Month: April 2005

You may have noticed that I have a personal website in addition to this blog. It’s meant to be an information resource on a few…

(Via 45-caliber Justice) James H. Jeffries, III, a lawyer practicing firearms law in the nearby city of Greensboro, NC, has these thoughts on what to…

Here’s another bit of the Patriot Act (a bleeding misnamed pile of stinking chicken crap if there ever was one) that most of us may…

According to an Elon College poll published in the Raleigh News & Observer, it seems that 49% of my fellow North Carolinians support H1183, the…

Sitemeter says I’ve gotten a huge influx of new visitors, all hailing from AOL and all reading this post. I’m happy to have you stop…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) Go here, then scroll down and look for the phrase “lengthy analysis of Iraq”. I’ve been able to validate a fair proportion…

Tonight was high school orientation for my daughter. Aside for making me feel old, it was interesting from a number of standpoints. The principal seems…

WARNING: Geek Alert If you own a digital camera, you may have noticed the only way to get pictures off it are as jpeg files.…

Here at Chez Freehold we are deeply engaged in the Rites Of Spring–getting ready for RV season. I’m sorry, we don’t do anything as mundane…

It would seem that Capt. Teach at the Pirate’s cove is miffed at our legislators over their “Let’s give the illegal aliens in-state tuition!” lunacy.…

This is an experiment. Normally, I’ll comment on each post I link to, but since I’m doing this on my lunch hour, time is limited.…

It would seem that Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has decided that the National Weather Service is a Bad Thing, and that they are unfairly…

Pirate Captain to take helm of N.C. State student government I bae lovin’ it, I tell ya. Of course, the chronically humor-impaired remain unamused:If I…

It would seem the intense publicity revolving aroundH1183, the Yet Another Giveaway to Illegal Immigrants Access To Higher Education & A Better Economic Future is…

Well, a hangover of a sort. Kim du Toit’s link from yesterday, along with some mentions of it in various other places frequented by us…

I’ve just found out that Kim du Toit has sent an avalanche of readers my way. If you’ve made it here to the top of…

This one came in via email from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. I’ve verified the quotes on the Houston…

Da Nuge says To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child…

Sunday was a great day to go to the range. Not only was the weather beautiful (73o, sunny, light wind), but it was the third…

On this Patriot’s Day, April 19, 2005. The Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s…

You’re about to get screwed again. This time, you’re going to help finance college educations for illegal aliens–at least if some of our legislators get…

(From The Federalist Patriot) The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimir Lenin Sound familiar?

However, there’s a problem with doing so. When you start reading Vox Popoli regularly, you start spending an inordinate amount of time researching some of…

Vox Popoli has some excellent advice for those with a marriage in trouble. And for those of you who want to say it isn’t true,…

Going to do some catch-up blogging. Keep reading.

You know it’s officially Spring at The Freehold when we have the “Ritual Untarping of the Camper“. For a change, it was accomplished with no…

Me bud Rob, at The Blog and Nothing But the Blog, has an excellent reminisce about his grandfather and air travel in “the good old…

Along the lines of “An armed society is a polite society”, Florida has recently enacted a “stand your ground” self defense law. No longer are…

The saga of the Man Room (parts 1 and 2) was completed over the weekend. Well, close enough, anyway. The furniture is set back up,…

OK, so I should have taken two weeks off to paint the Man Room. Welcome to My Life, as Bill Engvald says. So when last…