Uh oh

Looks like the Democratic Party in North Carolina is having a problem with some "uppity" black politicians: "North Carolina Black Dems Leave After Woke Purge".

A nice gift

And a better side of King Charles than I remember having seen in quite a while. 

This is the single most genius diplomatic gesture I have ever seen. https://t.co/RMu7abhYxN

— Marcus Walker (@WalkerMarcus) April 29, 2026

Happy Feet Friday

The doctors say when you get arthritis, you have to keep movin' - so this music is like medicine to me, 'cause I can't stand still when I listen to it. Prescribed by Brendan "Doctor K" Kavanaugh.

Seek and ye shall find

Regular readers of this blog will recall that I put up a post last week in which I mentioned losing a very small firing-pin recoil spring guide rod while reassembling a Colt Model 1908 vest pocket pistol (it shot into the air because it was under pressure and I didn't maintain adequate control over it). After a couple of desultory searches, I ordered replacement rods (and some unrelated stuff) from Numrich Gun Parts.

The tracking information says I should be getting the items tomorrow. And, naturally, while engaging in a more careful search this evening, I found the missing guide rod.

PSA

Not just good for church potluck dinners, but family reunions, block parties and any other gatherings where your friends, family, neighbors and associates might inadvertently offend your taste buds, or even poison you.

Important SCOTUS ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that raced-based gerrymandering is unconstitutional. Ace gives this the three flaming skulls treatment; however, it's important to note that the ruling did not strike down Section II of the Voting Rights Act, so I don't know how much wiggle room the donks think they may have (judging by some of the statements made by the minority in the court ruling, not a lot; we'll see). 

The accelerating psychopathy of the Democratic Party

"Party of Assassins".

There was nothing radical about Cole Tomas Allen: the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner assassin. Allen’s manifesto reads a lot like that of the previous three-named assassin Ryan Wesley Routh who was stalking President Trump at a golf game.

Apart from the explicit murder plots, there is nothing in Routh’s ‘Dear World’ letter and Allen’s manifesto that you wouldn’t find in the Washington Post, a Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert monologue or a rant by a Democrat member of Congress. Routh was obsessed with Iran and Ukraine, sounding like Thomas Friedman when he complained that Trump had “ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled.”

Allen offered even more generic foreign policy criticisms that seemed plucked from network newscasts and fake news coverage of Trump’s campaign against illegal alien criminals, drug cartels, Islamic terrorists in Iran and the cutoff of funds to USAID, ranting about being "raped in a detention camp”, “fisherman executed without trial” “schoolkid blown up” or “a child starved”.

The Democrats have become an existential threat.