Southerners lie about their weight–but not as much as those lyin’ Yankees.

The artist known as Kid Rock endorsed Mitt Romney but now says he’s “embarrassed to be a Republican.” Because of their stance on paperless tickets, naturally.

Calvin Watkins considers “The sad case of Sam Hurd,” a former wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears.

Revisiting an old posting of mine on the subject.

Officials in the Japanese city of Yokohama mistakenly announced the launch of a North Korean missile to 40,000 followers on Twitter.

I’ve got my differences with Charlie Schumer and Joe Manchin. But there’s no need to call names.

Many of our cabinet secretaries are independently wealthy.

My latest for The National Interest, “It’s Not Too Soon to Tell,” has posted.

The Navy’s Blue Angels demonstration team has canceled the rest of its 2013 season in response to budget cuts.

Ars Technica introduces us to “nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners.”

Margaret Thatcher does the Dead Parrot Sketch

Our current approach isn’t working.

Boneless chicken has been around for decades. The folks at KFC have just discovered it an think they have something special.

My latest for The National Interest, “Hagel’s Three Questions,” ponders our national security decisionmaking.

President Obama says Kamala Harris is “by far the best-looking attorney general in the country.”

Examining SECDEF’s call for radical overhaul of our defense structure against the fate of similar calls past.

The days of free news on the Internet may be coming to an end.

Will the prohibitive favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination do it differently this time around?

Illegal aliens will henceforth be be called, well, something.

Apparently, today’s youth no longer know how to have good sex on account of they’re having too much sex.

Robert Farley takes a shot across the bow at the academy from the pages of one of his field’s most prestigious journals.

In one of the lamer April Fools’ jokes in a while, Twitter has announced Twttr

Ross Douthat bemoans the evolution of American cultural norms over the past fifteen years.

The “social web” was with us long before the rise of Facebook, Twitter and its kind and that the old style sharing is actually much more important than the new.

Emily DePrang looks back at “‘Baghdad Bob’ and His Ridiculous, True Predictions.”

The Army has ruled, correctly, that the victims of Major Nidal Hassan are not entitled to the Purple Heart.

Mal Moore, who was part of ten football championships at Alabama, has died at 73.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes uses a quota system to make sure his guests aren’t all white dudes.

Apparently, some significant number of people are starving themselves to “save calories” for getting drunk.

If kids practiced French two hours a day . . .

Susan Patton, president of Princeton’s Class of 1977, offers some retro advice to her successors: Find a husband while you’re still in school.

90 percent of Americans support background checks for gun purchases. They are unlikely to be enacted into law.

An American fighting with Syrian rebels faces life in prison for firing an RPG against a government we’re trying to oust.

Conveying military experience to civilian human resources departments is hard.

Bill McClellan calls for ending military funeral honors for most veterans.

Targeting terrorist leadership may be counterproductive.

The economy has been steadily recovering from the Great Recession. But the jobs may never come back.

The man who played Captain Kirk is not amused by an IRS training video featuring his iconic character.

The Army has war gamed a conflict to secure a failed North Korea. It would not be a cakewalk.

Georgia is in a border dispute with a neighboring state, but it’s not the Georgia you’re thinking of.

A new Chrome extension will close all of your tabs and give you a linked list of all your previously open pages.

One in eight Americans support drone strikes against Americans on American soil.

Passengers may soon be able to use approved electronic devices during all phases of airplane flights.