Year: 2014

I’ve been around the survivialism/prepping thing long enough that every time I see a book that purports to be, as the cover of this one…

I’m not a big AK fan, but I do appreciate craftsmanship whereever it’s found.  In this case it’s Bosnia.

(Via the Drudge Report) I would ask if it would not have been better if the hostages had been armed and allowed to defend themselves…

I’ve been trying for weeks to come up with some novel peice of news that I could rif off of to use this link I…

(Via the Mississippi Rebel) I’m not a hunter.  I haven’t been hunting in 40 years.  I have nothing against the sport, I just have nothing…

From the Dec. 1, 2014 NSSF “Bullet Points”: “The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reports that it processed 175,754 transactions on Nov. 28,…

In local (North Carolina) news, “State legislators expect to consider new regulations in 2015 for fast-growing “sharing economy” companies like Uber and Airbnb.” So much…

I have been trying to come up with something useful to toss out here.  I’ve got a number of things rolling about in my currently…

(Thanks for the pointer, Hugo.) Lawrence Joel is one of those real, certified hero types–and he has the Congressional Medal of Honor to prove it.…

It seems that Inland has risen from the dead and is going to bring us new commercial production near mil-spec M1 Carbines.  (There are some…

How about a public service announcement?    Because everyone could use a good M1 Garand.

(Via Ars Technica) FBI director to citizens: Let us spy on you Encryption will “lead all of us to a very dark place,” FBI director…

(Via Frugal Squirrels) It seems that Everymom for Bloomberg’s Safety (or whatever they’re going by this week)  has once again botched their numbers when discussing…

(Via Frugal Squirrels‘) How dare those evil corporations!  Why, they think they can just go around, butting their big noses into people’s lives, helping them…

And who could have ever predicted that *roll eyes*? Let’s go over the symptoms, shall we?  Early on, Ebola looks distressingly like about a zillion…

(Via the Drudge Report) If you keep up with the news (and you should, you just shouldn’t obsess over it), you know that California is…

(Via The View From The Porch) Were like Chris Hernandez, we’d have a much more pleasant country.  And a lot less cop-bashing on Teh Facebooks and…

For a number of reasons, it’s been a heck of a week, and the next week or three promise to be the same.  I’m beginning…

I wasn’t going to add to the collective 9/11 word play on the Intertubz today, but here at this late hour, I’ve figured “Why the…

Someone may be back to blogging.  Let’s just take it easy lest we startle her.

Nope.  Tam of The View From The Porch has decided to call it quits as far as blogging goes.  She’s fine, but fed up with…