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In days of yore, I might have pointed my doubters – usually women and seniors – toward a SIG P238, a Walther PK 380 or, more recently, a Glock 42. But each of those came with caveats related either to cost (SIGs are pricey), functionality (Walthers are a pain to break down) or useability (for better or worse, beginners are skittish about Glock’s lack of a manual external safety – thankfully, most of them eventually get over that!). Now, however, I smile slyly and trot out Smith & Wesson’s most recent contribution to the concealed carry market – the M&P...

California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a candidate for U.S. Senate, on Sunday sharply criticized the armed activists occupying a remote national wildlife refuge in Oregon, calling the protestors “crazy” and their actions “obnoxious.”

Impressed by his attitude, 4chan.org, the website which originally gave birth to the online Anonymous movement, has declared Donald Trump to be "the first meme president." The site's "politically incorrect" politics message board has been described as "racist" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, but it went wild when Donald Trump retweeted a link to a video made by one of their own called: "You Can't Stump The Trump (vol. 4)," a compilation of his greatest debate moments set to dubstep music.

When You Read What Happened to the Titanic, You'll Cry Buckets! You Won't Believe What Hitler Said Over the Radio Last Night! When You Find Out What the Japs Did at Pearl Harbor, You'll Blow a Gasket! You'll Jump Out a Window When You Find Out What the Stock Market Did! When the Lincolns Went to the Theater, They Probably Weren't Expecting This!

Moron commercial from Ma. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3S1zcbWkoM

Pete Stark's days in Congress might be numbered The nearly four-decade reign of Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, is about to end. Stark finished first among three candidates in the 15th Congressional District, but the message of discontent with his boorish and increasingly erratic approach to his job as a public servant could not have been louder. Nearly 59 percent of voters in the freshly realigned district preferred someone other than Stark: 36 percent for Eric Swalwell, a 31-year-old prosecutor and Dublin City Council member, and 22 percent for Chris Pareja, an independent who ran a spirited low-budget campaign. In years...

Journalism: A cache of new Occupy Wall Street emails shows several press types offering advice to the protesters. We'd be shocked, except the mainstream media have been openly helping the Occupy movement all along. In one of the hundreds of Occupy Wall Street emails now posted online, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan warns occupiers that they shouldn't issue demands. "The focus on simple shared principle and intent to align with all who agree with that principle is a unique strength," he advised. Dylan isn't an activist. He's not a PR guy, either. He's allegedly a journalist, and one with a long list...

He hasn't declared his bid for reelection yet, but President Obama's 2012 campaign today has opened up ... over "Made in the USA" lettering and on the back is a copy of his birth certificate. The text on the purchase page for the $25 T-shirt reads ...

I see this skinny blonde with her grating voice now and then. She was on O'Reilly tonight. Who is she? Who pays her to run around bashing the fat and thinking up government schemes to control their behavior? I wikied her, I googled, there's some out there who claim she's an MD. I figure there's someone on FR who can inform me.

Following his usual mantra that "to watch me is to love me," Barack Obama appeared on five Sunday interview shows and, since that wasn't enough, the David Letterman show Monday night. He remains convinced that the more he plays dust speck in the national eye, the further he'll get in passing his leftist agenda. He's also confident our media won't hold him accountable. They just hold him. "I can't tell you how satisfying it is to watch you work!" a beaming Letterman gushed to Obama. Even during that show, Letterman was still whacking away at George W. Bush as an...

Rosie O'Donnell may have been one of Time's 100 Most Influential People, but now she is 2007's Most Annoying Celebrity. The woman who surprised blacksmiths everywhere when she claimed that fire can't melt steel trounced her competition in the Parade.com poll, getting 44% of the vote, nearly double the amount of second place winner Paris Hilton. Ann Coulter was third. The woman who admitted that she's so gullible, she's “five seconds away” from joining a cult, also outed herself as a 9/11 Truther and floated several conspiracies. She doesn't think Al Qaeda is a threat--hey, they're mommies and daddies, too!

MIDI - DON'T MAKE ME OVER Don't taser me, bro...it hurts like hell and I'll start whining Don't taser me, bro...my undies have no plastic lining I am an obnoxious fool...that makes me cool with DUmmies beneath the ground Insanity abounds I'm begging you, please Don't taser me, bro...that is so '60s, yes, I know it Don't taser me, bro...my 15 minutes...I can't blow it I am an obnoxious fool...that makes me cool with DUmmies beneath the ground Insanity abounds I'm begging you, please Don't taser me, bro...don't taser me, bro Everyone here must be listening to me So...

"Head On - Apply Directly To The Forehead." This commercial drives me crazy! Tell me I'm not alone!

CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44. Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called “Ocean’s Deadliest” when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.

Sorry if you throw up!

It's been nearly a month since Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakahan blamed "Zionists and neo-cons" for "manipulating" President Bush into invading Iraq - before blasting "wicked Jews" in Hollywood for promoting "lesbianism [and] homosexuality." Yet, outside of a few newspapers in Chicago, the same press that showers positive coverage on Farrakhan's Million Man marches has yet to get around to covering his Feb. 26 Saviours Day speech. "These neo-cons and Zionists have manipulated Bush and the American government and our boys and girls are dying in Iraq and in Afghanistan for the cause of Israel, not for the cause...

Somedays, it seems like everyone around you has had one stupid pill too many. Feel free to borrow from this list when required. >THINGS YOU'D LOVE TO SAY OUT LOUD AT WORK 1. I can see your point, but I still think you're full of crap. 2. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce. 3. How about never? Is never good for you? 4. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. 5. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to see it my...

On the flight home this morning, I was unfortunate enough to have a bleeder sit next to me. By bleeder, I mean he was invading my space because he was large and his body was spilling over into my seat. I've seen worse cases than what I had today but let's hear your experiences.

One day recently, while performing some house-husbandly chores, I tuned in to National Public Radio for diversion. In short order I heard the story of some women who have started "Mistresses Anonymous" to help deal with the pain, rage, and frustration; of those "other women" in our society; then the story of support groups for expectant fathers who feel sympathetic labor pains. This one-two punch, coming on the heels of an invitation from a well-respected college to a "math anxiety" workshop in preparation for a math test and the discovery that I am a likely candidate for Post-Vietnam Stress Syndrome...

Maureen Dowd, as many of you have probably surmised, is no real fan of President Bush or anyone in his administration. She really isn't a fan of very much, except for perhaps, Sam Cooke and surprisingly Lawrence Summers. At least she found Summers a convenient jumping off point into her attack on Condelizza Rice. Maureen, while taking a sabatical from The Sandia Laboratory to pen a few columns for The New York Times, suggests that Condi brush up on her math skills. An amusing anecdote from a woman who thinks 32 years after the Roe v. Wade decision minus the...