Colonol Jeff Cooper, philosopher, author, history instructor, adventurer, columnist - widely recognised as the father of the Modern Technique of handgun shooting - died on Monday peacefully at the age of 86.
This is a man who made a mark. (Actually, he made thousands of .45 caliber holes, if we’re talking literally.) […]

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Dear Mr Chavez,
That we have people in this country who admire and agree with you after your little speech at the United Nations today is bad enough. That we allow you to come and exercise free speech on American soil is worse, you morally-impeded hypocrite. Would that you honoured the rights of your […]

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Central to Michael Moore’s ‘documentary’ Bowling For Columbine was his theory that Canada is so much safer than the United States because of its laws restricting gun ownership and requiring tighter control, and his implication that firearms should be therefore restricted in the same way in the United States.
That theory, along with almost every other […]

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New York CitySeptember 11th, 2001
We must never forget.

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After my post yesterday in which I talk a little about the lower gasoline prices, remarkable news today from a trio of companies led by Chevron: a new oil discovery which could be the United States’ largest - bigger even than Prudhoe Bay in Alaska.
“It could be the biggest domestic oil find in 38 years,” […]

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1) Labor Day and the New York Times
Yesterday was Labor Day in the United States, an annual, national dedication to the social and economic achievements of America’s working public. In an age when the science of economics seems to mystify the Left, an age when some popular ideologies seem to see working as […]

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The leader writer for the Guardian must be a Fat Bastard incapable of controlling his or her urge to buy and eat food. Last week Fat Bastard lamented that government wasn’t doing enough to help people stop eating too much and claimed that “there is a great deal the government can do to help.” Well, […]

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In a blog recently I was challenged for being inconsistent in my views. Yeah, I know: blasphemy! I had criticised the Roman Catholic Church for it’s policy on condoms, and my intention had been to criticise the inconsistency, incoherence and factual inaccuracies of the RCC’s moral policy. However, perhaps due to sloppy writing on my […]

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