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I walked into my favorite pawn shop today and the counterman had two customers looking at guns. This weekend starts the squirrel season in ...

This past spring, I bought a Ruger LCP to carry as a pocket pistol. The little .380 has become a near constant companion. I keep the dirt ...

The Treasury wanted 800 billion to prop up ailing banks, and Nancy Pelosi couldn't seal the deal. She herself, personally, screwed the...

From Clayton Cramer , we get another bad idea regarding bail-outs. Clayton recognizes it as a bad idea but there is an interesting lesson h...

It looks like the Army is seeking ideas about replacing the M16/M4 individual weapons platform. From Military.com : In late August, the Arm...

I'm tired of politics. Tonight is the first Presidential debate, and Congress is squabbling over the Wall Street Debacle. Whatever hap...

I see near Portland, Oregon, someone hanged an effigy of Barack Obama in a tree, outside a Christian university. I wonder if Jesse Jackson ...

Another Biden bonehead minute . He was talking to Katie Couric on a train and said that Roosevelt led during the Crash of 1929. "When...

The big news today is that Senator John McCain is suspending his campaign to focus on the congressional bailout. CNN and Fox are both on ...

Gore, Inc , the manufacturer of Gore-Tex has come out with a new line of camouflage they'll be launcing soon. Called Optifade , it...

The way we select judges in the state of Louisiana is a problem. That problem is that they're popularly elected and you can't run a...

Washing machines are magical, okay? I know they're machines and I'm pretty handy with machines but I don't like working on them...

One of the way people find this blog is through search engines like Google, or Yahoo. That's okay. It lets folks find my little site a...

I went out to the range today, for the first time in about a month. Between the hurricanes and the clean-up, I haven't had any trigger ...

That's what the New York Times calls him. The other number 2. But the reality for Mr. Biden is that while running mates are second-fi...

A trillion dollars is a lot of money. A hell of a lot. Yet, that's what they're supposing it'll take to bail out the financial...

Oh, yeah, that paying higher taxes is patriotic . I shit you not. The money quote, for those of you who might not be able to get the clip: ...

Paul Helmke, from the Brady Bunch , is whining again because Congress passed a bill that allows residents of Washington DC to defend themsel...

Distain. Joe Biden holds me in distain. I understand that he was at a rally in Flat Rock, Michigan yesterday and said this: The Republic...

I'm blogging from Bossier City, LA, where I've been sent to learn all about school violence. The training is by the Public Agency T...