I’m going to take a Sunday break from presidential politics. Not because there’s nothing happening – very much the opposite – but because it’s moving too fast and too unpredictably for me to follow. I’ll take stock again on Monday. Instead I offer you this from the Telegraph: Dire predictions that the Arctic would be […]

As you may have seen last week, former Director of Naval intelligence Tom Brooks came to me with a heartbreaking story of a man who gave all for his country, and for whom his country has done exactly nothing. It is baffling to me that the system could treat a hero this way. I asked […]

Editor’s Note: We have a full basket of authors this morning, including Tacitus o politics, Marlow and his Coastal Empire saga in the crosshairs of massive storm, and Vic’s perspective on the end of the weather event. We hope Arias will be joining us later on the site. – Vic (Hurricane Matthew in all his […]

Gentle Readers, As we prepare for the landfall of Hurricane Matthew down in Florida, there is another force of nature at work. NIP’s own retired Captain Gail Harris is renowned as an author (“A Woman’s War”), motivational speaker and columnist for the new Military-themed news network Lima Charlie, a leading source of news impacting the […]

Ludmilla had to make me swear, double pinky, not to go to happy hour at The Front Page and show up at the Finance Committee meeting last night. I have been trying to quit my appointment for several months now. There had been a coup de main on the panel, orchestrated by Joy, the spouse […]

Here in the Old Dominion we have early voting, something that does not happen in the morning, but rather up to 45 days prior to the General Election we can sashay into the local registrar’s office and cast our ballot if we meet one or more of seventeen official excuses. In Virginia, you may apply […]

I am at the farm, so far successfully avoiding the prospect of hacking at the foliage that has- perhaps- obstructed the line-of-site from the dish on the side of the house to the Direct TV satellite hanging in geostationary orbit 22,236 miles deep in the southern sky. The low gray clouds may have sapped a […]

Editor’s Note: There is a bumper crop of content at the website this morning. Concluding a three-part Coastal Empire series, a Tacitus essay and a restaurant review from The Daily. Enjoy! – Vic It is all unlikely, in this most unlikely season in an unlikely teen-aged Century. I find myself at the Farm, having parked […]

I am a sometimes-proud alumni of a little college located in Ann Arbor, as many of you know, and over a couple decades of deep disappointment, thought I had successfully weaned myself off the football program there. Alsas, I regret to say that the antics of the young men in the Maize and Blue have […]

Man, I am toasted from the motion over the weekend that saw Pete haul my sorry butt across southwest Virginia, into the Volunteer State and north to Kentucky and the charming little college town at Berea. And then back the next day. Sandwiched in there was the first Presidential debate, and so I think you […]