Speaking of Imbeciles

We could permit each newly elected president to appoint 50 members of the House and 10 members of the Senate, all to serve four-year terms until the next presidential election. [More]

So what we really need is a strongman?

Black pastors take up Holder talking points on both election and ‘Gunwalker’

The harder the Republicans press forward, the more strident and explosive we can expect the pushback to become. That those who make race the issue are prepared to scream “Racist!” seems certain based on their carefully crafted rhetoric, even as they express confidence “that ‘President Obama is going to get 95 percent of the [African American] vote.’" [More] 

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes the only way to deal with the true racists is to expose them for what they are, to dare them to take their best shot, and to throw it back in their faces with resolute defiance.

The fearful and the politically correct need not apply.

The BS-O-Meter is on the Fritz Again

He muffed his statement; the U.S. guns were involved in Mexican crimes, not necessarily drug trafficking. But officials in both governments say U.S. -sourced guns make up a large proportion of guns carried by drug traffickers. 

We rate Moran’s statement Mostly True. [More]

Why, because the Obama and Calderon administrations say so?  Geez, that's some media watchdog keeping an eye on things for us.

Actually, even with their dropping the old lie and admitting that these are guns submitted for tracing, the way this is presented still helps mislead readers into into drawing unwarranted conclusions. There are other factors not mentioned that need to be considered to view things in their proper perspective.

For instance, some of us have documented in the past that guns submitted for tracing account for only a small fraction of total guns seized, and how only about a third of those submitted guns came from U.S. dealers.

And in a report that factors in government sales and non-civilian ordnance, Stratfor concludes:

[T]he 3,480 guns positively traced to the United States equals less than 12 percent of the total arms seized in Mexico in 2008 and less than 48 percent of all those submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF for tracing. This means that almost 90 percent of the guns seized in Mexico in 2008 were not traced back to the United States.

That's hardly "a large proportion."

Yet once again, our anti-gun pal Rep. Moron and his lickspittle camp followers at the Orwellian-named "Politifact" have buried the needle on the old BS-O-Meter.  Maybe all that overload is why they keep breaking the damn thing...

[Via Mack H]

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• How the Media Missed a Self-Defense Gun Story  
• Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store 
• Man, 84, shoots home invasion suspect with Korean War gun 
• Fort Worth pastor opens fire on burglar during break-in 
• Lawyer: Walla Walla Store Owner Defended His Property 
• Stepson of Modesto man who shot intruder details frightful incident

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This Day in History: May 30

I have the honour to inform you that, yesterday at three o'clock, P.M., after a march of 105 miles in 54 hours, with the corps of cavalry, the infantry of the legion mounted on horses, and a three-pounder, at Waxhaws, near the line which divides North from South Carolina, the rebel force, commanded by Colonel Burford, consisting of the 11th Virginia and detachments of other regiments from the same province, with artillery and some cavalry, were brought to action. [More]