"The National Parks Service has announced it will not challenge a court order that temporarily stops the late-term Bush administration policy of allowing CCW-permit holders to carry in National Parks."It won't be pitchforks.
...How many abuses and usurpations need we endure before people take to their pitchforks? [More]
Four people were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Thursday when a driver hurtled his car into a crowd at a parade, narrowly missing an open bus carrying Queen Beatrix and members of her family. [More]You know what we need for cars? Licensing and registration.
The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn't allow her parents, Christos and Lesli Catsouras, to identify their daughter's body. But because of two California Highway Patrol officers, a digital camera and e-mail users' easy access to the "Forward" button, there are now nine photos of the accident scene, taken just moments after Nikki's death, circulating virally on the Web. In one, her nearly decapitated head is drooping out the shattered window of her father's Porsche.[More]But God forbid you should take a picture of "Only Ones."
An investigation had revealed that the images, taken as a routine part of a fatal accident response, had been leaked by two CHP dispatchers: Thomas O'Donnell, 39, and Aaron Reich, 30.I can't imagine seeing a beloved child like that. I can't imagine soulless ghouls considering it entertainment. It is a perverted cruelty I cannot fathom.
BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.Just so you know where some would like to lead us.
There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent. [More]
Should schools ban starter's pistol?Oh, for the love of...
They don't fire bullets, but deadly symbolism triggers call to keep them out of high school track meets [More]
A British vacationer is being hailed a hero after he thwarted gun-toting pirates attacking a cruise ship — by throwing a deck chair at them. [More]The unreported crime on the high seas is he could not throw lead at them.
A New York City police officer accused of raping an intoxicated woman after helping her home “had sexual intercourse with the physically helpless victim as she lay face down on her bed, having previously vomited multiple times,” the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, said Tuesday in announcing charges against two officers. [More]There's something about a passed-out drunken woman reeking of vomit that just really does it, isn't there? Just knowing that by virtue of being a New York "Only One" she couldn't lift a finger even if she was capable of it...?
I've had two people independently contact me to tell me to approach Bitter in private about this.Ship operators should instead explore non-lethal solutions, said Jeff Pierce, Washington-based executive director of Maritime Police International (MPI). MPI is a global security organization whose membership includes former U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy and law-enforcement officers.Right, Jeff. And there's no financial incentive for you to say that, is there?
Arming civilian maritime crews “is a very bad idea unless there is enough firepower to repel the pirates effectively and repeatedly…not something that merchant crews are capable of doing in most instances,” Pierce said.
“Many insurance companies either forbid weapons or dramatically increase rates for ships with weapons on board,” Pierce said. The insurers “have historically told crews to surrender peacefully and to let the insurance personnel handle the situation. ... Arming crews has always been a concern within the industry due to the potential for mutiny.” [More]
So with people worried about things like...uh...basic survival, and their "leaders" looking for new ways to wring even more out of them, how is it the state has $500,000 laying around for the SNUG program ("that's 'guns' spelled backwards")? And how are they going to blo...uh...allocate it?Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the transparent fraud that is "gun control." It's just so obvious.
"The money would be used to provide intervention in hospitals, to hire people to talk to gang members who are shot, right in the emergency room to keep them from retaliating."
You're kidding, right? Tell me you're kidding. [More]
I want to form a Company for my Guard. In doing this I wish to be extremely cautious; because it is more than probable, that in the Course of the Campaign, my Baggage, Papers, and other Matters of great public Import, may be committed to the Sole care of these Men. [More]
