What's the Difference Between Mission Creep...

...and creeps on a mission?

Rather than monitoring hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center has become one. [More]

Shoot, I could have told you that.

So can Vanderboegh.

Nice to see HuffPo admitting the obvious. Does this mean hell has frozen over?

[Via Michael G]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

One in six Britons 'too lazy to get up to change TV channel' [More]

The inevitable result of nanny state addiction...

Don't Try This at Home

Munson told her brother Thursday night that the older bear was back and said, "I'm going to chase it off with a broom." [More]

Watch the bears.

Don't feed them.

"What if I Actually Had Said that?"

"So What? This is America!" [More]

My favorite exchange from Errol Flynn's "The Adventures of Robin Hood":

"Why, you speak treason!"

"Fluently."

There's an "eye of the beholder" perspective to that.

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Sorry for Your Loss Enough

Those five tickets took 12 minutes to write. By the time Ross and his family members got back on the road, the burial was over. [More]

Damn scofflaws need to understand the "Only Ones" are going to ensure their safety even if they have to kill them.

Me, I'm just surprised nobody was tased and then charged with "assaulting an officer".

[Via Harvey]

Something in Common

A man is targeting mothers in SUVs, out for a day of shopping at the mall [More]

Yeah, those are things in common, but I was referring to Condition White.

[Via Ed M]

Bloomberg on Meet the Press

Part of my promotional efforts for the Gun Rights Examiner columns is social networking. As such, I make attempts to outreach using stuff like Digg, Twitter, Facebook...the latter being probably the most useful because it allow for more meaningful interaction with other RKBA proponents.

The following is a post by Jake Syma on a recent Bloomberg media op that he addressed to John Pierce and me. I thought it was well stated and made an irrefutable point, and Jake has allowed me to share it here:

I don't know whether either of you caught it this morning... Michael Bloomberg (NY, NY) and Cory Booker (Newark, NJ) on MTP talking about (among other things) guns.

David Gregory threw an adulatory softball question at Bloomberg, asking about a "major victory" he recently scored over the NRA (regarding the Thune Amendment). He then allowed Bloomberg to talk a bit about the organization he's a part of, "Mayors Against Illegal Guns."

I quote him there to make the point that *they* made the point of stressing the org is not against GUNS, per se, but is only against ILLEGAL GUNS... never once considering the fact that killing the Thune Amendment would be "exceeding MAIG's charter," so to speak, if it was *only* against illegal guns... since the Thune Amendment wasn't *about* letting [so-called] "illegal guns" cross state lines.

Then there was more of the standard BS fare regarding the [so-called] "gun show loophole," but the response to that has gotten to the point that it's all "copy-and-paste" now (that is, boilerplate).

The "killing the Thune Amendment" portion may or may not be article-worthy, but I thought I'd at least pass it along.

Best,

Jake.

P.S. Transcript here (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8987534/ns/meet_the_press/) if either of you are interested.

Why Hasn't Obama Retracted Claim on Mexican 'Crime Guns'?

When the Brady Campaign tries to dismiss their own talking points, when even the Violence Policy Center distances itself by calling attempts to tell the truth "a red herring," the game is pretty much up. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a lie repeated but never corrected. Also find out how to win a Savage .30-06 with Bushnell scope.

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Have you read the latest from all the Gun Rights Examiners?

• Atlanta: Ed Stone
• Austin: Howard Nemerov
• Boston: Ron Bokleman
• Charlotte: Paul Valone
• Chicago: Don Gwinn
• Cleveland: Daniel White
• DC: Mike Stollenwerk
• Denver: Dan Bidstrup
• Los Angeles: John Longenecker
• Minneapolis: John Pierce
• National: David Codrea
• Seattle: Dave Workman
• St. Louis: Kurt Hofmann
• Wisconsin: Gene German

This Day in History: August 11

As the War in which your Country is engaged will probably hereafter attract your Attention, more than it does at this Time, and as the future Circumstances of your Country, may require other Wars, as well as Councils and Negotiations, similar to those which are now in Agitation, I wish to turn your Thoughts early to such Studies, as will afford you the most solid Instruction and Improvement for the Part which may be allotted you to act on the Stage of Life. [More]