No doubt ITA’s readers been following the “Jesus ossuary” story that has been going around the past couple days. According to a new Discovery Channel documentary executive produced by Titanic director James Cameron, and an accompanying book, archaeologists digging in Jerusalem in 1980...

When I read that Al Gore’s Tennessee mansion uses more than 20 times the amount of electricty as the average American home (the AP reports it’s more like 12 times the consumption of the average Nashville home) and more natural gas as well, I was hardly surprised. Like fellow Democrat John...

Lindsay Beyerstein, who blogs at Majikthise, offers a fascinating look behind the scenes of the John Edwards campaign and how bloggers got involved in a Salon article titled, “Why I refused to blog for Edwards.” A must-read for politically active bloggers.

In The Corner, Mark Lowry posts an email from a “Pentagon intel” source who claims that the patterns of recent violence in Iraq bodes well for the Iraqi government and the Coalition. An excerpt: 3) The recent bombings in ANBAR demonstrate red on red kinetic operations. Something which has...

Unless you live in South Carolina, you may not have heard of that state’s governor, Mark Sanford. But if you’re a Republican dissatisfied with the current crop of GOP presidential hopefuls, you might want to take notice. Sanford has all the makings of a truly revitalizing candidate. The first...

Crown Forum 288 pages $ 26.95 “Do you think judges should write freely about the law?” Robert Dierker, a sitting judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit of Missouri, believes they should. With The Tyranny of Tolerance: A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal...

Here’s something you have to see to believe. Near the end of an “Impeach Bush” rally last month in San Francisco, hundreds of protesters put on tin foil hats: Was this a spontaneous bit of self-deprecating humor? A very short-lived and localized fashion trend? For more up-close-and-personal...

Jonathan Rowe at blog-neighbor Positive Liberty has a good post up on the religious views of many of our prominent founding fathers. He notes that they, “had a particularly nuanced view of Scripture that differed from that of the ‘Deists’ on the one hand and the ‘Christians’...

Those close to me know that I am no fan of certain traffic laws. It’s counter-productive, to myself and the public, to force me to drive under 70 mph on a sparsely populated interstate highway. There are also a number of state highways that, in my opinion, carry speed limits which are far too below...

“The Astronaut Farmer” can be aptly summarized as a cross between “Field of Dreams” and “Apollo 13.” In this film, Charles Farmer is a dropout from the NASA astronaut program who has continued to pursue his dream of traveling through space by building a rocket in...