View From The Porch

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who ...

As I said in a comment at Marko's , I'm only really happy when one team has Congress and the other has the White House. Anytime one ...

I am given to understand that there is an entire subgenre of "Fan Fiction" devoted to Kirk and Spock doing the bow-chicka- bomp -b...

...but the man's an even better gun salesman than Hils. Then again, guns always sell briskly in uncertain times. I wonder if any manufa...

When chambering a round after a fast magazine change, and the slide of your pistol has Slip 2000 all over it, and an 18# recoil spring, and ...

"An adult. You?" Not many trick-or-treaters came by for the Reese's cups last night. I wound up eating two and handing out ten...

It's true. Of a cool autumn morning, you really can feel where you've broken various bones. My right thumb is killing me and my left...

Barry on CCW . If you own guns and vote for this guy, you are, to put it simply, a f$cking moron. (H/T to Bucks Right .)

Mmmmm. Irish bangers from Fresh Market, to be accompanied by some manner of cabbage. (I'm on kind of a kick here...) On a totally unrel...

From reader Alath in comments here : Following your links back to the New York Post article ( Here . ed. ), it is eye-popping to see how ext...

Another kind of transition team appears to be at work, one that is helping terrorists transition from "Wiretapped and Alive" to ...

" A vote for McCain is a vote for the status quo! " Uh, yeah. Exactly. And it should tell you something that I'd even prefer a...

Erica Jong is issuing threats of blood-in-the-streets revolution . It's enough to make me feel all warm and bitter and clingy inside. Me...

In what other country can you get a time share on a cow ? (And get to evade The Man while you're at it?) Although I have no particular i...

1 fresh bratwurst from the Fresh Market. Some beer. Some Worcestershire sauce. Some pepper. Some salt. Rest of the sauerkraut from that jar ...

In the (temporary) absence of an AR-15 in the Armory de la Tam, with what do I fend off the zombie hordes? 1) M1 Garand? 2) FN-49 in 8mm Mau...

On this date in 1864, Denmark ended the Second Schleswig War by signing Schleswig, Holstein, and a player to be named at a later date over ...

Julie from Western Australia reports on the new plan for mandatory intarw3bz censorship in her country. For the children, of course. To say...

So, last night I threw a buttered slice of seeded rye in the frying pan, with a big thick slice of Swiss atop it. Sort of an open-face grill...

...of steaming Zumbo ? (h/t to Joe Huffman .)