The bony Ann takes issue with POTUS nailing Iran, suggesting that there are bigger fish to fry.
While I take her point — and it’s a good one — I certainly feel that we as a nation are capable of doing both. To use Insty’s expression: La Coulter (and POTUS) should embrace the healing power of “and”, i.e planting minefields along our southern border while dropping guided missiles onto sundry evil Iranians.
Somebody buy that girl a plate of pasta.
As I posted yesterday, I’m going to be setting up a fund to buy and then ship a high-quality long-distance rifle and scope to some lucky guy. Here are the details (and if you enter, please follow them faithfully):
Obviously, this is open to anyone, not just Readers, so if you have a friend, relative or neighbor who fancies his luck, have at it — but via a separate check, or else Greenpeace gets the surplus and he gets nada.
If this idea gets really popular, I might make it an annual event.
*One last thing: the old raffle tickets only cost $20, but at that time I had about ten times the daily readership that I have today, PLUS I don’t have to tell you what’s happened to the price of guns in the past dozen-odd years. [20,000-word rant deleted]
If you wanna blame someone, blame Has-Been President Obama and the other Commies for driving up demand with their stupid threats of confiscation.
Finally, someone has got it right about Brexit:
Although the past three years have seen torrents of ink spilled about the implications for Britain, there has been very little commentary about the consequences for the EU.
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On January 31, the EU will lose its second-largest economy, after Germany, and the fifth-largest economy in the world, representing about 13 per cent of its total GDP. It will lose its third most populous state, its most important military power and a significant source of diplomatic and cultural influence.
Yup. As the man said, follow the money — and foreign investment is pouring into London, not into Paris, Frankfurt, or Brussels. Especially not Brussels.
Face it: an independent Britain has only one sick economy to worry about (Scotland). The post-Brexit EU has the basket cases of Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain and… Ireland to worry about. And, as Sandbrook points out, without Britain’s economy and just as importantly, Britain’s annual “member contribution” of about $10 billion.
But most of all, the Brits are feeling like what one of my Brit buddies said in reply to my email wishing him a Happy Brexit Year:
“Brexit — the air’s cleaner over here now that cloud has been lifted!”
And Mr. Free Market’s opinion of the threats of independence from Scotland is even more succinct:
I think things are going to be just fine, Over There.
Like most Olde Pharttes, I don’t expect much for Christmas in the way of presents; frankly, I’m quite happy if the kids can just tear themselves away from their jobs to spend the holiday with us — and this year, they did — so presents, per se, are just a bonus.
Nevertheless, I scored big this year (please excuse the pic quality): a new 1911 holster (first in well over a decade) from El Paso Saddlery:
…and an interesting-looking knife made by Ed Mehler (note the Damascus Tanto blade): 
I think we can all agree that happiness can always be found in family, and in the shape of assorted weaponry.
Ambrose Bierce would heartily approve of this iteration of his own Devil’s Dictionary. A sample:
* “OK, Boomer” – popular, reflexive and mentally-flabby retort of retarded children who cannot formulate a proper or logical response to an argument, question or premise. A sign of belonging to a group known collectively as “Millennials” whose main attributes include oversized thumbs, limited intelligence, hysteria, extensive knowledge of modern technology but inability to use a rotary phone, can opener or rake, hair-trigger cry reflex, navel gazing, overly-high self-value acquired through a program of low expectations, and a belief that everyone gives a flying fuck about what they’re eating at any given moment.
Much more goodness at the first link above. (Oh, and if you don’t have a copy of Bierce’s Dictionary, hie thee to the second link and remedy that unpardonable omission immediately. For only 99c on Kindle… please.)
One of the things I hate about rifle practice is the inability to see clearly the bullet strikes on the target (unless using expensive Shoot-N-C targets) — and even more, scanning / photographing and recording the results for, say, posting here. Step forward, this neat item:
Features
Note
Download the free Bullseye Target Manager App to your mobile device (available on GooglePlay or Apple App Store) to seamlessly pair to the Target Camera System on-board Wi-Fi to view shot placement in real time!
I don’t have the two hundred bucks spare to buy this thing right now, but others might. (And there are longer-range ones also available at Midway.)
Anyone know anything about this particular gizmo?
(Standard disclaimer: I don’t get any compensation, cash or otherwise, for doing stuff like this — damn it.)