Saturday, April 17, 2010

Hold Your Fire?

I'm prepping for the rallies and have a ton of things to do. I've got to focus the remainder of my writing time until I get back on the Examiner stuff, because feral sons Uday and Qusay are holding their bellies and whimpering again.

So any further postings here at WoG will probably only be announcements for tomorrow and Monday's GRE columns I need to write--right after I get the yard work done before it starts raining again.

Which is my roundabout way of saying please hold off on news tips, etc. Seriously. I just won't be able to get to them.

If you hate me, you'll want me to return exhausted from a long trip facing hundreds of emails. Truly, it will be that many if I don't slow it down now. Those of you who do email regularly know I try my best to reply--please understand if I don't.

What Do Books, Wolves and Someone Thinking I Got Something Right Have in Common?

This issue, aside from all the great articles by my colleagues, has three features I hope Gun Rights Examiner readers will find of particular interest. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the June 2010 issue of GUNS Magazine, on newsstands now. Meet a letter writer who agrees with me, some antis crying wolf, and reintroduce yourself to an old friend.

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This Day in History: April 17

After some early successes against British merchant shipping in the Irish Sea, on April 17, 1778, Jones convinced his crew to participate in an assault on Whitehaven, the same town where his maritime career began. Jones was thinking in his later memories about the reluctance of his senior officers (having tactfully avoided such matters in his official report): "Their aim, they said, was gain not honor. They were poor: instead of encouraging the morale of the crew, they excited them to disobedience; they persuaded them that they had the right to judge whether a measure that was proposed to them was good or not." As it happened, contrary winds forced the abandonment of the attempt, and drove Ranger towards Ireland, causing more trouble for British shipping on the way. [More]