The Greenest RINOs

Now let's see how red they are. [More]

I'm not going to go through a run-down on all of them here, but you can feel free to.

I will note accepting "Close the gun show loophole/criminalize political speech/amnesty" John McCain is as much a reason Obama won as any.

Illinois gun owners were warned repeatedly about that weasel Mark Kirk and as far as I can tell, none of them did a thing about it. As far as I can tell, I'm the only one who cared, and I don't even live in his state.

Susan Collins has an F from GOA--that's all I need to know about her.

And what more can I say about Arnhole?

Reason to Think

The Supreme Court ruled that police couldn't search the car of a person arrested unless the officer's safety was threatened or there was reason to think the car contained evidence of a crime, reviving a constitutional protection against unreasonable searches. [More]

That's good.

But I'll hold the Hallelujahs until we see how far they can push that "reason to think" envelope.

UPDATE: J. D. Tuccille has more.

We're the Only Ones Sportsmanlike Enough

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer has been charged with assaulting his daughter's coach during a softball game in Mooresville. [More]

Charlotte-Mecklenburg?

The place with the drunk-driving, speeding killer and violent lesbian "Only Ones"?

How many more "just a few bad apples" are in that barrel?

[Via Portly Pirate]

Let's Hear it for Foreign Laws

Well madam Ginsburg, how about the "wisdom" of a judge that states: "The law, passed last month, says a husband can demand sex with his wife every four days unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse — a clause that critics say legalizes marital rape." [More]

Only if we can stone her afterward for tempting us.

Obama Pushing Treaty To Ban Reloading

Hence, reloading ammunition -- or putting together a lawful firearm from a kit -- is clearly “illicit manufacturing.” [More]

Yep.

And that's not the only treaty we need concern ourselves with.

Common Sense Airline Security

The passenger was looking through a carry-on bag when she apparently realized that she was carrying a Swiss army knife with a 1 1/2 inch blade and another knife with a 2 1/2 inch blade, authorities said.

She told a crew member and the plane was turned around. [More]

Why she said a word is beyond me--I guess the conditioning is stronger than the ability to think.

It must be, because look at what happened.

This is officially insane.

I Couldn't Agree More

There's No Such Thing As Sensible Gun Laws [More]

So why are the people hosting this link so adamant about enforcing them?

A Couple "Rational Reasons"

There is no rational reason to oppose closing the loophole. [More]

Sure there is.

I'll even give you two:

This.

And this.

[Via W-3]

Oath Keepers vs. Oath Breakers

[I]t's past time Americans had a chance to look at Oath Keepers side-by-side against oath breakers, and see for themselves how they compare. Perhaps fearing people may do this partially explains why Janet Napolitano's DHS report is so quick to tar veterans with the "extremist" brush...? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column compares patriotic Americans to an opportunistic political turncoat.

Then see a comparison of an armed society vs. a disarmed one. Could the truth be more obvious?

I also link to the latest from Liberty Belles and to the latest commentary from my fellow GREs.

All this, and more "m..........g to 'Red Dawn'!"

Tell a friend?

This Day in History: April 22

The detachments of the 3rd. 4th. and 10th. Pennsylvania Regiments, are to form one Detachment, and be under the Command of Major Harmar till their respective Regiments arrive. This detachment thus formed are to march for Boundbrook, by 6 o'clock to morrow morning, as is also the Eastern Detachment, under the Command of Col Zebulon Butler -- The whole to receive their orders from Major Genl. Lincoln, when they arrive there. [More]

EJ's Got It Backwards

MV straightens him out. [More]

I Don't Know Art...

...but I know what makes me gag. [More]


And I do apologize...

[Via Whose Paranoid]

Beyond Imagination

Daley couldn't imagine anyone wanting to hurt him. [More]

Rep. Sam Crump doesn't want us to talk about this in plain terms. I disagree.

We can't be so fearful of appearing like apologists that we're afraid to discuss this. It's a dialog that is long overdue. We can have it and come to an understanding of realities, or we can turn our faces away and act shocked and helpless when things don't improve--and perhaps pass more laws in response that squeeze even tighter.

You're in a position to take this "war on words," Rep. Crump, and turn it into a discussion. True, you'll no doubt be shouted down and decried, but at least you'll have a clear conscience that you tried to speak the truth.

Providing that truth includes the term "economic fascism."

[Via ranamacar]

And the Rich Get Richer

On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms. [More]

I can understand why she's all for citizen disarmament.

I can see someone who had his life ruined by fascists tampering with the economy finding out the family home he put his life into that was foreclosed from under him is just another chip in the portfolio of swines whose manipulations created the mess...and then realize he and millions like him have been swindled pawns, and the odds of ever getting justice are...

But hey--Barack is going to give him $400...

And anybody who isn't grateful is just a filthy ol' teabagger...

We're the Only Ones Domestic Enough

Because they're the "Only Ones" who can be trusted with guns, apparently...[More]

[Via Jeffersonian]

What Do You Call College Conservatives?

"Haters." [More]

SPLC said it, I believe it, that settles it.

I love this part:

The YWC’s agenda has some overlap with the platform of the Republican Party, but the group has defined itself in some ways as an opposition movement. The Republican party dodged red meat issues like immigration during the 2008 campaign, and its losses were in part a consequence of that, Saucier said. The YWC seeks to highlight the very issues that Republican groups have decided to place on the back burner, he said.

Yeah, that's the problem. George Bush and John McCain were too extreme right. Right? We need to reach across the aisle in a spirit of bipartisanship and cooperation. Oh, and the perfect is the enemy of the good.

The democrats pushing this line alongside the Fifth Column neocon intelligentsia and pragmatic party loyalists wouldn't steer us wrong, would they?

Back Under the Baseboards, Ed

Rendell posits that if there was a "secret ballot" cast, his gun control schemes would easily pass congress. The insinuation there is that congress really wants gun control, but is fearful of facing their constituents after voting away their rights. [More]

Scurrying from the light?

Isn't that what a cockroach does?

We're the Onl...

....uh...oops... [More]

I need to do more than read the headline...

And why this isn't a story about free pork chops is beyond me.

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Peeping Enough

Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall. The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy...

Gary Sutton Jr., 40, of New Milton and Charles Hommema of Buckhannon have been charged with the misdemeanors and face fines and up to a year in jail on each charge if convicted. [More]

Teenage girls? Any of them legally minors? If so, is there any reason--aside from "Only One" status--that they're not being charged as felonious sexual predators, so that we can forever disarm them and track where they live online?

[Via too many of you to credit]

We're the Only Ones Stimulated Enough

Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia wants to spend about $7 million in federal stimulus money to lease and staff a helicopter, buy a covert surveillance van and add machine guns to boats that patrol the Houston Ship Channel. [More]

Let's see, it's Homeland Security lucre, so it can't be foreign pirates. Maybe there's a rightwing extremist threat? Because as we all know, these weapons of war are designed solely to kill as many human beings as possible and belong on the battlefield, not on our streets.

Oh, sorry, I was mistakenly referring to your and my semiautos, not to "Only One"-assigned "patrol rifles."

[Via Lane]

UPDATE: Whose Paranoid tells us about another toy that can be deployed against...what did the guy in shades call us?

Civilians.

I know the definition has been allowed to change through common usage over time to include pea...uh...law enforcement officers. I wonder who thought that was a good idea?