Just as the billionaire-funded Astroturfers pose as the grassroots, the overabundance of safe selections, guaranteed to give them a track record of victories they can them claim as proof of their political wallop, is all part of the carefully-staged illusion-making. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner analysis notes perception only becomes reality if those who can see through the fraud don't do what they can to expose it.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
‘Everytown’ marks political debut by endorsing safe candidates
Cry 'Havoc!' and Let Slip the Dogs of Litigation
Legislative Gas-Passing
Honda's proposal would apply existing gun regulations, including criminal background checks, to all homemade firearms. [More]Every time I hear the name of this sulfurous stench in the nostrils of free people, I think of another stupid joke...
And yeah, you're right, it ain't funny.
[Via Jeffersonian]
Authorized Journalists,, Texas-Style
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus wants a committee of journalists to decide which reporters are “legitimate” so the Legislature can limit Capitol access to sufficiently apolitical reporters. [More]And who better than "real reporters/legitimate news media" to do that?
Straus, of course, is a "moderate Republican," that is, either a tool or the actual enemy.
[Via cycjec]
But...But...But He's "A"-Rated and Endorsed...
There's a Carroll Quigley quote in here somewhere... [More]
For what it's worth, I approached this with the assumption that the author could be a Grimes man, but a quick look doesn't indicate that he's anything other than a no-compromise gun advocate. I don't have time to pursue that further, so if anyone has any light to add, please do.
[Via Neil W]
For what it's worth, I approached this with the assumption that the author could be a Grimes man, but a quick look doesn't indicate that he's anything other than a no-compromise gun advocate. I don't have time to pursue that further, so if anyone has any light to add, please do.
[Via Neil W]
We're the Only Ones Uneasy Enough
After that spectacle of deer-in-the-headlights incompetence the flacks tried to spin as "restraint" that we just witnessed at the White House, I can understand why. [More]
[Via Sam CF]
[Via Sam CF]
And the Crowd Went Wild!
Many people don’t want to speak with police about crimes, sometime because they don’t trust the police or they fear retaliation from criminals they're the ones who raised and sustain the perpetrators. [More]
There, I fixed it for you.
Say, that's some multitu... uh... thron... uh... pathetic handful.
[Via Neil W]
There, I fixed it for you.
Say, that's some multitu... uh... thron... uh... pathetic handful.
[Via Neil W]
Slowing to a Crawl Among the Tombstones
We're the Only Ones Paramilitary Enough
All I should need to say to make you eager to read this in its entirety is "Grigg." [More]
UPDATE: WarOnGuns Correspondent JM sends another one.
UPDATE: WarOnGuns Correspondent JM sends another one.
This Day in History: September 24
The sum of the intelligence which they bring concerning negociations for peace, is that the sincerity manifested at one period by the Court of London in her advances towards a pacification had been succeeded by an apparent design to draw the negociations into length with a hope of such further advantages during the campaign as would enable her to rise in her demands. [More]