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This is going to change in the very near future.

Coming in early January, the "Cleveland" is going away.

The column has done well both regionally and in the "Politics" category. So the powers that be have decided they'll be better served if it goes national--meaning it will now show up on the national page as well as be accessible from 59 separate city pages.

That's the reason I've pushed it every day, and asked WarOnGuns regulars to read the columns and share them with your friends.

I outlined my plan from Day One, and it's actually unfolding much more quickly than I'd hoped.

This represents not just a local opportunity, but if it's successful, they'll surely be receptive to expanding the topic to other markets.

I'll be capitalizing on this receptivity on an ongoing basis.

As such, I've already lined up a proven columnist for Cleveland (no, I'm not going to say who--it will be his announcement to make and my place to support that with publicity) and I'm working with my channel manager to help establish a presence in other cities.

I hope it's clear that this is an opportunity for getting our message outside the "gun blogosphere" and into a much wider market. So I also hope you understand why I've been harping and nagging on this every day and asking for your help to promote the column. And why I won't apologize for continuing to do so.

Consider it my requested donation from those who get value from WarOnGuns. I ask you every day to click on (and read) the Gun Rights Examiner column and share the link with your friends.

Because as exciting as this new opportunity is, I--and "we"--could do much better based on the stats I'm seeing.

Please help me continue to grow this opportunity.

And thank you to those who do.

"Valkyrie"

Mike Vanderboegh gives a review of both the movie and the history. [More]

He also expresses a faith in our military that I pray he's right in having. I want to believe with the same confidence he does that the critical mass shares the same values as my family and friends who have served.

What I see from some commentators I respect makes it difficult for me to just dismiss their concerns as mere "posturing" and "imagination."

By all means, befriend servicepeople you encounter. But understand there are always those with power who have risen to top ranks and who are beholden to others.

The Founders rightly distrusted a standing army, even with the example set by Washington.

We're the Only Ones Unsealed Enough

Metropolitan cops are no longer required to seal off their gun muzzles unless directed otherwise by police district chiefs, National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Director Leopoldo Bataoil said Friday.

In a press conference at Camp Crame, Bataoil said it is now time for the police to show that they can be trusted in not using their guns in celebration of the New Year. [More]

See?

"Only Ones" are more trustworthy than the rest of us...

Good grief.

We're the Only Ones Retired Enough

The Wisconsin Department of Justice has issued 15 concealed-weapons permits to retired agents, the only former state police officers to receive the privilege. [More]

Oooh...Oooh!! Can we have one too...?

Sorry.

You're not "Only Ones."

And ultra-super-trustworthy Wisconsin Only Ones at that...

Gosh--the Gauleiters won't give their permission to us rabble.

Whatever shall we do...?

Desperately Seeking Attention

“It should be obvious to anyone that a civilian bringing an openly-carried, loaded semiautomatic weapon to a child’s soccer game poses a grave risk to the community,” said Daniel R. Vice, Senior Attorney at the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project. [More]

Because we all know only the "Only Ones" can be trusted.

And don't let the "openly-carried, loaded semi-automatic weapon" rhetoric throw you. They get just as hissy against concealed carry. And revolvers.

They just don't want us to have guns.

Don't they sound ridiculous? Like the loser kids from school who snitched on their classmates to win the teacher's approval...?

[Via Mack H]

When Blood Starts Running

"We no longer have a civilian-led government."

This ominous conclusion comes to us from Thomas A. Schweich, who held the title of deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement affairs in the Bush Regime... [More]

William N. Grigg brings another ominous analysis.

General Patton's riot "laws" are of particular interest, and boil down to this:

"When blood starts running, the law stops."

[Via Ron W]

This Day in History: December 27

I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. Conscious of this, she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her. [More]