Thank You, Donald Kaul

What a great service you have done by taking off the mask and showing us the end game. [Read]

New Year’s resolutions can promote gun owner activism and freedom

[M]uch of the current mess we find ourselves in -- from a renewed anti-gunner feeding frenzy demanding new edicts and bans, to the shortages we see enabling prices in some quarters to rise through the roof -- can be attributed, at least in part, to gun owner detachment, apathy, and unwillingness to personally share in the burdens of gun rights activism. That’s a shame, because it really doesn’t require a lot of effort to get and stay engaged, and the personal rewards and friendships made can be invaluable. [More] 

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column is accompanied by a picture that we have the ability to change. Happy New Year? A lot of that depends on us.

Supply and Demand

I've been told in comments to yesterday's column to get a clue about it, and that there's no such thing as price gouging in a free market.

I guess the clue I've been missing is that we have a free market -- for guns or anything. Even the black market is subject to artificial disruptions by those who will brook no competition to the established order, which ensures the bosses get their taste.

In the midst of all the frenzy, it's nice to see principled businesses show us that leadership is best exhibited through personal conduct. I know nothing about Daniel Defense except what I read in this story. What it tells me is they are a company we all should learn more about and measure their competitors against.

Digging In

“We are not going to back down. We are not going to give in. And we are not going to concede one more inch,” said Jeff Knox, the executive director of the coalition. [More]

As long as digging in is to secure the beachhead from which to launch the liberation...

Ring in the Old

NBC decided the proper way to ring in the new year was with a tribute to globalism by replaying Beyonce's "World Humanitarian Day" video shortly after midnight.

Soviet propaganda poster designers had nothing on these people. The priestess stands before the altar, and the cosmic imagery-saturated video shows rapturous audience members writhing in worshipful ecstasy as surely as if they were handling snakes, while their gods dispense salvation against calamity.

We've seen such celebrity-driven worship services before.

Beyonce, of course, is one of those demanding a plan.

Along with other "humanitarians."

This Day in History: January 1

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