The far right is rising in the ranchland of Northern California, using special elections and veiled intimidation to spread political influence across a historically conservative region of this deeply liberal state. [More]
See how any pushback against the far left by people who just want to be left alone is portrayed by the DSM as menacing, racist, and evil...?
[Via bondmen]
Expedia and Microsoft traced the map to a single IP address. One computer had downloaded that map on the evening of May 20. That IP address was located on the service provider UUNET. When investigators contacted UUNET, they were directed to a residence in the 1000 block of Ford Drive in Ferguson, Missouri. [More]
Those of us who don't murder prostitutes but maybe do stuff on the internet the government may frown upon need to be aware that we leave trails and clues we might not think could come back and bite us.
Especially those who think they're browsing anonymously.
[Via bondmen]
New details also reveal that David Mora Rojas, 39, also used a "ghost gun" in the shooting. Mora Rojas also overstayed his visa after entering California from his native Mexico on Dec. 17, 2018, on a non-immigrant visitor visa... [More]
Sometimes you just get a sense of narrative issues from what they're not telling you.
[Via bondmen]
"Imagine being falsely accused of threatening to shoot up a school. Law enforcement concluded that he was being pranked by fellow students, but that did not stop numerous parents from spreading the false accusation online," said Dhillon Law Group partner, Matthew Sarelson. "The students who spread the false accusations against Mr. Ortiz were never disciplined in any way. Only Mr. Ortiz was suspended, without due process, and for no valid reason." [More]
It figures a "progressive" school boasting "a safe learning environment" would be the biggest bullying abettor and enabler.
"Mr. Ardieta" certainly sounds like he embraces The Keeper's "right thinking/wrong thinking" mentality.
[Via bondmen]
Olathe East student allegedly used ‘ghost gun’ in shooting at school ... “I’m a big Second Amendment person, but ghost guns (are) really only being operated by unlawful individuals who shouldn’t be having firearms," Howe said. "I think that’s something we’re going to take from this is that those types of firearms should be stopped.” [More]
That's an awful big "but" you've got their, pal.
Here's the real lesson anyone with a brain ought to be walking away from this with.
[Via Darrel W]
This week we need to provide some encouragement for another important gun bill--HB 2166. The bill would exempt firearms and firearm safety equipment from transaction privilege (sales) tax. [More]
Goal: “not only bring the grievances in the bar complaints, but shame them and make them toxic in their communities and in their firms.”… “You’re threatening their livelihood. And, you know, they’ve got reputations in their local communities.” [More]
What do they call the condition when such aberrations are incapable of shame?
[Via Michael G]
“We’re refugees from Kosovo, a country where me and my family had to flee because of ethnic cleansing and were saved, frankly, by U.S. and NATO intervention there,” Vedat Gashi, a Democrat challenging Mr. Bowman, said last week. [More]
Here's Vedat mugging with the Demanding Moms to trick Americans out of their guns.
He's been endorsed by Democratic Socialists of America, eh? Wonder if he knows how to sing these in Albanian...
"You came to support fascists?” the officer responded, a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s justification for the war. “What fascists?” the crowd asked. The officer then gave an order: “Arrest everyone.” [More]
Funny, how they use the same terminology as Antifa...
A 5-year-old allegedly beat up a teacher and left her hospitalized after attempting to contain an incident between two students, according to police. [More]
No wonder such invertebrates go into hysterics at the suggestion of protecting those whose care they are entrusted with.
Hey, I still got it, baby! Grab the little monsters by the ankles and swing 'em like clubs! (I'd have done better except the calculation lumps my age range in with up-to-90-year-olds.)
As the world witnesses what is happening to Ukraine, Americans were asked what they would do if they were in the same position as Ukrainians are now: stay and fight or leave the country? A majority (55 percent) say they would stay and fight, while 38 percent say they would leave the country. Republicans say 68 – 25 percent and independents say 57 – 36 percent they would stay and fight, while Democrats say 52 – 40 percent they would leave the country. “When confronted with a terrible hypothetical that would put them in the shoes of the Ukrainians, Americans say they would stand and fight rather than seek safety in another country,” added Malloy. [More]
There's a big difference between saying and doing.
Left unexplored is how many anonymous "Molon Labeists" would live up to their internet bravado. And how many Democrats would side with the invaders...
For the association, yes, it’s a win. For Wayne LaPierre, for whom the judge had “some unflattering things to say,” and for Letitia James, who is trying to save face by portraying this as good news/bad news with appeal options, not so much. [More]
JPFO Gets New Rabbinic Director [More]
Here's hoping they've picked someone who will do more than advocate to the members but will actively and vigorously take his case outside to those who haven't considered it before, and defend it against enemies who have.
Why don't we have a program where Americans can donate the 5-10 million privately owned assault rifles they do not need to Ukraine? It would help both countries. [More]
Fruit didn't fall far from the rotten tree...
[Via bondmen]
The Video Of The Fired Diane Feinstein Staffer Dancing In Her Office On Psychedelic Mushrooms While Smoking A Joint Is Must-See TV [More]
It's probably the sanest thing he's done there.
Here's what I want to see amplified:
Purley said he knew what he “had to do” because he “knew no one would ever know the sh*t Feinstein does to black people if I didn’t make it impossible to ignore.”
But it won't be. The poor useful idiot doesn't seem to realize that all these agenda causes used to suck people in will always take a back seat to the one real cause, power, and nothing will be allowed to threaten that.
[Via bondmen]
During the sentencing, U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour told Channon that her conduct had done “tremendous damage to Black Lives Matter in Seattle.” [More]
Ol' (Reagan appointee!) Judge Coughenour doesn't get out much, does he?
She shoulda stayed missing. Why do I look at that and think it needs a "Roast Me" sign?
Curious, how many vengeful defects want to tear everything down and have nothing to replace it with but their own rage at universal realities.
[Via bondmen]
Trump National Security Council Official Received Report on Multiple Shooters And ANTIFA And ISIS Involvement In Las Vegas Shooting [More]
This deserves a serious analysis by a fact check review team with built-in bias-mitigating procedural safeguards. So expect it to be ridiculed as tinfoil hat looney tunes despite the fact they've already been exposed in one significant and demonstrable self-admission that nobody who can is interested in examining.
[Via bondmen]
Referencing seven video clips from that session, I will show how these educators inculcate BLM principles in their fourth- and fifth-grade students, and then build on that foundation to steer them towards activism. [More]
$35K? Hey, well-heeled Chi-Town Marxists gotta send their kids somewhere...
[Via Michael G]
“What you have is a certain group of people, litigants and whatever, on whatever side, who their attitude is, ‘well the people who likely seem negligent have no money and the people who have money are not negligent. ” [Watch]
And the moderator just nodded, and no one yelled anything?
Anybody ticking off on the checklist...?
[Via Remarks]
Republican ‘unforced errors’ threaten path to Senate control [More]
True, AP wants to stoke sagging Dem optimism here, but the outrageous truth remains: No one quite takes the fire out of bellies like Republican squishes do.
Prosecutor Extorts $300,000 Out of Alleged Drug Dealer by Threatening His Entire Family With Charges [More]
Looks like the NRA/NSSF "Enforce existing Intolerable Acts" crowd oughta love him.
[Via Michael G]
The Biggest Bear You Will Ever See [Watch]
And they're just standing feet away from it while moron YouTube commenters gush over how one with nature this makes them feel?
It's not like bears aren't happy to oblige.
[Via Jess]
...Michael Stout provided sensitive law enforcement information in 2019 to someone in the towing industry in exchange for $1,500 in cash and a 2013 Chevrolet Equinox.... "Stout talked about other officers who were making money in 'all kinda' ways, including by 'chopping cars,'" [More]Anybody see anything in here we can chop off his hand for?
A group of violent #BLM rioters who carried out a campaign of arson & vandalism in Atlanta to frame the Proud Boys & Trump supporters have been convicted in federal court. #Antifa groups called the prosecution “repression” against their comrades. #HateHoax [More]
You racists not acting racist and forcing us to be racist for you is racist.
[Via Michael G]
On Friday, a federal judge halted an effort to disqualify Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) from running for office, based upon claims he ought to be barred from doing so according to the 14th Amendment. Lawsuits charged Cawthorn was an "insurrectionist" who supported those who participated in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.[More]
What's he been convicted of? Or are unapproved opinions enough to disenfranchise choices for voters who hold them?
[Via Michael G]
This is just Cox's latest move to meet the ire of social conservatives. [More]
On the one hand, he signed permitless carry.
On the other hand, he paves the road for new Democrats.
There's a Paula Abdul song in here somewhere.
[Via Michael G]
The legislature does not intend to create a blanket ban, but only to limit the prospective sale or transfer of large capacity magazines, allowing existing legal owners to retain large capacity magazines for the purposes of defending themselves and their homes and using those large capacity magazines in other authorized locations. [More]
WarOnGuns Correspondent Jess got a donation solicitation email from Hung Cao, one of 10 Republicans running to represent Virginia's 10th Congressional District, and asks:
David, Got a read, vis-a-vis 2A, on this guy?
Without digging any deeper, I note he doesn't consider it an important enough issue to mention it in his website's "Policies" section aside from the briefest of mentions about guns. His version of "the security of a free State" appears to be "Back the Blue" and the standing army, and if he brings RKBA up now, it will be a tactical afterthought.
I can't tell you about the others because I haven't had time to look. I may not do that because the incumbent is a doctrinaire gun-grabber Democrat who won last time by a landslide (56%-43%). We know from the Youngkin campaign that Republican "strategists" view bringing 2A up to the electorate as toxic, so I'm not sure putting more time into this is worth my while.
“When it comes to race, I am colorblind,” a slide shows a white male saying. The slide then explains that the message received is: “Denying the individual as a racial/cultural being.” “There is only one race, the human race,” another white male is depicted saying, the presentation flagging his statement as a “microaggression.” [More]
So is saying "All lives matter."
Just to be clear: Not being racist is racist.
And as for that last bit, who is it that insists that race is but a fictitious "social construct"?
"My race is incidental, To think otherwise is to buy into racial collectivism, which I refuse to do," Mike Vanderboegh wrote. "How is it that you refute one collectivism by adopting another?"
Especially when the ubiquitous in-your-face tactic is to brand anyone who is not a collectivist a racist.
And remember: If you didn't vote for Joe Biden, you ain't black.
News flash: Shannon Watts DGAF About YOU [More]
She blocked me a long time ago. She doesn't want other leftists calling her out for siding with globalist corporations against minority plaintiffs. (And for the record, I've expressed doubts about those verdicts but it doesn't matter what I think. If her fellow travelers believed what they say, they'd be demanding her head.)
By the way, if she's blocked you, you can still use the incognito window feature to keep up with her and her useful idiot followers' latest madcap antics/acts of subversion.
[Via President Non_Fudd]
Peter Ambler, executive director of Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said it was "deeply irresponsible" for gun rights advocates to tie their "more guns everywhere" advocacy to the Ukraine crisis. [More]
Spoken like someone desperately trying to change the subject...
I guess when you have no real rebuttal, throwing a ball and hoping the weak-minded will chase after it at least distracts some.
Critics accuse the A.T.F.’s acting director, Marvin Richardson, of cozying up to gun industry leaders at a convention in Las Vegas and delaying enacting rules that would outlaw so-called ghost guns... “A.T.F. needs a top-to-bottom overhaul,” said John Feinblatt, the president of Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control group funded by former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York. [More]
So... get rid of the black guy, John?
That's not surprising, considering who you work for.
[Via Jess]
An Arizona ammunitions company this week announced that it will send one million bullets to Ukraine following calls from Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky for more ammunition. [More]
The always execrable Rick Wilson has some ideas on what other people could do to put their lives in danger. [More]
[Via Michael G]
This bill would include in this prohibition, a misdemeanor conviction for child abuse, elder abuse, carrying a concealed firearm, carrying a loaded firearm in public, permitting the illegal carrying of a firearm in a vehicle, or openly carrying an unloaded handgun, as specified, that occurs on or after January 1, 2023. [More]
What an @$$hole. Sponsored by an enemy inside the gates who decided the electorate had been changed enough so that he could come out of the Democrat closet...
Child abuse will soon be modified to include objecting to CRT or not letting them go to the library for Drag Queen Story Hour. I believe simple corrective swat on the rear is already verboten.
I carried illegally in California for over 25 years because I could not get one of their "permits" to save my life -- literally. In all that time I never hurt a soul, although I did have to display (not point) once.
Meanwhile, the predatory products of their policies will stalk their hunting grounds undeterred.
[Via 1Gat]
GRNC-PVF normally does well raising money to activate gun voters... But not this year. So far, the response to our efforts has been pathetic. [More]
@SJPD_PIO called out for pushing misinformation, deletes the tweets. [More]
Getting everybody all worked up over nothing seems to be a long-term specialty with them...
[Via WiscoDave]
A California mail carrier allegedly beat a turkey to death. Was it self-defense? [More]
Subjects who would cede their birthright to birds? The greasy-lipped masters are laughing like hell.
10 to 1 the loudest voices among outraged neighbors are personally frustrated single mom Democrats where the men knew better than to stick around.
Two victims have been released from the hospital as of Friday afternoon. Hospital officials said one victim remains in critical condition. [More]
So the shooter is a "victim"?
The lesson here is it took a defender with a gun to stop the aggressor. For some reason, acknowledging that obvious truth really PO's the gun-grabbers.
[Via bondmen]
Supreme Court reinstates death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev [More]
The one Bernie Sanders said had the right to vote?
The one whose brother's name was called out as a "victim of gun violence" by Bloomberg's Magical Misery Tour?
[Via Michael G]
GOA FILES PETITION IN U.S. SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW ATF BUMP STOCK BAN [More]
Is any gun owner out there still ignorant enough to rant this is just about "a stupid piece of plastic"?
Go the Armed American Radio website for listening/viewing options.Today on #AAR join Mark for a chat with @dcodrea about dis, data, and da udder ting! It's Friday. 4-6p ET, 1-3p PT! pic.twitter.com/uzGnnjeRj7
— Mark Walters (@aarmark) March 4, 2022
No one claims that getting a driver’s license infringes on their right to drive a car. There is no “God-given” right or “constitutional” right to drive a car without a license. And despite gun lobbyists’ claims to the contrary, there is no God-given or constitutional right to carry a concealed gun in public without a permit or training. [More]
I do.
Yes, there is.
And the Constitution doesn't define our rights.
Go impose your religious beliefs on someone else.
[Via Jess]
Yet in recent years, libertarians increasingly seem less concerned with how their policies might actually impact people. Convinced that markets are virtually always the best way to approach any issue, they have allied with many of the same forces – monopoly capital, anti-suburban zealots and the tech oligarchy – which are systematically undermining the popular rationale for market capitalism. [More]
"Woke" corporate cancel culture has shown there is such a thing as "market tyranny," including the "perfect" workaround to government censorship restraints.
[Via Michael G]
Melinda also lifted the lid on how she felt the trust in her marriage was broken by Bill's affair with an employee. He previously admitted having an affair with an unnamed woman who worked for Microsoft in 2000. [More]
Yeah, sleeping with the boss to get ahead is disgusting!
And it sounds like Bill has been a longtime proponent of giving young people the jab.
[Via Michael G]
“We’re Now Living Out Minority Report” ATF Unofficially Declares Solvent Traps to Be Suppressors [More]
[Via bondmen]
In case you haven't been following this issue - the ATF is now rejecting ALL Form 1 silencer applications unless you supply them with a schematic and photos of the materials you plan to use to build the silencer you are not yet approved to build.An actual response. Lol. [More]
‘Afghan Adjustment Act’ Would Legalize 36,000 Unvetted Afghans - Don’t ask questions, just give them their citizenship. [More]
It could be like The Beverly Hillbillies with IEDs.
Anybody else noticing an in-your-face disregard on the part of our "rulers" for the Preamble, that is, the very reason stated right up front to justify delegation of powers and consent of the governed?
[Via bondmen]
The suspect then turned and advanced on the deputies while swinging the garden claw, which had spikes on the end of it, the Sheriff’s Department stated. The claw was said to be about 3 feet long. [More]
So it was an assault garden claw? And just for consistency, how come the media isn't referring to this as another garden claw violence-related death?
[Via bondmen]
When you’re as unpopular as they are it makes sense – you can’t admit reality, it’s too depressing, so you create a new one in your head. [More]
Being wrong is not the same as being unpopular. Ignore that at our peril.
Republican voters must not be lulled into overconfidence and I'm still waiting for the "leadership" to do something spectacularly bone-headed and demoralizing.
[Via bondmen]
NYPD sergeant sentenced to probation for assault after violent arrests - An NYPD spokesperson said Wong was on modified duty and declined to comment further. [More]
He's a 15-year veteran, so he knows what can be gotten away with. Wonder what would happen if a "civilian" assaulted one of "New York's Finest"...?
Harvard University dorm rooms broken into, burglarized as residents slept, police say [More]
What are the police still doing there?
[Via Michael G]
The state contends it should have exclusive authority to regulate firearms within its borders. But the MUS Board of Regents “has come to this court with the claim that they are the better entity to regulate bearing arms by individuals while on university campuses,” the amicus brief states. The disagreement is likened to “competing relatives seeking guardianship over a child unable to exercise rights in their own name” in the brief. [More]
So legal incompetents can vote? Oh, yeah, I guess they can.
I don't suppose when they get all outraged and demand changes to university policy or curricula, or the banning of speakers that trigger tantrums, they can be told that children should be seen and not heard, and appropriately disciplined by the adults for unacceptable behavior?
I don't suppose treating young adults like adults, with adult expectations -- and adult repercussions -- is on the table?
They will exert significant influence over group standards of conduct... [More]
That's enough for me. Although I suspect "anything goes" in the Darkverse, or will, for those who would rather be Jack the Ripper than Jack the Giant Killer.
Anybody getting a "Ye shall be as gods" vibe out of this, and not just for Zuckerberg? Anybody seeing any problems with developing real-life addictions and how people who need another fix can be controlled? Sounds like that'll provoke demand for responsive regulatory laws and enforcers and everything that comes with that.
What about people who don't want to come back? What about developing psychoses? What about mindhackers and malware? Just rush into this with no impact studies?
The Biden administration’s actions are especially curious, having made “gun control” and outrage over racial injustices domestic policy centerpieces. [More]
Official data: Fully vaccinated people account for 9 of 10 COVID deaths [More]
If that constitutes being fact-checked, is it premature to ask when the tribunals begin?
In NYC, if you smear a woman’s face with your own feces, they let you out of jail ‘hours later’ even with 44 prior arrests [More]
Anyone who can't be trusted with poop...
Why would anyone consent to give authority to any government that allows this to happen?
[Via Michael G]
If you want ordinary people to make your society occupation-proof, you have to teach them to kill well before they need to do so. [More]
Recognizing that truth kinda makes you wonder why The Atlantic does everything in its power to subvert that here.
[Via Michael G]
Through My Lens: It’s time to talk about global gun control [More]
Because if we can't learn how to peacefully govern ourselves from someone who fled a Third World sh!+hole, who can we learn from?
[Via Michael G]
There, Kevin Mannix set out to “amend” it. And amend it he did. Working with a group called “Oregon Gun Owners” Republican Mannix, and then-House Rep Democrat Floyd Prozanski, actually managed to make the bill worse. [More]
On Tuesday night, voter turnout was higher than it was in the last midterm cycle — a very inconvenient truth for Dems who spent months claiming the recently enacted election integrity law would disenfranchise voters. [More]
That and motivated Republican voters means Party leadership is really going to have to outdo themselves if they want to blow it...
[Via Michael G]
A trooper with Pennsylvania State Police is facing child pornography charges.Sean McKenzie, 37, was arrested Tuesday in Westmoreland County and is facing 32 counts of sexual abuse of children and two counts of criminal abuse of communication facility. [More]
Dare we ask if he did it in uniform?
[Via jumpinjonnydee]
The shooting victim then came up to shove his brother-in-law, at which point Woods gave him a left stiff arm and then raised his right arm with the gun to shoot Brian Fredde in the chest. [More]
Closing in on someone in his own yard to shove him isn't assault? And would an "Only One" be given a "followed protocol" pass?
[Via bondmen]
Once the 18-to-30-foot-tall bollards are severed near the ground, their only remaining point of attachment is at the top of the structure, leaving the steel beam dangling in the air. It easily swings open with a push, creating a gap wide enough for people and narcotics to pass through. [More]
So the physical thing itself requires human manipulation to have its function abused?
[Via bondmen]
For more than three weeks, hundreds of protesters have disabled the center of New Zealand’s capital city, occupying the area in front of Parliament and issuing increasingly violent threats to politicians and other public figures in an ostensible battle against the country’s vaccine mandates. [More]
That thing would look more formidable if it hadn't allowed itself to be plucked.
[Via bondmen]
Special Counsel Finds Mark Zuckerberg’s Election Money Violated Wisconsin Bribery Laws [More]
Just another one of those "community standards"...
[Via bondmen]
Czechs Could Face 3 Years In Prison For Supporting Russia On Social Media [More]
Define "supporting." I think Russia is clearly in the wrong and support the people of Ukraine for taking up arms against them. I also think NATO and the U.S. share their portion of using the country like a pawn and stoking Putin's fears.
Get regimes thinking they're literally fighting for their lives and all kinds of things we take for granted suddenly don't just go away, but can be turned into snares. Right and wrong become secondary to the power to enforce vs. the power to resist.
Sounds like a pretty good reason for not surrendering your capability for deterring those with the former...
[Via bondmen]
The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) partnered with the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) yesterday to petition the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to California's ban on magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds. [More]
I'd feel better about it if they mentioned "Militia" more than once, and then only to quote the Second Amendment. With everything going on right now in Ukraine, you'd think core purpose would be a major and persuasive argument, with plenty of Founding intent quotes and Miller to cite.
The bill that if signed into law would permit Ohioans to carry a concealed weapon without a permit has now passed both chambers of the Ohio General Assembly and goes to Gov. Mike DeWine for his consideration. [More]
You'll forgive me if I don't consider this a done deal.
[Via Jess]
... Taylor had had a monthslong affair with a Plano woman, Tania Joya, who he had paid $5,000 to keep quiet ... Taylor is married with three children ... Joya is known as a former jihadist who was once married to a commander for the Islamic State. [More]
That's not the only curious company this "conservative Republican" kept:
"Taylor was one of two Texas Republicans who voted for the [January 6] commission..."
Maybe he and Burqetta can double-date with Swallowell and Chicomina...
[Via Steve T]
In a statement, the committee's chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), and vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), said the "facts we've gathered strongly suggest that Dr. Eastman's emails may show that he helped Donald Trump advance a corrupt scheme to obstruct the counting of electoral college ballots and a conspiracy to impede the transfer of power." [More]
