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Democrats have controlled Congress for 2 weeks now, so I think it’s time to review their performance, making snarky comments along the way. First, in…

Kevin Baker of The Smallest Minority asked this question about my post on the effects of inflation on the value of a dollar: Now, compare…

Random Nuclear Strikes reports that Wayne Fincher has been found guilty of the charges of owning illegal automatic weapons and an illegal short-barreled shotgun. So…

Les Jones has posted a list of places where all us e-e-evil gun nuts can stock up on necessaries for those M1 Carbines CMP is…

No, not Canada–Virginia. (For those who’ve missed it previously, The Freeholder is a citizen of North Carolina.) Countertop has an interesting post on how the…

(Inspiration for this post was provided by the Mountain Man, who really needs to stop reading this and start his own blog, dammit!) Today is…

(Link via SurvivalBlog) If I wanted to buy something that cost $100 in the year of my birth, it would currently cost $680.74. This is…

My mom passed from this life Saturday at 5:30 PM. She was resting comfortably and just slipped away. While it’s hard, it’s good to know…

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…