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Blogs I read

Blogs are a form of postings on the internet by a person or team of people. They usually tend to be shorter than full essays and editorials, and are updated when the author(s) feel like. This makes them constantly new, and a good source of links to news and views that may not make it to the front page of a newspaper or your preferred newssite.

Most blogs fall into 3 categories: (1) diary blogs, where the author talks about events in their life for the world to see, (2) link blogs, where the author tends to link to articles/blogs/etc in almost every post, usually without much comment, and (3) essay blogs, where the author tends to go in-depth on a subject that interests them.

Here's a list of blogs I read on a daily (or more frequent) basis. They may link to other sites which I may read on a less-frequent basis. The order is roughly the order my bookmarks are in, which is alphabetical by the author's first name or the site's chosen name. Please don't ask to be added to this list, or why someone's on this list; this is what I've found I like.

Anne Wilson. Fitfully updated, but when it is, it's good.
Belmont Club.
Captain's Quarters Good solid analysis of things, especially with an eye on Canadian politics and scandals (sometimes one and the same thing.
Capitalist Lion
Clayton Cramer.
Dilbert blog. Comments by the creator of Dilbert.
Donald Sensing Methodist minister and a lot of good commentary.
Dr Helen Wife of Instapundit (see below), but good commentary in its own right.
Eject! Eject! Eject! Great essays on what America was built to be.
Greg Krehbiel
In the Agora. Group blog from Joshua Claybourn, others.
Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds). Probably the best example of a link-blog, with dozens of links to interesting items daily.
James Lileks. Great daily commentary on all sorts of subjects, from architecture to scathing comments on old recipe books. [The latter is better seen in action; my words don't do it justice. See here for the main page.]
Little Green Footballs. Despite the odd name, it's one of the best sources for attitudes and comments by those in Islamic states, without the whitewashing some would give them. I don't agree with every (3rd party) commentator who comments on the articles, but that's unavoidable.
Mark Byron. Insightful commentary from a christian economics prof.
Mark Steyn. A professional editorial writer's links to his recent published pieces.
Midwest Conservative Journal. Watching the trainwreck of the Episcopalian church after it decided to ignore the clear text of the Bible, among other items.
Michelle Malkin. Conservative columnist has a blog now.
Power Line. Good conservative commentary.
The Corner on National Review Online One of the better conservative (which usually aligns with Republican, though not always) magazines lets its writers loose. Usually a combination of diary/link blog posts.
OpinionJournal's Best of the Web. A daily roundup of news, links, etc. Just about a blog, even though it probably wouldn't categorize itself as that.
Tim Blair [No relation to Tony as far as I know.] Great commentary from Australia.
Steven Den Beste's USS Clueless. This site defined the essay blog for years. Large, in-depth articles on whatever interests the author, usually things like overall military strategy, the clash of philosophies, technology, anime, etc. Well worth the time spent reading the archives; the author is unable to continue writing. His anime blog is still being updated, though.
Volokh Consipracy. Group blog started by some law profs. Libertarian in leanings, but a lot of good info.
Winds of Change. Group blog, has great in-depth roundups of what's going on militarily in various parts of the world.

Following are blogs from friends from church. Unlike the above list, I've met every single person. Presented alphabetically by username (true names not listed; click thru to see true name if that person wants to be public). If you're not on this list and think you should be, send me a link.

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