The Problem With Principles

But his insistence on opposing all but the perfect means that under a Ron Paul presidency we might never get a chance to pursue the good too.

So let me get this straight--the guy who lost the senate primary is lecturing the 10-term congressman on how to win elections?

And the guy who is attracting phenomenal and unprecedented support from people who are enthusiastic about the ideals he represents is being advised to tone down on those ideals and embrace typical beltway dealmaking and compromises--regardless of what the Constitution says? And that would put more fire in the belly of his supporters how...?

Is that about the crux of it?

I guess if you allow the Club for Growth to be the arbiter of what is "good," they might have a point. But if "good" is defined as allowing government to assume undelegated powers just because they're doing your bidding, it should be obvious to all what a dangerous and destructive path that is. How much more evidence--aside from the sorry mess we're in now--do we need?

Perhaps they should change their name to the Club for Metastasization...?

[Via Snowflakes in Hell]

Unfettered 'Citizen Journalism' Too Risky

Too risky for what? Unfettered control by the Establishment?

Yeah, you propagandist frauds are doing such a bang-up job at government watchdogging, that's must be why I have an entire category of examples I don't even go out actively looking for under the "Authorized Journalism" heading. For you to talk about trust would be laughable if the consequences of your daily treason weren't so destructive.

This is like saying someone who carries a scalpel is a "citizen surgeon" or someone who can read a law book is a "citizen lawyer."

Oh, yeah, the equivalent training and requirements makes this such an apt analogy--Stand back: I'm a highly trained liberal arts major!

So without any real standards, anyone has a right to declare himself or herself a journalist.

Uh...yeah. Even ones who were disapproved of. And we became better and freer for it.

Put fetters on yourself, Hazinski. And a muzzle. And leave the rest of us the hell alone.

[Via JunkFoodScience via KCB]

A Gala Event

Hollywood stars Will Ferrell, Amy Brenneman, Jeffrey Ross, James
Whitmore and Peter Weller all turned out for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence event...

I never heard of Brenneman and Ross, Whitmore I've known about for a long time, but "Elf" and "Robocop" are disappointments, although not unexpected when you consider the universe-revolves-around-my-navel outlook of the elites.

I love the sensitivity of these Brady clods: they just get done talking about "Mary Read, who was tragically lost in the Virginia Tech massacre, " and segue right in to "Comedian Jeffrey Ross performed a hilarious routine at the end of the evening."

Ha ha.

Oh, and send money.

"The Sarah Brady Visionary Award." Good Lord.

Be sure and watch the video, too, just make sure you have a bucket near by.

[Via 1894C]

Saxby Sidelines Self on Sullivan

Len Savage reports Sen. Saxby Chambliss' aide, Charlie Harman has rejected any action on the Michael Sullivan confirmation with the following excuse:

We have some other issues we are working on. Obviously, there are others who are taking action that is agreeable to you. For now, since this bandwagon is full, we are going to be on the sidelines.

Nuh-uh, senator.

The request is made of you, not your doorman. Tell your impertinent butler or whoever this guy is that this is unacceptable, and your employers are expecting that you will take this expectation seriously.

"The bandwagon is full." Good grief, enough with the excuse-making, as if this will take more than five minutes of your time. You can't "be on the sidelines," senator, without abandoning your most supportive constitutents.

I'm hoping some Georgia gun owners will realize the implications of a continued "Maximum Mike" regime and apply the requisite pressure to let Mr. Chambliss know there will be a price for letting his public-paid servant dictate the agenda to his employers.

We're the Only Ones Happy Motoring! Enough

An off-duty Miami-Dade police officer has been arrested on a drunken driving charge.

The Florida Highway Patrol said Officer Jeffrey Janish was in police uniform when he was pulled over and arrested early Tuesday on one count of driving under the influence. He had been speeding in his police car on Florida's Turnpike, swerving from lane to lane, according to the FHP.

They didn't find boxing gloves in the car, did they? Maybe he was on his way to an "Only Ones" poster photo shoot...?

Thank goodness he's been suspended "with pay," what with the price of booze these days.

[Via Michael Hawkins]

We're the Only Ones Taking Off the Gloves Enough

Pennsylvania's former top cop has been busted for drunken driving.

Paul J. Evanko, a Lancaster County native who led a campaign against DUI during his eight years as state police commissioner, was charged with the offense Monday after a crash in suburban Harrisburg Friday night.

Evanko's blood-alcohol level was 0.183, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08...

I'd love to be able to get my hands on one of the posters produced during gRendell's Reign of Terror, featuring "boxing gloves and stern photos of Jones and Evanko with the headline, 'We’re taking off the gloves against DUI offenders.'"

Too bad he didn't take off his driving gloves.

[Via Chris Horton]

[More from "The Only Ones" Files]

We're the Only Ones Delayed Pending the Outcome Enough

A man who signed on to become a Clark County sheriff's deputy accidentally shot his wife to death in Tualatin on Sunday, according to police...His first day of work was to be Dec. 19, but his hiring has been delayed pending the outcome of the investigation.

What, you mean there's still a chance they'll let him become an "Only One"?

[Via Robb Allen]

The Liberal Hour

On social issues, most Americans reject Republican dogma. They support early abortion. They oppose a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. They don't feel unsafe that the death penalty is used half as often as it was eight years ago and don't fear gun control.

Keep dreaming. Just try rounding up our guns.

Anybody who thinks George Bush is a "conservative" is just a mindless noisemaker anyway.

What you're misreading in your leftist fantasies are a couple important factors:

Most Americans rely on the establishment media for what information they do get, and while they may indeed form opinions, the strength of their convictions do not translate into the tireless activism needed to win the day for their positions.

Yet even with this, we see two-thirds believe in an individual right to own a gun.

I don't know where he gets the figures to back up his other assertions--they sound like wishful thinking--but I will say the ascendancy of Ron Paul, along with the enthusiastic support he's garnering, indicate a growing body of people hungry for solutions not from the iron fist of the state, what Andrew Cohen's neo-Marxist cheerleading urges us to embrace, and more toward innovative solutions possible only in a climate of individual liberty.

[Via Bruce Mills]

Toasting Jefferson's Ghost

WarOnGuns Correspondent TJH has some thoughts on alcohol and firearms, normally subjects that don't mix well, but do here in a thought-provoking manner with an interesting question: Does government have the authority to determine purpose?

He'd entered them as post comments. I didn't want to see them buried there and thought they deserved wider readership. They're in two parts, beginning here.

Quel Faux Pas!

What was the home owner's crime you ask? There was none. The SWAT team simply raided the wrong house...

The Pickle gives us extended commentary on some badly informed "Only Ones" and their ilk.

Early Release

California State Senator, Don Perata, is quoted as saying, "We are jammed up with this situation right now because we have fallen in love with one of the most undocumented beliefs: That somehow you get safer if you put more people in jail."

This is interesting since Perata is one of the leading gun banners in the state. Apparently he wants to let criminals roam free while simultaneously disarming law abiding citizens. It is worth noting that Senator Perata has a coveted CCW license which he claims he needs for self protection.

That is interesting, because the wretched Perata would have no problem putting a gun owner who defied his evil citizen disarmament edicts in the slammer, and was not above suggesting the Golden State apply ideological cleansing to rid itself of an Olympic shooting team.

Perata, incidentally, was the subject of one of our first GunTruths posters-- now residing as a ghost in the Internet archives.

This Day in History: December 19

These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.