Cave Ab Homine Unius Libri And here is mine. Not the Bible nor the Havamal , nor the Koran nor the Lord of the Rings . If you asked me fo...

Count Me Opposed: ...to anything that the D.C. government is in favor of, but especially this business of putting cameras everywhere. The ...

A New Rifle: As some of you (well, probably only the hardcore gunfighters) will know, Smith & Wesson this year announced an end to the p...

Comments on Today's News: On the British Police shooting dead a suspected bomber -- Good job, too. One can get pretty much the same amo...

Beer: I learned reading The Independent today that Corona has failed in its attempt to do something really dumb: Eurocermex, European distr...

Scotty: I haven't seen an episode of Star Trek in many years, but it used to run as late-night TV back when I was young enough to still ...

Foreign Names: An aside inspired by "the Sheik Marine's" comments below. It happens that I also have a foreign name: a Chine...

The Sheik Marine: Captain Leggett of Southern Appeal has posted some photographs of himself, attired in a tribal headdress that was given t...

"The War of Spells" My favorite article so far to arise from the disruptions in the Philippines is this one . It describes the ev...

Fine Dining: Via Arts & Letters Daily , I see that the UK Guardian has put together a list of the world's fifty best restaurants. ...

4th Rail Post: I have a post up at the Fourth Rail on Dr. Pape's work .

OPSEC Secrecy News has a link to another recently available government document, which comes from the Interagency OPSEC support staff. The...

Information Warfare: The most interesting thing about this roundup post is the comments section. I don't say that to minimize the qual...

Turning America Back Into A Nation Of... Whose idea was it to allow these military style weapons to be used in hunting? American unilatera...

Matt Furey in Hospital: You all probably have seen Matt Furey's ads. He sells a product called "Combat Conditioning," along ...

A Little Mountain Feud: It seems I may owe something by way of apology to those city neighbors I mentioned in a recent post. I take it back...

Vacation in London: That is the advice of the head of the Pacific Asia Travel Association , Peter de Jong. His statement on topic shows tha...

Was the IRA Involved? It's a natural question, given that the IRA has more experience than anyone in carrying out terror attacks in Lond...

God Save the Queen: I also remember what Pejman remembers about the Coldstream Guards, but also one thing more: that, at the memorial serv...

SEAL Memorial Services: A squid of my association sends. I don't know if civilians are welcome, but if you are close by one of these lo...