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That jarring sensation you just felt…

was California.  There was a great disturbance in the Liberal Force.  The Ninth Circus has bitch-slapped the state’s nonsensical “good cause” requirement for a obtaining…

February 13, 2014February 13, 2021
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Nice to see that some things really don’t change

I can remember the first Clive Cussler book I ever read, “Raise the Titanic”.  It had this memorable line in it in which a heroine…

February 7, 2014February 13, 2021
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Out of sight

(Via Clayton Cramer) Is not necessarily out of mind, at least not when it comes to concealing a gun in a piece of furniture.  And…

February 2, 2014February 13, 2021
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You ought to learn something new every day

(Via Survival Blog) Today’s fun bit o’ knowledge:  The Dozier Drill.

January 31, 2014February 13, 2021
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Another noted Communist passing

And a dried up old one at that.  Say hello to the rest of them in hell.

January 28, 2014February 15, 2021
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Once more with feeling

At the risk of being called a cop basher, let’s take a look at something that happened recently in the local area. Local sheriff deputies…

January 24, 2014February 13, 2021
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Um-m-m…I don’t think so

It seems that a company “with roots in the Special Forces community” has decided that pistol sights aren’t hard enough to use and has come…

January 23, 2014February 13, 2021
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It’s offical

(Via the Drudge Report) Over the years, I can’t tell you how many times on this or that Intertubz fora, while discussing some government excess, that I…

January 17, 2014February 15, 2021
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Methinks they doth project too much

(Via SurvivalBlog) L. Neil Smith pole axes leftists, progressives, communists, socialists and their ilk.  Not as if they don’t deserve it.

January 12, 2014February 15, 2021
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And in a small yet significant victory for civil rights and common sense

Grass Roots North Carolina is announcing that Cherokee County, NC has revoked a law that kept citizens and county employees from exercising their right to…

January 4, 2014February 15, 2021
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Happy New Year

Here is hoping that it is one of peace, growth and prosperity.

January 1, 2014February 15, 2021
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Hard to tell what the UK Mail makes of it

(Via the Drudge Report) The UK Mail has a story on the Mormons and their teaching of storing food against hard times, and how that…

December 31, 2013February 15, 2021
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Worried yet?

(Via the Drudge Report) So, when Wall Streeters are recommending stocking up on canned food and shotguns, do you suppose it’s time to take this…

December 26, 2013February 13, 2021
Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas

From our house (yeah, don’t I wish this was it) to yours, we at the Freehold would like to wish you a Merry Christmas.  Don’t…

December 25, 2013February 15, 2021
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Mikhail Kalashnikov has died

Russia Today is reporting that the designer of the ubiquitous AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is dead at age 94. Not a big fan of the AK…

December 23, 2013February 15, 2021
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Something different this December 7

Normally, on December 7 I will post something about the attack on Pearl Harbor.  I still am, but in a different sort of way.  While…

December 7, 2013February 13, 2021
Urk?
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Urk?

I saw this this morning on Drudge and just about ruined a keyboard. Yeah, buddy.  I want me some 18% interest rates, 65o thermostats, even/odd…

November 29, 2013February 13, 2021
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Karma is a bitch

Port Marion, PA po-po closes the doors after paying out damages, including damages for one for serial offending officer.  Locals worry that the lack of…

November 29, 2013February 15, 2021
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Happy Thanksgiving, Internet

One could think from some of my recent posts that I would not be the person to find much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.…

November 28, 2013February 15, 2021
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Security Theater, Act IV: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here

A part-time security researcher works out how to create some nifty MacGyver-ish weapons from items allowed in airport secured areas and, good guy that he…

November 26, 2013February 13, 2021
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Well, now they’ve done it

It seems that the Evil Party has decided to push on with the job started by the Seventeenth Amendment–they have broughtmore Democracy (capital “D”) to…

November 23, 2013February 13, 2021
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This guy wins the Internet today

Don’t know if the story is true or not, but if it isn’t, it should be.  Call it The Iron Law of the Unintended Consequences…

November 21, 2013February 13, 2021
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The hell with that pesky Fourth Amendment

Some of you may have heard of the case where a number of Duke University lacrosse players were accused of rape–falsely as it turns out. …

November 12, 2013February 13, 2021
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent
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On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent

Thank you, gentlemen, and now, ladies and gentlemen, for your courage and your sacrifice.  Despite our current trying times, we do not forget, and we…

November 11, 2013February 13, 2021
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In which Dick Metcalf is

Unless you’ve been hiding from the Intertubz, if you’re any manner of gunnie you’ve heard the story about Dick Metcalf, who decided that his excrement…

November 9, 2013February 15, 2021
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I’d say that genie is well and truly out of the bottle

The world’s first 3D printed gun–in metal.  Gun grabbers all over the world have just felt a great disturbance in their bowels the Force.

November 8, 2013February 15, 2021
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Found this tidbit on Facebook, of all places

I guess, like so many other things, they were for it before they were against it, so now it’s easy to be for it again.…

November 3, 2013February 15, 2021
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Blegging Time

OK, all three of you loyal readers, my aging memory has failed me and my GoogleFoo is weak.  I throw myself on the mercy of…

October 29, 2013February 15, 2021
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In which Bill Whittle learns to think like the Viet Cong

(Via Michael Bane) Those of us who are of a conservative/libertarian bent are facing the same problem as the Viet Cong–the enemy  controls the ultimate…

October 27, 2013February 15, 2021
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If John Mauldin is correct

Then we had better take all our money out of the bank and turn it into food, precious metals or anything else that will hold…

October 27, 2013February 15, 2021

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