The Third Degree

We're all closely connected, sometimes by only a couple of hops.  And that's enough for those who can't seem to separate security from tyranny. [More]

By the way, the site wants you to sign up and pay. I just closed out the full screen notice and could read the entire article, but as I understand it, closing out the article window means I can't get back in for free again.

No Need to Look Any Further

As Oregon lawmakers and their constituents debated a proposed “universal background check” (UBC) bill yesterday in Salem, they only had to look about two hundred miles north to see just how hollow any promises of crime prevention by such legislation really are. [More]

Yeah, but they know that. Which means they want it to do something else.

Who's on First?

Jones is said to be moving on to a lucrative (multi-million dollar) position with the National Football League. The announcement came just days after blogger and independent journalist David Codrea (who was also the first to report on the Fast and Furious scandal) had reported on rumors that the ATF chief was on his way out. [More]

Well, thank you, Jeff -- it's nice to be recognized when the default position is to be overlooked. I couldn't have done the Jones story without FFLGuard. In re Gunwalker, it's also important to acknowledge Mike actually did the first blog post based on CleanUpATF chatter.

The Gun Violence Menace

There are 34,500 members of the NYPD, and in 2012 they fatally shot 16 people. That gives Bloomberg’s army a rate of over 46 shooting deaths per 100,000, killing people at a clip that dwarfs any civilian level in the country. To put it in perspective, Chicago — an American city known for gun violence — hit its peak murder rate of 34 per 100,000 in 1992. [More]

When you put it that way...

Hey, considering the AlJazeera source which some may find surprising, I'm pleased to see them practicing journalism here that puts our domestic Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists to shame.

[Via Victor T]

#snacklivesmatter

Woman accused of stabbing Akron boyfriend because he ate all their salsa [More]

That got him up and moving his hips, and we all know how important a good dip is in salsa...

Risk Management

Jewish Kindergarten in Belgium Can't Get Insurance Because Risk of Attack Too High [More]

And oh, look: "The regulation of guns in Belgium is categorised as restrictive"

That there are so many prominent kapos for Kristallnacht is one of the Opposite Day "progressive" mysteries of our time.

They'll Get You Coming and Going

A little-noted provision of President Obama’s highway funding proposal would lift the federal prohibition against states imposing new tolls on existing interstate highways. [More]

Plus don't forget all the ways there are to collect revenues in-between, and I'm not just talkin' speeding tickets...

[Via Florida Guy]   

Not a Dime's Worth of Difference

When asked to differentiate herself from Attorney General Holder, she chose not to do so. [More]

So will the opposition include an "or else" cost?

Unlike when it really counted?

[Via Michael G]

Local Control

I'm sure the supreme Law of the Land has exemptions for Missouri transit bureaucrats. [More]

Besides, it's not like anything bad ever happens, or that Richard Zott isn't taken care of...

Yeah, home rule, that's the ticket. Plus, with all those "Only Ones" around, what's the worst that could happen?

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Tearing Down That Wall Enough

An eastern Missouri police officer is facing child abuse charges for allegedly throwing a 4-year-old boy against a wall. [More]

Oh, look, a bouncing baby boy...

[Via bondmen]

A "Progressive" Dilemma

More African-Americans Support Carrying Legal Guns For Self-Defense [More]

Come on, antis-- resort to your default M.O. and go after them for being racists compensating for inadequate penis size. I dare you.

No?

There's one critical connection that yet needs to be made: Instilling the understanding that a vote for a "progressive" politician is a vote against RKBA. Until that happens, political bipolarity will continue to impede true progress.

[Via Fresch Fisch]

Nashville Cats

Now, NRA members attending the Convention in Nashville this year have a chance to participate in a fund-raiser for the CRPC the evening of April 10. [More]

More on the event here...

We're the Only Ones Breaking Bad Enough

Fresno Deputy Chief Keith Foster arrested in drug conspiracy along with others [More]

You know what Fresno needs to clean up its act?  That's right, federal grants.

A True Champion of Subversion

Harry Reid is PROUD of LYING about Romney’s taxes because it re-elected Obama [More]

Oh, look, Wayne's "true champion" continues to reveal the depths of his depravity. What was it the Vulcan Chessmaster said about not working to unseat this domestic enemy when they had the chance?

Oh yeah:

“I’ll give you four words: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.”

And how many prags just thought that was the cleverest rejoinder they'd ever heard, and took to parroting it every chance they got to defend the cheesy Fairfax cop-out? You know who you are.

Yeah, well guess what? You get him leading the Prozi Party anyway. After helping guarantee another four words: President Barack Hussein Obama.

D.C. gives up total carry ban to focus on ways to deny permit applications

The result of those “current laws” is that, as reported in January, eight people, or .00001 percent of the District’s residents had been permitted to carry a gun. Of all applications, which included non-residents, more had been denied than approved. [More]

This morning's Gun Rights Examiner report asks why call something a ban when you can get away with referring to it as a denial?

Ve're ze Only Vons Serving Mann Enough

German ex-cop jailed for cannibalism website killing [More]

That'll put the wiener in your schnitzel...

We're the Only Ones Formal Enough

A tuxedo-clad man and two others jumped a college basketball fan early Sunday morning outside a downtown Cleveland hotel that was the site of a black-tie police scholarship fundraiser. [More]

Gosh, that's some deterrent and protection "Our Heroes" provide, and doesn't the name of that event have about the same effect as warm suds and a syringe tube?

Not that I set out to inject Godwin's Law into the discussion, but if you translate the name of the event and then do a Google image search on the result, guess what the first picture that comes up is...

[Via Sweet Baboo]

We're the Only Ones Bogged Down Enough

Why the hell is this call asking for a police response? How the hell are we supposed to find time to help you out with "quality of life problems," like where you can go to get your front door fixed, or to adopt a new dog...? [More]

[Via Sweet Baboo]

This Day in History: April 2

I cannot say a Word in Vindication of my Conduct but this, that I had been for Months before, distressed with continual Apprehensions for you and all my Friends without the British Lines—I looked upon All as gone; or that nothing could save you, but a rescinding the Declaration of Independency. Upon this Ground alone, I presumed to speak—not to advise an Act of base Treachery—My Soul would have recoiled from the Thought—not to surrender your Army, or betray the righteous Cause of your Country—but at the Head of that Army, supporting & supported by them, to negociate with Britain for our Constitutional Rights. [More]

What a Duché, which if you read more about the guy, is what I'm going to start calling members of the so-called 'faith community" who have misplaced that faith in an "ominpotent" State.