The Chicago Way

A charter network praised by Mayor Rahm Emanuel for its academically competitive schools is charging students $5 for minor disciplinary infractions like having untied shoelaces, bringing chips to school or dozing off in class. [More]

Might as well get a jump on teaching them their function and place in the "progressive" scheme of things...

Is John Boehner impeding Fast and Furious investigation?

“I am not responsible for others who take my stories and rewrite them with their own spin. I am responsible for what I write. As I told Workman, I stand by my sources. I still do,” Vanderboegh responded in a post this morning. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report offers the way to resolve all doubts.

The Gun Control Mentality

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So he admits he has no knowledge of the matter, he hasn't even checked it out, yet he is willing to make judgments of others based on his faith in WaPo and Bradys giving him true information on guns.

The national socialists love faith-based know-nothing followers like this--they enable everything.  And when it comes time to accepting responsibility for the destruction, they know nothing.

The Deadly Weapon Loophole

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that guns stolen during a burglary are not classified as deadly weapons. [More]

That reminds me of how criminals are also exempt from registering guns.

It's OK--they don't abide by any of this foolishness anyway.

Bountiful in Canton

Frickin' idiots are presiding over an economy that's in the toilet and they think coming up with the dough for a nonsense snitch program will make a bit of difference? [Read]

If they were paying attention to what matters, citizen action would not have been needed to rein in their badged animal.

The April 2012 Digital Edition of Guns Magazine...

...is now online. [Read]

Previous editions can also be accessed from this link.

We're the Only Ones Kind of a Drag Enough

The Culpeper woman fatally shot by a local police officer Thursday morning had closed her driver's side window and was dragging the officer alongside her as she drove away, according to new information from the Virginia State Police. [More]

That would be the woman whose neighbor described her as "really nice, and always smiling and laughing with you."

Thing is, her husband says "his wife's car had no power windows."

And a witness says it didn't happen the way police are claiming: 

He describes an encounter which looked and sounded like the officer shooting a person a point blank range,  not because he feared for his life, but because the woman did not obey his order to stop rolling up the window.

Funny--we know the child-loving Sunday School volunteer victim's name, her husband's name, the witness's name...but we still don't know "the officer's" name...that must not be in the public interest to disclose.

[Via Mack H]

Indiana Breyer and the Machete of Doom

“I can find nothing in the Second Amendment’s text, history, or underlying rationale that could warrant characterizing it as ‘fundamental’ insofar as it seeks to protect the keeping and bearing of arms for private self-defense purposes.” [More]

Karl Denninger makes the connection.

[Via cycjec]

We're the Only Ones Checking Out Enough

Veteran officer becomes fourth NYPD cop to commit suicide in less than a month [More]

Something to remember when the antis use suicide as a reason to disarm those of us who aren't "Only Ones"--we just plain folks have a markedly lower rate than the "professionals."

How interesting: This study tells us "California, New Jersey and New York led the nation in police suicides both years."That's three out of the top four Brady Campaign state ranking winners.

I wonder if there's some kind of freedom corollary that contributes to this...?  Because it seems the government "solution" of ratcheting up the controls is producing the opposite of the desired effect...

What the U.S. Should Do

At the February PrepCom, the U.S. must do all it can to ensure that the rules of procedure do not allow the July conference to depict the U.S. as the sole obstacle to consensus or permit the conference to jump the tracks and adopt an ATT by majority vote. [More]

Really?  That's the best you can come up with, Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow in Anglo-American Relations for the Heritage Foundation, a group that tells us "We believe the principles and ideas of the American Founding are worth conserving and renewing"?

This Day in History: February 14

Sir William Blackstone, (born July 10, 1723, London, England—died February 14, 1780, Wallingford, Oxfordshire), English jurist, whose Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vol. (1765–69), is the best-known description of the doctrines of English law. The work became the basis of university legal education in England and North America. [More]