Underestimating Gun-Grabbing Marine Leads to Dangerous Assumptions

Bottom line: Just because current or former members of the armed forces support “gun control,” it would be naive and dangerous to conclude that has made them weak or otherwise impaired their capabilities. [More]

A caution from Sun Tzu comes to mind...

Back by Popular Demand!

Denmark announces unvaccinated refugees have brought diphtheria into the country after a 20-year absence [More]

You thought I was joking with the title?

Opposite Day in Park City

But this year Sundance programmers, with deep commitment to freedom of expression, and their selected filmmakers seem to be taking a position that real guns, not the movie kind, ought to be more tightly policed. [More]

So says the "progressive" event named after a real life "gun criminal" notorious for, among other things, shooting at police...

[Via Michael G]

It's Time Now for 'Censoring with Gavin'

Well, Newsom took down my comments! He censored me, and the prosecutors’ opinion piece. [More]

I know exactly how you feel.  He removed my link to this piece from here.

Ah well, he probably had other things he wanted to focus on:

Murphy's Law

How could law-and-order candidate Christie allow terrorists to buy guns? [More]

He doesn't. He never has.

Someone convicted of a disqualifying crime cannot "legally" buy a gun in New Jersey, and lying Obama apparatchik Chris Murphy knows that.

He's just counting on low-information, emotion-driven readers not knowing that.

That and he's relying on Pynchon's truism...

Open Admissions

So basically they're telling Obama they support registration-enabling background checks and enforcing existing Intolerable Acts... [More]

These ain't my leaders.

Attack of the NeoCons

National Review is publishing a special edition of the magazine that argues against Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, saying he is “not deserving of conservative support in the caucuses and primaries.” [More]

That's because they're cheap labor whores who have thus far ignored calls to produce one shred of verifiable documentation that the pathway to citizenship illegal and legal immigration they're abetting and demanding won't change the electorate -- and thus all three branches of government -- in a way that favors "progressive" globalist goals.

Pale Rider

The rider has been in every appropriations bill since 1996. [More]

Rather than taking a leadership position to explain why that is, I expect some who have enjoyed gun owner support will be politically inclined to hide and then "compromise."

Without even doing anything about this.

40 Acres and a Mule Redux

Hillary Prepares to Embrace Slavery Reparations [More]

Great idea!  Start with this beneficiary of "white privilege"!

[Via Florida Guy]   

This is Even Subject to Being Voted On?

State officials would lose their legal authority to restrict gun owners' lawful use of weapons during emergencies under a measure an Iowa House panel advanced Thursday, one of several proposals being considered this session seeking to expand gun rights [More]

"Legal authority" my ... eye.

Inadvertent Display

Florida’s elected law enforcement officials ... today announced a proposal to ensure that law abiding, concealed carry permit holders are protected from arrest and prosecution for inadvertently displaying a firearm. [More]

You have to wonder what kind of oath-breaking jerk would do that anyway.

A Shot in the Dark

The suspect, who has not been identified, could face a number of criminal charges. [More]

So identify him.  There's been enough time, but so far, all the news reports leave that out.

I want to know who this moron is.

[Via Mike H]

Another Plea

Funds for Shaylyn [More]

This is very tragic. Please do what you can. Contact him if you have any questions.

I'd considered using Red Basket to raise funds for Mike, but decided to go the direct appeal route since he has a relatively broad potential support base. In this case, I would suggest reviewing their "no deductions" program and beginning the application process immediately.

We're the Only Ones Cheaper By the Dozen Enough

A former Oklahoma City police officer who was found guilty of raping more than a dozen women while on duty was sentenced to 263 years in prison on Thursday. [More]

Actually, it was 13, that is a "baker's dozen."

Some years back a friend asked if that meant 11 was a butcher's dozen.

Speaking of Cataclysms

Dole should know. [More]

Betraying us on guns didn't help.

Neither did his wife.

The hell with such "Republicans."

Now seems as appropriate a time as any to dust off this old post:

MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2005

Viagra Falls

or Falling On Hard Times

Bob and Liddy Dole, former GOP presidential tag team contenders and proponents of the federal War on Drugs, have endorsed and admitted to regularly using a chemical substance for excitement, recreation and pleasure. The drug is Viagra, and its use is being championed by the same generation and socioeconomic clique that demands criminal penalties for those who express different preferences in pharmaceutical stimulation.

To claim that Viagra is a legally prescribed treatment for a medical condition is to miss the point, for the impaired ability to get it up is neither crippling nor life-threatening. And, because this hardship (or lack thereof) is more prevalent among seniors than among those of breeding age, it's fair to conclude that most men taking Viagra engage in sex for recreation rather than procreation.

As with many street drugs, Viagra delivers a physiological response that wears off after each use, requiring habitual dependency and chronic reapplication to restore its effects. But it does not carry the stigma associated with other recreational drugs, in no small part because Viagra junkies are high-end, "respectable" customers. Still, unlike marijuana, but similar to some of the more hard core prohibited substances, Viagra has been associated with a statistically significant increase in heart attacks and deaths among its users-many who are willing to risk the odds for just one more high.

Yet it is from this pool of artificially turgid and privileged notables that the hue and cry against unsanctioned drug use is the loudest. These, more often than not, are the same folks who would throw a cancer patient like Todd McCormick or Steve Kubby in jail for smoking pot to alleviate the ravages of their illnesses and the side effects of treatment. Or put an inner-city addict away for daring to obtain his release from an officially unapproved chemical compound.

Does the word "hypocrisy" begin to suggest itself here?

Maybe we're going the wrong way with this. Perhaps instead of pushing drug dependency in nationally televised commercials, Bob Dole should swear off the stuff, admit that he and Liddy pulled a boner in ever allowing themselves to get hooked in the first place, and encourage Americans to "just say 'no.'"

Perhaps it's time to ban Viagra. Then let's see if its users defy the law and create an underground market. Let's watch the street price soar. Let's find out if the quality of an illegal fix meets dosage and purity standards, or if seniors will be having seizures or dropping dead from black market pills cut with God-knows-what. Let's demand that something be done about the violent crime endemic to the illegal Viagra trade (maybe another gun control law?).

Let's declare a War on Viagra and appoint a federal "czar" (perhaps a reformed Mr. Dole?) to mastermind the assault against this insidious threat! Let's thrill to Ninja-clad government shock troops breaking down some WWII vet's door and, if he's lucky, only dragging the old boy off in shackles. And perhaps, once he sees his house and life savings seized without benefit of due process, and the realization sinks in that he's probably going to die in prison and leave his wife destitute and broken, the thought might dawn on him:

"How did this happen? This is supposed to be America."
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[I wrote this a few years back. I felt it appropriate to resurrect it here. --DC]

A Matter of Life and Death

D.C. Mayor: This Storm ‘Has Life and Death Implications’ [More]

Be a pretty good time for an enemy to pull something ... or to make it look that way.

I'd Like to Know for Sure

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I've seen a lot of claims but haven't found any substantiation. If you can provide some, please do.

UPDATE: That was fast -- thanks.

For those inclined to still challenge this and this, the burden is on you.  I don't find it credible that someone in the public eye would go out on a limb that could be so easily sawed off.

The situation is enough of a powderkeg without letting those with an agenda succeed at using disinformation to get people to do something that will discredit those interested in a wider truth.