PDB is not one of the Americans who looks at the Sunday massacre of the American future and decides to grin and bear it.

(HT Roberta)

Priorities

Perhaps the first administrative rule to be written should criminalize homosexual conduct because it is a primary HIV transmitter, and HIV is one of the most expensive diseases the taxpayers are now obligated to treat. Run the idea past Barney Frank.

Roy Steinfort of the Associated Press. RIP

I learn today that I have just lost this old friend, mentor, and boss. In the world of news he owned a broad reputation as a very nice guy and a crack newsman and businessman.

Among all the rest he was a combat medic on Iwo Jima. One of his prized possessions was a print of Joe Rosenthal's classic Suribachi flag raising shot inscribed, "For Roy, Who was There. Joe."

The Firing Pin Journal

Welcome Jay, of the Firing Pin Journal, to the TMR blog roll.

Aside from firearms and limited, intelligent government, we share an interest in large armed things which hang out in and on deep blue water.