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Year: 2011

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So, I get to be a racist for another reason

(Via the Drudge Report) I didn’t vote for Obama, so I’m a racist. I’m skeptical of man-made global warming (and global warming in general), so…

August 29, 2011February 13, 2021
At this rate, I’m going to need another safe
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At this rate, I’m going to need another safe

This has been a banner week for pistol acquisition here at the Freehold, with 5, yes, you read correctly, 5 new pistols jumping into the…

August 28, 2011February 15, 2021
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The One is on the case!

Hurricane, cease! Ocean,recede! (tap, tap, tap, tap) OK, then don’t. (Link via Drudge)

August 28, 2011February 13, 2021
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Shooting fish in a barrel

In which Linoge has Reasoned Discourse with an anti-rights Love Peace Hope-N-Change cultist. Me, I’m amazed that she remembers to inhale regularly.

August 28, 2011February 13, 2021
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Just thinking

(Via the Drudge Report) If government run housing has problems like these, I really, REALLY don’t want to see government-run healthcare.

August 26, 2011February 15, 2021
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“Atlas Shrugged” was a warning, not a manual: Step away from the musical instument

You can not make this stuff up. Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several…

August 26, 2011February 15, 2021
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Oh, woes is me!

I’ve been blacklisted! Way to turn a negative into a positive. And thanks for all the traffic!

August 25, 2011February 13, 2021
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Always have a backup plan

Unless you’re NASA… Russia grounded its Soyuz rockets after one of the unmanned craft crashed following blast-off while carrying tonnes of cargo for the International…

August 25, 2011February 15, 2021
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No photo! No photo!

(Via the Drudge Report) Like I’ve said, the Republicans are just the flip side of the Democrats. A congressman from Ohio had cops grab the…

August 25, 2011February 13, 2021
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Today’s earthquake

Didn’t feel it myself, but others have. A report from one particularly hard-hit area is here. 🙂

August 24, 2011February 13, 2021
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I guess we learned nothing from Iraq after all

No one can be sure who controls the Libyan government’s weapons stockpiles, a stew of deadly chemicals, raw nuclear material and some 30,000 shoulder-fired rockets…

August 24, 2011February 15, 2021
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“Don’t call.”

(Via the Drudge Report) On the ready.gov website, you’re urged to “Get a kit; make a plan; be informed”. Apparently the use of your cell…

August 24, 2011February 15, 2021
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“Atlas Shrugged” was a warning, not a manual: The law is whatever we say it is…today.

(Via SurvivalBlog) The headline says it all: Long Beach Police Chief: we detain photographers, and I don’t have any guidelines for that policy, photography is…

August 23, 2011February 15, 2021
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29% of voters

Are gullible, media-led fools. This number isremarkably close to those who identify themselves as Democrats; surprisingly higher than those who identify themselves as “liberals”.

August 23, 2011February 15, 2021
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Woo-hoo! More jobs!

1.72 to be exact, for only $490,000, making 2,000 trees available to Nevada government entities. At this rate, we’ll have all those jobless folks back…

August 22, 2011February 13, 2021
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Is Obama in danger of becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of US Presidents?

(Via the Drudge Report) It sure seems that the guy gets no respect–look at the t-shirts seen during his current visit to Martha’s Vinyard. I…

August 22, 2011February 15, 2021
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“Atlas Shrugged” was a Warning, not a Manual: Where was Jack when the lights went out?

(Via the Drudge Report) In one of the climatic scenes of “Atlas Shrugged”, John Galt, Dagney Taggart and company are in a plane, flying over…

August 21, 2011February 15, 2021
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Robert A. Heinlein–still on topic after all these years

Heinlein once wrote: “Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded – here and there, now…

August 21, 2011February 13, 2021
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Wrong answer, Warren

(Via the Drudge Report) Taxing those who make $10 million or more at an even higher rate, as Buffett advised, would also do little to…

August 21, 2011February 13, 2021
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Well, well, well

Those striking Verizon workers are heading back to work without a new contract. And amazingly enough, it’s just before their union has to start coughing…

August 21, 2011February 13, 2021
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Good news! Unemployment in NC is up!

Because government workers are finally paying the price, too.

August 20, 2011February 15, 2021
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“Atlas Shrugged” was a Warning, not a Manual: Shortages

(Via the Drudge Report) They’re here and they’ll get worse, spreading from one class of items to another, until everything is in short supply. They…

August 20, 2011February 15, 2021
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Takin’ Care of Business

Netanyahu: The people who gave the order to murder our people and hid in Gaza are no longer among the living.

August 19, 2011February 13, 2021
The family that shoots together
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The family that shoots together

Survives the Zombie Apocalypse! Yesterday was our last chance to shoot together as a complete family before various schools and jobs demand out attention again.…

August 19, 2011February 13, 2021
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Let’s get this straight

(Via GunBroker) A straight trigger pull/press is important to pistol accuracy. Doug Koenig shows you how to do it.

August 19, 2011February 15, 2021
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I love it when geek and guns collide

Wired Magazine has a report on the Accuracy International LA115A3 sniper rifle, a user of which holds the current record for distance of snipe–2,475 meters.…

August 18, 2011February 15, 2021
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Do what!?!

(Via the Drudge Report) Ridley Scott is going to remake Blade Runner/film a s equal/prequel to Blade Runner? This will either be very good or…

August 18, 2011February 15, 2021
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Today’s snicker

Palin’s bus or The Big O’s bus–you decide.

August 18, 2011February 13, 2021
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Fading into the mist

(Via Timebomb 2000) Another member of the Greatest Generation has passed beyond our sight–Albert Brown, the oldest survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March, has…

August 18, 2011February 15, 2021
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Meanwhile, over at Joe Huffman’s place

Lyle’s sonnails it at the tender age of 17. Short, sweet and to the point. You really should go check it out.

August 14, 2011February 15, 2021

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