Catching up from the weekend
Let’s start with some good news: wiretaps in the US are up 19%. Do what? Has this guy lost his mind? That means Big Brother…
Year: 2005
About time for the weekend
The Freeholder, Mrs. Freeholder and the little and not-so-little Freeholders are about to leave for the weekend getaway to Camp Freehold. The weather is supposed…
Get a Life
(Via The Sheila Variations) William Shatner, The Icon. I don’t know that I’d go quite that far, but I’m glad there are other people out…
Help Yourself
According to an article on Wired, May is National Masturbation Month. (You, there in the back! Stop snickering!) I have to wonder if June will…
Justice is served
(Via The High Road) AMarine corporal who was videotaped shooting an apparently injured and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last year will not face…
The sky is falling!
(Via The High Road) One of the scribes for Time magazine thinks the recent Florida bill clarifying/expanding a citizen’s right to self-defense is a Bad…
Gotcha!
Pakistan Arrests Al Qaeda’s No. 3 Leader Slowly but surely, we’re working our way up the chain. Getting nervous, Mr. bin Laden?
Well, here’s something else to write your Congresscreature about
Given the amount of dumb things that our government does on the average day, you have to pick and choose what you’re going to get…
Woah
(Via This Is True) Every once in a while, you get something off the Internet that just hits you in the pit of the stomach…
Get one while you can
Serious shooters all know about the .50 BMG rifle. It’s a big, bad boomer makes the liberal gungrabbers wet themselves on a regular basis. Of…
Asleep at the switch
Damnit, I hate it when I’m the last to get word about things I’m trying to follow. I’ve been keeping up with the case of…
Coming soon to The Freehold
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…
Ding dong! BATFE calling!
(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…
Big Brother is watching your money
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…
Lies, damn lies and polls
According to an Elon College poll published in the Raleigh News & Observer, it seems that 49% of my fellow North Carolinians support H1183, the…
Greetings to the visitors from AOL
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…
Important reading
(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…
High School orientation
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…
Good news for digital photographers
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.…
The Rites of Spring
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…
I’m not the only one…
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.…
We’re going to try a bit of metablogging
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.…
There are days I’m ashamed to be a Republican
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…
Avast, matey!
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…
NC legislators starting to back off
It would seem the intense publicity revolving aroundH1183, the Yet Another Giveaway to Illegal Immigrants Access To Higher Education & A Better Economic Future is…
Hangover
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…
Whew!
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…
And people wonder why gun owners usually view the ATF as an adversary
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…
The Motor City Madman Speaks
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…
A day at the range
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…