A Renewed Effort

H.B. 228: Veto override is start of push to protect Ohioans' Second Amendment rights [More]

The takeaway:

"Expect 'duty to retreat' to be part of that effort."

My takeaway, and something to keep in mind for the future (Twitter links added just in case you want to express your thoughts):

The Governor wasn't the only one working against the bill ... Other opponents included the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police, The Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police, State Highway Patrol...

Every one of them took the oath. Will we see any scathing condemnations from any in the "pro-gun rank and file" we're told are actually the majority?

Taking a Flier

Investigation into KKK fliers in Wolfe City underway [More]

For what? What law was broken and how is this a job for the police?

Tell me this doesn't sound like a totally manufactured smear job on all the other organizations named in the last paragraph. [More]

We're the Only Ones Outta Here Enough

Charlottesville Police Department seeing a ‘mass exodus’ [More]

But...but...but the brochures...

[Via Mack H]

Out with the Old

The Confederate statue has twice been vandalized, most recently on Christmas Day with the words “Cowards & Traitors” written in black marker underneath an inscription. [More]

No ironic cognitive dissonance there...

Hey, if a city with two cigarette brands named after it can't lecture us on what's socially appropriate, who can? Especially on matters of racial sensitivity...

[Via Mack H]

Cost Estimates

The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers [More]

Not so fast, say "libertarians" at Cato who deride border enforcement as "silly":

We suggest an easy remedy for this problem – cut immigration enforcement.

You'll note not a one of them has a word to say about the real costs...

Or the effects that will continue to have on this...

[Via Wynn A] 

UPDATE: Oh look, more costs:

ER Wait, Illegal Aliens, and Units

[Via Mack H]

The Controlled Opposition

With friends like these, who needs Democrats? [More]

Indeed.

[Via Felix B]

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word 'Right' Is

While I appreciate the fact that these men are attempting to remove restrictions and regulations to people’s rights, they need to be appealing to the fact that they are not in a position to permit anyone anything regarding their rights nor make a demand to pay the state for a license for the privilege of exercising those rights. [More]

What did Mr. Pynchon say...?

Game of Crones

“She’ll cut your head off and you won’t even know you’re bleeding,” filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi says about her mother... [More]

Winter is here.

[Via Jess]

For Whom the Bell Tolls

He said the reason for his suspension was an August Facebook post in which he criticized Bell. [More]

Well, yeah. Commies purge. Everyone knows that.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones 'Mentoring' Enough

45-year-old Ryan Shomaker of Washington, Missouri has been charged with statutory sodomy with a person less than 14-years-old. [More]

Again with the dating dilemma...

[Via bondmen]

Scofflaw

On January 1, I became a criminal in my hometown of Boulder [More]

He had me up to:

I respect the police, greatly. The cops I know hate the idea of enforcing this intolerance. I ask them when they come to arrest me and confiscate my guns, they give me enough warning, so my kids aren’t around when they do it.

"I was only following orders" does not absolve oath-breakers. Any "Only One" that would do that deserves no respect.

[Via bondmen]

Sic 'em!

Lawsuit Claims SPLC Abetted Theft, Spread Lies to Destroy Lawyer for ‘Thought Crime’ [More]

Good. Haters should not be tolerated.

[Via Michael G]

Flip or Flop

The Times describes how California's famed ballot-harvesters, who flipped places such as Orange County blue by "helping" fill out, turn in, and continue to turn in ballots from otherwise uncommitted voters until they got the result they wanted, aren't actually U.S. citizens.  [More]

Again the focus is on effects, not the cause.

How about if they're not here in the first damn place to flip anything?

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Showered Enough

Reichberg was said to have showered top law enforcement officials with gifts, expensive dinners, and trips on private jets with prostitutes. [More]

Is it any wonder these people want your guns?

[Via Jess]

Too Little Too Late

So, will 2A community reach out to the legal immigrant community to properly educate them on their rights in this country and to shape future pro-2A voters, or will the 2A community continue to pander to anti legal immigrant sentiment and drive these future voters into the open arms of the Democrat party. [More]

First, pointing out verifiable observations is not pandering.

By all means, they should have been outreaching all along. But you can't treat causes by trying to treat effects, and the paradigm shift won't be enough to alter outcomes in a major way.

After all, who controls the public education establishment their children will be indoctrinated by as well as the media and means of mass communications to do that? Who controls cultural and entertainment platforms? What is their sentiment toward an armed people, besides blocking, limiting, conflating and banning?

Future Communist Voters and Office Holders of America

As the humanitarian crisis continues along the U.S-Mexico Border, officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) say that 22,000 minors “illegally crossed the border” in December. Nearly 25 percent of those were unaccompanied. [More]

I'd say the ones luring the illegals own that "humanitarian crisis" as much as the ones actively exposing children to dangers and hardships you couldn't get away with subjecting an animal to.

[Via Dave Licht]

UPDATE: Everybody ready for the next wave, emboldened by Democrat "victory"?

Meanwhile, Over at the Tolerant Left...

Michael Savage, facing death threats, heads to secret location [More]

I'll have more to say about this later-- this one leads to some related observations, but right now I'm occupied on another project that could take the rest of the day.

Those Violent Straw Purchasers

The guy's a serial douche. [More]

And it's not her fault. Props for punching back.

A New Day is Upon Us

And the first object is to secure power. [More]

How to Get the Party Started

How can we Win when We can’t even Decide how to Begin? [More]

What was it Mr. Kennedy said...?

[Via Wes R]

Reshaping America to Foreign Ideologies, an Attack on Guns & Freedom

Omar has been able to exploit manipulated demographic changes to obtain political power and thus puts a face on the ideological and cultural transformation that will ultimately prove to be the greatest threat against gun owner rights. Most in the “gun community leadership” ignore that and some even deny  that observation, but none will present verifiable facts to refute it. [More]

Curious that so many "refugees" that have been generously admitted want to make this country more like the places they fled.