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  • Groan

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    Six months after putting General McChrystal in charge, the news this morning was that President Obama has finally made a decision about Afghanistan. No idea what that decision was as the White House will not divulge its actual content for another week. Is the man such a lightweight that merely [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:39am EST
    by Jeff the Baptist

  • Expensive Deer Hunting

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    And a deductable later... [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:07pm EST
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  • This Week's Gunblogger Groupthink Is...

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    The 5.7x28mm round used by the Fort Hood shooter is no more powerful than a .22 rimfire magnum. It's crap. Why? The 40 grain 5.7 is blazing down range at 1750 fps from a pistol. The 40 grain rimfire mag is moving at more like 1200-1300 fps from the same [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:14am EST
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  • New Look

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    Ever since Blogrolling went down and then came back with crappy popups, I've been looking to rework my layout. I've been running this one for long enough on the test blog (and using the test blog for my regular blogsurfing) that it's time to put it on here. I don't' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:57am EST
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  • Loving Midlength

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    I think a discussion of AR-15 gas system lengths deserves it's own post and this is it. The big issue here is barrel length and port pressure needed to cycle the gun. As the gas port move closer to the gun's chamber (and away from the muzzle), the port pressure [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:04pm EST
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  • Shiver Me Timbers

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    I heard an interesting rumor on the internet. (And with a source like the internet, you know it must be true.) Rumor has it that the US Coast Guard has started reissuing boarding cutlasses for some drug interdiction searches. Evidently a sailor making a standard drug search was attacked and [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:27am EST
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  • Being Too Niche a Market

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    I own an AR-15. This is not uncommon. It uses the 9 inch midlength gas system. I prefer that length for a 16 inch barrel, unfortunately very few AR parts makers tool for it. Lots of them only do rifle and carbine length. If I wanted to free float my [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 11:37am EDT
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  • Ammo Sales

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    Looks the like the ammo rush is really over and the suppliers are starting to meet inventory in earnest. While shopping with Amy yesterday, I picked up 200 rounds of 55gr .223 at Dicks. Not only did they have it on the shelf, but it was on sale for $8/20 [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:59pm EDT
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  • Boom Headshot!

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    Seasonal hostage situation resolved. [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 5:31pm EDT
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  • I Concur

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    Sebastion points out that covering your car in NRA bumperstickers isn't a good idea. Guns are one of the major targets of property crime. Criminals want them and so there will always be a black market for firearms. Criminals especially like to know where you store them, because they don't [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 5:05pm EDT
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  • Steam Punk Rock

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    Note to self: While Jeph Jacques was kidding about the Society for Creative Rock Anachronism, there are actually steampunk bands like Abney Park and Vernian Process. The hard part is going to be finding out if their music is any good without spending money on it. [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 4:22pm EDT
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  • Snerk

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    Habitat for Humanity New Castle County has announced their 2009 fundraising Christmas tree ornament: Blue Ball Farm. You may now giggle like an adolescent. But not for too long. [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 11:42am EDT
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  • Sometimes Complaints Show More about the Complainer

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    From this article criticizing the M4:"My weapon was overheating," McKaig said, according to Cubbison's report. "I had shot about 12 magazines by this point already and it had only been about a half hour or so into the fight. I couldn't charge my weapon and put another round in because'" [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 10:26am EDT
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  • Hitting the Usual Suspects

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    Amybear went to a bridal shower today so I was left to my own devices. I was planning on making a trip to Ommelanden, but just as I was getting dressed it started to rain. The doppler map of the area showed that it was going to last a while, [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 2:14pm EDT
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  • Twilight

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    I just finished reading the Twilight books. Pretty good in spots, but not without their faults. The most annoying thing is how emo Bella Swan is in books two and three. She's the first person narrator for 90% of the novels so you can't really get away from her either. [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 6:27am EDT
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  • Toys You Can't Buy Anymore

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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 6:07pm EDT
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  • Roman Polanski

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    He's a pedophile. Stop defending him. While he was taking naked pictures of a thirteen year-old model, he got her drunk with champagne and quaaludes, and then he raped her in every orifice. Around that time he also had a romantic relationship with fifteen year-old Nastassja Kinski. Polanski was in [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 12:48pm EDT
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  • Young Adult Employment Stinks

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    Instapundit points out that the worst job market right now is the 18 to 24 year-old non-students.My question: does this have anything to do with the skyrocketing price of unskilled labor thanks to recent minimum wage hikes? Congress enacted a minimum wage increase that took it from $5.15 to $7.25 [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 9:03pm EDT
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  • The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

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    So Michael Bloomberg's Mayor's Against Illegal Guns is an ideological front for the Brady Campaign? That's amazing, that's astounding, that's... well not really surprising at all. I wonder if the Joyce Foundation pays any of MAIG's bills for them. That would complete the anti-gun circle of life.' [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
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  • Big Screen Goes Bust

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    The 42" Philips we picked up about 16 months ago died a couple of weeks back while we were visiting Amy's parents. It's going to cost us $700 to fix. Seven hundred minus... carry the one... ah right that equals time to buy a new TV.This time around we're going'" [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
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  • Trivial Tidbit

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    Today's Dangerous Book for Boys calendar trivia item: Lewis Carroll invented the portmanteau "chortle" for his poem Jackerwocky as a combination of chuckle and snort. He also coined the term "portmanteau" for words of this type in Through the Looking Glass. [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 2:10pm EDT
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  • Teen Birth Rates

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    A long time ago I did a paper on teen pregnancy rates. One of the things I discovered was that in the 1950s teen pregnancy was huge. Just as huge as it was in the early '90s (which at the time was the most recent data). The rub? In the' [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 2:34pm EDT
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  • Now They're Community Organizers International

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    Citizen journalists have demonstrated that ACORN is widely corrupt. So what does ACORN do? Reform itself? Nope. Make blanket statements and then change their name so nobody knows that COI is really ACORN in a different hat. [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 8:57am EDT
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  • Will It Kill a Zombie?

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    Important experimental work to prevent the zombie apocalypse: [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 6:21pm EDT
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  • A Fresh Eye on WWII

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    The Russians have some sort of internet archive storing military memoirs from the Great Patriotic War. Some are even translated into English. Good stuff. The aforelinked tanker drove a US supplied Sherman throughout the war. He liked it a lot better than the British tanks and even the T-34, but [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
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  • ACORN

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    The Senate has voted to defund ACORN by 83-7. Call your Senators and thank them, unless you live in VT or IL. Suggest they vote to defend a lot of federal bullshit spending. [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 9:23pm EDT
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  • Mayors Against Illegal Guns

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    While it sounds relatively harmless, Mayors Against Illegal Guns is an anti-gun group founded by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Because it sounds like group against obvious bad thing, there is evidence that some of the current members don't really know or understand what agenda is being driven. Recent efforts by' [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 8:45am EDT
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  • Recipes

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    Amy is paging through a Betty Crocker Microwave Cookbook. One recipe suggests microwaving a pork shoulder in several stages that total over 40 minutes. Look, if you're cooking something in microwave for the better part of an hour, you picked the wrong appliance.' [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 3:14pm EDT
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  • Disney Buys Marvel

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    For $30 and 0.745 shares of Disney per Marvel share. Speculation abounds about what effects this will have on the Marvel Universe. I'm guessing it really won't have much of an effect on the comics, but will probably change how Marvel Studios and Marvel's merchanising system will work.The real question [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 11:23am EDT
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  • The Reset Button

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    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again.Amen to that sentiment assessed by Rasmussen.I think there should be an official "vote the bums out" mechanism for Congress. One that doesn't involve pitchforks, torches, and rifles. It' [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 9:01pm EDT
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  • Ted's Dead Baby, Ted's Dead

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    Ted Kennedy has died. Expect conflicting eulogies that portray him as the last in a line of true American aristocrats or as a foul-smelling drunkard. I'm not sure how Massachusetts intends to handle replacing him in the Senate, but we can expect another Democrat. Kennedy wanted his current wife to' [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 9:26am EDT
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  • Looking Forward to Rosh Hashanah

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    It seems that the Whitehouse is Jewish community organizing for the high holy days this year. The marching orders have gone out and this year's sermons are to be on the moral urgency of adopting universal health care. Great.Amy and I go down to her parents' house for services during' [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2009, 7:50am EDT
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  • Cheap Shooting

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    I like cowboy guns. I'd love to pick up a .45 colt single action revolver with a .45 acp conversion cylinder one of these days. I don't reload, so the .45 acp conversion is almost mandatory as .45 colt is cost prohibitive.Another option are these .22 lr chamber inserts for [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 9:33pm EDT
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  • Back Together Again

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    I finally finished fitting the arched mainspring housing for my 1911 yesterday. I did a cold reblue last night to clean up the shiny spots on the housing. Everything went back together smoothly this morning. Everything works, or as near as I can tell without taking it to the range. [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 10:40am EDT
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  • As You Get Older

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    I had an interesting conversation with some coworkers while coming back from lunch a few days ago. We all noticed that while our parents are not technically illiterate, they don't necessarily grasp the latest technologies. Most of our parents had a lot of trouble with e-mail for instance. We wondered' [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 12:16pm EDT
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  • Banana Bread

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    French toast was created as a very tasty way to get rid of stale bread. I've mentioned that banana bread is the fruit equivalent. It is where the overripe bananas wind up at my house. We recently discovered that bananas for bread freeze very well too. They retain their flavor' [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 11:46am EDT
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  • The Blackberry Ambiguity

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    A coworker asked if me whether I liked blackberries. I replied no, thinking that she meant the ever-present smart-phone that the Army issues to middle management and up. One of the things that keeps me from working too hard here is the prospect of being issued my own cyberleash. Nope. [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 11:44am EDT
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  • American Chopper Meets Antiques Roadshow

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    Amy and I caught Pawn Stars last night on the History Channel. It's a reality show set at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas. The post title says it all. Amy liked seeing people bringing in their antiques and I liked the interplay between the family members [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 9:56am EDT
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  • Tiny Terror

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    My Eee 1005 arrived on Monday and I've been slowly whipping it into shape. On Monday I charged it and installed a real web browser. Tuesday took me to the Army website to download our anti-virus and security suite. On Wednesday, I installed my Army copy of MS Office and' [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 1:41pm EDT
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  • Solar Irradiance and Climate Change

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    The New York Times has an article on the dearth of sun spots this year which also mentions the improbability of their relationship to the cool summer we're having:The idea that solar cycles are related to climate is hard to fit with the actual change in energy output from the' [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 3:50pm EDT
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  • 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

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    In celebration, I give you Buzz Aldrin punching Bart Sibrel in the face:Sibrel is one of the most prominent moon landing deniers. At the time Buzz was 72 and Sibrel was not. Go Buzz. [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 6:38am EDT
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  • Getting Your Manga Fix

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    I've been reading a lot of manga online lately. I initially got caught up on Naruto at OneManga after my wife started talking about their iPhone manga app. It's a good site and most of the content seems to be fan translations, which is nice because I have no problem' [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2009, 10:04am EDT
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  • New Toys

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    Being the spender in the family, I've had an itch to buy something extravagant for a while now. I looked at some swords. The French 1829 artillery saber is a beautiful weapon. The US patterned the 1840 artillery saber (not the NCO sword of the same year) after it. Unfortunately' [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 2:35pm EDT
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  • Something About Maria

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    Amy loves BBC America. Right now we're watching "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" a reality show trying to cast the lead in the Sound of Music. Sometimes it's unintentionally funny. For instance they regularly comment on one contestant's Romanian accent. They mention that she was really good' [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 8:11pm EDT
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  • This Just In...

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    Michael Jackson is still dead. Should he turn out to be undead, please act accordingly. [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2009, 11:54am EDT
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  • The Rule of Law in Honduras

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    Michael Wade at QandO discusses the current situation in Honduras with citations from the Honduran Constitution to back up the governments actions. The constitution has very strong protections on presidential term limits. Trying to remove them results in immediate loss of office. Lobbying for removal by private citizens results in [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 6:55am EDT
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  • The Truth About Grad School

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    PhD Comics current series on the dramatization of science is damn near perfect. It starts here and is currently ongoing.Whenever I see someone doing research on TV, either in a movie or often in a documentary, they're sitting in shiny modernist offices or laboratories full of gleaming chrome and fluorescent' [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 9:03pm EDT
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  • Sam Colt Made Them Equal

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    An international feminist group is advocating for disarmament in order to protect women. Look, here's the deal. Men are bigger than women. Even when we're the same weight, men are stronger because women have more body fat and higher skeletal mass. Even when all things are equal, women are at' [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2009, 11:47am EDT
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  • Headlights

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    I just replaced my driver's side headlight again. I've changed it 3 times now. The passenger side is still factory original. Every time the bulb has blown, I've used a standard Sylvania replacement from Walmart or an auto-parts store. I think I've figured out what false economy feels like now.' [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 6:44am EDT
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  • Famous Last Words

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    While not quite General John Sedgwick's "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance," SaysUncle points out that "What are you going to do?" certainly ought to make the list.' [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 6:44am EDT
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