Month: March 2023

Last hero of WWII Battle of the Bulge NEEDS HELP

This comes to us from French MacLean, a retired Army Colonel whose father served alongside this man.  To make a long story short, Jay Lavin (shortened from Lavinsky after the war), a decorated World War II veteran and perhaps the last remaining survivor of the Battle of the Bulge needs…

SELF-DEFENSE: Can YOU Articulate?

Self-defense is legal everywhere in America. Even in Chicago. Even if you’re black, Latino, gay, transgendered, Muslim or maybe all of the above. But no matter where it happens, the color of your skin, who you worship or who you sleep with, the legal aftermath of using force in self-defense…

LETTER TO EDITOR: Kudos to GSL

I was born and raised in Springfield, IL. I hunted, fished & trapped all over Illinois. I held an FOID card for many years and served in the US Army for over 20 years. I retired from the Army out of Iraq in 2004. Whether I was living in Colorado…

Dear Hipsters, Millennials and Pansies

by Todd Vandermyde(originally published in 2016) Dear Hillary Hipsters, Miley Millennials and Participation Trophy Pansies, you got me thinking with your talk of playing games with the electoral college and this talk of “armed” rebellion. You expect us to take your talk of rebellion and revolution seriously? Yet you can’t…

FORCED ENTRY: What would you do? [VIDEO]

So some guy starts beating on your front door demanding you open it.  He's loud, obnoxious and pretty insistent that you're going to open that door.  Sixteen seconds after you first hear the beating on the door, he kicks open your front door and strolls on inside, still yelling profanity…

The ‘Pocket Dump,’ Ayoob-style

So Mas Ayoob did a pocket dump for his "shoot me first" vest recently.  It's partially tongue-in-cheek, so don't feel like you have to run out and buy a book to do it right.   And while you're there, check out this one by Ayoob, entitled "IMAGINE."   More on…