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Compulsive Precision Disorder: Why Long-Range Shooters Are Not Normal

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Compulsive Precision Disorder (CPD) – Spend enough time around long-range competitive marksmen and you’ll notice something curious. They all have a little… something. They measure powder to the kernel, torque screws to inch-pounds, record weather conditions like NOAA meteorologists, and can spend an hour investigating a single 9-ring hit like it’s the JFK assassination.

To the average person, this borders on insanity.

To a competitive marksman, it’s called Tuesday.

The funny part? Those obsessive personality traits that might seem excessive everywhere else are exactly what the sport rewards. The target doesn’t care about excuses—it only rewards consistency. Maybe that’s why engineers, machinists, scientists, and military veterans seem to thrive on the firing line. In one of the few places on Earth where perfectionism actually pays dividends, a little Compulsive Precision Disorder isn’t a bug…

Before GPS, CAD, and LiDAR: The Guys With Chains Who Built Geometry Into the Earth

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Before GPS, CAD, drones, and LiDAR, American military engineers were laying out massive forts with astonishing geometric precision using little more than chains, optical instruments, pencils, and a serious command of mathematics. Fort Wayne’s remarkable symmetry raises an irresistible question: brilliant engineering—or something more mysterious? From star-fort battlefield geometry to Freemasonry’s famous obsession with the square and compass, we separate the fascinating history from the conspiracy theories. The conclusion may be even more humbling: the old guys were really freaking good at math.

Practicing Law Behind Enemy Lines In Oregon, Tale #107: Creating Election Deniers

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Practicing Law Behind Enemy Lines In Oregon, Tale #107: Creating Election Deniers

A generation ago, feminists like myself fought so hard to give women more control & more choices over their own lives. And we accomplished so much! Yet, Liberal women would deny half of Trump’s voters the women, the right to make their own decisions? American women must only vote for Hillary Clinton! Really?

The Questions That Refuse to Die

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Every generation invents a new philosophy, a new guru, or a new formula for happiness. Yet the questions that have haunted humanity for thousands of years refuse to go away. Why are we here? Why does evil exist? Why do we long for justice? What gives life meaning? Long before self-help books, podcasts, and influencers, one book confronted those questions head-on. Whether you approach it with faith or skepticism, the Bible remains the only book that doesn’t simply tell us how to live—it first explains why life exists at all. Before dismissing its answers, perhaps we should ask whether any other worldview explains reality, morality, purpose, suffering, and the human condition more completely.

To Save Social Security Retirement, Stop Giving Disability Payments To Healthy People, Transfer Disability Fund To Retirement Fund

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To Save Social Security Retirement, Stop Giving Disability Payments To Healthy People, Transfer Disability Fund To Retirement Fund

One thing I noticed during my 34 years (1986 to 2020) practicing law in Oregon, if you knew how to play the game, non-disabled people could “qualify” for monthly Social Security Disability benefits which, if one timed it right, would guarantee lifelong monthly payments more than the person would receive as a retiree. Share STEP …

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

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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.

Recess on the Road: A Pardon from Adulthood

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I am in the backseat of our van, sitting in a tiny, hollowed-out cavern of stuff.

We are traveling to Tennessee and Kentucky this weekend where I will be performing my one-man shipwreck at theaters where, if I’m lucky, I’ll get a standing ovation like a few nights ago. Although to be fair, the ovation was moving toward the exits. Also, they weren’t clapping.

Living Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #100: Diane Needs Your Tales Of Surviving On Blue Turf

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Living Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #100: Diane Needs Your Tales Of Surviving On Blue Turf

Subscribers love my “Living Behind Enemy Lines” articles. I need more! I won’t use your name. It can be a short story about one aspect of living on Blue turf, or a longer essay: A story about an abuse you have suffered because you are a Trumpster, or a light-hearted tale.

Biology Reveals a Creation

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For generations, we’ve been told science and Christianity are locked in a war for the soul of humanity. But what if they’re describing the same reality from different angles? Biology reveals a species unlike any other—one that plants trees for future generations, builds civilizations, and passes wisdom across centuries. Christianity offers an explanation: humans were created in the image of God and entrusted with a mission of stewardship. In a world drowning in information but starving for purpose, perhaps the question isn’t whether science or faith is right. Perhaps the question is why humans alone seem driven to leave the world better than they found it.

Oregon’s Coming Expensive Lesson

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For decades, hunters and fishermen have quietly funded conservation while everyone else took credit. In Oregon alone, sportsmen contribute nearly a billion dollars annually to the economy and generate tens of millions more through Pittman-Robertson excise taxes that fund wildlife habitat, hunter education, and conservation programs. Yet lawmakers continue treating these same people as a problem rather than partners. Perhaps Oregon should proceed and learn the lesson firsthand. Numbers don’t care about politics. When the funding shrinks, the jobs disappear, and conservation budgets start hurting, the state may discover who was paying the bills all along.

Importing Third-World Diseases Into USA

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Importing Third-World Diseases Into USA

It is not coincidental that this is happening in California. As historian Victor Davis Hanson put it in 2019, our first “Third World State.” It’s the Third World people, illegal aliens, who’ve brought the disease back to California. And the state’s rampant vagrancy likely facilitates its spread.

Is Diversity Our Strength, or Our Weakness?

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Hyphenated America

I have never believed the leftist maxim that insists diversity is “our strength.” Instead, I see it as divisive, with our nation being split into cultural, ethnic, racial, religious, and political tribes who are essentially at war with one another.

Full Stomachs, Empty Souls: Why Comfort Breeds Chaos

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There’s a lie we like to tell ourselves somewhere between a full fridge and a stable Wi-Fi signal: once things get good enough, we’ll finally calm down. No more chaos. No more fighting. No more drama. Just peace, progress, and maybe a backyard smoker that never runs out of propane.