Limited Posting Ahead

Family is coming in from out of state and will be here from the airport in an hour.

Gotta get cracking on a breakfast spread.

I may have time to post later this afternoon.

In the mean time, if you're just dying to know what I think about something (and who isn't?), go here and find something you haven't read before...

Make Politicians Prove They Support the Second Amendment

It's past time for people who would presume to represent us to show us they understand what our rights are. I expect them to consider the right to keep and bear arms not as an embarrassing lip service requirement, but as an enshrined unalienable right. I don't want them just to defend it, I want them to know how and why to proudly champion it. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column offers a way to help pin politicians down on the Second Amendment. Those who play the political game will deem it too extreme to promote. Those past playing will deem it useless wheel-spinning.

And onward we press.

Also read a rant from someone who has shucked the political process altogether and get follow-up commentary on the Thune Amendment from Oregon Firearms Federation.

Tell a friend?

Have you read the latest from all the Gun Rights Examiners?

• Atlanta: Ed Stone
• Austin: Howard Nemerov
• Boston: Ron Bokleman
• Charlotte: Paul Valone
• Chicago: Don Gwinn
• Cleveland: Daniel White
• DC: Mike Stollenwerk
• Denver: Dan Bidstrup
• Los Angeles: John Longenecker
• Minneapolis: John Pierce
• National: David Codrea
  
• Seattle: Dave Workman
• St. Louis: Kurt Hofmann
• Wisconsin: Gene German

This Day in History: July 24

My last advices, which can be depended upon, [on] are, that the Enemys Fleet except 40 Sail (which are at New York) have fallen down to the Hook, that it consists of 170 Sail of Topsail Vessells and abt. 50 or 60 Smaller ones; this, with the Report of the Pilots being Southern ones, and some other Circumstances have led to a belief that Phila. is the object. [More]

Mayors and Rabbis and Crooks, Oh My!

"New Jersey's corruption problem is one of the worst, if not the worst, in the nation," said Ed Kahrer, who heads the FBI's white collar and public corruption investigation division. "Corruption is a cancer that is destroying the core values of this state." [More]

"Core values of the state..."

Good one!

Yeah, this is certainly representative of a government I'd want dictating what they trust us with--right? Although I can see why they'd want to.

[Via Ed M]

Insha'Allah

Audience member: "Would you get rid of the Constitution for Shariah, yes or no?"

Imam: "Over the Muslim world? Yes, it would be gone."

Audience Member: And so if the United States was a Muslim world, the Constitution would be gone?"

Imam: "If the United States was in the Muslim world, the Muslims who are here would be calling and happy to see the Shariah applied, yes we would."

Audience Member: "And the Constitution gone. That's all."

Imam: "Yes, as Muslims they would be long gone." [More]

Bring it on...

Campus Hijinks at TSU

Gunfire on the Texas Southern University campus wounded six people and scattered the crowd at a community rally, and police were investigating Thursday whether a gang rivalry was behind the drive-by shooting. [More]

What th...

Doesn't anybody read the damned handbook any more?

Let's See if This Works...

Cool!

Thanks to Cleveland GRE Daniel White, who is smart about stuff like this.

Please feel free to post/pass around...Click on "Get Widget."

We're the Only Ones Suspended Enough

An Oklahoma trooper accused of using excessive force while stopping and arresting a paramedic will receive a five-day suspension without pay for his actions...[More]

Why such a light response?

An internal investigation concluded that Trooper Daniel Martin was justified in stopping and arresting paramedic Maurice White during a traffic stop.

Of course he was.

[Via Jeffersonian]

I Don't Know Nothin' 'bout Birthin' Babies

I've been asked by some readers to address the Obama birth controversy.

I've been advised by other readers not to touch it lest I be labeled. As if I'm not already.

I'm not one to buy into what politicians and "Authorized Journalists" have to say about things. But here's why I've been relatively quiet on this. I have my own conspiracy...I can't call it a "theory," it's more like a nagging suspicion.

It's that he can prove he was born here, but it serves his purposes for now to get his political enemies on board with the cover-up story. Perhaps he can even get some high profile politicians to bite. Then, when he thinks the net is as full as it's going to get, he can discredit them and make them all objects of public ridicule.

Which is why I suspect the Republicans won't touch it. Case in point, Tom Coburn, who has been on new shows assuring people he knows Obama is American-born, although why he is so certain is left unsaid.

I admit I have absolutely no proof on this, so I don't promote it because I can't say I truly believe it myself.

Thing is, those discrediting the "birthers" (which is itself a pejorative term) offer only ridicule. This came up yesterday on CNN, and the moderator and both his guests did their share of eye-rolling and casting aspersions on motives.

Telling your audience on a supposed news panel that people are kooks just because you say so while making fun of them is hardly a compelling argument. Whenever someone so transparently resorts to that, it makes their motives suspect--especially since it's the only response they offer.

The fact is, this could all be cleared up immediately if Obama would order the release of his original and actual birth certificate, not the computerized printout offered as proof.

If you're interested in following this story, my suggestion is to consult WorldNetDaily, which has done the bulk of the reporting and amassed quite an archive.

And that's about all I'll have to say on this matter unless something that changes the current standoff between accusations and stonewalling happens.

Why, Indeed?

"Why would he take any student mental health records to his home at any time, and why that student?" [More]

I dunno.

CYA?

[Via Tom Z]

We're the Only Ones "For the Children" Enough

A sheriff's deputy zapped three children with a stun gun at an Illinois emergency youth shelter, threatening to sodomize one of them before choking a fourth child and throwing her in a closet, according to a federal civil-rights lawsuit. [More]

But wait:

No charges have been filed in the case. Sheriff Roger Mulch, who also is named in the lawsuit, said Monday the deputies followed protocol and did "nothing out of the ordinary."

Of course they did. And of course they didn't.

[Via JPR9]

Are Those Against Nationwide Concealed Carry for States' Rights?

So if their laws work for gun control, states have rights. But if state laws work against gun control, federal bans are in order--from Chicago to Cheyenne. Just moderate the message in accordance with political needs. Supporters in the media will help cover tracks. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows so-called "states' rights" are "respected" only when they serve the purpose of infringing on individual liberty. It includes an NPR audio clip of Barack OBama endorsing a nationwide federal concealed carry ban, and shows how his record has been sanitized by the media over time for political advantage.

Tell a friend?

Check out the latest from other Gun Rights Examiners:

• Atlanta: You bet it's personal!
• Austin: Why do children need guns?
• Boston: Sotomayor: Unfit to serve
• Charlotte: Sotomayor: Where for art thou, NRA?
• Chicago: National concealed-carry reciprocity falls two votes short in Senate
• Cleveland: When it comes to guns, some politicos just don't trust you
• DC: Thune amendment: Great idea, wrong vehicle
• Denver: Green shoots of recovery for second amendment rights
• Los Angeles: On Sotomayor: The Judiciary Committee needs to get it, too.
• Minneapolis: Lies, damn lies, and VPC statistics
• Seattle: Outrage over national concealed carry misplaced while Seattle looks for a killer
• St. Louis: The Brady Campaign to create 'gun crime'
• Wisconsin: Party like it was 1773
  

This Day in History: July 23

July 23, 1777 - British Gen. Howe, with 15,000 men, sets sail from New York for Chesapeake Bay to capture Philadelphia, instead of sailing north to meet up with Gen. Burgoyne. [More]

Senate Rejects Thune Reciprocity

I'll update this as I learn more. [More]

UPDATED WITH VOTES

We're the Only Ones Drawing Ire Enough

Several Sarasota police officers, the police chief and a city employee may face disciplinary actions in the wake of an investigation that the city manager said he was troubled by. [More]

What's to be irate about? It's just a little good old-fashioned "foot-stomping street justice." And with the involvement of the entire chain of command in the lying and cover-up, it's not like we can blame a few bad apples. Hell, this is obviously SOP, and for City Manager Bartolotta to pretend he thinks otherwise ain't exactly convincing.

Transcribed:

The City Manager also added that the integrity of the department is solid. He said he only has issues with management, their policies and procedures...

What?

Hey, I'm sure glad there was nothing to those five prior excessive force complaints against "Only One" Childers, aren't you? Four were "unfounded" and one "backed off from their complaint."

And the fact that the carrot/stick bribery and brutality have just been publicly demonstrated to be institutionally condoned has nothing to do with any of those, I'm sure...

Aren't you?

And I like the way the chief admits he "deserves" his "lumps."

Pal, you don't know the half of it.

[Via Ed M]

Buy a Car, Horrify an Anti

CNN video [More]

This has been around for a few days but I just now had time to discuss it.

The anchor-babe seems stuck on "AK-47," like it's some kind of supernatural device.

Horrors!

That and "some people" might object to referencing "God and guns."

We know the sympathies of those who would object, so it's not like you're going to alienate anyone who's not already against you.

We talked about these guys last time they did this.

[Via John G]

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

Deaths up during anti-knife drive [More]

Bloody twits.

[Via Mama Liberty]

PolyKahr on Thune

[L] et your conscience be your guide [More]

A-yup.

Your Kind Isn't Welcome Around Here

At the end of July, “Free Market Warrior” will not be allowed at Concord Mills Mall. [More]

I see. Doubting The Lightworker is not only blasphemous, it's racist.

I note the mall has a Books-A-Million. I wonder if they're going to make them clear the shelves of these...?

You can tell Simon Property Group how this makes you feel if you're so inclined.

[Via retrotruckman]

We're the Only Ones Experienced Enough

Waldron, 37, is a 10-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department, starting as a patrol officer in 1999 and becoming an investigator in 2004, Skoogman said. He received minor injuries during the altercation and has been placed on paid administrative leave, which is common after shooting incidents. [More]

Via Blackwing1, who tells me:

A local Barney Fife follows this group in an unmarked car, in plain clothes, and tries to make an arrest (during which all of the eyewitnesses say that he NEVER identified himself as an officer). In the scuffle that follows, his badge is finally revealed…the accused “erratic driver” backs away, dressed only in a swimsuit, with both hands in the air. The Barney shoots four (4) times at close range (managing to miss at LEAST twice, since those bullets went through the nearby apartment occupied by a 2-year-old and 4-year-old), and kills him.

Many of these details were only in the local TeeWee coverage, when they interviewed the witnesses. It doesn’t show up in the paper version. Notice that part of his erratic driving was reported as “going down a local sledding hill”, but what they don’t mention is that this hill was part of his parents property, on which he grew up.

And the only thing the local coverage can come up with are the headlines, “Court records show Heilman had a past“, and “Deputy in shooting had 10 years experience“. Well, then, if you have a “past”, I guess the cops are justified in shooting you when you’re unarmed, on the ground on your butt, and surrendering with both hands in the air.

The witnesses also described how the Fife then started swinging his firearm wildly around, telling everybody to, “Freeze”.

Must be a result of the superb training.

I’m sure that if I had done this that I’d be given routine administrative leave, of course.

Well, no, you wouldn't be, actually. You're not an "Only One."