Year: 2004

Once again, The Freeholder is happy to note Wictory Wednesday. Other Wictory Wednesday bloggers are The polls are continuing to look better. The Electoral Vote…

(Via El Reg) In celebration of 10 years on the web, Deutsche Welle has developed a Klingon homepage. While they kindly provide it in English,…

(Via WorldNet Daily) You knew this was coming–California is banning the .50 cal rifle. Knowing CA legislators, they’ve also banned big muzzleloaders and probably shotguns…

While modifying the colors to match my website, I’ve just realized and fixed an embarrassing gaffe–the comment settings were, well, not right. Apparently when you…

Due to family problems, Chris Muir has stopped producing Day By Day, one of my Daily Reads. Chris believes that Day By Day will return…

Connie du Toit is blogging again! Yipee! For those who don’t know, Connie is Kim du Toit’s wife. She is an excellent writer and a…

The word from on high: Semiautomatic Assault Weapon Update By statute, the prohibitions relating to semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices expired…

(Everyone else stole my best ideas for a title. Kim du Toit got my “Ding, dong, the witch’s dead” line. Guess I have to get…

and then I think I’ll shut up for the day. Here’s my take on the War on Terror. This is a war, but it isn’t…

I note, with some embarrassment, that while I was looking at “the memos” and trying to figure them out, others were far ahead of me,…

Today is the third anniversary of 9/11. There’s a lot packed into those 7 words. Like most people, I can remember that day with crystal…

I’ve been looking at those .pdfs some more. I’m no document expert, but I’d stake money on them not being done in the 70s. Like…

FOXNews has .pdfs of the “60 Minutes” memos here. Two memos have superscripts in them unlike anything I’ve ever saw done by a real typewriter…

Add guns to the list of things Kerry is Klueless about: Kerry Ties Weapons Sales, Terror Worries John Kerry linked U.S. assault weapon sales to…

Heinz Kerry: ‘Only An Idiot’ Wouldn’t Like Kerry Health Care Plan When I first heard this one, especially given that my original source was a…

Could the Dems be so scared of losing (or so intent on winning) that they will do whatever it takes–even fabricating evidence? Independent document examiner…

I wasn’t going to be petty (yeah right!), but since no one else I’ve been reading seems to have picked up on this, I thought…

(Before getting to the topic at hand, I’d like to note an unimportant and artificial milestone: This is the 200th post to The Freeholder blog.…

After 10 long years of “The Evil Black Guns That Scare Us Ban” (also known as the 1994 Assualt Weapons Ban), the end is near.…

You have to feel for the people of the Caribbean and Florida. It seems they’ve joined the “Hurricane of the Week” club. I don’t recall…

You can tell that Kerry the Ketchup Boy is behind in the polls–the Dems have started dragging out every old crappy charge (and a few…

Well, The Freeholder has had to avail himself of modern medicine–they took out my gall bladder yesterday. I’ll spare you the gory details–let’s say that…

Once again, The Freeholder is happy to note Wictory Wednesday. Other Wictory Wednesday bloggers are We’re entering the home stretch. The polls are looking good,…

I can’t seem to have a blogging session without a political post. So let’s get it over with. As a North Carolinian, I detest one…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) WARNING: GEEK ALERT Those of you with long memories for scientific esoterica may remember Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann and their palladium…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) If the country that may be our next great enemy could also be the country that gave us a safe route to…

You knew that Oshkosh, Wisconsin wouldn’t be the end of it, didn’t you? Now a California Sheriff has taken advantage of a registration database to…

(Via Usenet) Media Bias Against Guns John R. Lott, Jr Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute An impressive (if informal) piece of research on the role…

(Via This Is True) There are a lot of sites out there that are organizing efforts to support our troops overseas. This Is True, one…

Apparently, the State of Florida thinks that you shouldn’t be allowed to fix you own house, or ask friends to help you. A man flies…