Author Archives: Alaska

Waste Not, Want Not

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Alaska

Kudos to AP and the Atlantic for some awesome photojournalism. Click the link and check them all out. This photo of a Libyan rebel removing a tank cannon from the turret is pretty cool. I love the sci-fi look of … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day, 06/13/11

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Alaska

From Victor Davis Hanson, leading a military-history tour group in Europe: Go to Europe and see the left-wing desired future for America: dense urban apartment living by design rather than by necessity; one smart car; no backyard or third bedroom; … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day, 06/09/2011

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Alaska

From the comments to this thread at the Volokh Conspiracy, Raoul’s the man: Steve says: Raoul: Any idiot can spend $20 for a windbreaker and hat that say “police” on them and yell “police” as they kick in your door … Continue reading →

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No Sheepdogs

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Alaska

We’re rapidly heading for a world in which the whole wolves/sheep/sheepdogs = bad guys/innocents/good guys paradigm breaks down. Instead, cops are properly now seen by civilians as threats. They have the capacity to kill you, and sometimes do. Threat does … Continue reading →

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Jose Guerena Massacre Photos

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Alaska

Here. Four points: 1) That’s a well-cared-for smaller home with nice furnishings. Looks like a nicely-kept starter home to me. From my conversations with cops, most criminals’ homes are not nearly this tidy. Could this be your house, dear reader? … Continue reading →

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Next Up: US Census SWAT teams

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Alaska

More details on the Federal Student-Loan SWAT assault team in Stockton: In Stockton, California, Kenneth Wright was at home with his three young children ages 3, 7, and 11 when a SWAT team burst into his home at 6 a.m., … Continue reading →

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Hell On Earth

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Alaska

Oh, lovely, it appears that the mysterious Clovis extinction event just twelve thousand years back was caused by intense radiation from a gigantic solar flare. A few hours’ warning, that’s all we’d get. Inconstant Moon, indeed. (If you don’t get … Continue reading →

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Greetings from California

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Alaska

Lots and lots of good things are happening on the legal and Cali-gun-rights-groups front. I’m too swamped to write about any of those things yet. However, here’s a tangential example of Good Stuff Happening: it’s the cover to a recent … Continue reading →

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Round In the Chamber

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Alaska

This post from the Packing Rat made thoughts of “no-round-in-the-chamber” carry float around in the nether regions of my brain, so I was primed to notice the lesson on that subject in this from FerFal: This shooter used to claim … Continue reading →

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On Hardening Your Front Door

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Alaska

Seems like it worked against the Pima County SWAT. Not for Jose Guerena, but for another of the houses they raided that day: 12:57 p.m., Bertha Guerena’s house, 5500 block of South Lemon Tree Drive. No one home. An officer … Continue reading →

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