Month: January 2006

(I’ve vacillated on whether or not to write this post for several days, and I’ve finally come down on the side of doing so.) All…

(Via Pirate’s Cove) And no, I’m not saying in which direction. Always keep ’em guessing!

Head has performed exhaustive testing on the AR vs. AK argument and has concluded that the Mosin-Nagant is superior to both. Warning–wrap the keyboard in…

Publicola gives us the Carnaval De Les Garand. He just had to go do this. He had to. I’m sure, just sure, that it has…

This week’s Carnival of Cordite is #45 (and 45 is the number of the Carnival of Cordite), and as such has been devoted to all…

Although a trip to the MD was finally necessary. Out of the entire family, I get to play for the bonus round (secondary infection, in…

The lack of bloggage has been directly related to the entire population of the Freehold’s recent spate of upper respiratory illness. Hopefully by the weekend…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) Until We Meet Again My thanks, as well.

For the Carnival of Cordite #44, right? Much gunny goodness, as usual. Particularly interesting to me was the notation of ATF’s continued record keeping snafus.…

There’s a lot more news today on the Google subpoena that I blogged yesterday. First, I have to report that my idea of sending messages…

Everyone knows Google–the most popular search engine on the Internet. The Federal government most definitely knows them–they’resubpoenaing Google for an unspecified week’s worth of search…

U.S. Holds Going-Out-Of-Business Sale “The U.S. government, America’s place for law and order since 1776, has lost its lease, and everything must go, go, go,”…

(Via the Yahoo LongRangeRifle group) Word is that US Repeating Arms (which is owned by a Belgian firm, Herstal Group), will be closing the Winchester…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) One of Dr. Pournelle’s multitudinous readers has found an excellent resource, The Founders’ Constitution. I haven’t had time to go over all…

(Via FreedomSight) Justin Buist seems to think this is nothing to worry about. I follow his argument, but even if he’s correct, I doubt that…

Do I really need to spell this out for you? All I can say is that if I ever hit a lottery, you had better…

Gullyborg has a special zombie edition for the Carnival of Cordite #43. All the information you need to provide for the defense of you and…

Well, at least as far as the Internet is concerned, it may be repealed–at least until some poor soul has to go to court and…

In early December, the Mountain Man and I road tripped to the Charlotte Gun Show. Neither of us had ever been to the Charlotte show,…

But it’s never too short to peruse the Carnival of Cordite, Issue #42! Congratulations to Gullyborg on his impending marriage. And don’t forget to check…

(Via Drudge) Our President says it’s a breach of security, but now we have someone who wants to blow the whistle on the NSA (and…

The Germanic peoples have had, for many decades (if not centuries), the undeserved reputation of being somehow predisposed to authoritarianism. History says that isn’t true…

Hitting the local Wall-to-Wal-mart, I found two interesting finds in the flashlight section. The first is the Nite Ize LED Upgrade for the AA Mini…

The lucky amongst the survivalist community are able to live where they plan on retreating to in the event of TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The…

I wish I could say the lack of posting the past two weeks has been due to family obligations over the holidays. Instead, it’s mostly…