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Poland surpasses 1 million registered guns as Poles continue to arm themselves [More] Based on old numbers, it doesn’t seem out of line to speculate there are half again as many unregistered one.
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Okay, okay - Mass.gov has been hallucinating for years and years. But now they're automating things:
Today, Governor Maura Healey announced the launch of the ChatGPT-powered Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistant for the state’s workforce, with the goal of making government work better and faster for people.
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
The city’s medical examiner found Greene’s cause of death was a gunshot wound to the left armpit, damaging the brachial artery that supplies blood to the arm. They ruled the death an accident. [More] Maybe the guy played Fortnite…? [Via Steve T]
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Transgender Hockey Shooter Allegedly Has an Arsonist Son (and Other Updates) [More] Stories like this remind me of how blessed and grateful I am for the father I had, and of the solemn obligation I have always had to never let my sons down due to my own character flaws. [Via Michael G]
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French President Emmanuel Macron Says Free Speech Is ’Pure Bulls**t’ Unless Regulated [More] Don’t tell us, Manny. Tell them. [Via Michael G] *
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Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s vehicle was stolen Monday after someone broke into her office, according to the Oakland Police Officers Association (OPOA). The police union confirmed that someone tampered with the door of Lee’s office and stole the keys to her city-issued vehicle. [More] How is this not an inside job? The story would be … Continue reading "No Honor Among Thieves"
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Migration Can Provide the Manpower for European Defense- Creating a pathway to citizenship in return for military service will help Europe stand on its own. [More] “Weapons of war” in the hands of Third World “refugees” but not heritage citizens: What could go wrong? Hey, if we can’t believe a Democrat activist Muslim son of … Continue reading "The Obvious Solution"
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Serial Immigration Fraudster Working as a Minnesota Corrections Officer Arrested [More] HomminaHommina… Maybe it’s time to plant a seed in those “overrepresented in the justice system” that illegals are helping The Man keep them down… [Via WiscoDave]
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The delay came after Miranda Viscoli, executive director of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence, had warned the legislation was “legally vulnerable and likely to backfire.” “By passing a ban this broad, we are handing the U.S. Supreme Court a perfect opportunity to deliver a definitive, nationwide ruling against state-level firearm restrictions,” Viscoli told The … Continue reading "Biting Off More Than They Can Chew"
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So where are the cartels getting their arms? Anyway, I’d like to examine another side of this: What do you guys do with the recovered guns? Do you try to return stolen ones to theft victims? Do you try to prosecute sellers? Will you make any available to We the People for the security of … Continue reading "Supply and Demand"
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Oh look…a Robert Spitzer op-ed. [More] He wants us on our knees, too.
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Strapped New Yorkers swarm chaotic Mamdani-inspired free grocery store pop-up: We’re ‘in pain’ – Residents from across five boroughs lined up outside West Village pop-up [More] What? Not all of the entitled got a Golden Ticket…? I oughta start a calendar pool for food riots and shootings.
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- The Arrestee Formerly Known as Prince
- Someone better alert the Board of Peace
- There is no such thing as grand strategy
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| The last time we surged this much airpower to the region was in the run-up to OIF in '03 |
Police responded at 11:09 p.m. to a shooting near the intersection of Dauphin and South Joachim streets. Mobile Police Chief William Jackson said at a news conference that five men and two women, ranging in age from 24 to 30, suffered gunshot wounds. One of the victims remains in critical condition, according to the chief.
Jackson said the second shooting took place minutes later, about a block away, in the parking lot at Joachim and Conti streets, across from the Saenger Theatre. He said investigators have determined that was a would-be robbery and that the victim shot the assailant to death in an exchange of gunfire.
“We thought at first that it was all one incident,” he said. “We learned throughout the night that it was not one incident. It was two that happened almost simultaneously.”
I recently had a reader write me to ask the following question: “I live in a suburb of Austin, Cedar Park, in a standard housing subdivision. I’ve always wondered if it matters locking the gate (standard neighborhood picket fence) to my backyard or not for home security. It only stops the kids or the […]On February 19, 2008, Fidel Castro finally stepped down as Cuba’s president. He was then 81 years old and had been in power for 49 years. His successor was his younger brother Raul, who was also a stiff-necked communist. He held power until 2021. The nation is still mired in communist bureaucracy and central planning. — And on February 19, 1910, Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon) was freed from her first periods of forced isolation and went on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round …
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There have been many articles by myself and others on SurvivalBlog that discuss the use of mobile electronic devices such as radios, flashlights, cell phones, red dot sights, drones, cameras, etc. for emergency preparedness and disaster scenarios. The one thing all such devices have in common is that they require power of some sort, usually in the form of a battery, and without power those devices are about as useful as a paper weight (I guess you could use them as projectiles). Understanding how batteries work and how to best manage them can help ensure you get a long and …
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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, more on the rise of robot technology. The Robot Revolution Is Nigh Survivalog staff writer Tom Christianson was the first of several folks to suggest this American Spectator …
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“Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.” – Rutherford B. Hayes
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Noting the legal environment the nominee is part of and stepping into, he’s as good as we’re going to get, but hardly measures up to the superlatives of being “truly pro-Second Amendment.” [More] Some refuse to accept the parameters being defined for them, “don’t believe in the no-win scenario,” and don’t consider a writhing platter … Continue reading "Cekada Heading ATF Still a No-Win Scenario for Gun Owners"
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Big Bucks for Wildlife in ’26, Courtesy of Hunters & Shooters [More] How much courtesy can there be when there’s no choice? [Via JG]
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CNN’s Pamela Brown announces she’s been working on a “special project” warn against “Christian nationalism” and portrays them as a radicalized threat to the country. [More] “Why?” you ask? [Via WiscoDave]
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Him. Proverbs 26:11 comes to mind. [Via WiscoDave]
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Bring in ICE: Why is it all the “commonsense gun safety law” organizations — every one of them — endorse politicians for illegals and against ICE? That is, if they’re sincere about their stated goal? [Via Michael G]
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Effective immediately, VA will not report Veterans to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System as “prohibited persons” only because they need help from a fiduciary in managing their VA benefits… In addition to immediately stopping the reporting of VA Fiduciary Program participants to NICS, the department is working with the … Continue reading "And Thank You for Your Service"
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Set aside the time to watch the videos. Especially if you know a family trying to navigate its way through this. [More]
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Look at the Defensive Gun Uses that Hawaii Wants to Criminalize [More] I’ve submitted some questions to Honolulu PD about how they won’t tell anyone who the “authorized trainers” are. [Via Michael G]
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NEW from Gemtech comes a 5.7x28mm optimized suppressor! We take a first look at the Nebula 5.7, only 9oz, 7", and very affordable!Bayer proposes $7.25B plan to settle Roundup cancer lawsuits [More] Still not answered: What did Shannon Watts know and when did she know it when she was Vice President of Corporate and Public Affairs Company for PR firm Fleishman-Hillard from 1998 to 2001, claiming she “Directed [a] seven-member team that identified and managed issues and … Continue reading "The Last Roundup"
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It appears that our nation's capital just suffered the biggest raw sewage spill in the country's history. Fromm reports, this happened in January and it dumped millions of gallons of raw sewer into the Potomac River. That ain't good.
They are trying to figure it out. It seems that some of the blame can be laid at the feet of the chair of the Water Board, who is neither an engineer nor a water systems operator. No, she's a DEI hire. Instapundit lays out the case.
Dr. Unique N. Morris-Hughes is a DEI bureaucrat, non profit “educator”, grant disperser of taxpayer money, & former asst head of a boys charter school
I'm sure that Dr. Morris-Hughes is a charming, educated person, but it this who the residents of Washington DC want running their water system? Water systems are large, complicated, dirty infrastructure that is the backbone of modern civilization. Getting clean water into a city and dirty water out is a highly technical job. Just because someone has a PhD in Some Unrelated Bullshit, doesn't mean that they are a good candidate to run a water system.
An Irishman moves into a tiny hamlet in County Kerry, walks into the pub and promptly orders three beers.The bartender raises his eyebrows, but serves the man three beers, which he drinks quietly at a table, alone.An hour later, the man has finished the three beers and orders three more.This happens yet again.The next evening the man again orders and drinks three beers at a time, several times. Soon the entire town is whispering about the Man Who Orders Three Beers.Finally, a week later, the bartender broaches the subject on behalf of the town. "I don't mean to pry, but folks around here are wondering why you always order three beers?"'Tis odd, isn't it?" the man replies, "You see, I have two brothers, and one went to America, and the other to Australia. We promised each other that we would always order an extra two beers whenever we drank as a way of keeping up the family bond."The bartender and the whole town was pleased with this answer, and soon the Man Who Orders Three Beers became a local celebrity and source of pride to the hamlet, even to the extent that out-of-towners would come to watch him drink.Then, one day, the man comes in and orders only two beers. The bartender pours them with a heavy heart. This continues for the rest of the evening - he orders only two beers. The word flies around town. Prayers are offered for the soul of one of the brothers.The next day, the bartender says to the man, "Folks around here, me first of all, want to offer condolences to you for the death of your brother. You know-the two beers and all..."The man ponders this for a moment, then replies, "You'll be happy to hear that my two brothers are alive and well... It's just that I, myself, have decided to give up drinking for Lent."
Cheers!
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The incident occurred early Sunday morning, around 2:39 a.m. on the 700 block of East Sonterra Boulevard, when SAPD officers responded to a reported disturbance. Police said a 35-year-old man was disrupting the location and was asked to leave by three security guards.
The guards escorted the suspect toward his vehicle, and as they reached it, the man allegedly took out a gun and pointed it at the three other men. One of the security guards then fired at the man, striking him.
While officers investigated, they learned that the owner of a neighboring business heard the break-in at 5:30 AM and attempted to intervene. The business owner reported that one suspect ducked behind a counter, then suddenly stood up and pulled his hand from his pocket. Fearing for his life, the owner drew his handgun and shot the suspect. When the second suspect approached him, the owner fired a second round. The three men then struggled, and one suspect took the owner’s firearm before fleeing with the wounded suspect.
At approximately 6:30 AM, officers responded to the University of New Mexico Hospital after receiving a report of a shooting victim. Montoya arrived at the hospital and told officers he had been shot while walking near Tramway and Manitoba NE, claiming the shooting was unintentional. Montoya had a gunshot wound to the upper left side of his abdomen according to the criminal complaint.
Detectives continued investigating throughout the day and determined that Montoya had been shot during the Nob Hill burglary and NOT on a nature walk in the foothills as he stated. They executed a search warrant at his residence, 5608 Eastern Ave. SE, where they recovered 10 bags of Pokémon and sports trading cards stolen from the Nob Hill store. The cards are valued at thousands of dollars. Detectives also recovered a blood-stained tan hooded sweatshirt, burglary tools and the .22 caliber handgun allegedly taken from the store owner during the altercation.
February 18, 1678: John Bunyan‘s Christian novel “The Pilgrim’s Progress” was published in London by Nathaniel Ponder. Pictured is John Bunyan’s Tomb, at Bunhill Field, London. — Today is also the birthday of astronaut Theodore Cordy “Ted” Freeman (February 18, 1930 – October 31, 1964.) Ted Freeman and his wife Faith were friends of my mother and father. Both my father and Ted Freeman were stationed at Bryan Air Force base in the early 1950s, and they rented houses three blocks apart, in College Station, Texas. (My father was a T-33 instructor pilot.) About ten years later, while training as …
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Imagine that you were a weakling who kept his cash under his mattress, and you lived in a bad neighborhood that was dominated by the Mafia. Every year or two, Mafia thugs would come by and threaten to beat you to death, and demand: “Half for us and half for you.” That is a bit like what it is like to live in an era of mass inflation. But with inflation, the cash extractions are gradual, and almost invisible. No thugs. Just melting purchasing power. Perhaps I chose a poor analogy, but bear with me, while I explain: As a …
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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — SurvivalBlog reader Tim J. sent us this: The Culture of Raising Barns. o o o “Everyone’s Grandma Is Selling the Silver Chandelier, Forks, Knives” as Scrap Volumes Overwhelm Refiners. o o o J.T. in Florida sent this television news link: Civilians in Florida are training like soldiers: ‘Best prevention to war’. JWR’s …
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“The more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.” – Friedrich Von Hayek
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Today I loaded up 50 rounds of .30-30 (.30 WCF) reduced loads with lead bullets and Unique powder. These will primarily be fired in a late 1940s-vintage Stevens 325-B bolt action.
The bullets were 1990s-vintage Alberts Scheutzen Plinker 154 grain swaged lead from my late father's stash. I used some Federal No.210 large rifle primers I bought back then when I was loading .30-06 for shooting in an M-1 Garand in Service Rifle competition back in the 90s. I haven't loaded much high power rifle since then.
After seating but before crimping:
Aesthetically, I really like the retro look of these loads.
I chose a mild charge of 9.0 grains of Unique, which should drive the bullet to around 1200 - 1300 FPS, but I'll run some over a chronograph to be sure. I've see data for 150 grain lead bullets with up to 11.0 grains of Unique.
I also inventoried my .30 caliber cast bullets. I have a box of Lasercast 170 grain RNFPs. They are designed to use a gas check but those aren't installed. I have a bag of gas checks which I can add using my Lee sizer, and did that for 20 bullets. I also have some Lee 178 grain RNFP gas checked bullets from MOD Outfitters, sized .310. I should be able to drive the gas checked bullets close to 2,000 FPS. I'll try using Winchester 748 powder or IMR 3031 for that.
Is this plausibly the first rap song? Probably not because it's actually a fun listen.
Spotted by The Queen Of The World.
The face of war is evolving faster than ever before. Drones are currently one of the biggest threats. Is an agricultural plane & a minigun the answer?This article asserts that the paid versions of AI are far superior to the free versions and the speed of improvement is accelerating:
I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built, in plain English, and it just... appears. Not a rough draft I need to fix. The finished thing. I tell the AI what I want, walk away from my computer for four hours, and come back to find the work done. Done well, done better than I would have done it myself, with no corrections needed. A couple of months ago, I was going back and forth with the AI, guiding it, making edits. Now I just describe the outcome and leave.
Let me give you an example so you can understand what this actually looks like in practice. I'll tell the AI: "I want to build this app. Here's what it should do, here's roughly what it should look like. Figure out the user flow, the design, all of it." And it does. It writes tens of thousands of lines of code. Then, and this is the part that would have been unthinkable a year ago, it opens the app itself. It clicks through the buttons. It tests the features. It uses the app the way a person would. If it doesn't like how something looks or feels, it goes back and changes it, on its own. It iterates, like a developer would, fixing and refining until it's satisfied. Only once it has decided the app meets its own standards does it come back to me and say: "It's ready for you to test." And when I test it, it's usually perfect....
How fast this is actually moving
Let me make the pace of improvement concrete, because I think this is the part that's hardest to believe if you're not watching it closely.
In 2022, AI couldn't do basic arithmetic reliably. It would confidently tell you that 7 × 8 = 54.
By 2023, it could pass the bar exam.
By 2024, it could write working software and explain graduate-level science.
By late 2025, some of the best engineers in the world said they had handed over most of their coding work to AI.
On February 5th, 2026, new models arrived that made everything before them feel like a different era.
If you haven't tried AI in the last few months, what exists today would be unrecognizable to you....
What you should actually do
I'm not writing this to make you feel helpless. I'm writing this because I think the single biggest advantage you can have right now is simply being early. Early to understand it. Early to use it. Early to adapt.
Start using AI seriously, not just as a search engine. Sign up for the paid version of Claude or ChatGPT. It's $20 a month. But two things matter right away. First: make sure you're using the best model available, not just the default. These apps often default to a faster, dumber model. Dig into the settings or the model picker and select the most capable option. Right now that's GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT or Claude Opus 4.6 on Claude, but it changes every couple of months. If you want to stay current on which model is best at any given time, you can follow me on X (@mattshumer_). I test every major release and share what's actually worth using.
Second, and more important: don't just ask it quick questions. That's the mistake most people make. They treat it like Google and then wonder what the fuss is about. Instead, push it into your actual work. If you're a lawyer, feed it a contract and ask it to find every clause that could hurt your client. If you're in finance, give it a messy spreadsheet and ask it to build the model. If you're a manager, paste in your team's quarterly data and ask it to find the story. The people who are getting ahead aren't using AI casually. They're actively looking for ways to automate parts of their job that used to take hours. Start with the thing you spend the most time on and see what happens.
I am going to ask the subscription Grok to review a spreadsheet that I created to evaluate it for errors in assumptions and math. Yes, it found errors. It is not perfect but it is getting me where the data is something that I can say that I understand.
Even SuperGrok has some resource limits and I reached them trying to get Excel charts to make sense. So I switched to CoPilot figuring it would understand a Microsoft product. After several hours trying to get data that plots fine as a line chart to become an XY scatter plot because trendline is only valid with XY scatter plot even though Excel will let you add a trendline to a line chart. I do not see how anyone uses Excel charting without AI.
Those of us whose age makes us more likely to break a hip or have a heart attack need to think about ambulance runs. Even if you have medical insurance there may be a deductible. I recently took a lecture from Dewey Miller of MASA (seen in photo above), the member-supported Medical Air Services Association. […]I've recommended Mint Linux before, but this is a great overview of why users new to Linux should consider Mint.
Tomorrow we'll talk about how a seasoned IT guy has moved from Windows to Linux. Spoiler alert: it's less technical work to make Linux work right than it is to make Windows work.
STOCKTON, Calif. —
A homeowner fatally shot a man who the Stockton Police Department said was trying to break into his house.
Police said the shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. Saturday at the homeowner's residence in the 3600 block of Appleton Court, south of West Benjamin Holt Drive. Afterward, the 41-year-old man was taken to a hospital, where he later died of his injuries.
When officers arrived, Richardson said they learned that the two men, who were not identified, got into a "verbal altercation."
Afterwards, Richardson said one of the men was sitting inside his car with his girlfriend when the other man approached him and started firing multiple shots in his direction.
"The victim and his girlfriend returned fire, striking the suspect multiple times," Richardson said.
The victim was reportedly shot in the shoulder, while the suspect was shot in the abdomen and foot. JSO did not say the victim's girlfriend was injured.
According to statements provided at the scene, the ex-boyfriend left his vehicle, approached the passenger side of the other car and tried to forcibly remove the woman from the car. Police say the woman told him to leave her alone.
During the altercation, the male friend produced a firearm and discharged one round, hitting the ex-boyfriend in the chest.
The ex-boyfriend tried to go back to his vehicle, but collapsed in the roadway. Shortly after, first responders arrived and provided aid until emergency personnel took over care.
Officer say a man and woman were shopping at Kay Jewelers when three men entered the store and attacked the other man. The victim pulled out a handgun and fired a shot.
Everyone then left the mall. The victim was found a few blocks away, and the gun was found in a nearby drain.
On February 17, 1940, the Altmark Incident: The crew of the British destroyer Cossack (pictured) boarded the German tanker Altmark in Jøssingfjord, Norway, releasing 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlasses. — I just heard that actor Robert Duvall passed away at age 95. May he rest in peace. – JWR — Using a 13-inch (33-cm) telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Clyde W. Tombaugh, a 24-year-old American with no formal training in astronomy, discovered the dwarf planet Pluto this day in 1930. — We are nearly done …
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“That’s not a knife. This is a knife!” (Paul Hogan as Mick Dundee, in Crocodile Dundee, 1986). When I took the Cold Steel Recon 1 XL out of its box for the first time and deployed the blade, the attempted mugging scene from Crocodile Dundee immediately came to mind. The Recon 1 XL is bigger than the average everyday carry (EDC) knife: a lot bigger. It has a 5.5-inch blade that is 0.15 inches thick and 1.63 inches wide. It is 12.25 inches long when the blade is deployed. And it weighs 8 ounces. The knife is 6.75 inches long, …
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This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. This week: Some more backcountry flying videos. “My Window Is Gone” an Adventure in the Oregon/Idaho Backcountry. (Trent Palmer.) These Kodiak 100 Backcountry Landings Are Insane – You Won’t Believe the Strips! Landing at Ryan Field (2MT1) in West Glacier, Montana. And a word of warning: Idaho Pilots: Roland Steadham was “safest pilot”, knew the area and powerlines well. Montana Knife Company nearing finish line on completion of new …
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“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.” – John Adams
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I see that one of my favorite actors died today. Robert Duvall, at age 95.
He was one of my favorite western actors. Many know him for his role in The Godfather, and he did a great job there, but I liked him better in western movies. My absolute favorite is Broken Trail, a movie based on a true story. Of course, many people remember his role as Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove.
Rest in Peace, Robert.