The Freeholder

(Via Timebomb 2000) Here’s a little test that purports to help you in selecting the presidential candidate who is closest to your viewpoint. As you…

I still find it funny that it’s usually our legal immigrants who seem to “get the joke” about America the best. Kim du Toit, the…

And government power… A federal rule, made in reaction to a 2003 blackout that started by trees sagging onto power lines, will mean that many…

It isn’t something I’d normally blog about, but I hope you’ve all been keeping an eye on the stock market/Federal Reserve/dollar goings-on. I only understand…

(Via Drudge) Of course, in our modern terrorist-aware society, you might want to watch just which book you pack, lest it disturb our guardians. The…

I love the South (bein’ Suth’n an’ all), but we have some stuff that just pegs the Weird-Shit-o-Meter: Police are investigating the death of a…

You know, some people just refuse to take “HELL NO!” for an answer. It seems that the concept of amnesty for illegal aliens is going…

At least, it looks that way. Last week was slow, and it seems that this week, and maybe the next couple will be so as…

(Via the ODCMP newsletter) “What Sight Picture Is Best For You?” by SSG Tobie Tomlinson is a top notch article on sight pictures and how…

I wrote this piece last year for the 5 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Outside up updating it to say “6th anniversary” and so…

Xavier has a fine piece on charges files against two police officers in Noble, OK, who killed a 5-year-old kids while trying to shoot a…

Author Madeleine L’Engle is dead at age 88. As a young teen, I read “A Wrinkle in Time”. Later, as an older teen, I read…

No longer will G.I. Joe be a U.S. Special Forces soldier, the “Real American Hero” who, in his glory days, single-handedly won World War II.…

Thanks, George Simko, and Godspeed. My generation can never repay your generation for all that you’ve done.

I never met Coach Ronnie Smith. However, when a man like this dies, the entire human race is poorer for his passing. I thought you…

(Via Wired) Through the Looking Glass is an interview with William Gibson, the co-creator of the cyberpunk genre and the man who coined the word…

Fred’s in. Now, the politickin’ can start for real.

(Found on Timebomb 2000) It’s often been said that, should the lights go out for a long period of time, even a little electrical generating…

(Via The Countertop Chronicles) My Conservative Identity: You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative. You believe in smaller government, states’ rights,…

If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) is not trying to create an electronically accessible database which contains all the firearms sold…

Good things come in threes. Plus, I’m in a blood thirsty mood. I like the line at the end. “Well, this is what he came…

You know, Jihadis must not be the brightest bulbs in the hardware store…

I almost missed out on this, but Kim du Toit had a pointer to it on David Codrea’s blog: On August 28, activists in cities…

Since I doubt my comment will ever see the light of day, I’d like to draw your attention to this blog post from Igor Erica…

(Via Timebomb 2000) Remember the news on the summit of North American leaders a week or so ago? You know, the one where the Mexican…

Man, is that’s somefast service. Ordered a Red’s Trading Post hat on Wednesday, got it on Saturday. I’m going to wear it out to supper…

(Via Timebomb 2000) Oh, woe is us! Why are we in Iraq? Why are we in Afghanistan? Bring the troops home! Bush lied, people died!…

(Via Conservative Scalawag) One ex-terrorist, coming up.

Yes, the price of energy is going to rise in North Carolina, I’m sorry to say. The sad part is the cause. It’s not a…