Month: August 2012

(Via the Drudge Report) Texas legislative district maps are rejected by a Federal court because… …state prosecutors failed to prove that Texas lawmakers did not…

Because your teenage son might have to shoot his wife-beating father. My heart goes out to the kid. What a thing to have to carry…

R. Lee Ermey, everyone’s favorite Marine DI, wasfired from his Geico commercial gig because he (correctly, IMO) identified an elephant in the room. Pity I…

When Cerberus Capital bought Bushmaster, there was rumored to be something of an employee exodus. Apparently, that rumor was true. It seems those who left…

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a butthurt that some former military and spooks think the Commander-in-Chief is also the Security Leak-in-Chief.…

Apples. Really.

(Via Timebomb 2000) And note that swords don’t work any better. You have to wonder just how long it’s going to take Bad Guys for…

(Via the Downrange TV Forums) Free ballistic calculators.

(Via Timebomb 2000) An Alabama woman arms herself with a gun while her daughters get an axe and a butcher knife. Bad guy home intruder…

Bad guy decided to visit a motorcycle dealership to steal a new bike. Local PD detective helps him to assume ambient temperature in preparation for…

(Via Guns.com) Gun store is shut down by ATF. Reopened by the brother of the original owner, who decides to pursue a new business model–reporting…

Unions are ticked off that the Democrats are holding their convention in North Carolina. They say that “The state has been dubbed by some as…

(Via the Drudge Report) “Improved!” Event Data Recorders, colloquially known as “black boxes” will be coming soon to new cars. While they might tell us…

In the prepper community, there is a subculture who considers what it would take to survive the total collapse of civilization and rebuild “after”. For…

They didn’t take a formal vote, but the vast majority of Penn State trustees voiced support for the university president’s acceptance of severe penalties imposed…

It’s right there in the book! Atlas Shrugged, p. 670! Not really. The actual story is that a Chevron refinery had a fire, and a…

An airline has some bikini-clad cuties dancing down the aisle of a plane to a song with lyrics of “I’m crazy for banana” and they…

While I’m grateful that someone, somewhere, is starting to figure out private businesses that are failing need to be allowed to fail, the concept of…

andnothing like this happens to me. I feel slighted.

I got no justified rage at anti-right zealots, moronic politicians (sorry about the redundancy), crony capitalists or any of the rest of it. Can’t find…

Now a nutjob has shown up at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin for his 15 minutes. Very few details so far other than 6 dead.…

Because someone might rob you. And they may not be content with just knocking you to the ground to get what they want.

Weren’t the Nazis pretty good at this sort of thing, as I recall?

Well, honestly, I don’t blame you. Of course, a lot of Republicans might say the same.

Many years ago, city City of San Francisco got itself a sweetheart deal that allowed them to flood the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yellowstone National…

Unionized gropers. The chance of my ever flying again have now declined even further. Thankfully, I can avoid it. I hate it for those who…

(Via Timebomb 2000 and The Truth About Guns) In the aftermath of the Aurora, CO theater shooting, the usual suspects are howling at last night’s…

Catch an effing clue. We want our party back–you know, the one that was for smaller, less intrusive government and lower taxes because of the…