Year: 2016

Oh sure, you’re a member of the He-Men Survivalist Club and you’re ready for anything.  You’ve got food piled up to the rafters, med kits…

Gear is not the most important thing you can have, but a certain amount of gear is a necessary thing.  Think of it like this–showing…

Here’s a different sort of survival story than we usually talk about around here.  A family on the ocean, anchored in less than 20 feet…

Excuse me while I rant a bit.  I’m a little irritated right now. I thought I might waste a bit of my life trolling Facebook…

I can remember seeing the ads  in magazines for as long as I can remember reading magazines.  A 6 or 8 wheel amphibious buggy that…

Because, when you get down to it, that’s what I’m doing.  Fortunately, the good folks on my blogroll don’t mind, and they are always a…

I’m running up on yet another birthday.  (Yes, I’m at the age where they have ceased being fun.)  As has long been my custom, I…

And to double my evil, I’m doing it twice–once from Jerry Pournelle, who mentioned it at Chaos Manor, and once from the author, Bill Whittle.…

There probably should have been one of those Joker meme’s for it–“Someone says something outrageous and no one bats an eye, Donald Trump says American…

It may not be big news outside of North Carolina, but we’re having a bit of an imbroglio here over two groups of politicians who…

The weather here in Piedmont North Carolina has been rather odd for the last several months.  We’ve had a warm winter that was wetter than…

While the political left never really changes, the left side of the blog is changing.  I am going to slowly be reorganizing the various links…

No, I haven’t decided to call it quits.  Actually, I sort of decided to have a life for a while.  This coincided with an early…

It’s hard to know exactly how to process this sort of news.  On one hand, at a national level we have politicians who are, as…

(Via the Drudge Report) It’s the Grumpy and Ossified Party. Mitt Romney is just the latest in a string of people the Masters of the…

Because the TSA has protected us from the danger of evil fetish shoes. In an alternate reality somewhere, the Founders have been cloned and are…

Those you who have been reading the blog for a while know that I occasionally bring you an article from John Mauldin.  John is one…

It’s no secret that I don’t really give a damn about this election’s crop of candidates for President of the United States.  The only reason…

(As seen on Facebook–and right now they’re pissing me off, so no link love for you, Zuckerschmuck) Self-defense is not as hard as we’re making…

US Supreme Court Justice Scalia has died.  Please join me In a prayer for him and his family. Looking ahead, we as gun owners, partisans…

John Mauldin is one of the most interesting economics writers today, if for no other reason than he knows all the other interesting economics writers.…

Have you ever considered that?  As someone who has seen more sunrises than I have left to see, one thing that I have considered more…

(Via the FoxNews) Well, it’s such a difficult question to answer…wait, I know!  Let’s ask a wannabe mass murderer! The man had wanted to shoot…

In answering that question, Glenn Reynolds hits it out of the park.  Then he tracks it down and beats it to death with a clue…

Money.  If you really think about it, money is the ultimate tool.  If you have money, you can obtain pretty much anything else you need.…