Category: Tryin’ to reason with hurricane season

It seems that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would like to disarm the residents, creating a “criminals ply your trade here” zone. For those…

“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead…

Today is a little known holiday, Bill of Rights Day. This is a fairly new holiday, first observed on December 15, 1941. (Yes, 8 days…

I doubt I’m the first blogger to note the stories that Rumsfeld may have been set up for “the question” by a reporter for the…

(Via WorldNet Daily.) A gas station clerk fought back when a suspect tried to rob her store. And there’s video. Woo-hoo! There’s no happy ending–her…

“Air Raid–Pearl Harbor! This Is No Drill!” Not how the men of the Pacific Fleet planned on spending their Sunday morning. Pearl Harbor was a…

The Capitalist Lion expounds on “How to drive in The Big City“. I’ve never driven in New York City, but I’ve driven in a few…

His Majesty holds forth on Post Election Stupidity Selection Trauma. A rant of such quality needs nothing further from me.

(Via Who Tends The Fires) I’m a bit of a sucker for these silly Internet quizes. The latest: You scored as Jewish. You are a…

All of us who blog know, even if we don’t think about it, that our big mouths could get us into trouble. For better or…

Appeasing terrorists does not work. Good luck in the future. Sincerely, The Freeholder

I wonder if this would ever stand a chance: In the event of a WMD attack by terrorists on the U.S. homeland or U.S. military…

There’s a lot of good groups doing good work supporting our fighting men and women overseas and at home. I ran into this one the…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) The policeman found my penknife. ‘You’re going down, mate,’ he said Given Ridge’s Retards, Thousands Standing Around and the rest of the…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) Man killed by Lava Lamp. How much longer can a civilized country stand this level of needless killing? We must register Lava…

According to PC World, it will if it’s a color laser printer manufactured in the last several years. This technology, originally included to help the…

But really it isn’t. We’ve done the feast several hours ago, and since neither my wife nor myself has a lot of family left living…

Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol…

From the residents of the Freehold, Happy Thanksgiving! When you number your blessings of this past year, please remember those who are far away from…

More on the issue of Marines killing terrorists. Previous posts, in chronological order, are: My obligatory post on Marines killing terrorists The other side of…

(Via rec.guns) A Volvo-driving, NPR-listening, DC-based reporter goes to the range. I’ve seen this sort of thing first-hand. If you can get a woman to…

(Davids Medienkritik via Mamamontezz) I don’t know if this guy is a big whoop in Europe (if he isn’t, he ought to be–they could use…

(Via The Drudge Report) Marines shoot insurgent who was ‘playing dead’ The US military says Marines in Fallujah have shot and killed an insurgent who…

A lot is made in the media about the innocent victims of crime–the child orphaned by a murder, the family burned out of a home…

(Via Obnoxious Droppings) Col. Oliver North has the full skinny on what, how and why our intrepid Marine killed a terrorist in Iraq, from those…

(Via Across The Atlantic; originally from Power Line) We’ve all heard, to the point of saturation, the media’s version of the Marine shooting a terrorist…

I’ve watched and listened, swinging from amused to outraged, about the Kevin Sikes/NBC tape of a Marine shooting a terrorist. OK, let’s stipulate that he…

(Via NCSouth) Dr. Louis Rubin, professor emeritus of English at UNC-Chapel Hill and the founder of Algonquin Books, penned this piece on his experiences as…

I’d seen in several places that Sears was going above and beyond in it’s efforts to support their employees, who, as members of the military,…

(Via Capitalist Lion) Mike, the blogmiester of Cold Fury, really cuts the Seriously Loopy Leftists a new one. A quickie: Yep, that’s right, you commie…