Ninth Stage

DANEgerus points to this article: “97 Reasons Democrats Are Weak On Defense And Can’t Be Trusted To Govern In Wartime” in Investor’s Business Daily.Item by item, president by president, Democrat by Democrat Investor’s Business Daily lays out their case.
Jimmy Carter, elected during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and (1) believing Americans had [...]

Or is it getting hotter? Maybe it’s doing both, we call it seasons.
“[Those] who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right… weathermen have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer.”
Before you think that this is just another example of the media promoting [...]

Why are all these things happening in victim disarmament (”gun free” - hah!) zones?

Jeff Cooper, 10 May 1920 - 25 September 2006.
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Tired.

I’m at Shannon Airport and heading to the US at JFK in a few hours.  I’ll make it home by tomorrow.
This airport wi-fi is the only wi-fi I’ve been able to use.  Unlike the U.S., wi-fi is not ubiquitous and tends to be protected.

In Edinburgh now, in an internet cafe.  There is little personal wi-fi to steal in Ireland or Scotland so I’ve only posted intermittently.  Also pictures will have to follow.  When I get back, ask me about 900 kgs.

In honor of Marc’s journey to the Motherland (I’m one/seventy-third Irish, figure that one out) I thought I’d let his readers in on some fun facts about Ireland.

Leprechauns, the great ancestors of today’s midgets, were not in fact mythical creatures. They were ornery little buggers, capable of going agro at the drop of a [...]

We started in Limerick, headed north to the Cliffs of Moher, spent some time in Portumna then south to Killarney and out onto the penninsulas near there.  Been to Cork now near Wexford heading to Dublin tomorrow for a flight to Edinburgh.  That’s it for now.

A young man once dreamed of Limerick
He’d heard that the flight was very quick
So he wasted no time
And landed at nine
Then of Guinness he soon got very sick

I’m traveling to Ireland and Scotland starting tomorrow, the 2nd. I’ve asked Josh the South Park Pundit to do a little guest blogging to keep this blog alive. I hope to post occasionally as internet access allows and to keep an eye on the goings on. Back on the 20th.

In SayUncle v. Instapundit Mr Uncle takes on one of the biggest bloggers around, Glenn Reynolds. Say Uncle’s speed, getting his posts up as soon as the news breaks, rivals that of the famed InstaPundit. Can the younger, nimbler Uncle take down the mighty Reynolds? Time will tell and may the best [...]

Mandatory microstamping of spent cartridge cases by handguns fails to pass CA state house after passing in the state senate.