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The Monster Hunter Files, edited by Larry Correia & Bryan Thomas Schmidt with stories by Correia, Schmidt, Sarah Hoyt, Jim Butcher, Faith Hunter, Jonathan Maberry, Jody Lynn Nye, John Ringo and others.

They're all good. My favorite is Butcher's which basically could be described as the Rats of NIMH meet MHI or at least their maintenance man. Highly recommended.

In the Land of the perpetually offended...

...the stupid rule.

Winnipeg Man Has Vanity Plate Referencing Star Trek Recalled Over Complaints Of How Racist It Is

Heh

Bill Whittle: The Republic of Emotion

A Win For The Good Guys

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit held in a 2-1 decision that public carrying of firearms is a "core" Second Amendment right, and that the District's regulations amounted to a "total ban" on exercising that right. The ruling breaks with several federal appeals courts that upheld similar regulations in other states.

Now it will go before the full court and most likely be reversed. The DC Court has a majority of Obama appointees and I don't anticipate them making a decision out of anything but their partisan politics. Pray I'm wrong.

Wrenn v. DC: Big Win on Carrying

DC Circuit Overturns “Good Cause” Requirement

Actual Ruling: Wrenn v. D.C. RTWT

Yes

23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do

No Possible Excuse

Australian woman shot dead by Minneapolis police after calling to report possible crime

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Hammered by Kevin Hearne

In the last book, Atticus made a promise to his vampire lawyer to help him kill Thor. In this book he keeps his promise. I liked it as much as the previous novels and look forward tot he next. Highly Recommended.

Pot, Kettle

Needs Repeating

“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

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You Had One Job...

In the land of the perpetually offended...

Outrage over ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators ‘Confederate’ HBO Show: ‘Two White Guys’ Making Slavery Series

When I saw the posts on this show originally, I saw it as a thinly veiled poke at conservatives 'cuz we're all racists and secretly yearn for a return to the old South. Hoist on their own petard, they are. Heh.

Actually, the premise isn't new. There have been many alternate histories of the Civil War and it's aftermath in fiction. Some well thought out. Some, not so much. This, I think, will be the later.

You First

Bill Nye: Older people need to 'die' out before climate science can advance

Forty-eight years ago today...

...Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.

Now THAT's Funny

I don't think I could keep it down