Hammering the Nuremberg Defense

Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the state’s general ban on openly carrying guns. [More]

That would be in the matter of:

DALE LEE NORMAN, Petitioner, vs.STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent.

So in other words, the AG defending the Florida ban against the people bearing arms is [drum roll]...

...a True Second Amendment Supporter...

Just don't "confuse" her on-the-job infringements with the notion that she's not "an outstanding advocate and supporter of the Second Amendment."

Besides, she's just following orders.

I've had jobs where expectations that I do something that conflicted with my principles came up. Y'know what I said?

No.

The worst any boss can do is fire you. On a scale of one to 10, that hardly registers against the true and important losses we suffer in life.

No job is worth your dignity, let alone your soul.

[Via Mack H]

Zinke or Lead?

How about both, FWS coppers? [More]

I, Cop-Basher

Nice hit piece on law enforcement, way to keep the anti cop rhetoric going. [More]

Yeah, I obviously made all this up. And decrying corruption, criminal acts and dangerous negligence on the part of government employees is a "hit piece" and "anti cop."

Sounds like somebody's taking things personally. Have I got a shirt for him.

I worked for a highly-regulated private sector company  -- with @3,000 employees in my "whole division" -- and we had 0 full-time "internal affairs" investigators. Corporate, internal, customer and regulatory audits, along with comprehensive compliance systems and procedures (guess who was responsible for those) allowed for operations to be conducted just fine, and in my 16 years there, we never had an employee arrested for, let alone convicted of illegal business practices. (They did get big enough for HR to hire an Ethics Manager, primarily out of fear of EEO lawsuits from disgruntled low-performers reacting to a write-up, but when lean times hit they decided employees weren't pilfering enough #2 pencils from Office Supply Stores to make the position worth keeping.)

Hothead here says they need "a whole division of IA to help clean it out" and neither the contradiction of that admission nor the irony of it seems to register.

My "needlepoint" consists of pointing at and needling those who deserve it. Like you, "Jambo."

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Make Us Stars or We'll Join ISIS!

They might need to impose a mandatory "minority movie" attendance law to fill those theaters. [More] 

And, of course, once the house is packed...

Cast Against Type?

Not really.  That's just what Opposite Day "progressives" want everybody to think. [More]

Exclusive: Challenge to a Showdown

While self-defense is unquestionably a benefit, “weapons of war” are precisely what “the people” are entitled to have. That’s why the militia was (and still is, by some of us) deemed “necessary to the security of a free State.” [More]

Will SCOTUS ultimately hear Kolbe v. Hogan? If they do, how will they rule? And what if you disagree?

We're the Only Ones Scapegoated Enough

“In order to believe Mr. Cousins’ claims of racism, you have to believe that seven to eight officers are lying and conspiring..." [More]

And then what?

[Via bondmen]

That Makes Her, at Minimum, an Accessory

Local judge being investigated for possibly helping illegal immigrant escape ICE agents [More]

And rather than be disbarred, removed from the bench and prosecuted, she'll become a cause célèbre and a "progressive" heroine.  If he hurts anyone, let's hope she's sued.

Illegal Immigrunts

Massive 'tsunami' of sewage from Tijuana that fouled San Diego beaches may have been deliberately released [More]

Oh, you mean it was an act of war? Or will Mexico pay reparations and extradite those responsible?

I'm Not Gonna Try It -- YOU Try It

While more than a hundred police departments have signed a letter of interest in smart guns in the abstract, none were willing to try out existing models while on patrol. [More]

Let's get Mikey.

He hates everything.

And everybody realizes what an honest broker The Trace is, right?

Endowed by Our CREATION

The Florida Supreme Court says there's nothing wrong with a state law that bans openly carrying handguns.[More]

Of course they did, and here's the crux of the opening "our side" has implicity acknowledged and endorsed by conflating permits with rights:

[T]he Legislature is considering bills this year that would grant that right. 

Very Illuminating

“As the very, very dead Frederick Douglass one said, ‘Anytime is a good time for illumination,'” Foster said. [More]

Somehow, calls for resistance lose their edge when issued by overprivileged lottery winners. And can anyone source that quote beyond the title of an article about Douglass?

Because too often, mile-wide, inch-deep stage prop dilettantes read a headline and then present themselves as authorities, and since they can articulate and present well, idol-worshiping fans treat them as such.

But don't take it from me. Take it from her:

I feel fragile ... unsure, struggling to figure it all out...I always feel like something of an impostor. I don't know what I'm doing... 

Finally something we can agree on...

Foster's an idiot on guns, too. You could say she ...uh... doesn't know dick about them.

Locutus of Borg

Patrick Stewart is applying for US citizenship to 'fight' Donald Trump [More]

Not "Donald Trump," but the righteous goals of the people who voted for him. So tell the enemy alien to take his hive mind and get lost.

If an official function doesn't "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity," government has no business performing it. A thorough understanding and agreement with founding intent on that and on the Bill of Rights ought to be a requirement, for would-be citizens, and I'd argue, for visitors.