A tea party to protest government spending and taxing is canceled. Canceled by the government.And the people behind the event are putting up with this?
Why? They feel too many people could show-up. [More]
There's no electricity. Meaning lights are out. Water isn't being pumped. Food is spoiling. Market shelves are emptied in panic buying turned to looting. Delivery trucks can't restock, because gas pumps are dead.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column explores the aftermath of a particularly sunny day and then asks a question. I know how most of you would answer it. How would the people in your circle of friends and relatives?
And it'll be a while before the power gets turned back on. For a good many, a lethal while.
The perfect storm has arrived...[More]
I am glad to find by your publication in the Pennsylvania Gazette, of the 19th Inst.; that you have compleated your arrangement of Field Officers, by means of which I hope the recruiting of your Battalions will go on more briskly, than it has done heretofore. By the promotion of Major Butler and death of the Colo. and Lieut. Colonel, the eighth Regiment of your state is left without a Field Officer, I must therefore desire that you will order the three new field Officers to join immediately, for I can assure you, that no Regiment in the Service wants them more. [More]
And he isn't shy about sharing his views of police work, referring to himself as not a state trooper, but as a "garbage man." His Facebook page said, "I pick up trash for a living." [More]Sounds like a bit of projection going on there, trashman.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONTo claim sovereignty over certain powers pursuant to the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, to serve notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates, and to insist that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed. [More]
Recently County Commissioner Janet Rowland suggested that county employees might carry concealed handguns to improve security at the old county courthouse. [More]Because everyone knows county employees are the "Only Ones" trustworthy enough to carry guns in courthouses. Although I might also nominate city building permit and state DMV clerks, especially the fat stupid ones who get off on their "authoritah".
The federal government is giving crack and powder cocaine, morphine, and other hard-core drugs to taxpayer-funded researchers for testing on addicts, The Examiner has learned. [More]But let non-"Only Ones" distribute medical marijuana to cancer patients and Katy bar the door.
According to federal records obtained by the ABC-7 I-Team, Bustamante was arrested on the theft charges March 2. He was accused of selling six government handguns, three government shotguns and a pair of government binoculars without authorization. [More]Wait a minute--"Only Ones" are involved in this? What happened to those damned American gun shows...?
Federal prosecutors charged Ciavarella and another Luzerne County judge, Michael Conahan, with taking $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in privately owned lockups.They would face more than that from me if they had done this to one of my boys.
The judges pleaded guilty to fraud last month and face sentences of more than seven years in prison. [More]
I can see several problems with this right off the bat. This opens the door for all kinds of fishing expeditions. And how is a company that depends on compliance (to often arbitrary or unwritten "standards") with ATF for its survival reasonably supposed to be able to refuse "voluntary cooperation"--and then not fear repercussions? How is that not extortion? [More]to beI received a letter from a reliable source that appears authentic. I'm trying to determine if it is, and if so, what its implications will be.
I'm impressed. And now it's your turn. Mr. Blanchard has agreed to take questions from you, the readers, over the next few hours. [More]The Gun Rights Examiner online interview where you can ask a question is now up and open for business.
I have the greatest reason to believe that Soldiers, when they are dismissed the Hospitals, in which they have been, instead of joining the Corps they belong to, go Stroling about the country at their own option, to the great detriment of the Services. [More]
If you haven't done so already, you should report this guy to the FBI. I don't care if he says he's under surveillance, I would contact them anyway.And then, like a typical collectivist, he tries to hijack the thread over to his page!
"We have got to be finding ways to get (handguns) off the streets, not handing them out as prizes," Liberal MP Mark Holland (Ajax-Pickering) said yesterday. "It really is an insult to a community that has seen so much gun violence and where so many people have been killed ... to give that away as a (raffle) prize." [More]Settle down, Mark. You'll work yourself into an indignant frenzy and then this will pop out...
Robber fatally shot in Miami Burger King holdup [More]I wasn't there and have no way of knowing how accurate this report is--but I think "arguing" with a masked gunman is pretty much a mistake.
A 911 operator is under investigation for lecturing a kidnapping victim who was later found slain. [More]Nice job there. I wonder if he'd have hustled a bit more if she'd told him she had a gun?
More Tickets in Hard TimesHey, why should your hard time be their hard time?
Cities searching for revenue look to their police departments as a way to cash in. [More]
Rep. Grant Burgoyne, D-Boise, spoke against the bill, saying no one ever expects to see an invasion or a declaration by the governor of martial law, but no one expected to see planes crashing into the World Trade Center either.
"We're meddling here with one of the most fundamental and necessary powers, and I think we need to be very careful how we do that," he told the House. [More]
Interesting perspective--it's not government infringing on your rights, it's you meddling with their powers.
How much h....s... can an "authorized journalist" spew in three minutes of video?Special Forces in Iraq use semi-auto AR-15s? And where's the AK-47?
BSNBC reporters on the job...
Couldn't find any contact info. Little wonder - if they were taken to task for spouting bullcrap they'd have to have a legion of ombudsmen on staff...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29859061#29804534
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29859061#29804317
Two years ago, a Pennsylvania man was thrown in jail for 160 days for refusing to allow police to take his picture. [More]And what happens if a lowly citizen tries to make it a two-way street and photograph an "Only One"?
A federal judge ruled there must be a full review of the possible environmental impact of allowing citizens on national properties to carry concealed guns in holsters rather than locked cases. [More]WorldNetDaily's Bob Unruh weighs in on the recent national parks gun ruling.
It also sidetracks our attention from what we should be focusing on: the criminal.
And how is he presented?Oakland shooter unable to escape cycle of violence...Personal choices have nothing to do with it, you see. It's not like he had anything to do with the "cycle of violence," is it? [More]
Family members, angry and upset after their loss, describe Mixon as an deeply frustrated young man who likely snapped under the weight of opportunities missed or denied.
On March 25, 1777, Gates was named commander of Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain, which was made an independent command from the Northern Department. [More]
Delegate Mark Hunt, D-Kanawha, is co-sponsor of HB3248, a bill aimed at adding members of the Legislature to a list of officials and others who are allowed to skip the waiting period and carry a firearm. [More]Because everyone knows a threat on "Only One" Mik...uh...Mark Hunt is much more serious and deserving of an expedited response than a threat on you or me...
Business window shattered by gunfire on Milpas Street in Santa Barbara. [More]Here's a video clip of the feral morons being rescued.
Being a "prohibited person," it was illegal for Mixon to touch any gun. It was illegal for him to have a handgun, to carry it, to kill with it. And California has "assault weapon" bans that cover not only the model Mixon used, but also the characteristics...
The other problematic choice of words? Using the term "Automatic rifle."[More]
This is to inform your Excelency that I applyed here for Money Armes and plankits but can’t get it without your Excelency is pleas’d to send me a Warrand I have twenty five men I am oblig’d to pay £1.1 pr week for Each men which I think is too much... [More]
Now, Jessie's parents are attempting to launch a national campaign seeking laws to address "sexting" - the practice of forwarding and posting sexually explicit cell-phone photos online. The Logans also want to warn teens of the harassment, humiliation and bullying that can occur when that photo gets forwarded. [More]The Logans are free to warn anyone they want about anything they like. As for the rest of it, my natural inclination to feel sympathy for them has been overshadowed by more negative sentiments.
Cutts was one of 10 officers convicted in the past five years that the AP found still had the authority to make an arrest or carry a gun, at least on paper. [More]So according to the law, a convicted murderer "Only One" is technically still more trustworthy to keep and bear arms than I am...?
“Firearms are routinely being transported from the U.S. into Mexico in violation of both U.S. and Mexican law,” William Hoover, assistant director of field operations for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), told the subcommittee. [More]If that's true, it does kind of show you how well those laws work at stopping bad guys, doesn't it?
The Second Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms.
Click to enlargeI wrote to you the 13th, directing you to order eight of the Regiments of your State, to march, with the greatest expedition, to Peeks Kill; I then gave you my Reasons for this alteration of my former orders. Altho' I called upon you in the most pressing manner, to hurry the Troops on, I cannot help again repeating my distress for the want of Men. [More]
Alleged purse-snatcher, tackled by supermarket vigilantes, pleads innocent [More]"Vigilantes"?
Jordan said Mixon had an "extensive criminal history" and was wanted on a no-bail warrant.So wasn't it illegal for him to have guns? And carry them? And have an "assault weapon"? And kill?
"(Mixon) was on parole and he had a warrant out for his arrest for violating that parole. And he was on parole for assault with a deadly weapon," said Oakland police Deputy Chief Jeffery Israel.[More]
About 20 bystanders taunted police.There is an undercurrent of seething hatred. It's a powder keg out there. The citizen militia may yet need to discover itself when things explode.
Just unload them and lock them up. [More]No one is saying locks and safes don't have a place in overall options. But to recommend locking up your safety under all conditions is foolish and dangerous. It can enable terrible unintended consequences like pitchfork murders and dead grandmothers.
More US police using gunfire detection system...But a sick and dangerous joke nonetheless, considering the overarching "Only One" surveillance society it "normalizes."
But former Boston police lieutenant Thomas Nolan questions whether the money spent on the technology could better be used to hire more police.
"The cops I talk to on the street think ShotSpotter is a joke," said Nolan, associate criminal justice professor at Boston University. [More]
Shopkeepers say plainclothes cops barged in, looted stores & stole cash [More]Big, brave men, protecting us all from tiny Zip-Lock bags.
The judge made a great ruling. Guns should be restricted when ever and where ever possible.This is a comment to yesterday's Gun Rights Examiner post from the "Portland Enureti...uh...Progressive Examiner." Talk about a poor reflection. Hey, I don't get to choose who they let say what.
Bringing a concealed gun into a national park is simply ridiculous. I do not want some trigger happy yahoo packing a gun into a park where me and my family might be spending time.
The fact that commentators on this site are all for breaking the law reflects poorly on the gun rights movement, and only confirms the suspicion that restrictions on gun ownership is a positive for society. [More]
I'm going to devote this column on Thursday to a very special interview--one where you will be able to directly participate. [More]Kenn Blanchard will be my guest.
The little Folk are all happy I hope. May they continue so, to a good old Age. May they enjoy many happy, usefull and honourable Days. [More]Do you think maybe parents not concerned with such things for themselves, let alone their offspring, might be the major part of our problem today...?
Schenectady's Corporation Counsel John Van Norden said, "If you abolish the police department you still have a need - not an obligation - but a need to police the community. You would need something in transition. Declaring martial law would be one way to bridge the gap." [More]Got that?
Well-meaning 'snoops' are being recruited by the Government to nag their colleagues, family and neighbours into living healthier lives. [More]This is just the first phase, understand. Once they're used to it we can start making things compulsory, with attendant reporting requirements and punishments for noncompliance.
Monterey Police Chief Tim Murphy told the Herald-Citizen, "I have only this to say: no comment." He also said the other two officers would not be allowed to comment at this point. [More]Read about another outrage committed against an American citizen under force of arms by a government that has the sole purpose of securing the Blessings of Liberty.
Suicide rates among police officers in Los Angeles and San Diego are higher than their counterparts in other big cities cited in a report considered Tuesday by the Los angeles Police Commission. [More]I wonder how they compare with rates for the CHP and national LEOs?
The San Diego County district attorney is asking for patience as officials investigate a shooting by an off-duty police officer that injured a woman and her 8-year-old son. [More]Because we all know how patient they'd be had an "Only One's" kid been shot in a traffic dispute.
What this means is Judge Kollar-Kotelly, the National Parks Conservation Association, the Brady Campaign, et al, subscribe to the perverted value system that the potential for an immeasurable effect on the environment outweighs the right of a human to defend their life and the lives of their loved ones. That is what it boils down to.Forget the statistics and the debating points. This treason boils down to the essentials and needs to be couched that way.
Bottom line: They would rather see you dead than armed. And they'll use the force of the state to bend you to their will.
That's despicable. [More]
Virginia seems to have taken full advantage of the special opportunity open to her. Ships entered the states rivers at will. For example, on March 21, 1777, the Virginia Gazette reported that a shop from Nantes carrying 30,000 pounds of gunpowder, a brig from St. Eustatia, and a schooner from Curacoa had sailed up the James River. Another brig from Guadaloupe had entered the York River, and yet two more sloops from St. Eustatia and Curacoa were plying the Rappahannock.
Although these arrivals carried varied cargoes, large amounts of ammunition continued to arrive in 1777. [More]
The Information charges that Culp purchased inexpensive homes, frequently in need of substantial repair and renovation, and then arranged to sell these properties at inflated amounts to persons who obtained mortgage loans based upon falsified mortgage loan applications.I guess that means this "Only One" was "culpable"?
New Orleans Police say look out for a man impersonating a police officer -- uniform and all!! He's preying on women and getting bolder by the crime. [More]Insidious. How are we to know? He not only looks like a Big Easy "Only One," he acts like one, too!
Less than a day after Michael McLendon fired his last shot, gun control groups issued press releases that cited his murderous rampage through three Alabama towns as an argument for reviving the federal "assault weapon" ban. [More]I guess they didn't get the letter.
I looked at him and said, "I thought guns were illegal in Mexico." He chuckled... [More]And it looks like the cartels might not be relying on gun stores and damned American gun shows?
Its ridiculous to suggest that our bill includes any effort to make service a mandatory requirement. [More]Yeah. What kind of ridiculous agenda-driven liar would suggest that?
According to a minute entry, Gottsfield concluded that evidence against Iknadosian was not sufficient to support conviction based on a technical legal issue. Because the gun buyers all were eligible to acquire firearms, he said, their deception did not amount to a "material falsification." Consequently, Gottsfield ruled, the evidence did not show felonious conduct by Iknadosian. [More]So requiring purchasers to submit to required mandated background checks and jumping through all the hoops before completing their transactions is "a technical legal issue"? Y'know, if you're going to get in this much trouble for leaving a record trail of compliance, doesn't that create a powerful incentive to just go off the books altogether?
Famed Appalachian moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, whose incorrigible bootlegging ways were as out of step with modern times as his hillbilly beard and overalls, took his own life rather than go to prison for making white lightning, his widow says. [More]Who did he harm again?
Imagine Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and Sarah Brady alone together in the wilderness, having backpacked miles from the nearest ranger facility. Now imagine an immediate threat--one that's been stalking them with deadly intent--confronts them, confident it has the advantage. [More]It may be hard to imagine this happening to them, but they'll do their damnedest to make sure if it happens to you, you'll be helpless.
May the subterfuges of Toryism be continually exposed and counteracted by that zeal and ability you have so long displayed... [More]
A federal judge in Washington Thursday blocked enforcement of a Bush administration rule allowing people to carry loaded concealed weapons in national parks...Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was a Clinton appointee to the federal bench, so it's no surprise she's a subversive anti-gun activist.
...The suit was filed by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the National Parks Conservation Association and the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees. [More]
I'm playing catch-up with stories I have not had time to cover on Gun Rights Examiner because of breaking news. [More]A former Bellevue police officer fired for being overweight could be back patrolling the streets in a few months. [More]Let's see--the Obese "Only One" did so poorly in shooting that his peers reported him? And he's deemed more gunworthy than you or I because he's been reinstated on a technicality?
The Non-commissioned officers and soldiers of Col: Dayton's Regt. whose Arms, and Accoutrements are in repair, are, upon a settlement, to have Credit in their accounts, for the sums stopped from them respectively, for said arms &c -- Such of the Arms as have been damaged, and can be repaired, are likewise to be accounted for, with them, making a reasonable allowance for the Repair; -- With this the men are to be made acquainted, as soon as possible. [More]
"You can tell that a person made a conscious decision to pull over," Lyons said. "When you for whatever reason say, 'I'm going to give myself up,' if this is what they are going to do to you ..." [More]In other words, "Only One" conduct may end up discouraging suspects from giving themselves up peacefully...? If they know you're going to beat the hell out of them, they might not give up? And introducing "peace officers" into the mix actually causes violence--due to their conduct...?
Warm day brings outburst of violence [More]Some people are so far gone they can't be trusted with a sunny day.
Newly released dispatch tapes show a Spokane policeman involved in an off-duty shooting waited 16 minutes before stepping out of the darkness and surrendering himself to his fellow officers. [More]Hey, gotta make sure the evidence is right, and who was the "Only One" on scene best qualified to do that?
"Who in this country would not want to change a policy of kicking in doors in the middle of the night and sending a parent away from their families?"[More]Via Skullz, who asks:
So, does that apply to the ATF too?
A waiter serves green champagne to guests during a St Patricks Day reception hosted by President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 17, 2009. [More]The linked story is about how The Lightworker can't form a coherent sentence without being artificially prompted. But I thought the real story was in the picture at the bottom.
Gov't To Force Us To "GIVE" [More]The “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act”...
Many of you let me know you had contacted your representatives, and others copied me on correspondence they's sent to Senators Baucus and Tester. Between that and your spreading the word like...like a grassfire, enough attention was given to this to get results. That they happened so quickly is impressive, and ought to prime us for engaging in the next challenge--and the ones after that. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column celebrates a grassroots win. Thanks to everyone who pitched in. That was you, right?
NEW BRUNSWICK March 18, 1777
Americans capture several wagons, take eight prisoners and kill four or five in skirmish. [More]
