So here we are again.

With all that has been happening, namely the "re-election" of Barack Obama to the Presidency, the so called "fiscal cliff" deal that raised nearly everyone's taxes, and the renewed calls for disarming law-abiding citizens, it's probably time to dust off this blog. Not that I think it will make much difference but at least it will provide an outlet for what I believe needs to be said.

For some time I've had an online presence on a certain major social media system under my real name, as required by the Terms of Use for that service. It's true that a lot of people using that service do so under pseudonyms but I've been using it to correspond with friends so having it under my real name was beneficial. In recent years I've allowed myself to post more often about political matters in attempts to support my friends who I agree with, and try to convince those with which I don't that they may be in error.

Given what is currently going in, however, I think it's time for me to tone that back. Although I hope I'm wrong, I foresee the official climate becoming increasingly hostile toward me and those who think as I do about politics, and especially about the right enshrined in the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Thus I return here. Though I have no illusions that a concerted effort, especially on the part of law enforcement or other government agency, would not be able to ferret out my identity, at least it will be a bit more difficult and hopefully they won't wast their time on someone with what I'm sure will be a relative insignificance.

I hope this move will prove to be unnecessary, but I believe that I must act as if it is. The ballot box has failed. That leaves us with the soap box and, in the gravest extreme, the cartridge box. Some include the jury box but I don't think it applies because it's not something the average person has access to at will.

So to anyone who happens to stumble across this little corner of the resistance, for that it surely is, welcome. May fortune favor us and may our resolve never falter.