Vita ab Alto

All'y'all, I got this from a source whom I implicitly trust, who knew the author through the Naval Academy. I believe it's auth...

It's only fitting that we note a very sad anniversary before this year slips away. 2008 marks 75 years since Stalin deliberately starve...

I deeply regret that I missed this comment when it was posted [it refers to this post ]: "I have just read the account of Zach's pa...

... Thinking to add a touch of culture to our lives, we bought season tickets to "Broadway Across America" in Birmingham. The sea...

Okay, I'm blogging again...after almost a two-year hiatus. Why? I've been inspired by publication of a book by friend and estwhile ...

This seems like a pointless gesture, since no one reads this blog, but I can't bring myself to abandon the medium entirely. The last m...

God has proven to me that he has a sense of humor more times than I can count. One of the most notable examples for me was when The KANH and...

Apologies for having abandoned the Blog for over three weeks. I know I have disappointed my readers (both of you), but I am a chapter away ...

Here's one you won't hear about in the MSM, via LGF : “This is not meant to scare, but it probably will. Consider yourself informed...

Here's a message from the pointy end of the spear to the American-Idol-besotted lemmings back home. I can hear this Marine easily saying...

Yes, folks, yet another quagmire : An American Congress has got itself into a war it can’t win. It is stuck. Can’t move forward, can’t move ...

Mudville Gazette , an excellent military site, has a good take on late the troop "surge." He says, with greater authority than I ...

Andrew Sttaford at National Review Online quotes some "straight talking from Anne Applebaum" concerning the possiblilty of milita...

I've met Bill Arkin. He did some fine reporting back the '90s concerning Iraqi WMD and UNSCOM's failures to adequately monitor I...

Via Pajams Media , England's daily mail has an interesting story about how (human caused! -- Al Gore) "global warning" (junk s...

Is Europe already lost to islam ? Bernard Lewis, the world's foremist islamic scholar, thinks so : Islam could soon be the dominant for...

In Arabic, "Mahdi" means "Messiah." The words are directly cognate and the second is a Greek attempt at transliteration...

Correspondent Izmud left a comment after a long hiatus. I'm glad to see him back. Welcome! He comments: Izmud scored 22 -- very inter...

Tech Central Station today features an excellent summary of a brilliant pamphlet and expands its discussion to include implications for our...