Author: The Freeholder

Long-time readers will remember that I’ve noted my mother’s health problems. Things have finally come to their inevitable end, and she is under hospice care.…

(Via Claire Wolfe) Concealment Does NOT Equal Cover Finally, something useful from my tax dollars. I was just hoping that the brick walls of The…

Giuliani 2008 Game Plan Laid Out in Newspaper Reading the story, it seems America’s Mayor is concerned that his past will adversely impact a presidential…

(Via Drudge) As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are…

(Via The War on Guns) While I haven’t been blogging about it, I have been following the saga of Wayne Fincher, who is charged with…

The M1 Carbines are coming! CMP says so! Time to start saving my pennies.

NOT! Not only is Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong in hot water with the NC Bar Association, but nowthe North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys…

The state motto of Virgina applies equally to this: Saddam Hussein’s Brutal Reign Ends in the Gallows We can argue for days on whether we…

(Via Publicola) This may fit in the category of “Christmas Miracles”–NPR (yes, National Public Radio) has done a story on the 100th anniversary of the…

(Via The Smallest Minority) Peggy Noonan has, as she is in the habit of doing, hit another one out of the park–and it isn’t even…

Here’s wishing you all a Merry Christmas. I hope you all have a warm, dry place to sleep and good food to eat. But remember…

This is a quick post before I take a perfectly good day and ruin it by going out into the pre-Chirstmas shopping lunacy… I’m killing…

I was Googling around for information about battery storage, in particular the long-term storage of Ni-MH and Ni-Cad batteries, and I found this Battery Storage…

OK, so I’m trolling through the referrers log on Site Meter, and this one catches my eye: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geuq5mKIhFo3cBcYFXNyoA?p=free%20web%20sites%20for%20people%20looking%20for%20sex%20in%20north%20carolina&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-405&x=wrt Yes, the search text is “free web…

It’s been too long since the Family Freeholder went to the range. With moving, football season and so on, time has been at a premium…

News.com reports Senator John McCain (RINO-Manchuria) is proposing a law that will levy a $300,000 fine (plus, one must assume, prison time) for any webmaster…

Today is the anniversary the beginning of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II–The Battle of the Bulge. Over 160,000 casualties were incurred…

OK, not all cops are bad. Stipulated. However, enough are that we always need bear in mind that it happens. In that spirit, Claire Wolfe…

In researching the piece below, I ran across this: The 10 least politically correct movies ever I own 6 of them. How many do you…

(With apologies to Jonathan Swift.) I’ve often said I do my best thinking in the shower. (Sorry for that visual, those of who who know…

Or as they say, “Once more with feeling!” The Bulldogs won 13-7 over an excellent opponent, James Kenan High School, at Kenan Stadium at UNC-Chapel…

This talk by Dmitry Orlov, “Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR was better prepared for peak oil than the US“, has been getting considerable play…

Browncoats rejoice! Firefly is coming to the Internet as a massively multiplayer online game. Shiny! Unfortunately, we’re going to have to wait until 2008 to…

New York Democrat Charles E. Schumer and Arizona Republican John McCain, in a press release, said they planned to introduce a bill at the beginning…

News.com reports that HP “will pay $14.5 million to settle civil charges related to the company’s now infamous spy scandal“. This is the same State…

If you live in an area where public Wi-Fi hotspots are available, check out the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Browser, VOIP, IM, music and video…

(Recommended by The Mountain Man) People tend to mark the passage of time by remembering events of the past–“It was the last year we had…

This essay by Orson Scott Card is mentioned in The Smallest Minority linked below. I’ve just read it and I think you should do the…

The Smallest Minority has this excellent piece on the continuing militarization of our police. Especially interesting is the Cato Institute map of “Botched Paramilitary Police…

(Via Ars Technica) I’ve seen the idea that your cell phone could be eavesdropping on you in novels and around the Internet, but I’ve been…