The Smallest Minority

 Two weeks before Election Day, and there were at least eight people there at the same time, voting, plus there were collection boxes outsid...

This is the sudden exposure to the fact that the police HAVE no "Duty to Protect." Now someone needs to introduce people to t...

A long time ago I read Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for the first of many, many times.  I'm pretty sure I was tw...

So Bernie Sanders goes on 60 Minutes and defends his previous defense of Castro's Cuba , touting Cuba's universal literacy program ...

Today's Electric Car Batteries Will Be Tomorrow's E-Waste Crisis, Scientists Warn Wind turbines kill endangered bird species, elec...

By far the most viewed, upvoted and commented on answer I have ever given at Quora was a question about concealed-carry vs. open carry.  I m...

Common core is trying to do to math what whole word did to reading. They found that fast readers read "whole word" instead of soun...

...which remains the single most popular post ever here at TSM , but it's still pretty impressive - especially for a handgun:

Ann Barnhardt bloviates about the election: Look, you can tell me about how the United States is “turning it around” when abortion is a ca...

Not all of us, but far too many. Next question? Mark Champion of Bloomberg View asks the question upon considering the reaction to the...

I ran across an interesting essay today.  Published at Bloomberg.com, it's entitled Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays...

We have the story of former Marine Jon Hammar who is currently rotting in a Mexican prison for, well, I'm not quite sure: Nightmare in ...

I first posted it as a Quote of the Day in September of 2008. Time for it again. The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling ...

So you steal a gun from a museum, and then go on a national TV show and get videotaped getting it appraised ? Jim Gordon, who owns a privat...

This might get to be its own category. Last month there was this specimen , today by way of Jay G. we have another: And again, Capt...

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David Codrea of The War On Guns has a now long-running theme of "The Only Ones," having to do with police officers or other gove...

Via Michele Kevin Parrot details his personal history with the lying Mr. Wright, with illustrations. Like this one: Read the whole...