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I went for a fifty-mile bicycle ride today. The weather was hot and humid and it was like riding through a mixture of steam and honeysuckle....

Violent crime in Chicago is getting so bad that even some gun control supporters there are thinking of carrying concealed handguns: Coy Pugh...

English as the new Esperanto.

His company introduced the "shotgun" microphone in the 1950's.

From AFP: The Islamic republic is now said to be seeking a possible prisoner swamp, demanding that the United States reciprocate with a ...

As W.C. Fields used to say. I spotted this old piece in the display case of a local clock shop. Can anyone ID this revolver? Notice the unus...

On Wednesday, the Washington Post published an editorial opposing the efforts of Senators McCain and Tester to add a rider to the D.C. vot...

I love the headline: "Daley: City Anticipating Gun Ban Overturn". A proposal in Chicago to require gun-owners to carry liability i...

I wrote about historian Michael Bellesiles a few days ago here. Now he has a new book, 1877: America's Year Of Living Violently , and a...

That's how local anchorman Jim Vance of NBC's channel 4 news began his report on the latest attack in China.

I applied one of those rain-repellent treatments ("Rain Clear") to my windshield before setting out for Indy and the result was qu...

Every year, in mid-May, the city of Dayton, Ohio becomes the geek capitol of the world. There is a 20-acre flea-market extraordinaire , with...

This afternoon we visited the annual Broadripple Art Fair, a very large outdoor gathering of artists in every media: painting, sculpture, wo...

I have now tried my bicycle on Indy's Monon Trail and I hereby pronounce it in every way equal to Virginia's W&OD Trail. Here we...

Gun confiscation in Kenya: Samburu, Turkana and Marsabit residents oppose the operation and accuse the government of failing to protect them...

Or maybe it's Repetition, Repetition, Repetition. From Guns, Holsters and Gear.

Some of the 200 firearms turned in at Uptown Baptist Church on Saturday as part of the city's annual gun buyback program. Virtually all ...

WaPo reports. Silly me! I thought that Holder took an oath to protect the Constitution, not dismantle it. Contrast Holder's ideas about...

Great headline in today's WaPo: Coitus: AARP Says Worries, Not Mores, Interrupt Us ​ UPDATE: Hey, they changed the title!

In 1943 the Bureau of the Census provided confidential Census data on Americans of Japanese descent to assist in placing them in internment ...