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Just another wood stove post...if times get hard        As almost always, there is a Plan B.             Using a hot burning wood will...

The rising of a third Party        While I may live locally in east Tennessee, I read nationally and internationally. Hence I am confide...

What a 'Militia' Meant in Revolutionary America The Kentish Guards were defined by a sense of community, not by their guns or ...

The Reality That Awaits Women in Combat Pentagon push to mix the sexes ignores how awful cheek-by-jowl life is on the battlefield. ...

Flowers of the forest        Most of us lament our dead.             Usually it is our ancestors who die before us.             So...

The counterattack begins On General Mattis:             Here’s the wiki link to the fellow Obama and his hired minions recently fired ...

WHAT ARE FRESNEL PRISMS? Fresnel prisms are wafer-thin, transparent sheets of adhesive plastic. One side is fixed to the lens of t...

The nation-state idea        As in most ideas, there are pros and cons to the idea of a nation state.             First the definition...

What a difference three decades can make 

The Worst Five Years By Steve McCann   As the mainstream media unabashedly cheered, Barack Obama was inaugurated for a second tim...