One of our blog readers, Terry Fossler, brought this excellent essay to our attention. It’s more than worth the time it will take you to read it, particularly if you follow the wise practice of preparing for the worst while … Read more
It is a day when we celebrate the uniformed heroes who first won, and then preserved, our freedom. It is significant that the first of those were the patriots of the American Revolution, who for the most part brought their … Read more
Flying home from a murder trial a few days ago, I read the book “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee” by Casey Cep. Harper Lee, you’ll recall, wrote the iconic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” … Read more
This month we lost Denny Reichard of Rochester, Indiana, who has been mentioned in these pages many times. He was a cop for 36 years, the last decade of that on an artificial leg due to a line-of-duty injury. As … Read more
What is the most contentious and persistent socio-legal policy debate in the United States? It’s probably a tie between “gun control” and abortion. The latter is not within my purview as the firearms editor for Backwoods Home magazine, which hosts … Read more
