Since I mentioned Charley Crockett very approvingly just a bit ago, I thought I might also highlight this story . Many of you will likely ...

The British prime minister was given an engraved Turkish revolver , as were other visiting NATO leaders who were at the recent conference in...

I certainly enjoyed seeing Grim's posts around Independence Day, and while I've done a few small town Independence Day events and en...

So I hear.  The Party is not letting him choose his replacement.  A nice moment of actual standards. We had to go a very long way to find th...

If it’s got a steel guitar anyway. Funny story about that. Hawaiian thing. No obvious reason why it became so central.  This one is solid. B...

Girl seems to understand the region.

Or, at least, when Mat Best & the BRCC crew have kids ...

"What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon." -- Napoleon Bonaparte (although he was probably qu...

 

The beautiful. 

Dillsboro all out for the veterans' parade. Some of the local veterans parading. I was just mentioning the Confederate flag thing and th...

Have a happy one, warriors .  UPDATE: I got the pork butt on before dawn. It smells just like old hickory out there.

I'm going to smoke a pork butt for the Independence Day feast.  I made some Christmas barbecue sauce given the significance of the occa...

At the NY Post today, Eric Metaxas declares the American revolution to have been ' the only one in history that worked .'  That'...

The FBI has made a priority investigation out of the 2020 election there. The article treats it as an open question that might go either wa...

There are many things I really like about 70s culture: Outlaw Country, Shovelhead choppers, proto-Metal and Punk rock, Smokey and the Bandit...

Oklahoma having a good day. 

Today was the day that unconstitutional gun ban was supposed to go into effect in Virginia, except it was slapped with a statewide injunctio...

In a year in which socialist candidates are doing so well, competition for Bad Idea of the Year is fierce! However,  we might have a winner...

On Saturday, I rode across Soco Gap between Haywood and Jackson Counties to head down into the Cherokee Boundary Lands. I wanted to visit t...