The House of Substance

John Ransom is the Finance Editor for Townhall: I got an email from a reader yesterday that went something like this: "Hey, the America...

Free market principles at work: What's a push gift? It's a present your hubs gets you for carrying and generally pushing the baby ou...

This is how to shoplift: Ontario, Canada – A $26,000 bottle of scotch has been stolen from the shelves of a liquor store in Ontario. The r...

Props to Manila Luzon: SAN DIEGO – The University of San Diego – a large, private Catholic college – hosted a drag show in its campus theate...

Brent Bozell: But one thing everybody knows, whatever their political or religious persuasion: they want to blend in. They don’t want the ...

Offbeat China: Below are pictures of two RMB notes donated to the recent earthquake in Sichuan…with handwritten text on them. The words on t...

Katie Pavlich, News Editor, Townhall: For months we've been hearing from gun grabbers that AR-15s can't be or shouldn't be used ...

Molly Powell: Yesterday, while the younger Tsarnaev brother lay recovering and apparently unable to communicate, receiving treatment in the ...

From an afternoon recital: My haiku is wrong I miscounted syllables What do I do now? What's with airline food? Salsbury steak an...

An Incomplete and Disorderly Catalog of Prince's Dirty Songs: Objects in the Mirror —wherein Prince is excited that he gets to put a loa...

Mario Loyola: In the midst of a big research project I’ve been doing on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, I happened to come acc...

In Quartz Composer pursuits I've been playing with Collada files (which have a .dae file extension). I was relatively enthused about l...

Awww... A composition by local alternative rock stars The Flaming Lips is no longer the official state rock song, and while one legislator c...

Competing blogs have staff that clog up the sidewalks in run-down neighbourhoods and the authorities have been notified.

Andrew Stuttaford: For a good example of not approaching this issue with humility, take the UK’s massive investment in wind energy, discusse...

Jay Nordlinger's writing about something else, but this is what he opens with: In the English-speaking societies — which still include A...

This video is kind of jerky...building the model takes a lot of horsepower and then running the screen capture at the same time adds more to...

Via the kind Dan Coyle, we have Lawrence Meyers: It is nearly impossible to read a review of David Mamet’s work now without the critic notin...

Shocking news from Mark Krikorian: Margaret Thatcher couldn’t be elected today. It’s not just that she was a great woman and such people don...

Here and here are two helpful tutorials that show you how to make a simple shape in Quartz Composer. I tried them out, they work fine, a...