It’s not getting a ton of national media, but there are hundreds of fires in the tinder-dry mountains of Tennessee and western North Carolina. These are two parts of one video, showing the escape of one Michael Luciano, another guy and a dog named Red from fires in Gatlinburg. We think we’ve got them in …
Politics, n. From Greek poly-, “many,” and ticks, “small bloodsucking arthropods.” – Ed. First, the good news: Fidel Castro is still dead, getting the guided tour of Hades from Che, and his “revolution,” which yielded a primitive absolute monarchy in all but name, is at death’s door. His elderly, sickly brother is soon to check out himself, and the next …
Reuters has picked up a DPA report that HK is out of the export business, except to NATO nations, and very close NATO allies. And not all NATO nations: Turkey is off the list. The company, one of the world’s best-known gunmakers, will in future only sell to countries that are democratic and free from …
No, we’re not writing about Benghazi, but the last time a US Ambassador was murdered in the line of duty: Adolph “Spike” Dubs, Ambassador to Afghanistan, shot and killed on 14 February 1979. As is often the case with ambassadors in hardship posts, Dubs was not a political appointee, but a career diplomat. Dubs had served as a …
What is the story on this firearm? Hint: it’s not a mash-up between the World of Glock and the Southern California “rat rod” phenomenon. The “rat Glock” is a 27 and was fished up by a fisherman in an unknown location. He sent the photo in to the the maker of his lure, SlabZone in …
Yes, we originally used a word as pungent as the material itself, but then we thought better. Meet Tiffany Alberts, 41, a teacher (!) and candidate for Mother of the Year from Wolcott, Indiana. What’d Tiff do with poop? Injected it. No, not into herself, into the veins of her 15-year-old son, while he lay …
Meet Demetrius Coleman, career criminal, parolee and probationer who killed three people on their way to Thanksgiving dinner and injured four more, using nothing but a Hyundai Elantra and his own disregard for the law, and, of course, a big assist from the criminal-loving, victim-slaying bench. Police One: David Bianco, his fiancee, Kaylie Meininger, and their 2-year-old …
La Morte de Castro, Leadership Reactions Fidel Castro kicked the bucket over the weekend. Rather than tell you what we think, we’ll tell you what others think: Justin Trudeau, Princeling of Canada (whose father used to mumble because his mouth was so full of Castro): It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of …
Ken Aden, you may remember, is the infantry combat vet running for Congress, which kind of civic engagement from the gruntosphere is something we’d usually applaud. But Ken, who had the guts to try and get selected for Special Forces training, only to flunk out of the school after running out of second chances, insisted …
It isn’t just the phonies like Ken Aden and John Giduck that are celebrating their new License to Lie signed by six of the nine Supreme Court Justices, for whom veterans’ accomplishments and sacrifices are worth less than the name on a tube of toothpaste.Along with the phony soldiers, the makers of phony products have …