We're the Only Ones Failing the Grade Enough

The Dayton Police Department is lowering its testing standards for recruits. It’s a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam. [More] 

It's NatLamp's Frank Rizzo bit come to life (side 2 at 11:43).

Yeah, I'm sure these "Only Ones" will be a lot more trustworthy than you and me--depending on what they're to be trusted to do.

It's not as stupid as first glance might suggest. There's an intelligence behind doing this.  An evil intelligence, but an intelligence nonetheless.

Safer Streets/Liberty News

John Longenecker reveals the best asset for disaster management. [Read]

License to Kill

You know what we need for gun owners?

State-issued licenses!

You know, like we do for bus drivers.

Of Course You Realize This Means War

Operation Gun Walker: An Act of War Against Mexico...

What if I told you that the Obama Administration’s Justice Department authorized the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (the “ATF”) to rig gun background checks so gun runners could “walk” guns into Mexico after clearing an instant background check at various gun stores in the U.S.? [More]

I'd say you don't quite have it right.  The background checks performed as designed. You folks writing about this story would do well to go to primary sources.

For instance, it's "Project Gunwalker," not "Operation Gun Walker."

I should know.

As for this being an act of war,  yeah, we've been making that observation from early on--Len Savage first raised that point in an email exchange back when our efforts were just getting started.

Still, it's nice to see "conservatives" finally noticing and spreading the story. As Mike would say, "Welcome to the party, pal!"

The Jojo Krako Defense

The Washington Post liberally borrowed and duplicated material from the Arizona Republic earlier this March... a Post reporter lifted a couple paragraphs...a review of the reporter concluded there were no other examples of plagiarism. [More]

Even though the unnamed reporter (Sari Horwitz!) did it in two articles?

Some of you may remember "A Piece of the Action."


Who's plagiarizin'?

We're borrowin'.

That must be why she apologized and has been suspended?

It's the same Pulitzer Prize winner who teamed up with the guy who figures Mike and I, who broke the story he was feeding off of, were not worth mentioning by name.

The canons of "Authorized Journalism"!

I wonder how much of their anti-gun hit piece series was pl...uh...borrowed from the Brady Playbook?

Now Available at the Fifth Floor Dispensary

Darrell Issa enters ‘Project Gunwalker’ fray

"As we get to the truth, we’re going to hold those who lied to us early on accountable." [More]

Huge fricking news. Worth not dragging my exhausted carcass to the sack for and staying up to pound this out.

I hope some will appreciate the continuing efforts and find the link worth sharing.

GRE Round Up for March 16

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Richard Nascak/Ft. Myers:

• Open carry bills advance in FL legislature

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• A Practical Look At The Reality Of Defensive Gun Use

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• New proposed background check mandate: de facto gun registration?
• Could you survive ‘The Big One’ without a gun?

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Forcible citizen disarmament by fiat: When separation of powers gets in the way

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Savage Customs

A Len Savage custom MAC-10, that is:

Sweet. Click here for details.

Two more invitation requests for Obama’s ‘common ground’ gun summit

There is another interest group not acknowledged by Justice that will nonetheless play a role in the administration of any “common ground” agreements that are reached, and two self-identified members of that group happen to be the same—what did James V. Grimaldi of The Washington Post call us?— “Anti-ATF bloggers sympathetic to the militia movement [who] picked up the allegations late last year, dubbing the scandal ‘Project Gunwalker’ and alleging ATF agents let guns ‘walk’ to boost the numbers of U.S. weapons recovered in Mexico.” [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column forgoes common rules of etiquette.

We ain't in this to be polite.

This Day in History: March 16

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CCRKBA asks Obama for invitation to gun summit that NRA rejected

Demonstrating that the “gun lobby” is not the monolith the media often portrays it to be, Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms announced his organization “would be eager to talk with the White House, especially about the ‘Project Gunrunner’ and ‘Fast and Furious’ scandals, where federal agents helped facilitate gun sales to suspected gunrunners.” [More]

Today's second Gun Rights Examiner report includes an opportunity for you to participate in giving a gun group the chance to publicly confront the administration on "Project Gunwalker".

Surely regulars here would like to see that happen?  Why not share the link so that others can do so too?

GRE Round Up for March 15

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• On Gun Control, Obama Notices The Speck In Our Eye But Misses The Log In His Own

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• NRA to Obama: ‘Stop Fast and Furious immediately’

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Is onslaught of 'gun show loophole' legislation--and worse--about to begin?

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Safer Streets/Liberty News

Longenecker looks at elitists. That plus I look at a loophole, Bob Parks looks at a slacker and Gerald Valentino looks at a launch. [Read]

Massacring the Norm

Paul Gallant, Alan Chwick and Joanne D. Eisen show how it's up to us to keep that from happening. [Read]

I'm an Untrustworthy Head Case

So you must be one too!

Nothing like letting the self-admitted crazies decide what restraints to put on the sane--which, when you think about it, is a core tenet of "progressivism."

Can you imagine having such a negative self-awareness that you don't even trust yourself with a tool? And then expecting anyone who's not similarly defective to give serious credence to your ravings?

PR Gun Busts

Yes. Exactly. [Read]

Scot Thomasson loves it when a plan comes together.

Is Charlie Sheen a menace to society?

So based on the say-so of someone with strong emotional, legal and financial interests, the state can remove not just property, but a basic liberty? Without having to prove anything? And registration enables them to do that, at least to people who have shown an inclination to obey the law? And they require, according to a Sheen Tweet “50 cops” to do it? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary notes a high-profile act of citizen disarmament and asks if what is being done in the name of the people truly serves their interests.

This Day in History: March 15

On March 15, 1779, he was given command of a new militia regiment, a position he neither accepted nor declined. [More]

That's All, Folks...

...for today.

I've got other commitments that take precedence over this. Sorry, I won't even be able to respond to emails.

Please take the time you would have spent here to share today's GRE link.