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Bill Bonner hits another one out of the park

Unless we work out a way to turn back the clock, we’re in the end game according to Bonner: Another philosopher, Giambattista Vico, writing in…

October 10, 2009February 15, 2021
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I didn’t miss it!

(Via Timebomb 2000) Forty two years ago today, Ernesto “Che” Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial he was declared a…

October 9, 2009February 15, 2021
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Show them they’re wrong

The men of COP Keating don’t think we care about their suffering and sacrifice. Show them that we do. Click on this link to go…

October 9, 2009February 13, 2021
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What she said

Like most gunnies who keep up with the news, yesterday I noted the death of Melanie Hain at the hands of her husband, and the…

October 9, 2009February 13, 2021
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Do what?!?

I am beyond disbelief. President Zero wins the Nobel Peace Prize? I’ve always poked fun at people who said the guy was the Antichrist. I…

October 9, 2009February 15, 2021
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I wonder…

If I go wave the Battle Flag in front of the meeting location, do you think they’d go somewhere else?

October 8, 2009February 15, 2021
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Well, look who’s back

(Via Major Chuck) In a kinda-sorta way…It’s Kim duToit and his wife, Connie. They’re doing the podcast thing. Time to load up the ceremonial AK…

October 7, 2009February 13, 2021
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Looking for the Lexington Gun Show?

I’m seeing a lot of “Lexington Gun Show” searches hitting the blog lately. Are you guys bored? Do you need something to do? Is that…

October 7, 2009February 15, 2021
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Health care reform strategy FAIL

William Teach at the Pirate’s Cove has another example of how poorly the left can strategize. Attempting to demonize insurance companies in their mad rush…

October 6, 2009February 15, 2021
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Why cheap money is bad for the economy

Over any substantial time period, “cheap money” is a bad thing. One of its worst effects that that its availability skews the decision-making process in…

October 6, 2009February 13, 2021
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It’s amazing…

…what one man with a dream can accomplish, without the “assistance” of government bureaucrats to tell him that it isn’t safe, that he doesn’t have…

October 5, 2009February 15, 2021
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Let’s get this party started

OK, gunnies and gun bloggers–who’s going to the 2010 NRA National Meeting in Charlotte, NC? No way am I missing this one; it’s almost in…

October 5, 2009February 15, 2021
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And they wonder…

…why we don’t trust them? Gell investigator ignored blatant clues Yeah, I guess 17 eye-witness statements would qualify as ignoring clues. Just like lying to…

October 4, 2009February 15, 2021
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This is rich

(Via the Drudge Report) Riddle me this: How screwed up is your foreign policy likely to be when France takes you to task? I think…

October 3, 2009February 13, 2021
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The miracle workers at FedEx

(Via Say Uncle) Read it.

October 2, 2009February 13, 2021
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No Olympian Hopey-Changey in 2016

Chicago was eliminated in the first ballot of voting for the 2016 Olympics on Friday, a stunning defeat for President Obama who put his capital…

October 2, 2009February 13, 2021
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Spin, spin and spin some more

I’m sure you recall the breathless reports earlier this year about the veritable flood of guns from the US to Mexico (no doubt to compensate…

October 2, 2009February 13, 2021
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Explanation

Random Nuclear Strikes points us to one of the many reasons why they are known as “The Stupid Party”. And, like he says, “…Elder would…

September 30, 2009February 15, 2021
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SCOTUS takes 2nd Amendment incorporation case

(Via Guntalk on Twitter) SCOTUS has granted cert to McDonald v. Chicago, a case orchestrated by Alan Gura for just this purpose. Currently batting 1.000…

September 30, 2009February 13, 2021
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Career criminals nabbed!

Deputies said 45-year-old Donald Leon Kanupp Sr. stole the copper, then gave it to his son, Donald Leon Kanupp Jr., 22, who sold it to…

September 29, 2009February 15, 2021
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Wound channels and penetration and stopping power, oh my!

Via Survival Blog, we have enough ballistics calculators to keep any gun geek happy.

September 27, 2009February 13, 2021
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Q: How screwed up does your state have to be to be without a government?

(Via the Drudge Report) A: Michigan. Note to folks from Michigan–Please don’t be mad I’m picking on your state. It’s nothing personal; it isn’t even…

September 27, 2009February 13, 2021
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No one expects the vast right-wing conspiracy

(Link from Drudge; apologies to Monty Python) Apparently, someone has spiked the Kool-Aid again. The “vast right-wing conspiracy” has resurfaced, as virulent as ever. You…

September 27, 2009February 13, 2021
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Have a serving of nostaliga

Via a mailing list, we have A Day In The Life of the Atlanta Municipal Airport, June 1956. Jets are all fine and dandy, but…

September 27, 2009February 15, 2021
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Your tax dollars at work

In 2004, U.S. Rep. David Price inserted a $10 million program into the federal budget, sending the money to UNC-Chapel Hill for a new effort…

September 25, 2009February 13, 2021
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Right on schedule

(Via Neal Boortz) The political indoctrination of our children. Remove all sharp and/or heavy objects and liquids from the vicinity of your computer before going…

September 24, 2009February 13, 2021
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On no! A gun-related post!

Yeah, it’s been way too long since I’ve posted about anything that goes bang. Via The Survivalist Blog, PappaDeltaBravo has a good picture of the…

September 24, 2009February 13, 2021
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Business opportunity

Does anyone remember the the t-shirts from a few years ago with the DeCSS code printed on them? (For the record, yes, I had one.…

September 23, 2009February 15, 2021
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Real-time ship locations

Via one of my numerous Internet spies, we have this nifty, real-time commercial shipping locator. Not all that useful unless you’re a Somali pirate, but…

September 23, 2009February 13, 2021
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The many unitended consequences of Cash for Clunkers

We’ve all heard about the dealers who nearly went out of business fronting money to Uncle Obama, what would have been “good used cars” being…

September 22, 2009February 13, 2021

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