A ‘Memorial Day’ Masterpiece

*UPDATED* The long version of the Washington Times article with photos is HERE. I received an email several weeks ago from my internet buddy WARChick about a Memorial Day piece she was working on. Then, a few days ago she emailed me again to inform me that the piece I had previewed would be published [...]

‘Tupelo Honey’

I had searched many times for a good video version of Van Morrisons’s awesome song and now I have found one. A live performance from the 1980 Montreux Jazz Festival. This one is for my dear, sweet Momma…her theme song. You can take all the tea in china Put it in a big brown bag [...]

Home defense under $400

Any of y’all have experience with this carbine? I’m thinking about getting me one. Truth About Guns has a review of the .40 version. Here’s the money line: The Kel-Tec Sub2K-40 is the perfect “companion” gun for .40-caliber Glocks, Beretta model 96, Sig-Sauer P226 and Smith & Wesson model 4006 40-cal pistols (whose mags match-up [...]

Wash us away

A lot of terms are floating around in reports of the Mississippi River flood — Bonnet Carre Spillway, Morganza Spillway, Old River Control Structure, river stages, flood gauges, crests, and the floods of 1927 and ’37. What does it all mean, exactly? The Mississippi River, normally one-half mile wide at Memphis, is now nearly 3 [...]

Tuesday Open

OBL – Dead

“Four helicopters swooped in to the compound and the Navy Seals fought a close quarters gunbattle. They ordered bin Laden to surrender, but the 54-year-old who had vowed he would not be caught alive, refused. Sources said standard procedure in a case like this would be for the Navy Seals to “double tap” bin Laden, [...]

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