I went back through a few months of comments and restored the ones Google wrongly marked as spam. There were a lot of them, including some M...

These boys are on a roll. This time they managed to have several of Maryland's firearm carry bans struck down as unconstitutional restri...

Recently drone warfare came up in the comments. Here are some videos I've found helpful in understanding this evolution of battlefield t...

My wife has houseguests this weekend. I am of course detailed to cook for them. I just made dinner (bacon-wrapped jalapeño shrimp, with brus...

I met Lloyd Austin once briefly in Iraq, when he was the commanding general of the war effort. This is what I want to see from a man like h...

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.  Mt. 24:6 It's looking like a real war is brewing in t...

Unsurprisingly, the economy slipped into recession according to a usual test. Dad29 has been pointing out that indicators have been unfavora...

Someone of significant importance to my life died just a few days ago. She was, inter alia , the heroine of Grenada . This is not a secret a...

This could be the year a male wins both the Men's and Women's boxing events in the Olympics. Incredible showing by Imane Khelif, who...

Kamala Harris follows Hillary Clinton in faking a Southern accent in what we shall call a deplorable manner.  Why do they do this?  Clinton...

Readers of the famous novel Dune -- I think everyone here, based on a recent discussion of a movie made from it -- will remember the assassi...

Ben Gitty Baker is a big name in the very small cigar box guitar world. I just discovered that a few years back he travelled across the US o...

As is his wont, Donald Trump decided to throw a rhetorical grenade today. "I've known Kamala a long time... She was always of India...

Iran raises its sacred red flag of revenge over its holy city of Qom. (H/t Richard Fernandez .) The flag's appearance doesn't neces...

The Bee .

Yesterday was not a very successful travel day. I was supposed to fly to Charlotte and then Asheville. I wake this morning still in Charlott...

Stopped by an aquatic garden today. 

  John Wayne playing chess, with the cast of Rio Bravo looking on. Apparently John Wayne loved to play chess. It's featured in McClinto...

This one is another occasion of the ATF trying to change the definition of laws without the bother of getting Congress involved. It's a ...

There's no newspaper that covers the area in which I live, but there are a few in nearby towns. One of them, the Sylva Herald & Rura...