WHEN FICTION WRITERS GET GUNS WRONG…

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…they seldom apologize.  I offer you an exception. I enjoy the Lucas Davenport novels of John Sandford, and his parallel Virgil Flowers series.  There’s some appropriate humor; Sandford has a way with words that I appreciate; and...

NRAAM 2018 PART II

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The much ballyhooed “anti-NRA protests” seem to have fizzled in Dallas during the National Rifle Association’s Annual Meeting. Our friend and Second Amendment stalwart Miguel Gonzalez has fisked the antis brilliantly in several posts at...

AS THE FOURTH GOES FORTH

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With Independence Day in the middle of this week, folks are spreading their holiday time between the weekends, it seems.  Sunday, driving home from a MAG-180 in Wisconsin (where staff and students alike were...

A SIP OF STARBUCKS WHILE LISTENING TO THE RADIO

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Whaddaya know…some correspondence in the Comments section in regard to the recent blog entries on the Appleseed Project led to an invitation to talk about it on Appleseed Radio.  At this time, it’s tentatively...

NATURE ABHORS A VACUUM

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Schedules are funny things.  Months ago, I knew that September of this year was going to be consumed by a wrongful death trial in Federal court on one coast and a murder trial on...