Reality Check
There’s Dumb and Dumber, but this….?
Transportation Security Administration officers at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley International Airport received an unusual surprise Monday when luggage belonging to a man flying home to Florida set off an alarm as it went through checked bag security. Further inspection by TSA officers of the offending baggage revealed a disassembled rocket-propelled grenade, a familiar adversarial weapon encountered […]
Keeping A Weather Eye on the Horizon
Good morning. In the continuing debates over so-called renewable energy, i.e., wind and solar power, some interesting items have come up in my search for information. For instance, in the UK, homeowners who leased their roofs to solar companies in exchange for free solar power for their homes are now finding that they are stuck […]
Sailor’s Combat Death Leads to Navy-Wide Policy Changes – But should they?
There is something about this whole thing that makes me take pause. Navy officials are changing what a top admiral called “fundamental flaws” in its waiver and appeal process for commissioning programs after a sailor who was denied a chance to pursue a career as an officer was sent to Syria, where she was killed […]
Antidisestablishmentarianism is Relevant Now
It’s a long and sordid history I have to report. However, in an attempt to be brief and not bore you to death, there was a Liberal movement in England in the 19th century called Disestablishmentarianism, an attempt by Liberals to remove the Church of England, a/k/a the Anglican Episcopal Church, from its long-held position […]
It Ain’t Just About Guns, You Know
Early in November this year, the Anne Arundel county police went to a private home at 5AM to serve a gun seizure order on a 61-year-old man, under Maryland’s newly-minted “red flag law”. https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/for_the_record/ac-cn-red-flag-folo-1106-story.html “The Anne Arundel County police chief defended Maryland’s new “red flag” protective law Monday, just hours after a 61-year-old man was […]
After the Storm
No, that is not what happened last night, but it’s close. The 1967 blizzard that shut down Chicago left a trail of downed power lines in Central Illinois that were caused partly by the weight of the sleet that attached itself to them and created pounds of ice on those wires, and partly by […]
Veterans Day Is Not Memorial Day
There seems to be some confusion in the public about Memorial Day and Veterans Day. This should clear things up. They are observed in different months (May vs. November) and one is a federal holiday, which means government offices are closed, while the other is not. Memorial Day is always the last Monday in the […]
Yesterday’s Election Results: A Semi-Feel-Good Story
Not a great day for the Republic yesterday, but not a bad one either. In Georgia as well as in Florida, the Communist Socialist “Progressive” candidates running for Governor both appear to have lost. In Texas, the drunk-driving, ex-punk rocker Communist Socialist “Progressive” candidate for Senate – lost in spite of apparent out-of-state, Hollywood celebrity-led […]
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