The Smallest Minority

(P)rogressivism's aim is the modification of (other people's) behavior. George F. Will, Newsweek , High Speed to Insolvency: Why L...

(A) ll I ever really wanted from my government was a vigorous defense of my natural rights in a package that was safe enough to mostly ignor...

I strongly recommend the documentary Media Malpractice:  How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted . Pretty damned fascinating dissect...

Remember this ? Well, Chris Muir has taken the meme and run with it : Really, it's not an unreasonable question: If Obama actu...

No thanks to the NRA.  Reader Longhornjeff sent me one when he heard I was jealous of Robb's .

Wake up and smell the reality: every time Officer Friendly deals with you in an official capacity, there's live ammo involved; just bec...

Thanks to an email from Robb Allen , I got to watch a fascinating TED talk that bolsters my position that the best way to fix our "edu...

–noun a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbe...

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America. -- Eric Hoffer, First Things, La...

I'm having a great time playing at a message board. Target-rich environments are such fun! But time consuming. (All that cut-n-paste...

The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective w...

Content here at TSM has been admittedly thin of late.  Sorry.  I'm working on a piece that is long, involved, filled with links and gra...

I keep saying it: the basic conflict in American politics is individualism vs. collectivism in all its pretense forms and manifestation. I k...

Ok, the dates for the sixth annual Gun Blogger's Rendezvous have been set, Sept. 8-11, 2011.  The venue is again the Silver Legacy hot...

Every day, I feel more like an extra in Atlas Shrugged . - Tam, in Random Stuff Preach it, Sister!

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force... Louis D. Brandeis q...

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect. These tend to conflict with each other. As th...

The elite live in a different country than the rest of Americans. It is not possible to understand the System and its actions without unders...

Government: It giveth what you already have and taketh away what you already enjoy. And gets even that wrong. Amen.

Today's match went very well, though turnout was down, I believe, because of Valentine's Day. We had ten shooters with 22 guns, and...