The Hunter’s Paradox: More Hunters, Fewer Hurdles… But at What Cost?

**The Hunter’s Paradox:** We want more hunters, so we remove barriers. More online classes. More convenience. More participation. But when the tool in your hands is capable of taking a life, is convenience always the right answer? As a Hunter Education instructor and retired Army officer, I believe knowledge can come from a computer—but safe gun handling must be passed from one human being to another. The future of hunting depends on growing our ranks without compromising the traditions and safety that built them.

You in a heap o’ trouble, girl!

There’s a popular internet meme that we used to think a lack of information made people stupid, but nope, it wasn’t that! We have a wealth of information at our fingertips, but stupid people are still stupid. Public school teachers are supposed to be educated, with at least a baccalaureate degree, and frequently an expectation …

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Introduction to Business 101: Golf with THE Chuck: The Barrett Jackson Edition

For thousands of enthusiasts who made their way to Columbus, Ohio, the weekend of June 25 through 27, 2026, was one of those rare occasions when passion takes the wheel. While golfers elsewhere chased pars and markets chased quarterly numbers, Barrett-Jackson hosted its inaugural collector car auction in the Midwest at the Ohio Expo Center & State Fairgrounds.

Three days of roaring engines, vintage muscle, modern supercars, vendor villages, and manufacturer experiences reminded everyone present that this country still knows how to build dreams that roll on four wheels.

The Death of Shop Class: America Can Code an App… But Can’t Fix a Lawn Mower

Can America’s newest graduates explain the difference between a two-stroke and a four-stroke engine? Probably not—and that’s the point. Somewhere along the way, we traded shop class for screen time and mechanical know-how for digital convenience. This isn’t really about lawn mowers or chainsaws. It’s about what happens when a society can build apps but struggles to understand the machines that keep the lights on, the food growing, and the country moving. Maybe it’s time to ask whether practical knowledge still deserves a place in a modern education.

Canucks can get Trump Derangement Syndrome, too!

Our great neighbor to the north is a virtual paradise, or so they would have us believe. Free health care, though you have to wait in months-long lines, strict gun control, way better airports than some of the ones Americans have, Air Canada rather than Delta or United, beautiful, wide-open vistas, across their frozen fruited …

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The All-Important Mid-Terms Clarify: It’s The Sliding Leftward Democrats (?) Against The Increasingly Reticent To Lead Republicans Part 2

The irony is not lost on any thinking human being with two brain cells and a pulse. Ten years of ranting, railing at the moon, gnashing of teeth calling that Bad Orange Man a fascist-Nazi-ginning up no king’s day sentiments, all made up propaganda that was easily overlooked when faced with actual evidence that a candidate exemplified those attributes and traits

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wasn’t really concerned about legality until it seemed like he would get caught!

The credentialed media rarely tell us outright lies, but sometimes you have to look pretty closely to find the parts they don’t want for you to know. From this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer:

Getting ‘legal status’ in America is harder than most people think. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE before he could.

A resident of the U.S. for 35 years, the construction worker was fatally shot by ICE agents while still trying to navigate the nation’s arcane immigration system.

by Luis F. Carrasco | Columnist | Monday, July 13, 2026 | 6:01 AM EDT

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Tuesday in Houston. He arrived in the U.S. from Mexico 35 years ago, built a construction business, and became one of five people killed by federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s plan of mass deportation.

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574 Governments, Zero Consensus

The myth that America would magically function better with more political parties ignores one stubborn fact: more factions don’t automatically create more agreement. Look at the 574 federally recognized tribal governments. They don’t speak with one voice—and they shouldn’t be expected to. The 2022 renaming of 643 geographic features proved that even within Native communities, history, language, and culture are far more complex than Washington’s one-size-fits-all solutions. Diversity of opinion is a strength, but pretending there’s only one “correct” voice is politics masquerading as consensus.

Good, Meet Evil

The culmination of the Left’s gender bending, death cult brainwashing was evident in last week’s assassination of Charlie  Kirk, whose only “crime” was speaking freely about his Faith, Family and Country, and his only weapon, a microphone. 

America Didn’t Become More Political. It Became More Tribal

The real problem isn’t that America has two political parties—it’s that we’ve rediscovered tribalism. I remember growing up in the 1980s when your “tribe” was mostly your family, your neighborhood, your church, or the people your parents spent time with. Democrats and Republicans certainly disagreed, but most Americans weren’t immersed in the other side’s outrage 24 hours a day. Social media changed that. Today we’re constantly exposed to the loudest, angriest voices from the “other tribe,” and algorithms profit by keeping us divided, suspicious, and emotionally invested in conflict. Every insult, every viral clip, and every political flashpoint reinforces the idea that our fellow Americans are enemies rather than neighbors. When political hatred escalates into threats or acts of violence—including attacks targeting public figures—it should remind us that tribalism, left unchecked, stops being politics and starts becoming something far more dangerous. A constitutional republic cannot survive if our highest loyalty is to the tribe instead of to the principles that bind us together.

Squaw Bay: When Washington Rewrites Local History

In 2022, during the peak of America’s DEI-driven renaming campaign, Washington quietly rewrote more than 650 historic geographic names with the stroke of a pen. No vote in Alpena County. No referendum in Michigan. No debate in Congress. Just appointed federal officials deciding what generations of local residents should call their own landmarks. Whether you believe the name should stay or go isn’t the only question. The bigger one is this: Who gets to decide? If local history can be edited from a desk in Washington today, what piece of your community’s heritage gets rewritten tomorrow? It’s time to restore local control, preserve historical context, and remind the federal government that not every issue belongs in Washington.

The Ten Commandments Part II

Last time we met, we looked at the first three commandments that God gave to his people through Moses.  For the purposes of better understanding western thought, it is critical to recognize that the Ten Commandants have been the bedrock of western morality for centuries.  As we discussed, the entire law of Moses is predicated on two …

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Welcome to Kalifornia: “Idiocracy” is their new Curriculum Guide

California insists it’s teaching culture, not replacing standards. Critics aren’t buying it. They argue that schools should be teaching every student the language of college, careers, and civic life—not spending precious classroom time redefining grammar. A common language has long been one of America’s greatest unifying forces. Respect every culture, absolutely—but don’t confuse lowering standards with expanding opportunity. “Idiocracy” was supposed to be a comedy, not a curriculum roadmap.

America at 250: A History of Government Trying to Mute Free Speech

The First Amendment was ratified in 1791. Just seven years later, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, making it a crime to criticize the federal government. Since then, nearly every generation has been told that “this” crisis—war, communism, terrorism, or COVID—justifies limiting speech “for the greater good.” The slogans change. The excuses evolve. But one lesson has remained remarkably consistent for 250 years: governments don’t usually attack free speech head-on—they simply find a reason why yours should be the exception.