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We are huge fans of Stephen Hunter. Steve is of course the novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning former film critic of the Washington Post. Of Steve, Glenn Reynolds concisely holds: “Love him, and his books.” Today is the official publication date of Steve’s incredibly timely Bob Lee Swagger thriller, Sniper’s Honor. Steve has graciously accepted our invitation to bring his new book to the attention of our readers from the perspective of the author himself. He writes: I wish I could claim that shrewd analysis and a strategic worldview prompted me to place my new book, Sniper’s Honor, begun a year...

Ye Olde North State (NC) stands on the precipice of “the lottery abyss”. Led by low-down, no-account flim-flamming politico Jim Black, The NC General Assembly is readying to enact “the tax on fools” aka “a state-wide lottery”. Soon Aunt Bea, Barney, Gomer and Floyd can play the “what if I won” game with visions of fancy cars, big old houses, and lots of bling bling dancing in their heads. I maintain that a daily euphoric state of “then I would be happy” is already attainable at much better odds with far less administrative overhead. I am not a “lottery debator”...

Crusty Dan & Sideshow Al ... Thanks guys! Who thought that the enjoyment of Nov 2 could get better …For Conservs, watching America “turn red” that night was almost as much fun as watching “the media elite” morph into constipated trolls as the actual returns belied the bogus exit polls. The “post mortem” analysis is as much fun as the night itself; but BobLee thinks “Crusty Dan” Rather & “Sideshow AlGore” are not getting the credit due them. The endless lists of “why they didn’t win” are pretty much conforming to tradition … Those Repub voters are even stupider than...

WAKE UP AMERICA! … it’s that wonderful Thanksgiving – Christmas season that defines so much of what is "AMERICA”. But wait just a darn minute here... Amid all the traditional crass commercialism and stress and the tendency to buy and eat too much....the Godless loonies are pissin’ in our Christian punchbowl AGAIN. “Politically Correct” my Red State Religious Zealot rear end! … November 2 – WE WON. It’s time to TAKE BACK CHRISTMAS! .....This is a perfect project for Jim Robinson’s Freeper Army … give form and void to these black robed cockroaches that are quite effectively eroding the foundation...

What will Vaughn Meader do? ... a reflection on Nov 22, 1963 - 11/22/2004 12:52:19 PM I was in the 11th grade at Jesse W. Grainger High School in one of those hundreds of small towns (pop 20,000) across America. Yes, I “remember where I was” when the announcement came over the intercom on Nov 22, 1963. “President Kennedy has been shot”. It was probably Principal Frank L. Mock that told us but I don’t recall. I wasn’t scared or traumatized, but I recall worrying about Vaughn Meader. There’s a trivia question for you … Who was Vaughn Meader? Meader...

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Mene Mene Tecum Ufarsum ... coming to grips with being a zealot - “Virginia” learned “Yes, there is a Santa Claus” because she read it in the newspaper; so I suppose I am an “Ignorant Southern Redneck Republican Religious Zealot” because I sure have been reading that in those high falutin’ “major metropolitan dailies” since November 2nd. All I did was express my support for The Cowboy and Ms Laura but I guess that is the litmus test for zealotry … who knew? At 6:30 AM on Nov 2 I awoke as "a greedy country club Republican with my Halliburton...