Turonistan

Canadian women's hockey team beats the U.S. by a score of 2-0 and takes Olympic gold medal, then celebrates on ice with cigars and beer....

Dave Kopel has a wonderful post at The Volokh Conspiracy about Goodwin H. Liu, who has been nominated to serve on the 9th Circuit Court of ...

The CATO Institute is hosting a public forum on the McDonald case. The forum is on Monday, March 1 at 4:00 PM at 1000 Massachusetts Ave. Th...

In Tennessee, the legislature is considering a bill that would repeal the ban on having fish tanks in barbershops. h/t Say Uncle. And after...

The Brady Campaign has Virginia listed in their state gun-control law scorecard in a three-way tie with Oregon and Washington at 17 points. ...

The Richmond Times-Dispatch published an excellent editorial on OHGAM last week, and I missed it. It included this wonderful quote: We supp...

Americans are rolling back gun control laws passed in the last 20 years, and we in the Old Dominion are doing our bit: In Virginia, the succ...

The Amazon Man (surely an oxymoron) just left me one of their nice smiley boxes and inside was a brand-spankin' new copy of Boston's...

Great editorial in (of all places!) the Toronto Sun . In 2006 in Polk County, Florida, a man wanted for skipping bail was pulled over for sp...

This morning's Washington Post has a profile of Tom Palmer, lead petitioner in Alan Gura's suit to bring concealed carry to the nat...

The defense attorney appointed to represent an Alabama professor accused of shooting her colleagues said Friday he regrets describing her as...

Just spotted in my front yard, a nice little crocus, pushing up through the snow. There is still 6-24" of snow on the ground, except in...

The editorialists at The Washington Post are upset that Virginia is poised to repeal the "one-handgun-a-month" law. Even though ...

Well done! UPDATE: AT 10:35 PM:

The Virginia General Assembly is in session. Newbius has a great progress report. These bills have passed in the House and are on their way ...

In Maryville, Tennessee yesterday, a man named Matthew Dressler pulled a knife during an argument with a man named Billy Dunkelberger. Dunke...

I haven't laughed so hard at a commercial, ever.

The heroic, genre-defying crew (L-R): Maj. Tom Louis, Maj. Tom Greely, Maj. Tom Ohweiler, Maj. Thomas Sinclair, and Maj. Tom Keenan. The On...

We've had freezing temperatures since the snow stopped falling but strong sunlight with not a cloud in the sky. So we are getting some m...

I set out to walk to the post office. Heavy boots? Check! Insulated snow pants? Check! Gore-tex parka? Check! Neoprene balaclava? Check! Gog...