....

The flow of liberal bias in American academia Not so good ... we fear...merely more of the same. Ah, The Economist. A center of cent...

Boone's Bones - Frankfort, KY

The Story of this Century It's here. More and more people are paying attention to it. It has only just begun. A generation will be w...