Even if world governments didn't have the will to punish Russia for invading little Georgia, at least the world financial markets did:Only a few months ago, Russian financiers and politicians were boasting that Russia was a financial safe haven, apparently immune from the global credit crunch. As recently as June, an International Monetary Fund mis...

ABC discusses African-Americans protesting an Obama speech: ABC's David Kerley and Sunlen Miller report: For the second time in two months, Senator Obama was heckled by African American protestors during events in Florida.Shortly after starting his remarks before a 7,000 person rally in Coral Gables, Friday, Obama was abruptly interrupted by a gro...

Cleaning one’s firearms is important to ensure that they will function safely and reliably for years to come.  Strange as it may sound, however, it is sometimes important NOT to clean a gun: Cleaning guns Cleaning firearms removes gun powder residue, metallic residue from projectiles, water, and other contaminates.  Cleaning guns with a com...

The American Hunters and Shooters Association defends itself by saying that I created a conspiracy theory about them:Critics also like to dredge up the old John Lott, a conservative pro-gun lecturer and author, allegation that AHSA is merely front group for the Democratic Leadership Council. Lott, ever the conspiracy theorist, reasoned that because...

The Christian Science Monitor has this:Rangoon, Burma - If Ashin Zawta has his way, the next time the government of Burma (Myanmar) clamps down on dissent it will have to deal with a new force: monks with guns."Last September the Army proved too powerful for us and defeated our nonviolent tactics," says the young monk, whose real name, like those o...

Hurricane Ike kicked our butts, and I’m in Louisville, Kentucky. The ornery old bastard swung up to our country after it finished with Texas and Louisiana. On Sunday we were suddenly hit with 80 MPH+ winds, and our huge maples and tulip poplars came tumbling down on the power lines. Don’t think I’m making any comparisons with Galveston becau...

IBD dispels the "deregulation myth": Politics: A dubious and dangerous idea seems to be gaining strength — that government caused the financial crisis by giving capitalism free rein. If anything, it hasn't done enough of that. OK, we'll say it if no one else will: Thank heaven for Gramm-Leach-Bliley. If you've been listening to the fulminations f...

Yesterday I noted an NRA-ILA post about a potential ban on lead ammunition in Washington state. Here is part of what the NRA-ILA said: The lead ammunition you use for hunting as well as target and competitive shooting will be banned from purchase, use and ownership in the state of Washington if the state’s Department of Ecology has its way. Tonig...

A puff piece in the New West: The NRA leadership knows we are right and that is why their attacks are based upon half-truths, innuendo and character assassination. That being said, let’s look at some hard facts. Ray Schoenke, AHSA president, has been a gun owner and avid hunter all his life. He has been fortunate enough to have hunted all over...

Over this past week or so we have seen the United States .gov acquire a very large share of the American financial market. The .gov now holds a majority stake in the banking, home mortgage and insurance markets. This is a turning point in our history, a time that our grandchildren are going to hold us accountable for allowing to happen.Where is the...

This is a rather amusing publication from NRA’s Political Victory Fund. I found it a gunbanobama.com: ...

(Scene: Ritzy grocery store interior, register on the end, new cashier, with a couple other cashiers chatting nearby.)Cash Register (scanning beer): *BEEP!*New Cashier: "I need to see your ID please, honey."Me (eyes wide, lunging for pocket): "REALLY?!?"OG Cashier: "No, she's been through my line before. She's fine."Me: "Dammit, what'd you go and d...

Apparently, the Mrs. is starting to read my posts. Great. So much for the 'HOT NAKED CO-ED CHEERLEADER FRIDAY' meme I was going to start....

In Burma, the Buddhist monks are the value of arms against a despotic government. When they get down to Old Nuns with guns ... that's a prospect that would have had Stalin begging for mercy.......

I would like to see CNN interview Obama supporters the same way....

… because the DC gun law reform bill didn’t include a provision to let her carry concealed. ...

Braisted: Wall Street all of a sudden favors Government intervention into the economy, as evidenced by the 400 point spike at the Dow. ...

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As reported, a Chicago rapper and producer who thought he was scouting our some new talent was instead robbed of $35,000 in jewelry. The man was lured to a stairwell in an Oak Park apartment building on the 200 block of Washington Blvd and surprised by a man who displayed a silver semi automatic pistol. [...]...

WI Attorney General JB Van Hollen filed a lawsuit last week to try to crack down at least a little on vote fraud. Says the Madison based Capitol Times: Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican, filed the lawsuit Monday in Dane County Circuit Court to get ineligible voters off the rolls. It calls for a court order mandating the Government Acco...

IT'S INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY! yES, Today (19 September) be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Celebrated officially th' world o'er (kind o') since 2005. Th' idee be, surprisingly enough, t' talk like a pirate an' pepper yer conversation wi' such fun comments as ‘avarst me hearties’ an' ‘keel haul th' plank...

That's right - in Minnesota earlier this week Obama's campaign rolled out a sportsmen network, with a pledge to protect hunters' gun rights, expand and restore habitat for hunting and fishing, and enhance programs that teach youth about outdoors activities.Obama's campaign is working to repel the NRA push to inform gun owners that Obama is an enemy...

Dr Phil is planning today to discuss the Texas School District that has opted to "allow" a board approved list of CCW permit holding teachers who have received special training on dealing with......

I can remember back when Troopergate meant officers in the Arkansas State Patrol cruising around looking for women to perform sex acts on the Governor.  Now apparently it means the Dems sticking up for wife beaters. ...

Bucks Right has a very insightful post on Congressional Candidate Tom Manion’s latest ad that’s running on the Iraq War.  I agree with him.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be supporting Manion in the election, but I worry if his campaign is spending its very limited cash resources running ads that aren’t going to win him t...

This will be the last weekend to shoot the Gun Blog Rifle Match.  Don’t worry if you’re last minute, I’m going to be shooting this weekend too.  Entries are due by midnight on the 21st, but I’ll make you all a deal — as long as you get me your entries before I post the results (which will take a week or so), I will c...

End of week blog post. Here's the random stuff floating around...I'm pissed off at watching the Government toss potentially half-a-trillion (yes, with a T) dollars to bail out bad debt created by these banks and investment houses. So I just got to help pay off Mr. and Mrs. Stupid American's subprime mortgage and pat the back of the loan officer w...

A tragic story indeed from this past Wednesday night. Important details are not yet clear. The reports I've read mention that the Police arrived on the scene after multiple 911 calls and found a......

OK, so with my Jeep washing it meant driving it in the rain. I don't think I had even ran it through an auto wash in years. Anyone got any tips on keeping my GTI looking brand new?...

Ohio court strikes down ban on guns in parks The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a city law that banned people from carrying concealed guns in public parks, saying it conflicts with a state law that established a uniform policy on firearms. In a 4-3 decision, the court said the city of Clyde’s home-rule powers don’t allow it ...

This is going to be a short post but, I think, very telling about the anti gun forces of this state and the nation.  I asked for a few postings from my readers. They actually covered the gamut of topics discussed; ranging from wasteful spending on the CoBIS program to training and sharing the experience of shooting with young shooters. Besides Je...

Sigh... Owning a gun is nice and all, but if we keep putting up with shit like this, it's a useless gesture amounting to nothing more than a distraction from the true loss of freedom TAMPA - Hillsborough County soon will begin enforcing its strict ordinances governing adult businesses now that a federal appeals court has ruled the restrictions are...

“It’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.” - Joe Biden The top 5% already pay over 50% of the income taxes in this country, and Biden wants more.       ...

Here is the piece that I have today in the Philly Inquirer. It starts like this:Does John McCain represent a third Bush term? The Obama campaign claims the two are almost indistinguishable. It was the mantra during the Democratic convention, and it is the theme of new ads Barack Obama is running. The ads claim that McCain is "no maverick when he v...

So, VP candidate Biden first said that paying taxes was patriotic. It’s also a good way not to have your life ruined by the IRS. In defending the comment, he said paying taxes is next to Godliness: “Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most,” he said. “Now it’d ...