“I deal in facts. I deal in science,” said the agent, Matt Fairbanks... [More]And lazy rabbits are a reason to enhance human suffering, curtail peaceable choices, militarize police, seize assets and destroy lives?
A St. Louis officer has been suspended amid an investigation into the possible theft of up to $200,000 in membership dues paid to an organization that represents the city’s black police officers. [More]Hey, if I make this today's Five-Minute Activism project and ask for replacement funds, who's in it with me?
Bill Expands Judges’ Power To Seize Firearms [More]This is happening today.
There’s a saying that news is what happens to an editor on the way to work. [More]And another that says propaganda masked as news is what happens to their readers when the editors are at work...
Despite the fact that every court to rule on the matter has now determined that there is a First Amendment right to record on-duty police, and that according to the American Civil Liberties Union, Philadelphia police have a history of wrongful arrests in this area, U.S. District Court Judge William H. Yohn Jr. dismissed Loeb’s free-speech claim this year, finding that such a right isn’t yet clearly established in the Third District. (Welcome to the world of qualified immunity, where the police are only required to follow “well-established” laws.) [More]Yeah, it's not like the Constitution is the supreme law of the land or anything. Besides, everybody knows rights are determined by what local police "customs" allow.
‘THE FOSTERS’ AIRS YOUNGEST-EVER GAY KISS BETWEEN TWO 13-YEAR-OLD BOYS [More]Yes, of course that's the next "progressive" milepost. Does that bother you, you pedophobe, you hater? Give it time and SPLC will be advising DHS on how to profile you in fusion centers and put you on a watch list, with all the prohibitions that implies.
The panel held that the district court applied the appropriate legal principles ... [More]Sure they did. To deny rights.
Travel Security Article: Are You Safe Staying in Hotels? [More]You may save money at those "We'll leave the seat up for ya" places, but a penny wise may prove to be several pounds foolish, particularly if hookers and parking lot meth deals go along with the cheap room rates.
For a century, the East India Company conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. The lessons of its brutal reign have never been more relevant [More]Corporate predation is only possible with the coercive power of a state behind it -- otherwise, capitalism is voluntary. Plunder is not profit.
I am also informed by that General Officer, that there are two obstacles which still greatly oppose & retard the success of collecting your Recruits, viz. the want of Provisions to support and carry them to the place of general Rendezvous; and the want of efficacious means for apprehending Deserters... [More]
The bias against firearms and firearms-related products—let’s just call it what it is, discrimination against gun owners—hardly ends there. [More]My latest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column is now online. Please check it out, leave comments, and if you like it, share the link.
If an anti-gun, politically-connected Democrat hires a hit man to kill children to keep them from testifying that he molested them, why would you want to make it illegal for parents to defend them with tools of their choice -- not just in the home, but wherever the threat materializes? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes Everytown for Hit Man Safety might just mean "TO the children" instead of "FOR."
NumbersUSA, FAIR, CAPS:Now I'm going to tweet it to them, because he's been telling them this for a long time, they've been ignoring it, and we are where we are. If all a group produces is failure, who needs 'em? It's not like they're not capable of being smart, so the question needs to be asked: Who does it serve to be dumb?
Congratulations on this key victory toward your apparent goal of losing the USA. As you know, your strategy is designed to lose. You must like losing, which is a good thing because you'll be getting a lot more of it. Kudos on having your members calling the likes of DiFi, Boxer and Waxman -- F rated, committed enemies in safe districts who are smart enough to know that amnesty gives them a permanent hegemony -- instead of focusing on shoring up the potential swing votes (i.e., mainly the 75 Republicans who betrayed Party, oath, constitution, country, fellow citizens). Kudos on not bothering to forward to key legislators GOA's announcement that it was going to begin grading amnesty as an indirect gun rights issue. Otherwise Republicans, and Dems in conservative districts, might have thought twice about crossing us. And of course, Kudos on dropping the ball on election organization, so they know you're a one-legged paper tiger and can safely treat us like chumps.
Myrtle Point Passes Resolution, Tillamook On Deck [More]If you're from Oregon, it would take about the same amount of time to help with this as it would take for posting a lame excuse for not lifting a finger.
Writer/actor/outdoorsman Jameson Parker reports on attempts by billionaires to change laws in states where they don’t live. [More]This is a message that cannot be overstated. People don't like to discover they are being exploited and conned.
The predicament in which I stand as Citizen & Soldier, is as critical and delicate as can well be conceived. It has been the subject of many contemplative hours. The sufferings of a complaining army on one hand, and the inability of Congress and tardiness of the States on the other, are the forebodings of evil; & may be productive of events which are more to be depricated than prevented; [More]
These out-of-control unelected bureaucrats should not just apologize, as Keane politely requests, or withdraw as others suggest. The people responsible for this travesty should be placed under arrest for attempting to grossly violate the specific enumerated Second Amendment rights of the people. [More]So barring that, what do we have left except that new paradigm we're discouraged from discussing...?
HILLARY CLINTON SENT EVERY OFFICIAL EMAIL AS SECRETARY OF STATE FROM A PRIVATE ACCOUNT [More]I wonder if she has any about Fast and Furious?
There's a reason Bloomberg and other anti-gun billionaires are spending hundreds of millions of dollars for amnesty and over-immigration, and it isn't "cheap labor".
Over-immigration and government-sponsored invasion-occupation-amnesty pose a looming, ultimately fatal threat to gun rights by overwhelming the relatively conservative native born citizenry's voting control of our country. It's an indirect coup d'etat really, without a shot fired. Yet many gun rights supporters claim that the NRA can't oppose amnesty because it's a single-issue group. Fairly bizarre, if you think about it, that a gun rights group can't even acknowledge a massive indirect threat to gun rights that is near the point of no return thanks to that group's gross negligence and passive-aggressive complicity.
But the NRA has never been a single-issue group, certainly not in our lifetime. LaPierre champions all sorts of conservative issues, all except the one conservative issue that if lost will irreversibly defeat all the other conservative issues, the one threat that is soon to lock down the victory of the full Bloomberg gun control agenda, the one that will give the Dems permanent supermajority control of the USA and every institution within it. There is no such thing as a pro-gun Democrat. The D party is an anti-gun institution, led by gun grabbers. *All* Dems are anti-gun regardless of superficial positions and phony NRA grades. They all support anti-gun leadership, all support anti-gun candidates like Obama, all confirm extreme anti-gun nominations, etc. Don't worry though, there will still be RINOs around providing Kabuki hope for chumps.
Only GOA has had the courage, diligence and integrity to acknowledge amnesty as a gun rights issue and try to do anything about it. In fairness, the gun rights intelligentsia is very, very busy on higher priority items, like congratulating themselves on all the legal victories Bloomberg & Co will have ratcheting power to begin rolling back within a decade. There will be plenty of time for the gun rights intelligentsia to discuss this threat once it's too late to stop. Convenient thing about waiting until it's too late is that then they won't have to even try to stop it. And that's very convenient indeed for those "gun rights champions" who passive-aggressively support Bloomberg & Company's immigration coup d'etat.An addendum to anti-illegal immigration activists:
Please read David Codrea's article and forward. He has other articles that need to be given some exposure. Why, for Heaven's sake, is the immigration control community neglecting or burying this unique angle on the immigration issue which -- if these groups were willing to lift a pinkie -- they could easily use to make allies with 110 million gun owners and probably compel the most powerful citizen group to stand with us? I haven't seen a single immigration group forward or discuss any of David Codrea's articles or Gun Owners of America's alerts, even as news. These groups wouldn't have to take a partisan or pro-gun stand, but there's nothing stopping them from reporting it as *news* for cripe's sake, to let their members discuss it and *study* it on blogs and so forth. Not only is nothing stopping them, it's their duty.
Then again, these groups have long behaved as if our side has the luxury of leaving huge amounts of potential power on the table. Mindlessly lobbying the enemy, no credible election organization, claiming that subversion and gross dereliction facilitating invasion and carnage are "discretionary" and not impeachable, etc. Which is why they need to get used to losing big, beginning soon.That's pretty much what we're dealing with. Smart and principled activism is the key element missing between organized internet fleecing and people saying "Screw it, bring it on."
The senate judiciary committee will be conducting a hearing on SB15-175, the bill to repeal the magazine ban this coming Monday, March 9 at 1330 in Senate Committee Room 352.
Persons wishing to testify remotely can register at: http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/WitnessR.nsf/register.xspIf you're from CO or know someone who is, please get involved right now.
This committee is comprised of three republicans and two democrats. One of the members, Senator John Cooke, sponsored the bill. You may recognize that name; Senator Cooke was Weld County Sheriff Cooke and worked closely with David Kopel and the Independence Institute in their lawsuit against the ban. Senator Kevin Lundberg, the vice-chair strongly supports the bill. An aide of Senator Lundberg’s replied to my email regarding this bill saying that they had been receiving “hundreds of emails” in support of the bill. That to me was somewhat disappointing; why not thousands? How hard is it to send an email? One of the democrats, Senator Michael Merrifield, is a known Bloomberg lackey.
Anyway, I expect this bill to clear the committee based upon the demographics of the committee but then I felt pretty good that Hickenlooper would lose the election too, so that doesn’t mean folks should sit on their hands. The weather is supposed to be pretty nice early next week. We’ll see what kind of turnout we can get.
Starting now, I was across the legal Rubicon. Once I’d drilled out the tiniest bit of aluminum from the lower, this hunk of metal legally became, according to the ATF, an “other” firearm. [More]According to "the law," it's easier for a piece of metal to become a gun than it is for a fetus to become a human being.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Monday that President Obama is "very interested" in the idea of raising taxes through unilateral executive action. [More]Yeah, it's right there under Article.II. Section... well, I'm sure there's some precedent somewhere. Who would even think to question it except some right wing extremist hater we'd better just keep an eye on...?
The president has long believed that there are some common sense steps that we can take to, and what I mean is the federal government including Congress, to ensure that we are protecting the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans...Yes, by all means, let's allow these people to lead that "national conversation on guns" we're supposed to be having.
The note you Sent me contains the Genl’s consent for my absence—I have between two & three hundred miles to go, and cannot possibly return by the 15th April—I could wish to have a limited furlough and that extended till some time in may If that can be granted I shall be much obliged. [More]
“Well the answer you’re going to get from us at GOA is absolutely, it should be a part of scoring, and it’s something that we plan on including in our rating of Congress this next year, because as we've already discussed, if we don’t block this amnesty move now, before we get five, eight-million previously illegal aliens now voting 85 percent anti-gun Democrats, that’s the ballgame,” Pratt replied. “That’s it." [More]This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a development that may reshape the political landscape of the gun rights advocacy community.
One of the heroes of the Waco fights of the 1990s has passed away. [More]This is sad news. I had the privilege of corresponding and working with him to try in my small way to help him continue his great work. He wanted to put together a documentary on Fast and Furious. He also proposed a "sporting sequester" in response to Colorado's anti-gun edicts.
“Even felons have a right to life and nothing justifies their murders,” GRNC elaborated. “But the fact that a criminal lifestyle is hazardous and not conducive to longevity has nothing to do with Second Amendment rights. Bloomberg and NCGV's attempts to use the danger inherent to criminal behavior as a rationale to attack the rights of law-abiding North Carolinians is misleading and outrageous.” [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes collectivists applying collective guilt.
I have usually been, and according to some in my political party, have always been, a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. [More]Now watch, he's turning around...
In his speech Friday before the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre discussed a host of issues impacting gun rights, declaring they all depend on each other. Curiously absent from his speech was any acknowledgment of the danger amnesty for illegal aliens with a “pathway to citizenship” would pose to continued government recognition of the right to keep and bear arms. [More]Joe Miller posted my latest GRE at Restoring Liberty.
The request, Gray said, is "just part and parcel of their (gun rights groups) attempt to intimidate people." [More]To paraphrase Rhett Butler, you deserve to be intimidated, often, and by someone who knows how.
Border Agent Brian Terry statue unveiling ignored by Obama and Holder [More]I thought criminals always returned to the scene of the crime...?
Rick’s people surrender their guns to Olivia... [More]OK, the show just became officially unbelievable.
Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox that the way the ATF is going about this “appears to violate the Administrative Procedures Act. [More]You don't say.
It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have.You crucifixion-deserving swine tried to destroy an innocent man. What you tried to do would have been equivalent to taking all he's got.
For those of you who have not yet heard, California Cartridge-Microstamp Law Upheld in Gun Group Loss.
I think the money quote from U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller is "Plaintiffs insist they have the right to determine the precise way in which they would exercise their Second Amendment rights," but that the insistence upon particular handguns falls "outside the scope of the right to bear arms."
Let's try this on for size: Suppose CA law was changed so that only blacks who had graduated from a whites only university or college could run for office. Then imagine a judge saying Plaintiffs insist they have the right to determine the precise way in which they would exercise their Voting rights," but that the insistence upon being able to vote for people of color falls "outside the scope of the right to vote."
Lovett has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after being convicted of gambling and other federal corruption charges stemming from his time as chief. But he’ll still collect his $130,000 annual city pension. [More]My favorite line is from the councilthing who calls going after the pension "vindictive."
Government haters remind me of adolescents pumping their chests to proclaim that they don't need mom and dad. [More]And economic fascists who deliberately paint adherents to Constitutional restraints as adolescent "haters" remind me of self-serving liars.
The problem is that a good number of them do fault us, for standing. For showing up in person and staring down those who would enslave us. For being uncompromising and refusing to back down. For being willing to sit silently in a steel cage, facing indefinite detention while being treated like the enemy. [More]There were colonists with real grievances against the king who thought the Sons of Liberty made them all "look bad."
The 2nd Amendment Is Your Concealed Carry Permit [More]Goddammit, it is not.
Federal air marshals assigned to protect commercial flights across the U.S. were furtively pulled from their assigned flights so they could meet for sexual trysts... [More]Thus the need for them to pack a loaded piece...
NRA’S WAYNE LAPIERRE SPEAKS UP FOR GUN RIGHTS AT CPAC [More]More Kool-Aid, please.
In the end, at least 20 officers corralled, searched and fingerprinted all 60 meeting attendees, before seizing all cellphones and recording equipment... [More]Understand compliance was gained only by intimidation with a continuum of force that went all the way to lethal if anyone dared to resist.
Moses Harris who is the bearer of this, is the person recommended to me by Your Excellency in 1781, as one who could procure intelligence by means of the disaffected in the northern part of this state, and has requested of me to mention to Your Excellency that he intercepted the letters copies of which I had the honor to transmit you, he continued employed in procuring intelligence until the Autumn of that Year when he conceived It necessary for his safety to remove into dutchness County. [More]
Hour 1 - Alan Gottlieb
Hour 2 - US Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA), Neil McCabe
Hour 3 - Larry Pratt, David Codrea, George HillThe program broadcasts from 8 to 11 p.m. Eastern (adjust for your locale). Click here to find a list of stations nationwide, or here to listen via live streaming.
This regime thus supposes that the federal government may limit or ban all handgun ammunition that is not primarily intended for shooting sports. In doing so, the regime ignores that the Second Amendment guarantees a core right to “keep and carry arms in case of confrontation.” [More]Aside from telling them they've got their statutory definition of "armor piercing" all screwed up, our friends at Georgia Carry, via their attorney John Monroe, cut to the heart of the matter.
“[T]o defend firearm freedom, we need more than just firearm freedom,” LaPierre admitted, reinforcing a recent NRA advertising campaign promoting the message that all rights are connected. “One right depends on another. They’re all cut from the same cloth of what it means to be free people.” [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner analysis will be ignored by most and probably anger most of the rest. Ah well, if I wanted to be popular according to what trends, I'd be rewording other peoples' stories about celebrities.
