GRE Round Up for December 1

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• New Jersey case sparks national outrage

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• VPC attempting to link concealed carry to suicide

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

The Finest Manufactured Threats Money Can Buy

The evidence presented in the FBI affidavit offers no reason to believe that Mohamud intended to harm anyone before he fell under the influence of two undercover operatives from the Bureau's Homeland Security theater troupe. [More]

So they set him up, they got him and it worked.  It was in all the papers.

Kind'a like these guys.

Nice to see government doing something right for a change.

[Via Ron W]

When Black Friday Comes

Not yet...? [Read]

Binge and...

...purge...[Read]

[Via JulianThree]

We're the Only Ones "Every Good Boy Does Fine" Enough

“We cannot rule out that he was used by the enemy, but he has been a border policeman for three years, and had been a good boy"... [More]

"Good boy."

Isn't that what you say when a dog performs well?

[Via Ed M]

A Bear Bones Budget

Wait a minute...stuffed bears don't have bones... [Read]

What Duty to Protect?

The lawsuit's allegations against UMW include:

Negligent security measures.

Failure to properly monitor the parking deck, which the complaint says UMW officials should have known to be dangerous.

Failure to warn students of dangers in the parking deck.

Failure to install and operate security cameras.

Failure to train security guards, campus police officers and others on how to report, investigate and prevent sexual assaults.

Failure to properly investigate complaints of rape and provide adequate security.

I'm not persuaded.

Now if the lawsuit had focused on prohibiting the tools of defense, I might be more sympathetic.

Besides, even if the campus security alert system had been activated, why wouldn't people assume they were just being punked again? I assume everyone there is familiar with "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"...?

If it's any consolation, miss,  I'm pretty sure campus safety expert Colin Goddard would tell you you did the right thing.

[Via Mack H]

Georgia Gun Owners Media Watch

Via email:

Georgia Gun Owners is creating a network of liberty and gun rights activists who:

Write letters to the editor to a local newspaper

Write guest Op-Eds in a local newspaper

Cut out and send in newspaper articles

Email online links to articles of interest

Call in to local talk radio stations

Arrange a media interview for a representative of Georgia Gun Owners

If interested in participating, contact Ashley Rodriguez at: press@georgiagunowners.org

Safer Streets Poll

John Longenecker would like your opinion. [Read]

Trained Professionals

More like trained monkeys and professional idiots. [Watch]


There's some discussion about this being fake. I don't care.

What the hell is wrong with you morons who made this?

[Via Skip]

A 2010 Eloi Award Finalist

New East Palo Alto license plate readers will run plates through crime databases [More]

Perhaps the Chamber of Commerce would like to hear why you will not be coming to East Palo Alto--not that you need this as an excuse.

But it's been done before:

"I'm all for it," said Tiburon resident Dorothy Larson. "I don't have any paranoia about (police) knowing when I'm coming and going. I don't know why
anybody would object to it."

Your cattle car awaits, cud-chewer.

The Third Way

First, the Obama Administration is so gutless, so feeble, that they were unwilling to take any aggressive action to shut down WikiLeaks...Second, it is possible that the Obama Administration did not care whether such information was released. [More]

You forgot third: Eliminate the competition.

It's a Jersey Thing

Newark residents were wondering Tuesday if their streets were safe after 14 percent of the city’s police officers were laid off...[More]

Not "safe".

But probably "safer."

We're the Only Ones Keeping Abreast of the Situation Enough

Woman gets $245,000 settlement in deputy sex assault lawsuit

Single mother alleges that a sheriff's deputy touched her chest during a 2008 traffic stop, then followed her home and assaulted her in the driveway. The deputy faces a criminal trial in the incident as well as two others. [More]

How do I love the? Let me count the ways:

One-two, one-two...

[Via FFFW]

We're the Only Ones Using Cop-Logic Enough

Layoffs May Force Residents to Report Crime Online...

The department has been considering using an online self-reporting system called Cop-Logic. It's a system that is currently used by 150 police departments nationwide including in Cleveland and Columbus. [More]

You know:

Cleveland...

Columbus...


That's some cop logic.

Left unasked: When government fails to perform its most basic function, who needs it?

And, perversely, might this actually make the citizens safer?

Should actor Mark Ruffalo be prohibited from buying guns?

If they’re to be consistent in their demands, the Brady Campaign must show no favoritism: Mark Ruffalo must be disarmed.

Our national security depends on it.  [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column focuses on a threat to national security so grave, it may even eclipse the giant inflatable pink pig menace.

Also join me in congratulating the "Trigger Sports Live!" crew on the occasion of their 100th episode.

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This Day in History: December 1

Fuser was there only to create a diversion and on December 1, decided to withdraw back to Major Prévost. As the Royal Americans left the town a detachment of Patriot horsemen arrived and fired a few shots, but to no effect. [More]