As it was last week with the snow, so it is today with the snow. Wind-driven snow is coming down thick and heavy between my office and the house across the street with a cold freeze predicted for tonight. Washington, D.C. is socked in deeply. Trains and buses are not running. Planes are not flying. [...]
A few months back I produced an article about what I considered necessary in my minimum home armory. I also posed the question to our readership about what they felt was necessary. Below is what I got back. I’ve included their (only edited for understanding) emails and a few comments of my own. All my [...]
For those of you who were not aware, I am a fan of the television show NCIS. Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, as played by Mark Harmon, has a set of rules that he lives by. Throughout the course of the show he quotes the various rules and there are any number of websites you [...]
As I read the plethora of Handgun, Shooting, Combat, SWAT, magazines I am perplexed. Everyone has their own style of training always use “One Hand” in a close or CQB situation. Always use “Two Hands” at a distance or use the Weaver stance, NO only use the “Isosceles” stance always do this never do that [...]
As I type this there is measurable snow on the ground in 49 of the 50 United States. Hawaii is getting off lucky at the moment. There have been plenty of jokes about global warming, climate change, and all this snow being Al Gore’s answer to cool off the northern hemisphere. If so many of [...]
There are a tremendous number of benefits from living in the United States. Premier among them is our liberty; our freedom. This ideal was a part of our society even before we broke the shackles of the King, and our founders tried to capture the spirit of it in the Declaration and the Constitution.
Each month when I sit down to type out my Letter From The Editor I have to sit and think back across the previous few weeks and attempt to remember all the things I saw or heard and thought, “I need to talk about that in my LFTE.” Well, since I don’t take notes, it [...]