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There are many things about Maryland political structures that annoy me, but the prevalence of local volunteer fire departments is one that ...

It seems that I posted six times that day.  Woof.  Of course, this is the fifth post today ... The reason for smaller government, parts ...

Isn't breaking records, that is - at least not any interesting records  Sure, it's being reported that way : Tens of millions of A...

Daddy Bear has a proposal to relocate government agencies closer to where their mission is : So, taking a cue from the “You don’t want to...

I hadn't realized that frequent commenter HMSDefiant has a blog .  I mean he's only been commenting here since forever, but I hadn...

So you used your heater - and didn't even pull the trigger - in a self defense situation.  Now what? A lawyer and shooter explains wha...

On this day in 1821, the Kingdom of Spain ceded Florida to the United States.   The rest is history .

Clarity is a virtue when it comes to language. pic.twitter.com/b23fyVDvGg — Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) July 17, 2019

A DC news radio station retracted a story about Apollo 11, not because it was false but because it seems to have contained double plus ungoo...

This is delicious : Borepatch: purveyors of the finest Climate Denial ® since 2009!

Trump is playing the Democrats like a fiddle.  He is forcing the spotlight of public attention on their most extreme members who are pois...

The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum has, as you would expect, one of the best collections of Rembrandt paintings in the world.  Among this collection ...

Silicon Graybeard shows you how to melt them down and cast them into an AR lower .  So you've got alcohol and firearms - the only way yo...

Why Government-provided services are  always  more expensive The Gormogons provide what may be the Grand Unified Theory of Safer Brow...

It is a little surprising just how recent is the concept of National Anthems.  The idea really only got off the ground in the 1830s, and eve...

Folks seem to think that (a) legalizing drugs will make them more prevalent even though they are for sale on every street corner in the land...

This is an update to an older post, but given the discussion on the stupid WoD, it's time to roll it out again. This is what losing lo...

There seems to be quite a brouhaha over my post about the War on Drugs being stupid .  Opinions are running high, particularly from those o...

He went riding on a horse with a mind of its own, and the horse won .  I can sympathize, having been through some of the same - although my...