The Great Los Angeles Novel

Benjamin Schwartz looks at Mildred Pierce.

Overthinking Star Wars

The guys at Overthinking It look at the economics of planetary destruction.

Fight of the Century

High School Student Does What Defense Department Couldn't

He compiles a digital record, complete with photos, of all the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans buried in Arlington National Cemetery and puts it online.

We Could Use a Man Like Jimmy Carter Again

Michael Lynch reminds us that Jimmy Carter was pro-coal and pro-nuclear.

Guantanamo Bay

Wikileaks revelations look at what those who actually ran the prison thought about the claims by the Bush administration that it housed only the worst of the worst.

Atlas Shrugged and Energy Policy

Parts four and five of Bob Bradley's series.

Leon Russell

HT: Jimmy Espy

The Cowardly King & Spalding

The Volokh Conspiracy points to why Atlata's most prestigious law firm backed out of a case it had taken on.