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...but the things that it does solve are generally things that can't be solved any other way. I'm put in mind of the shirt Greg Elli...

Americans, as a people, aren't really a people. We're persons. Individualism is the defining American trait. Chris Arnade thinks tha...

Either Laura is dumb as a stump or she thinks you are. How replacing anti-2A Breyer with anti-2A Jackson is going to "turn your 2nd Ame...

It was exactly this time a week ago that I was gassing up the Bimmer in a cold spitting rain and fixing to head west. I spent last Wednesday...

So by the time I registered for TacCon, all the discount rooms at the hotel the conference was using had been booked. Cool, cool, no problem...

USPSA GM and 1911-shooting star Tim Herron slid into the shotgun clinic that the guys from 360 Performance Shooting were putting on, which ...

Tim Herron teaching a four-hour block of instruction at Tac-Con called "Shot Calling and Throttle Control". Mas Ayoob taking Tim...

Few Heinlein books are as hard to characterize as Time Enough for Love . While labeled a novel, it's essentially several novellas and vi...

A 1957 Dodge Sierra station wagon sitting on what I'm fairly certain are not the factory rims... .

Anyone younger than their mid-Fifties is young enough to have grown up with Sesame Street . That means that at least once in your life you h...

Much thanks to those who hit the tip jar. This trip will be a lot less nerve-wracking and I'll probably do the common sense thing and ge...

If you want a reminder of how concealed carry got outlawed in the first place... and it happened longer ago in the US than most people reali...

Finally, after a dozen years of trying during which it died in House or Senate committees time and time again, constitutional carry legislat...

A '66 or '67 Chevy II sedan painted in an eye-catching metallic blue... well, it caught my eye, at least. The full moons are a nic...

I cordially detest e-begging, but with an 1800-mile round trip looming this weekend in an increasingly aged car, and gas prices being what t...

It sounds like a subplot from an early William Gibson novel, but it's a story in the Washington Post , actually... “We couldn’t have peo...

Pupper in a sidecar on a Honda spotted on College Avenue today, snapped with a Canon EOS 7D & EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM . .

I like manual transmissions. Both my cars have classic three-pedal five-speed setups. So did the Subie Forester I had there for a while. In ...

From a tab I've had open too long: The United States is different, though. While Europeans have turned toward experts, Americans' su...

This morning's cartoons featured a couple of 1940s-vintage Popeye shorts. There was The Mighty Navy , which was released in October of ...