Month: May 2006

Over the years, a number of special laws have been enacted to protect whistleblowers–people who expose wrongdoing where they work. This was done as a…

The Federal government has conceded the fact that the Spanish-American War is over–and paid for. Of course, you realize that either another tax will be…

Well, it seems when one of their own, no matter what party, gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar, all our Congresscreatures get…

(This post was prompted by this thread on TB2K along with other readings in recent months.) If you’ve attended business school in that last 15-20…

A corrupt politician, and from Louisiana at that. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!

I’ll be taking Daughter to the Nickelback concert in Raleigh, NC on Sept. 3. This is her first concert. The last one I went to…

In the continuing battle to protect our freedom, we’ve gotten a win: A prominent Republican in the U.S. Congress has backed away from plans to…

I haven’t had a chance to read it myself, so you’re on your own. Go read.

The fall of the Roman Empire occurred after Emperor Valens opened Rome’s borders in 376 A.D. By 476 A.D., Rome vanished after it allowed the…

Free Market News has a piece on how the various Alphabet Soup agencies can creatively use the data they have on us in a data…

I’m noticing a lot of new visitors coming in from Varifrank and SurvivalBlog. Greetings, and I hope you like what you see.

From today’s CMP Shooter’s News: CMP South Store Opening 1 June 2006. The CMP South store will open for business on 1 June 2006. The…

I won Riding Sun‘s Caption Contest last week. Cool.

(From Wayne’s World Via Obnoxious Droppings) The various ways the world views the United States Marine Corps.

The Register reports that DARPA is applying for a patent “…for a contraption designed to hurl SWAT teams and other emergency workers onto the roofs…

I deliberately didn’t watch the President’s speech last night. I figured I could read the transcript and save myself the cost of a new TV.…

It seems that the Dark-and-Creepy Wing of the Republican Party is working overtime: Wisconsin Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is…

Varifrank has posted what is perhaps the scariest short story I’ve every read. Bravo, sir. I can only hope that my son never has to…

Those of us in the e-e-e-vil Gun Culture are all aware of the book Molon Labe by Boston T. Party. (If you aren’t aware of…

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, including calls made within the United States, according…

And that’s the problem, at least for those of us who believe that Nanny needs to go mind her own freakin’ business and leave us…

(Via The Geek with a .45) If you’ve ever seen Star Wars, you’re gonna love this. Remove all milk from your vicinity before clicking.

I’ve often wondered what “these kids” (Don’t you hate it when you get old enough to say that?) were going to do when they turned…

I’ve never been much of a Walmart basher, and as I matter of fact I do a fair amount of shopping with the Behemoth from…

Gullyborg returns from zombieland (or final exams, which is very close to zombieland) with the 58th installment of the beloved Carnival of Cordite. Don’t miss…

In order to maintain my anonimity (more or less, anyway) I’ve made changes to my Sitemeter and Haloscan accounts. This unfortunately means that all the…

RFID tags are bandied about as a technological cure-all for identity theft, speeding checkout at the grocery store, providing loss-proof identification and finally answering that…

(Via Drudge) Big bad terrorist Abual-Zarqawi, who hates everything western, wears New Balance tennis shoes, rides around in a pickup truck and has poor weapons…

(Via Wired) Our ever-efficient Too Stupid for Arby’s Transportation Security Administration seems to have some problems with their terrorist watch list. Specifically, they have people…

(Via Wired) Three weeks or so ago, I noted the filing of a lawsuit by the EFF over alledged massive wiretapping by the NSA. The…