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As reported a few weeks back, Magistrate Judge Nachmanoff of the Eastern District of Virginia denied all of Fireclean's jurisdictional discovery requests on June 14, 2016. Fireclean is appealing the Magistrate Judge's opinion under what's called a Rule 72 objection, and you should read what they have to say.  Our objection to their objection is here. The next major event in the case is scheduled for July 14, 2016, when a hearing will be held on our motion to dismiss the case. Here is our brief in support of said motion. This link, and the… Read More

In the last week, a lot of people have been asking "Why do you need an assault rifle?" or "Why does anyone need an AR15?" or more plainly saying "No one needs a semi auto rifle that is just designed to kill people." The firearm industry responds with "they're not assault rifles, they're modern sporting rifles!" I have previously stated that I don't really care what they're called but also that the whole "modern sporting rifle" thing is stupid. Perhaps I'm biased on the whole sporting thing. I don't hunt. I… Read More

A few days ago, 49 people were killed at a gay club. They were targeted for no other reason than they were gay or they chose to hang out with the gays. I regularly associate with gays, consider them among my closest friends, and do not believe homosexuality is a sin, much less one punishable by death. While hanging out with them in years past, I have seen homophobic individuals make specific threats against their lives for no other reason than they were, by appearance or inference, homosexual - and because I was hanging out… Read More

Yesterday, Magistrate Judge Nachmanoff of the Eastern District of Virginia handed down the first substantive ruling in the lawsuit filed by Fireclean. In order to support their lawsuit, Fireclean had asked the court to force me to turn over all kinds of financial and other information, including about my subscribers. They also sought information as to any servers that might host my blog in Virginia as well as communications with Virginia residents relating to the blog. Their most confusing discovery request was for copies of communications with Fireclean. On this… Read More

I realize that articles regarding sexual assault on campus are not normally found on my blog. Nor is this a topic which my readers, if they were aware of the specific case to be discussed, were likely to be sitting by their computers waiting for my opinion on the matter. However, as you will see, I have strongly held personal beliefs regarding this topic and feel it is an appropriate time to discuss them. This weekend I have been reading about a guy named Brock Turner, a former swimmer at… Read More

Today my super awesome legal team at LSKS filed a response to the Fireclean v. Tuohy lawsuit. You may read the Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss here. To condense the positions: - Fireclean filed in Virginia, but cannot establish a reasonable justification for a Virginia court to have jurisdiction over me; - Most of my statements were either not defamatory or opinions protected by the First Amendment; - Despite saying the word "malice" a lot, they are unable to allege or prove any actual malice - that is, that I… Read More

Recently I discovered that myself and Everett Baker were being sued by FireClean for publishing the results of scientific testing of their product along with, among other things, canola oil. I have set up a GoFundMe page for a legal defense fund here. A major thrust of their suit is that I claimed or implied their product was Crisco. If you will recall from the first article, I clearly stated "I did not – and still do not – believe that FireClean is Crisco..." When TFB posted an article titled in part… Read More

Last year, in early August to be specific, I wrote an article about why Americans shouldn't be shamed into feeling bad about our country's use of nuclear weapons against Japan at the end of World War II. This article was in specific response to the inundation of media articles I saw at the time discussing how, I perceived, the US was so horrible for using nuclear weapons - but their use was written about in a vacuum, without proper, or in most cases, any context regarding why we decided to use nuclear… Read More

    Over the years since I started this blog, many people have asked if I am going to make t shirts - at least four or five people in the last six or seven years. Well, their long-forgotten wishes are now true, and they even have a choice of colors, Union Blue or Rebel Gray! Do you lament Sherman's March to the Sea? If so, you'll want a Rebel Gray shirt, even though there's a terrible irony in the motto on the back of the shirt, "Burning Bridges Since 2009." Actually, this… Read More

A few weeks back I bought a few Anderson lowers from AIM Surplus for $40. The anodizing and machining look very nice. However the grip screw hole wasn't threaded nearly far enough, even for the shortest grip screw I had. Fastest solution was to tap that hole with a 1/4-28 tap. Okay, so I don't have the most expensive tap and die set in the world, but for my low volume needs, it works fine. I also noticed that the bolt catch detent hole wasn't deep enough prior to anodize, but… Read More