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Heard anything in the news lately about the terrorist student that drove an SUV into a crown in Chapel Hill? No? Besides the fact that he is a muslim terrorist, which keeps him out of the US limelight but has he also shown that the gun laws on the books actually work?

It’s no surprise that the Brady Campaign is launching a new Anti-Gun Campaign based largely on the supposed illegal gun market caused by pro-gun states living beside anti-gun states. But I saw this coming over a week ago because the Indianapolis paper’s
story reads just like a Brady Campaign literature.
Interesting coincidence the Congress […]

So there is one small victory on the “canned hunting” front. I was somewhat divided on the whole issue for a time and when that happens I will always lend the benefit of the doubt to the private party versus the government. But over the coarse of the debate my mind has been slowly moved […]

I mentioned before that I’m deciding which leather to put the recently acquired EMF in. After browsing El Paso Saddlery’s website over serveral days I’m down to 3 options and a half dozen questions. So last night I wrote a fairly detailed email to El Paso Saddlery’s published email address explaining what I wanted, […]

Tony Blankley hits it out of the park (which tends to be par for him) in today’s Washington Times column Mexican illegals vs. American voters…
The Senate is attempting to legislate into the teeth of the will of the American public. The Senate Judiciary Committeemen — and probably a majority of the Senate — are convinced […]

If Kennedy likes it we are so screwed.

Now that the EMF is functional it’s up to choosing the leather. I knew from the start I’d be shopping with El Paso Saddelry (though Kirk Patrick, Triple K, Griffin’s, J.R. Morgan and a few others were all in the running) but now that it has come to decision time I’m stumped by my options.
I […]

So now Jim McDermott is a felon or at least committed a felonious act, I wonder how long, or if, the ethics committee will notice and how much press it will get? Here a Dem violates the rights of 2 Repubs and all the papers want to talk about is that evil Tom Delay […]

I just received a call from the gunshop and his gunsmith found the problem to simply be an oversized cylinder lock which he promptly fixed. And it’s ready for me to pick up. Glad I had the shop smith look at it instead of sending it all the way back to EMF. Granted […]

Now I’m bummed, the EMF has to be repaired either by EMF themselves (who have a rep for above top-notch customer service) or by the shop’s local smith. I opted for the local smith because even if I have to pay him it’s still likely to be cheapr than overnighting the revolver back to EMF. […]

It’s been a great week and today was a good day so on the way home I drop by one of my favorite gunshops to browse for the single action revolver I didn’t buy at the Indy 1500 last weekend.
I’ve been talking to the dealer through the week trying to get my hands […]

An interesting case in Illinois where the Feds revoked the FFL of an gunshop due to problems with record keeping. They appealed the decision and lost. The dissenting remarks are what interested me most.
This is especially interesting considering the feedback I’m hearing from multiple shops in the area who think the Feds are on […]

It looks like Amazon.com is now selling tanks. I don’t know if the product itself is real or not but the “customer feedback” is priceless.
‘ll admit it. Shopping for a personal tank can be a bit daunting. Many times in the past I’ve purchased overpriced, so-called “battle tanks”, then driven them into battle only […]

After several days with the Palm Treo I have a few observations. I’m still enjoying using it but there are a few negative aspects especially compared to a normal cell phone.
Usability as a cell phone: It is no wonder the number of distracted drivers is going through the roof. Unless I’ve made a […]

Could it be that where individual and social conscience are failing Google is picking up the slack? I know when I hire I always use Google and other search engines to research the candidate. Typically I’m looking for associations with open source projects and how the candidate acquits his or her self on bulletin […]

I appears the new tactic in the anti-war movement is that our troops are too stupid to have a positive opinion of the war and that boots on the ground don’t matter, either. And, that only those who reads 20 new papers a day and have graduated from college have opinions that count or […]

TIME has a nice piece on Robert Goddard who is considered the father of modern rocketry.

If ever there was an indicator that a television should never be put a bedroom then this is it.

Mandriva has fired their founder Gael Duval. I have used Mandrake longer than any other distribution and it is still my favorite despite the 10.x growing pains. It would be a shame if they were to go and destroy what remains of a once excellent and former easy-to-use-desktop king. If […]

Since it now sees that Even torn-up credit card applications aren’t safe may I recommend buying a home shredder. What’s funny is that a credit card company called this an “internet prank”, doesn’t seem to get the point that his company issued a credit card on a torn-up and re-taped applicatin. To quote […]

Here is a museum every opponent of our going into Iraq should visit. Excellent write up not only of recent Iraqi history and the museum but yet another glaring example of how evil “man” can be to his fellow man. Cudos to Mr. Totten.
Why do we not read about things like this from the terrorist […]

I know it’s “Windows” but I just got a new Treo 700w Smartphone and it is very cool. Amusingly enough the first problem I had after activation was cured with a reboot. Sadly I had to be told by a Verizon help desk tech how to reboot it by removing the battery for […]

They needed a study to determine what every high school senior knows by simple observation. I wonder if this plays into why the Libertarians support legalization - when they finally win no one will remember their campaign promises. Other than the free pot thing.

We’re not training South American militaries much these days so it looks like China is stepping up. We can give monies to the murderous Palistinians though they want to kill us and our Israeli allies in the hope of buying good will from terrorists. But we can’t train South American armies because a future […]

Wow that big evil oil company, Exxon, who made such big evil record profits this past year is doing something horribly evil with those profits… Investing in new drilling, capacity, exploration and technology. The bastards.
Exxon has invested more money than it has earned over the past 15 years. He said the criticism coming out of […]