In case anyone is suffering those winter blahs, let’s start with some recent good news: The Huffington Post reports “For the first time in more than 20 years, Americans say it’s more important to protect the right to own guns than it is to control gun ownership.” A new Pew Research Poll released Dec. 10 […]
A reader, going by the pseudonym Traction_Bob, wrote a nice 5-star review of TTOJ at the (Barnes and Noble) Nook store (we’re decommissioning links to the Nook store, as we’ve now been advised to join the Kindle Direct Publishing program) — since we hated to lose such a nice review, we reproduce it here: “Lots […]
America’s remaining retailers were already pretty well shell-shocked after seven years of Great Recession administered by those geniuses from Goldman Sachs. But store owners got whacked again when they totaled up retail sales for the long Thanksgiving weekend — traditional start of the Christmas shopping season — and found they were down 11 percent from […]
The national media didn’t talk much about gun control as Barack Obama’s “irrelevant” opposition — the GOP that he saw no need to consult as he was forcing Obamacare down the nation’s throat — swept to a decisive victory in November. No, Democrats and their handmaidens of the press prefer to pretend our elections are […]
Added to the previous five excerpts, posted on this site in recent months, the following takes the reader through the first 20,000 words – the first third — of Vin’s new novel, “The Testament of James,” now on sale at www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=14453647811 . Only 650 copies of the numbered, signed, hardcover first edition of ‘The Testament […]
And so another holiday season arrives, another season we’re not supposed to call “Christmas” because we might thus offend . . . well, not exactly sure. Non-Christians who don’t realize how funny it is that the church simply grabbed up the pagan Winter Solstice holiday, co-opting it complete with mistletoe and “Yule logs,” and announced […]
Cat’s Curiosities is now shipping Vin’s brave new novel, “The Testament of James.” Order your signed, numbered, hardcover first printing here! The Testament of James is now available via Amazon for Kindle, click here — And at Barnes & Noble for Nook, click here (Update: Vin’s ebooks are now available exclusively through Amazon’s KDP Select […]
It’s sort of like one of those old “Twilight Zone” episodes. What if you had a billion dollars, but you couldn’t use it to buy what you wanted? With a net worth of about $34 billion, former Wall Street banker Michael Bloomberg is reportedly the sixteenth-wealthiest person in the world. He spent about $74 million […]
In the “Good News” department, the Washington Times reported in September “More than 57,000 gun-friendly bars, eateries crop up across America.” Back in April, the owners of TBonz Steakhouse in Augusta, Georgia, “decided to be proactive when Republican Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law one of the most comprehensive pro-gun bills in the country,” the […]
Lots of folks remember the big shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. They should. The Army paid for the medical education of Nidal Malik Hasan, a radical Muslim born in this country of Palestinian immigrants. Hasan volunteered, of course. The Army even promoted him to major and gave him the responsibility of caring for […]