How to Win Friends and Influence People

Become a judge or prosecutor...[More]

Gosh, I wonder why this is happening?

Of course, I also wonder how they define "harassing communications"?

But when the U.S. Marshal's Service gets involved, nothing surprises me.

I see Vanderboegh has more.

Dare We Close the DC Assassin Loophole?

D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles said presidential and other motorcades will be exposed to high-powered arms fire if the District’s gun laws are stripped out by Congress. [More]

Because apparently the Heller decision made shooting politicians legal or something. And the only thing that's held the snipers back so far has been the DC gun ban.

Besides, who would be presumptuous enough to think protecting your life is anywhere near as important as protecting the masters' lives?

[Via Jeffersonian]

Speaking of Government Tax and Spend Cheats

Watson paid pittance for taxes on 'nonexistent' Detroit house [More]

Right--she just didn't know and never thought to ask. Hey, at least she's in touch with what a struggle it is for her constituents to make ends meet, because she's been feeling their pain all this time, right?

We have no shortage of domestic parasites. I don't want anyone to think I'm unfairly singling out the Brits.

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Embarrassing disclosures about the vast expenses claims of MPs amount to a "McCarthy-style witch-hunt" that risks driving politicians to suicide, a Conservative MP said on Friday. [More]

So it's not that they're a bunch of lying thieves--it's exposing them as lying thieves is the new McCarthyism.

Y'know, it might help if you opened a separate window and had this playing in the background while you read the rest of the article.

And, oh, look--further "embarrassment":

But instead of solving the problem, they tried to keep it secret because coming clean would have embarrassed the Government and reduced its tax take from homeowners.

I don't suppose posting this might induce a few more of you parasites to do the right thing...?

When Single-Slice Pizza is Outlawed...

...only outlaws will have single-slice pizza. [More]

Good grief.

I'd suggest sending a "Hey, moron" email to D.C. Councilman Jim Graham, but figure any electorate ignorant enough to reward this control freak with power over their lives will be impervious to reason, so what would he care? But holy smokes, look at the staff a freakin' councilman has reporting to him. Talk about paring government to the bone!

As an aside, and I truly don't mean to alienate readers by stereotyping, but something about a grown man wearing a bow tie is kind'a Jimmy Olsen unsettling, if you ask me...

As another aside, I can't help but make a crack about "assault pepperoni" vs. "patrol pepperoni"...

[Via Anonymous]

All in Favor of German 'Gun Control,' Raise Your Right Hand

And what is that procedure? Well, it involves an authorized dealer being the only one who "carries out the locking and unlocking procedure." It involves the "Trustlock Center...log[ging] the locking and unlocking procedures and manag[ing] passwords and lists of authorized users." And this is all overseen by an entity cryptically referred to as "The agency," which "monitors the locking of weapons and manages the procedures."

No potential for abuse or a disconnect anywhere in the chain, is there? I mean, who wouldn't want to trust their lives to a device that interferes with a tool's primary function and depends on multiple layers of approvals and monitoring? [More]

More profiteering by those who don't have enough free market demand for their products...what do we call that...a public/private partnership...?

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This Day in History: May 26

The Enemy have withdrawn (I am informed) their Men from Bonam Town and Piscataway and marched them into Brunswick, whether for Offence or defence, I know not; but I believe the latter, as they have discovered a pretty considerable stir among our Men this few days past. [More]

A Memorial Day Remembrance

Trust me, beneficiaries of his sacrifice, Nick Morrison's uniform got dirty. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column takes a personal look at what today is about.

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This Day in History: May 25

I am very glad to find, that to morrow is the day fixed on for the completion of your Regiments; but I begin to think, that with respect to the Continent at large, it is almost a matter of moonshine, whether they are completed or not, for a very little more delay in marching them to Peeks Kill, will convince me, that there is no intention in the Colonels of sending them out of the State they are raised in; and that to guard against the possible evil of an Invasion of some of the Sea Port Towns of Connecticut, one of the most important posts in America, a post on the security of which alone, depends the Intercourse and Communication between the Eastern and Southern Colonies, is left in the utmost Jeopardy. [More]

Some Journalists Won't Admit Truth about Mexican 'Crime Gun' Numbers

Fortunately, the rest of the media seems to be waking up to what Todd refuses to. A Google "News" category search of the terms 'Mexico gun 90%' reveals that, aside from an increasingly lonely and desperate opinion maker at The Dallas Morning News, their competition appears to be coming around to the truth. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column spotlights a VPC fanboy who is becoming increasingly lonely, and increasingly desperate to maintain the fiction...

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Tell a friend? And then go enjoy the weekend. I have plenty of stuff in the queue to talk about, but it's a beautiful day. I have an Examiner Memorial Day post ready to go for tomorrow, but unless something huge happens, I don't expect to be posting much here for the rest of the day.

This Day in History: May 24

I have received your favour of the 19th. instant, in which you inform me, that by the last returns your Regiment amounted to 234 including dead and deserted. This is rather an unsatisfactory account of the matter, and admits the Supposition of a very large as well as a small part coming under this description. I should be glad you would be more explicit in your next and furnish me with as exact a return, as Circumstances will permit, of the true State of your Regiment. [More]

Would Require...?

Did Meredith Viera just say "would require"...? [More]

I think she misspoke. I wonder if she's aware enough to know how interesting things would get if she didn't?

A Total Meltdown

Obscene. [More]

Guarded by weapons-of-war-bearing "Only Ones."

Committed by an economic fascist company that they won't identify.

And cheered on by bubble-headed watch...uh...lapdog "Authorized Journalists."

Just obscene.

We're the Only Ones Who Left an Innocent Man in a Coma Enough

Surveillance video doesn't answer victim's family's questions [More]

Hey, he shouldn't have run.

They should have beat his ass harder.

They should have shot him.

Oh wait, wrong video.

See how he stopped and raised his hands to surrender?

No matter. I've seen updates where the department spokes"Only One" says everything was within justified procedure. So it must be OK.

Meaning it could never happen to you or me, right?

We're the Only Ones "Sexy Time!" Enough

A Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman and inappropriately touching two other women during traffic stops while on duty in Compton last year, prosecutors said Friday...

In 2006, another sheriff's deputy, Gabriel Gonzalez, was convicted of raping three women while he was on duty in the Compton area and sentenced to 30 years in prison. His victims received nearly $5.6 million in civil settlements. [More]

Hey, if they hadn't committed traffic violations, this wouldn't have happened.

Next thing you know, we'll be expected to believe this isn't just a few bad apples among the fine crop of Compton "Only Ones."

They got rid of those already.

I Can Feel It Coming in the Air Tonight

But if I were an MP today, I would make it my business to learn the course and the lessons of 1381 by heart. Then I would give thanks that there are no longer any chopping blocks at Cheapside. [More]

That could easily be rectified.

But what are they going to revolt with?

And would you "lend a hand"...?

A Real World Example

Iceland was a real-world example which privately produced more peace than the US has had, for longer than the US has existed...[More]

The comments in this thread went a bit far afield, and are buried in a post that is days old, and therefore not likely to be read.

How does a society with no "government" protect itself from invaders? I'm given the example of tenth to thirteenth century Iceland.

My read on that: we're talking a non-technological society that most of the world at the time didn't even know about, let alone have the means or the incentive to invade. It was a homogeneous culture--the same language, tradition, religion, mores, culture, history...

Let's examine the time and conditions in which we live.

I don't expect to resolve the anarchist/libertarianist vs. Constitutionalist debate here. I just wanted to make this dialog available for readers here to engage in.

Please read the linked comment thread before engaging, and then leave comments here (I'm turning them off in the older post so that we can move the discussion here).

And please--I started out my dialog with this poster with the understanding that name-calling would not be tolerated. Let's focus on light, not heat.

Speaking of Spreading Internet Rumors...

Man, I no sooner get done urging you not to do it, and here I go. [More]

Don't think of this as a rumor (and don't call me "Chubsy-Ubsy"), think of it as an investigation. Anyone know anybody in New York who can shed some confirmation light on this? Are the cops going door-to-door with permit registration lists asking to inspect guns?

I do see a critical and fundamental mistake made by "Mr. Shotgun."

We all know what it was, right?

[Via Jonathan S]

Spreading Gun Law Rumors Distracts from Real Threats

I don't mean to discourage Internet activism. We need electronic Paul Reveres. Just please, before galloping and screaming "Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm," make sure the British really are coming... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column explains how passing along unconfirmed Internet rumors doesn't help the cause and doesn't help our credibility.

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Tell your friends? Using "Bcc," of course...

This Day in History: May 23

May 23, 1777 Colonel Meigs, with whale-boats from Guilford, attacks the British forces at Sag Harbor, destroying vessels and stores and taking ninety prisoners. [More]

This site is an interesting resource.