Notes from the Resistance...
Authorities identified the third victim of a bear attack in a campground near Yellowstone National Park as a 21-year-old man from Colorado. [More]Does Colleen Kollar-Kotelly know about this?
Akron police are looking for a man who robbed a Newton Street bar and pistol-whipped several patrons just after midnight Tuesday. [More]What the...???
Should Gun Safety Be Taught in Schools? Perspectives of Teachers [More]The only ones who would answer "No" are unqualified to teach it.
Anyone with basic knowledge of the issue would suspect the gun in question was really a semi-auto, as opposed to a submachine gun and that the staff writer simply doesn't know the difference. And that's just what the Violence Policy Center wants them to think... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at an old trick that still works on the self-styled "opinion-making class." The bottom line is, they're either ignorant, in which case they're engaging in journalistic malpractice, or they're evil, willfully propagating lies to advance a statist agenda.
August 4, 1778 - Continental soldiers and 34 men of the Wyoming Independent Company, under the command of Colonel Zebulon Butler, march into Wyoming Valley and establish "Camp Westmoreland" at Wilkes-Barre. [More]
Yeah, I can't imagine either.
No, this isn't an anti-Semitic rant from a hate-motivated supremacist. It's an appeal from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership to help finance their new documentary, "No Guns for Jews."FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, discussing an embarrassing investigation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans. [More]"It's own rules."
U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester both said Monday they support confirming Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice. [More]Aid and comfort.
Regular readers will recognize reporting events like this is quite a departure from what I usually cover. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column explains why I've been away for over a week. I've been covering the 2010 IPSC Pan American Shotgun Championship for American Trigger Sports Network at the Park Mammoth Resort Rockcastle Shooting Center in KY.
"The whole town in some great confusion, not knowing what they should be at, some moving their goods out to the lines, the officers all bringing their luggage into the town. Constant fatigue for the men, horses and oxen; no rest by day or night... When I look over the list of my friends on both sides of the question, my heart shudders at the thought, what numbers must be slain, both so obstinate, so determined. Well may we say, what havoc does ambition make! Cursed Frenchmen! they [the Americans] would not have come, had it not been for you." [More]
I am briefly checking in from my hiatus to convey some very sad news.Charles SawdersHere is the Hanner Funeral Service visitation page link. Then click here to sign the register book.
65, of Doddridge, Ark., died Monday, July 19, 2010, in Vivian, La.
Mr. Sawders was born March 4, 1945, in Bakersfield, Calif. He was a pipe fitter and a Baptist.
Survivors include his wife, Cathy Williams Sawders of Doddridge; three sons, Hunter Sawders of New Jersey, Christopher Sawders of Brownswood, Texas, and Steven Turner of Doddridge; three daughters, Shelly Bowen of East Dorsett, Vt., Veronica Jenkins of Comanche, Okla., and April Doeppers of Omaha, Neb.; his mother, Fran Boon of Duncan, Okla.; one brother, Jack Boon of Florida; one sister, Cherri Quinn of Portales, N.M.; 12 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a number of other relatives.
Services will be 10 a.m. Friday at Olive Branch Methodist Church, Doddridge, with the Rev. Walter Burnett officiating. Burial will be in Olive Branch Cemetery under the direction of Hanner Funeral Service.
Visitation will be 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Online registration is at hannerfuneralservice.com.
You may leave memories and comments that become part of the obituaries by registering and logging onto this site.
I mentioned this the other day: Posting is going to be problematic for me over the next week (+) due to both out-of-state family coming in later today, followed by a special project I'll be working on from Tuesday through Sunday that could preclude doing anything else.Unlike tasers, the Dazer Laser is not being sold to the public. [More]Because you and I can't be trusted with light. We're not "Only Ones," so we might abuse/misuse it.
A disgraced Florida Highway Patrol trooper will spend 364 days in jail for writing hundreds of phony tickets to motorists who were never pulled over for traffic offenses. [More]Misdemeanors, y'see. Under a year sentence, so a "prohibited person" provision don't kick in.
