“a .25 in my pocket beat hell out of the 9mm I left sitting on my desk at home.”
(Via Push the Pull Door) Caleb of Gun Nuts Media was the victim of an attempted mugging. Go read how he turned the tables on…
Those evil health insurance companies
(Via the Drudge Report) How dare they make a 2% profit! Evil money-grubbing capitalists, making money off of the people’s suffering. There oughtta be a…
Doing our part
(Via Major Chuck) The Fifth Annual Project Valour-IT fund drive is off and running. You can make a contribution kinda-sort in the name of the…
Problem solving the hacker way
ESR blogs on a creative solution to the thorny problem of non-governmental censorship. I see not only the hacker tradition of interesting and unusual thought…
OK, so I went to the gun show
And couldn’t find a freaking gun to buy. This isn’t really a knock on this weekend’s Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Charlotte. It’s a…
Oh, I wish I was in the Land of Cotton
And so I shall be tomorrow, at the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Charlotte, NC at the Metrolina Expo Center. I’ll be the one…
I’m not sure why, but…
I continue to be amazed at the level of duplicity and hypocrisy in North Carolina’s government. The latest case in point is the new commander…
Woo-hoo, hold me back, boys!
“…a Democratic aide told The Associated Press that House Democrats have cut the cost of their health care bill from more than $1 trillion over…
Shocked! I’m shocked, I tell you!
(Via SurvivalBlog) Texas industries find that a lack of Federal red tape means that they can be more efficient and innovative. Whoda thunk it?
Building the pantry on a budget
We all know that you can drop a wheelbarrow of money on a Mountain House Foods dealer and get a ready-made supply of freeze-dried food,…
Greetings to the CIA
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring…
A vote for the .44 Special
Dick Jones says that, at least for him , the Charter Arms Bulldog in .44 Special works as a carry gun. His argument has its…
So the Democrats want to use a “nuclear option”, do they?
Knowing that their precious health care “reform” would go down to ignominious defeat if they played by the rules, Senate Democrats have decided that they…
Dear Republican National Committee
I keep getting mail from you, concerned that “I’ve left you”. Allow me to explain the situation to you in terms that even you can…
The world sees the Big O as weak
(Via the Drudge Report) A top Russian security official says Moscow reserves the right to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country against aggression…
Counting our chickens
Apparently, we’re so good we can do it before they hatch. As the Dow approaches the magical 10,000 mark (again), we get this from the…
80% of economists…
…are probably wrong. More than 80 percent of economists believe the U.S. recession is over and an expansion has begun, but they expect the recovery…
Don’t foul yourselves, anti-freedomites
The N.C. Supreme Court drew national attention a few weeks ago as the country’s first court to rule that a convicted felon has a right…
Bill Bonner hits another one out of the park
Unless we work out a way to turn back the clock, we’re in the end game according to Bonner: Another philosopher, Giambattista Vico, writing in…
I didn’t miss it!
(Via Timebomb 2000) Forty two years ago today, Ernesto “Che” Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial he was declared a…
Show them they’re wrong
The men of COP Keating don’t think we care about their suffering and sacrifice. Show them that we do. Click on this link to go…
What she said
Like most gunnies who keep up with the news, yesterday I noted the death of Melanie Hain at the hands of her husband, and the…
Do what?!?
I am beyond disbelief. President Zero wins the Nobel Peace Prize? I’ve always poked fun at people who said the guy was the Antichrist. I…
I wonder…
If I go wave the Battle Flag in front of the meeting location, do you think they’d go somewhere else?
Well, look who’s back
(Via Major Chuck) In a kinda-sorta way…It’s Kim duToit and his wife, Connie. They’re doing the podcast thing. Time to load up the ceremonial AK…
Looking for the Lexington Gun Show?
I’m seeing a lot of “Lexington Gun Show” searches hitting the blog lately. Are you guys bored? Do you need something to do? Is that…
Health care reform strategy FAIL
William Teach at the Pirate’s Cove has another example of how poorly the left can strategize. Attempting to demonize insurance companies in their mad rush…
Why cheap money is bad for the economy
Over any substantial time period, “cheap money” is a bad thing. One of its worst effects that that its availability skews the decision-making process in…