Good For Me, But...

Adams served as deputy mayor under Kwame Kilpatrick...[More]

You remember, ol' Mayor Against Guns Kwame...?

[Via Jess]

Intimate Touching Tools

"We touch a lot of people's lives in a lot of intimate ways," Kennedy said. "We really wanted to give citizens tools." [More]

Yes you do and yes you are.

This is obscene.

Hey, shouldn't the address your paycheck gets sent to be a public record?

[Via several of you]

The Ratings Game

Oregon Firearms Federation invites you to play. [Read]

This Can Beat Obama

Dear CHRIS

So can this. And it won't cost a cent. But you need to act RIGHT NOW

We're the Only Ones Sidestepped Enough

Radcliffe Haughton sidestepped Brown Deer police for years [More]

Combine that with violating the terms of a restraining order and a "No Guns" policy at the spa...

[Via bondmen]

Issa, Grassley demand documents on ATF whistleblower inquisition

Issa and Grassley cited ATF’s failure, after two months, to answer questions about its approval of “double-dipping” by Assistant Director William McMahon, a figure in the Fast and Furious gunwalking operation whom Issa previously had said “lied to Congress, that will probably be referred for criminal prosecution,” and who has been authorized to accept overseas employment from financial giant JPMorgan while still in public employ. 

They then went on to question Jones about an apparently retaliatory internal affairs investigation against John Dodson, the special agent who came forward and put a face to the whistleblowers in the groundbreaking interview by Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News. [More]

Today's second Gun Rights Examiner feature notes the same old in-your-face stonewalling and retaliation will continue unless and until someone with the power puts a stop to it. 

Fast and Furious, Mexico, absent from last night’s foreign policy debate

But the blame for continuing a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on Fast and Furious can’t be entirely placed at Schieffer’s feet, particularly as NBC observed, the candidates “debated domestic policy almost as much as they did foreign policy during the third and final presidential debate.” [More] 

This morning's Gun Rights Examiner debate postmortem looks at another opportunity not so much lost as sealed off.

And I Guess that was Your Accomplice in the Wood Chipper

Vanderboegh forces one through the grinder. [Read]

This Day in History: October 23

To Tyrants, Tyranny is always very dear: they take no delight but in exercising it...[More]

Just So We're Clear

as long as it's NRA gun loving Christian Republicans that keep dying I've no problem with dead Americans...

Comment posted here.

Yeah, I'll be disarming real quick for this vicious, ugly little bairn.

Tonight last chance for Romney to offer debate pledge on Fast and Furious

Why he has not to date is anyone’s guess, as it would certainly not only leave the president with no credible rebuttal but would also be too dramatic of a development for the media to ignore and suppress. If he does not, the only conclusion to be drawn is it’s because he doesn’t want to. [More]

This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner column tries to find a good reason why Romney and the NRA leadership won't do one simple and vital thing--especially since the alternative is to give up on Fast and Furious.

Gun control laws useless at stopping Wisconsin spa shooter

“As part of the order, Haughton was prohibited from owning a firearm,” the CBS Crimesider report confirms, citing Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus, who “declined to elaborate on the circumstances of whether Haughton had surrendered any weapons prior to Sunday's salon rampage.” [More]

This morning's Gun Rights Examiner report notes paper makes fine targets and sometimes it ensures them.

Vanderboegh Medical Update

Just got off the phone with Mike.  He got tired of hospital food and ordered out for some Vietnamese summer rolls last night, so he has his appetite back. And because he's suffering from a bit of dyslexia, I read him a quote by Kurt Hofmann so he could write a letter to the editor about this self-confessed exposition of ignorance.

Then he was off to therapy.

All in all, very positive developments. He sounded better too.

Ghosts of War

Very moving. [Read and view]

I'd like to see somebody use the same technique on these pictures, and then ask if it was worth it.

[Via several of you]

Supremely Important

Jeff Knox talks about SCOTUS replacements in the next four years. [Read]

Unfortunately, Mitt's record gives us no guarantees, and remember, this old subversive was a gift from the GOP.

[Via The Captain's Journal]

We're the Only Ones Quid Pro Quo Enough

Police group receives donation from Taser stun-gun maker [More] 

They scratch our backs, we'll scorch yours.

[Via Jeffersonian]

Yes, Why Allow "Some"?

Why allow some churches to ignore law? [More]

Rekha Basu is at it again. Typical of her bipolar agenda über alles and hypocrisy-be-damned approach, this time she's arguing to enforce laws.  Last time she was arguing for her side to ignore them.

All you really need to know:

Born in India to United Nations parents, Basu grew up internationally and graduated from the United National International School.

There's something I find particularly odious about foreign subversives coming here and taking advantage of freedoms alien to their own culture and expecting us to adapt to their ways.  You could say if she doesn't like it here she can always go back, but the truth is, she likes it here just fine. 

As long as Rekha is all for reining in churches with the IRS leash, what do you think the chances are she'll call for equal scrutiny of, say, Snuffy Pfleger?

[Via Michael G]

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

Mr Morris supports the family’s petition, and believes it should be no longer acceptable to have a shotgun, without having good reason.

He said: “It is difficult for many people to comprehend why someone would need access to firearms in a domestic setting where there is little need for immediate access to a weapon. [More]

There's a lesson for us here: Whatever they get, it's never enough. Which is why they must resort to the Alynsky's Rule 5 whenever the "slippery slope" is mentioned.

Gimme that Old Time Religion

I thought the pentagram was supposed to be inverted. [Read]

As long as we're on a "coexist" theme (and every time I see someone with that stupid bumper sticker, the letters somehow morph into "Useful Idiot"), here's my favorite.

Limited Posting on Sipsey Street

Mike has two more from yesterday.  I'll be talking to him later in the day.