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Leaving Home – Chapter Ten – Zero Hour
Ernie whisked me into the guardhouse at the foot of the dock. He checked behind me to make sure that I hadn’t been seen. As soon as he closed the door, I pulled a bottle of Plomari Ouzo from my bag...
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Book Review: The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva *UPDATE*
“I read the entire book while I waited in line.” “I’m sorry, you did what?” the successful author asked without looking up from the book he was signing. The Rembrandt Affair, which I reviewed last...
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Leaving Home – Chapter Eleven – Purgatory
After 36 hours of favorable winds, our sails fell slack in light airs. We were forced to motor through windless, putrid heat. The Gulf of Suez is narrow. A busy shipping channel dominates the 180-mile...
View ArticleUS Marines Hunt Sangin Sniper
The town of Sangin is best known as the southern epicenter of the Afghanistan opium trade. Today, however, the Pashtun town of 14,000 captured a headline at the Wall Street Journal (Sniper in Afghan...
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Leaving Home – Chapter 12 – Somali Pirates
There are numerous ways to communicate from one vessel to another when at sea: maritime radio, lights flashing Morse code, semaphore flags, flaghoist signals, and gale pennants and hurricane flags....
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Reconsidering the Ruger Mini-14
I owned a Ruger Mini-14 when in college. Briefly. I paid a friend $300 for a gently used stainless steel model with a walnut stock and flash suppressor. The gun was heaven. And that was the problem. I...
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Leaving Home – Chapter 13 – Neptunus Rex
I was on my stomach with my hands and feet hogtied behind my back. The supply locker in which I was imprisoned was just narrower than I was tall from my knees to the top of my head. The pirates had...
View ArticleADL to Appleseed Project: We’ve Got Our Eyes On You
Is this a case of the paranoid being paranoid about the paranoid? Both sides deny irrational fear that someone is out to get them. Does that mean the Anti Defamation League is chasing shadows?… Read...
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TTAG Commentator JadeGold: gun rights “arguments are largely fraudulent”
Commentator JadeGold posted a comment to RF’s post Gun Control Is Alive and Well and Living at Sharon High School, wherein she accuses gun rights activists of relying on “fraudulent” arguments....
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Book Review: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Perhaps no other American president was a better embodiment of the people he represented than Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was a tough self-made man who ran a Dakota cattle ranch during the days...
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Editorial: Deconstructing Kellermann
While a student many, many moons ago I worked as the secretary of a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Although my responsibilities were strictly clerical, I observed a thing or two about what happens...
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Richard Cohen: “It’s the gun that did it.”
Wooly Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen weighed in on the Tucson shooting that resulted in the death of U.S. District Judge John Roll and five others during a botched assassination attempt of...
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Glock vs. 1911. Again. Still. Forever?
A friend of mine found this on an automotive forum. Nobody there understood why it is so funny, which is funny.… Read More The post Glock vs. 1911. Again. Still. Forever? appeared first on The Truth...
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Who Knew There Were Conservative Editorial Cartoonists?
… Read More The post Who Knew There Were Conservative Editorial Cartoonists? appeared first on The Truth About Guns.
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Question of the Day II: Is Gun Control a Tenet of Christianity?
Is gun control a religious issue? More pointedly, it is a tenant of Christianity? Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence president Paul Helmke, Republican former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, says that...
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Book Review: Dead Zero by Stephen Hunter
WARNING: this book review of Dead Zero by Stephen Hunter contains strong opinions, spoilers, and psychological nudity. If you are a die-hard Hunter fan and are looking forward to reading Dead Zero, do...
View ArticleEditorial: The Truth About Gun Rights and Arab Unrest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfRaWAtBVg I have met gun owners from all walks of life: rich and poor; conservative and liberal; libertarians and libertines. I know of one who even likes to wear pink...
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Take Two: Somali Pirates
While preparing to write my fictional account of the voyage of the Neko II around Africa, which Mr. Farago has been good enough to publish in serial on this site, I spent countless hours researching...
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The Making of John Moses Browning
When I wrote Ode to Browning, I wondered aloud how a Mormon kid from Ogden, Utah, could become the world’s most influential gun designer. That muse was not an idle thought. Last week I visited the...
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Book Review: Silent Enemy by Thomas W. Young
I sought out my contact at Putnam’s Penguin Group to request a copy of Daniel Silva’s upcoming book for review. No dice. Silva has taken his talents to HarperCollins. But, offered the marketing maven...
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Book Review: Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva
After the release of Daniel Silva’s book The Rembrandt Affair last year, I speculated that it might be the last book we see from Silva featuring his tragic hero, Israeli Mossad assassin Gabriel Allon....
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Book Review: Soft Target by Stephen Hunter
After my book review of Stephen Hunter’s 2010 release, Dead Zero, I didn’t think that the good folks at Simon & Schuster would be offering me an advance review copy of another book, especially...
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Historical Symmetry: Four Reverends and Four Men Named George
(courtesy capoliticalreview.com) This is a tale of four Georges. The first George, George Santayana (aka Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás) famously penned, “Those who cannot remember...
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Stars Earn Their Stripes: Is That a Scandal?
Did you happen to see the final episode of NBC’s Stars Earn Stripes that aired Monday night? I applaud the basic concept of the show but it was overproduced and ended up not being the most compelling...
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American Gun Rights: Power to the People
The Second Amendment was NOT written to enshrine every American with the right to own a gun for hunting, sport or self-defense from violent crime. These un-enumerated rights are merely incidental...
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