Year: 2006

The Carnival of Cordite #48 is up at RWVA. Cabinboy has done an excellent job, even dredging up one of my old blog entries to…

(Via Heartless Libertarian) I won’t sully this with my thoughts. Go read.

(Via the Captain’s Quarters) Well, it seems our neighbors to the north have realized that their billion dollar (Canadian, I suppose) gun registration scheme isn’t…

GuyK at Charming, Just Charming has 27 thoughts for you to ponder. I’d swear I’ve seen/heard these before, but they’re too good to miss. My…

The BATF hearings before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security took place yesterday, as advertised. Reports are that very few…

I was checking the stats today, and I note that I had a visitor from the University of Oregon, no doubt drawn by this post.…

(Via TB2K) OK, it’s a tearjerker. Go watch it anyway. If you’re curious, here’s the backstory.

As noted a few days ago, there will be congressional hearing on the BATF Richmond, VA/Showmasters gun show hoopla from last year. The Free Market…

Gullyborg was a little late getting the Carnival up this week. Click here to see why, after removing everything breakable from easy reach. “Illegal aliens”…

You have to love it when a US Court of Appeals has the following to say to the ATF on the subject of their jihad…

News.com reports that TheAnonymousEmail.com, a service that provides anonymous email (duh), is suing the Federal government in order to have the portion of the Violence…

As part of a grand jury investigation that’s still secret, the Justice Department asked a federal magistrate judge to approve monitoring of an unnamed person’s…

It seems that Ithaca may be returning to life. The company has new owners, a new web site and has moved to a new location.…

(Via The High Road) The gunnies among us remember last year’s little go-round at the Richmond Showmaster’s gun show (Lord knowsI blogged about it enough.)…

Big White Guy reports thatHong Kong is going to eliminate the ownership of private poultry (more or less) as a way of stopping avian influenza.…

(Via No Quarters) ” Arbeit Mach Frei” Translation: “Work will set you free”. These were the words the Nazis posted in iron at Dachau, where…

I didn’t know that today is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthday. Cool.

I’ve ran into the name Theodore Dalrymple in several places around the Internet, in particular at City Journal (which, BTW, is a pretty interesting site…

Those who pay attention to such things have long noted that the US auto industry isn’t what it used to be. Foreign competition, poor business…

(Via WorldNet Daily) Long-time readers know that the ATF isn’t my favorite Federal government agency. It’s not that I hate them, per se, I just…

Wired is reporting a possible test for Alzheimer’s Disease. While still in it’s early stages, the test looks for amyloid plaques in the eye, which…

(Via The Smallest Minority) Create your own motivational poster! Hours of fun! Impress your friends! Hang them at work! Or just observe his efforts. I’m…

Take pity on poor Gullyborg. who’s having his time and soul eaten. (I wonder what it feels like to have your soul eaten?) However, in…

(I’ve vacillated on whether or not to write this post for several days, and I’ve finally come down on the side of doing so.) All…

(Via Pirate’s Cove) And no, I’m not saying in which direction. Always keep ’em guessing!

Head has performed exhaustive testing on the AR vs. AK argument and has concluded that the Mosin-Nagant is superior to both. Warning–wrap the keyboard in…

Publicola gives us the Carnaval De Les Garand. He just had to go do this. He had to. I’m sure, just sure, that it has…

This week’s Carnival of Cordite is #45 (and 45 is the number of the Carnival of Cordite), and as such has been devoted to all…

Although a trip to the MD was finally necessary. Out of the entire family, I get to play for the bonus round (secondary infection, in…

The lack of bloggage has been directly related to the entire population of the Freehold’s recent spate of upper respiratory illness. Hopefully by the weekend…