WHAT HEALTH 'INSURANCE' DOESN'T DO ... improve health.

OUR POLITICAL CLASS: even BBs are of higher caliber.

CONGRESS: ObamaCare is to complicated to read, so let's pass it and fix it (for us) later.

THOMAS SOWELL: Redefining words to avoid thinking.

IT DIDN'T WORK FOR ME EITHER.

GUN CONTROLLERS, you really don't want to wake the dragon.

[T]he reason we can’t have a rational gun debate is because the anti-gun side pre-supposes that their pro-gun opponents must first accept that guns are bad in order to have a discussion about guns in the first place. Before we even start the conversation, we’re the bad guys and we have to admit it. Without accepting that guns are bad and supplicating themselves to the anti-gunner, the pro-gunner can’t get a word in edgewise, and is quickly reduced to being called a murderer, or a low, immoral and horrible human being.

How can we “gun people” honestly be expected to come to the table with anti-gunners when anti-gunners are willfully stupid about guns, and openly hate, despise and ridicule those of us who own them?

Awakened dragons can be irritable. Read it all.

TEXAS: proudly promoting safe shopping since 1845.

THE OREGON STUDY: there is no health difference between being in Medicaid and being uninsured.

With due respect to Medicare and ObamaCare, the gist of the study is that 'wellness insurance' (e.g., healthcare) has been ineffective in improving physical health. For at least the last 30 years we (you and me) have been wasting great gobs of money on health care that has been at best ineffective.

The obvious solution is, as Dr. Benjamin Carson recommended in part, catastrophic health insurance and a health savings account.

THE MOST RATIONAL EXPLANATION FOR GLOBAL WARMING YET.

MY FIRST RIFLE. I got a Daisy 'Red Ryder' BB gun when I was about 8 years old, and my first real rifle was a .22 Remington semi-automatic. I got it for Christmas when I was ... I dunno, 10-12, somewhere in that range. Actually, I got it before Christmas, since Dad had hidden it in the water heater closet, and at Christmas time, I was a very snoopy kid. Dad found out - probably from the fingerprints all over the rifle - so on Christmas morning the only thing under the tree was a single box of .22 cartridges.

There were many happy years of hunting, varmit hunting, and plinking that followed. The rifle finally surrendered to old age and overuse when my son was in high school.

I still miss it.

OBAMA, MEXICO, AND GUN CONTROL.

For Obama, and the 'reality-based community' generally, reality is whatever serves his immediate goal, even when it conflicts with a previous reality.

WILL THE MEDIA come to the rescue?

SHOTS FIRED: world's first 3-D printed weapon is demonstrated in live fire.

[A]nyone will be able to download and print the gun in the privacy of their garage ... with no serial number, background check, or other regulatory hurdles....

Liberals are having a hissy fit, and with good reason, because 3D printing has just rendered gun registration moot.

IS ANTI-BIGOTRY an autoimmune disease?

'ROACH COACH' BULLIES. I often ate at the 'roach coaches' that stopped at the hangars where I worked. The food was decent, better than anything I would make myself, and I could step outside my office, grab something and go back to work -- without having to walk to my car and drive several miles to the nearest fast-food restaurant for a meal that was (at best) only slightly better and (usually) much more expensive.

MARKETS: an economic miracle. I was born in 1944 and the change I've witnessed in just under 70 years is something to marvel at. I wonder, though, if my grandchildren will witness the same degree of change.



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STOP WORRYING and love the Duck [Dynasty].

CALIFORNIA may be in awful financial, social, civic, and political shape — but it is far, far from broke (the state, not its government).

From my vantage point in Virginia, I'd say that what's true of California is true of the nation as a whole.

BULLET BLITZ: Demand from public, government leaves ammo shelves empty. Even though I have enough stored for a training session or two, I always call ahead before leaving for the range.

SPRING IS (ALMOST) IN THE AIR.



We've had nearly 5 inches of rain in the last two days, so the yard (and countryside) is 'greening up' nicely. Pollen is mostly gone, and only a few stubborn oak trees have so far refused to leaf out fully.

Still, global warming has kept this spring unusually cool. It may break 80 degrees tomorrow or Friday, but another cold front is due over the weekend.