Pardon me, what did you say? I step out for the afternoon, and come back to find that DC's gun laws have been ruled unconstitutional , o...

Fun with Computers: If you're wondering why it's been a bit slow around here, there are two good reasons. One of them I'll save...

The End of Wars: We have seen the beginnings of wars in our lifetime. Would you like to see the end of one? Read this, then. (h/t John Don...

The Lone Pine: A piece you ought to read , from the Belmont Club.

Extremism in America: I have a post on the subject at Winds of Change .

Operation Imposing Law: A report from Baghdad by Omar Fadhil .

The Civilized Tribe: The Cherokee nation today voted to revoke the citizenship of descendants of their former slaves . This is an interesti...

Yo, Ho: Looks like they found Blackbeard's ship . Several officials said historical data and coral-covered artifacts recovered from the ...

Bookkeeping: I have finally remembered to add Special Forces blogger Francis Marion to the blogroll. I am terrible at the tech side of thi...

PJM Has a Good Day: Some very interesting stuff in the morning mail from Pajamas Media. The Glen & Helen show is on training the Afghan...

Happy Texas Independence Day! In a shack alongside the majestic Brazos River, my native country was formed. On March 2, 1836, the Conventio...

Contest: Finding Yourself I'd like to propose a contest to Grim's Hall readers. If the first phase goes well, I have a second phas...

The Permalink Situation: Castle Argghhh! linked us this morning, with this note: Grim provides an old school example that seems to support ...

The "7 Words" Test: Proposed by InstaPunk, now performed by Newsbuckit, who gives his methodology. I ran the test on Grim's ...

A Question for Mr. Gore: So, by now we've all heard about Gore's gigantic house, and his likewise gigantic electrical bill. (If you...

Update on the Manassas Story: VCDL has posted a lot of pictures and video from the event mentioned yesterday. You can also read some member...

The Old Model Army: The Belmont Club has been worrying about the anonymity of the terrorists and ethnic cleansers in southern Thailand. The...

NoVA meets VCDL: A while back, a group of gun owners were having dinner in a pizza joint in Manassas, VA. As required by VA law, when dinin...

Kilcullen "Marathon" Post at Small Wars Journal At the SWJ blog, LTC Kilcullen has a good post on the "Baghdad Marathon....

Horses, IV: About a week ago, we got in a whole new shipment of horses from Wisconsin. They were fuzzy beasts, with the shaggy winter coat ...