How to Screw Up Your Kids

"I don't like squirt guns," said Mendez, 45, of the Northside. "I think toy guns send the wrong message, because what's next? I don't even like my daughter to touch them."

Julianna Thibodeaux, 40, who lives in Meridian-Kessler, doesn't like squirt guns, either.

"We're so saturated with violence as it is in the media and in our culture," she said. "Anything we can do to mitigate that is good. Besides, there are so many other water toys to play with, like bubbles or water balloons. It doesn't have to be a gun."

Good grief.

Another Form of "Gun Control"?

The state's highest court ruled Thursday that an insurance company must defend a Clarksville man in a wrongful-death suit brought by the estate of a man he killed in self-defense.

I don't know enough about the subject to do more than speculate, but if this precedent stands, I can see insurance companies charging extra premiums or refusing to provide coverage altogether if you have a gun in the home.

Don't expect to see them tripping all over themselves to recognize the overwhelmingly protective benefits of gun ownership and offer discounts--as many do if you have a home burglar alarm...

Bloomberg: "Color Me a Media Whore"

Lauer says he does appreciate all the media attention the mayor's tirade has brought him. His Dura Coat sales doubled for two days after the media reports.

As for his New York business, Lauer says he has records of only one sale to someone who uses it to protect bicycles. There are two other orders which Lauer presumes are from the aide who purchased the product for the mayor's news conference.

The mayor got face time and Lauer sold a few more cans of paint. Sounds like a win-win.

In a related matter, SAF has it right about Bloomberg's attack on two New York gun dealers. The fact that their inventories have been returned demonstrates he is abusing the power of his office. He's causing real economic harm to legitimate businesses in his insane and illegal quest to punish those he hates. I hope those store owners sue him personally.

Flexible Principles

Canada's former top accountant says the senior bureaucrat overseeing the controversial gun registry didn't want to ask Parliament for more money to cover cost overruns for fear it would affect the upcoming 2004 federal election.

So much for doing something because you believe in it and it's right.

Yet more evidence of the "principles" of our enemies in action.

This Day in History: June 9

On this day in 1772, colonists, angered by the British Parliament’s passing of the Townshend Acts restricting colonial trade, blacken their faces and board the HMS Gaspee, an armed British customs schooner that had run aground off the coast of Rhode Island. They then wounded the ship’s commander and set it aflame.

A Crack in the Wall?

Google's China-approved Web service omits politically sensitive information that might be retrieved during Internet searches...

Anybody know how this works?

Would someone in China get the same results and be able to access Jingjing and Chacha...?