As any falconer quickly learns, the federal government has numerous regulations regarding birds of prey. Most of the laws serve a good purpose: to protect these noble creatures as the precious natural resource they are. But when combined with zealous tax enforcement, sometimes the rules can can result in bizarre consequences. The case of the illegal stuffed eagle as art is a case in point. Read all about it in this Wall Street Journal article by Eric Gibson. As Gibson …

A few months back I blogged about the UN’s attempted takeover of the Internet and why I think all writers and artists, not just big corporations like Google and Facebook, should be ardently opposing these efforts. Today is “cyber Monday,” online retailers answer to Black Friday. How ironic then that yesterday’s Wall Street Journal weekend edition carried yet another great column by L. Gordon Crovitz about the issue with even more detail about how Russian, China, Iran, and several Arab …

In honor of Veterans Day, I’ve put together this collection of military aircraft named after birds of prey.  (A work in progress–additions welcome.)                                                                                                          

Kinky Friedman meets Carl Hiaasen with a Bronx/Texas twist in Jerome Charyn’s new Issac Sidel novel UNDER THE EYE OF GOD. With cynically screwball characters and caricatures that will leave you smiling or recoiling at nearly every turn, don’t expect to make a whole lot of sense of the frenetic plot. But have no fear. Charyn will somehow manage to keep you entertained. UNDER THE EYE OF GOD continues a mytery series that began back in 1974. Jerome Charyn (b. 1937) …