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If you're not living on the edge...you are taking up too much space. -- Ted Valliere
At the request of L. Neil Smith, I added "Sectional Density" to my Muzzle Energy Computer and changed the handgun loads to more typical bullet weights.
L. Neil Smith - The Spirit of Exmas Sideways - a novelito. Win Bear solves a murder. I've read this before (July 12, 2002), but it's short and worth a re-read. [smith2004]
Joe Brower - RKBA Documents Archive (PDF Format) - a compendium of useful essays on the right to keep and bear arms. From the links page at the Enemies Foreign and Domestic web site. Added to my links page in the "Individuals" column of the "RKBA" section.
Stanley2002.org, Rick Stanley's web site, is back on-line. He's started sending the Stanley Scoop again.
Russell Madden at Laissez Faire Electronic Times - The Evil Freedom Culture: Save the Children - we must protect the world from those who would bear freedom into our schools! Hehe. [grabbe]
Guerrilla News Network - Guerrilla of the Week, August 3, 2003 - excerpts from a Salon interview with retired U.S. Army Col. David Hackworth, an outspoken foe of the war on Iraq, "the self-described Most Decorated Soldier in America." [grabbe]
Salon: How long do you think U.S. troops will be needed in Iraq?
Hackworth: God only knows, the way things are going. At least 30 years. Tommy Franks [recently retired commander of U.S. troops in Iraq] said four to 10 years. Based on Cyprus and other commitments in this kind of warfare, it is going to be a long time -- unless the price gets too heavy.
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Salon: Do you see any similarities to the U.S. engagement in Vietnam?
Hackworth: The mistake in Vietnam was we failed to understand the nature of the war and we failed to understand our enemy. In Vietnam we were fighting World War II. Up to now in Iraq we have been fighting Desert Storm with tank brigade attacks. The tanks move into a village, swoop down, the tank gunner sees a silhouette atop a house, aims, fires, kills and it turns out to be a 12-year-old boy. Now, the father of that boy said, "We will kill 10 Americans for this." This is exactly what happened in Vietnam; a village was friendly, then some pilot turns around and blows away the village, the village goes from pro-Saigon to pro-Hanoi.
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - Drug Reimportation Increases Medical Freedom - if the drug companies don't like it, they can stop selling to other countries for less than they get under U.S. protectionism.
Pharmaceutical companies certainly own the drugs they produce, and they have every right to sell them at any price they choose. They also have the right not to sell their products to foreign pharmacies, or to condition sales on an agreement that such pharmacies will not reimport into the U.S. They do not have a right, however, to use government to prevent Americans from buying drugs from any willing seller they choose, regardless of where that seller may be located. To quote Sheldon Richman, a scholar at the Future of Freedom Foundation, "The U.S. government has no business telling the American people what they may and may not buy from people living outside the country. That's called freedom, something earlier Americans actually understood and valued."
Pyotr Kondratenko at Pravda - The History of Kalashnikov Gun - the rest of the story of Mikhail Kalashnikov's AK-47. He had lots of help in its design. [kaba]
