Irons in the Fire

Disney Disease is my name for the attitude of otherwise intelligent people who believe the crap that started coming out of Disney years ago ...

These two things both from Dean Esmay First, this piece on the infamous 'hockey stick' chart that 'proved' global warming. ...

Feb. 19th is the date the first American troops landed on that island, and began some of the bloodiest combat of World War II. I had two gr...

It's right here , and has some really good stuff linked up. That's it for me right now; the plague or something has decided to set u...

1976 was the first year I could vote, and surprisingly for me/already hated politicians in general/ I actually paid attention to the preside...

I meant to post on this earlier. Read it over at Dean's World. A researcher named Ashok Gadgil first developed a way to use ultraviolet...

From Smallest Minority comes a link to the end result of registration, this case from New South Wales in Australia. Money quote: "Mr M...

A couple of years ago I read about some stuff called Microlon Gun Juice . It's a lubricant/protectant that goes on wet, then the carrie...

Over at Whacking Day , he's had a number of bits from a real and true loon named Joe Vialls. "The Jews run everything, the U.S. is...

As my previous post indicated, had a chance to try shooting one of these. It's a 9mm semi-auto pistol, one of those originally issued to...

About damn time. She's the kind of 'lawyer' I find most contemptible; professing love of the freedoms of this country and indivi...

If you're helping someone take a Star BM down for cleaning, and you don't have to take out the hammer/spring/follower setup, DON...

Varifrank has some outlook on it. I fear I hadn't thought too much on this matter, taking it for granted that they had them. However,...

I love old .22s. Many are very basic rifles meant to puncture tin cans and put squirrels and rabbits on the table, some were finely-finishe...

I had a comment on the earlier post that I thought I'd respond to here instead of in the comments. Anonymous says: "Guess who I d...

Over at Hog on Ice, Steve has been laying his own personal smackdown on that academic nitwit Churchill, in his own inimitable style. Inspi...

First, many Dutch schools have banned the display of the Dutch flag by students; they fear it may "provoke other students, mainly Moro...

Yesterday the prediction was for rain last night, ending by about noon, clearing in the afternoon. It's now 4p.m., it's still clo...

Over at Smallest Minority, Kevin has a couple of posts on and in response to the comments of a history professor named Cornell. Prof. Corne...

From Free Iraqi : "Citizens of Al Mudhiryiah (a small town in the "death triangle") were subjected to an attack by several m...