Doesn’t President Trump think it’s in his – and our – interests to get a better handle on the guy he wants to entrust his legacy to in the courts? It certainly makes it fair to ask who advised him that Gorsuch was the right man for the job, and if that’s counsel he’ll continue to seek. It also makes it fair to ask if, as a businessman, Trump would be inclined to hire a key executive when he doesn’t know if the prospect will support or undermine his business plan, and who will play coy if asked in an interview. [More]Did we dodge the Hillary bullet only to welcome a wolf into the fold? Isn't it in our interests to find out?
Friday, February 10, 2017
Gorsuch Religious Influences and More Fair Game to Question
Republicans Unclear on Concept of ‘Protester’ Threat
There can be no peace with such as these. They will not allow it. Ideologues who pave the way for totalitarians never will, and those who believe “It” can’t happen here are whistling past the graveyard of history. [More]Everyone is clear on who they’re calling “fascist” and on who they want dead?
We're the Only Ones Playful Enough
Paying for 'Progress'
Gun owners will see huge increases in permit fees that would raise millions of dollars to help the state combat its two-year, $3.6 billion deficit. [More]Pretty sweet -- squander the plunder and then hit your victims up again, forcing them to pay even more for what is theirs by right.
No wonder he wants them disarmed.
And the state knows who these gun owners are why, exactly...?
[Via Keith B]
Rummaging in the Attic
governmentattic.org provides electronic copies of thousands of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Fascinating historical documents, reports on items in the news, oddities and fun stuff and government bloopers, they're all here. [More]Interesting resource. I'm going to bookmark it and rummage through it in my copious free time.
How about you?
In Other Words, They're Bums
Rescind and Replace
President Trump needs to deny the Left a victory over his immigration executive order. [More]Jim Simpson present a novel way as to how that might be done.
We're the Only Ones Aiding and Abetting Enough
She admitted to finding and photographing with a cellphone a drop of blood with human hair on Jan. 12. She did not submit the photograph as evidence and following the incident she contacted Bybee to make him aware of the questions detectives had asked her related to the attempted murder investigation, the Sheriff's Office said. [More]Am I wrong when my first thought is to suspect someone has also been out of uniform...? Two someones?
[Via bondmen]
We're the Only Ones Identifiable Enough
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper who made national news for pulling over a speeding cop at gunpoint lost the only part of her privacy lawsuit against police that made it to court ... The Miami officers argued that because Watts had pulled her gun on a Miami police officer, they "wanted to be able to identify her for their own safety" and so they needed to see her picture. [More]If they can use that rationale to access her personal information, imagine what they can do to you, especially if you're vocal about the intent of the Second Amendment.
[Via William T]
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Retro WON: Sweetheart Grips, A Love Story? [More]From back in the days before MILMs...
Longtime readers may recall this GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column.
[Via Florida Guy]
Just in Case You Wanted to Know
Meanwhile, Over at the Other NAMBLA...
A 23-year-old registered sex offender, who has participated in several recent protests as a leader of ‘Portland’s Resistance,’ is now being accused of sexually abusing a teen boy and girl. [More]And it looks like he's not the only one in the bunch leading an "alternative lifestyle."
They certainly seem to have their share of Pink Swastika types, don't they?
Oh, those kooky Marlon Brando Look Alikes...
We're the Only Ones Obscure Enough
While red lights and speeding cameras make our streets safer and tolls pay for bridges and roads, some law enforcement officers may have found a way to avoid them. An Inside Edition investigation, which will air in full Thursday, found that some officers in New York City are obscuring their license plates with plastic covers. [More]And if they catch you doing it, they have the full continuum of authorized force to rely on with which they can either ruin or end your life.
[Via Florida Guy]
Kristol Meth Kills
Bill Kristol Says ‘Lazy’ White Working Class Should Be Replaced By ‘New Americans’ [More]So naturally the neocoM traitor wants to strip from "the whole people" their ability to defend their country against enemies foreign and domestic.
This is what he would have happily had us -- and our Posterity -- live under:
McEnany countered that the election is a "binary choice" and that if Kristol and other anti-Trump conservatives aren't with Trump, then they're supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton. "If she wins this [election] and appoints liberal justices, we will be asking you why you allowed that to happen."
"I'm happy to take that responsibility compared to your taking the responsibility of supporting a man who is utterly unfit to be president of the United States," Kristol said.