'I Carry a Gun'

[Via Gene B] 

Time for a Good Old-Fashioned Book Burning

Classic Novels Pulled from Accomack Schools Over Racial Slurs [More]

Diversity and tolerance demand it!

What, you didn't expect the New Taliban to be satisfied with just destroying statues... ?

Could you pass me the oar, N-word Jim?

[Via Matt F]

We're the Only Ones Darwin-Awarded Enough

Darwin said having the head of a state agency focused on providing services to the poor ... carrying a gun and badge “does seem strange, yes.” [More]

Yeah, whoever heard of needing to defend yourself against that demographic?

The larger point of a bureaucracy being armed to the teeth evokes the words of Mr. Mason:

Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

And yes, funny that word used to describe much lower numbers collected by private citizens was never brought up...

[Via Henry Bowman]

The Replacements

One in three babies born in UK last year had foreign parent – as sky-high immigration fuels population boom ... The figures showed nine in ten London newborns had at least one parent from overseas [More]

Soon, the question will no longer be "Would You Send a Gun to Defend a British Home?"

And yes, give it some time. We ain't seen nothin' yet.

Thank goodness none of this has anything to do with that "single issue."

Right, Grover? Wayne? Chris...

[Via Michael G]

The New Pink Panther Party

I wouldn't be inclined to offer a center mass target, but what do I know? [More]

My biggest question is if it has a "Hello Kitty" graphic.

For Authorized Propagandists Who Want to Keep Eating

We should not limit ourselves to letting such groups define themselves, and instead should report their actions, associations, history and positions to reveal their actual beliefs and philosophy, as well as how others see them. [More]

So ignore the bylaws and practices of a group like, say, Oath Keepers, and instead parrot SPLC "hate watch" talking points.

My Kind of Town

My kind of razzaatazz and it has all that jazz... [More]

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

What is it About Ruby Slippers and Homicidal Intent?

Gang members sentenced to 50 years for killing teenager over red shoes in 2015 [More]

Sounds like California needs more "common sense gun safety laws."

I mean, what else could it be?

Cultural Appropriation

Complaints grow over whites turning Dakota Access protest into hippie festival [More]

Popcorn?

Running Over Identity Boundaries

The purpose of the class is to promote "intercultural leadership" and transform students into "actively engaged, socially just global citizen/leaders." [More]

I'll see your microgagression and raise you a car and knife attack.

It's a head-shaker that there's a place at the trough for "academics" pushing such crap to bury their snouts in. But looking at such classes in terms of practical value to "students" misses the point.

Those aren't the ones intended to benefit.

[Via Mean Betsy]

Coming Soon to a Caliphate Near You

ISIS to CAR BOMB Europe as it floods continent with fighters after losing territory [More]

Canary in a coal mine, eh?

I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned here -- but what?

Several lessons, actually, including a big one about cause and effect.  And it looks like our majority "leaders" have learned none of them.

How is this not an impeachable offense? A lot of damage can be done in 48 days.

And how is it with all their arcane rules and procedures they can't immediately put a halt to funding and get an injunction?

Putting the 'Rule' in 'Home Rule'

In her judgment, Circuit Court Judge Joan L. Moriarty cited the city’s home rule charter. The Missouri Constitution grants any city that has adopted a charter as its form of government “all the powers” the state Legislature can grant. [More]

Which appears to mean a city with such a charter could override preemption on gun laws, no?  I wonder how many state constitutions have such a provision, and if the judge's interpretation is correct or subject to being overturned on appeal...

I'd be interested in seeing someone with knowledge weigh in on this. I've sent this to some lawyers I know for a qualified read.  You can do the same, or chime in if you are one.

We'll meet back in "Comments" if anybody finds anything out.

[Via David H]

Persistence

[I]f you have two groups, one of which refuses to do what it must in order to persist through time, and another group which does, the latter will inherit the Earth.  In fact, the Earth will always be inherited by those groups who take the effort to persist. [More]

That's the reason I rail against "profiles in apathy."

We need to do more than believe. We need to do. Today. And tomorrow.

[Via Anonymous]

Levi’s ‘No Guns’ Request in Keeping with Past Company Actions

Nor, based on the “respectful request” is Bergh eager for heartland customers to know about his company’s consistent history of anti-gun activism. Fortunately, longtime gun owner rights advocates, along with the Internet Archive/Wayback machine, do not forget. [More]

Naturally, the "progressives" are trying to paint gun owners advocating a boycott as "anti-Semitic."

And the Hits Just Keep on Coming

Kate Brown has announced the first of what we are sure will be an epidemic of anti-gun bills for 2017. [More]

Slowly I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch.

The Great Divide

If a woman tells me that she favors gun control, I can with confidence predict that she favors unchecked immigration, sanctuary cities, affirmative action, banning the Confederate flag, suppressing Christianity, homosexual marriage, abortion, feminism, and the dumbing down–she will call it something else–of schools to avoid wounding the self-esteem of the usual suspects. [More]

I don't hang around long enough to find out, life being too short and all to focus on someone who's already proven she's a waste of time. Somebody else can look for converts. We're too far along for one-on-ones with ignorant heel-diggers.

Anyway, Fred on Everything's latest is about more than that, and as usual, it's a good read.

[Via Keith B]

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Once they’re off script, we’re basically dealing with people who live in a bubble of celebrity privilege, where those at the top attain their station and remain there by adhering to Hollywood’s “progressive” orthodoxy, one that will tolerate no “heresies” nor recognize and reward traditional “conservative” American values. That probably goes a long way to explain how screwed up so many of these people are in real life, as evidenced by the celebrity tabloids screaming about their latest scandals from the supermarket checkout counter racks. So few of them, it seems, control themselves. How telling those seem to be the ones bent on controlling the rest of us. [More]

What do Kim Kardashian, Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke, Mark Wahlberg, John Mayer and Chris Evans have in common?  Go on, guess.

(I actually submitted this at the start of last month, but my editor told me I had a day before press time to submit an election post-mortem.  I actually prepped two outlines and fleshed out the one where Trump won the day after the vote.)

When Black Friday Comes

Funny -- what with all the WalMart brawls over the last item on the shelf, you'd think "violent gun owners" would give us more to talk about than "they bought a lot of guns." I guess that's why they had to amp up the hysteria here. [More]

[Via Florida Guy]   

A Man for All Seasons

Arrested German spy was a onetime gay porn actor — and a secret Islamist [More]

And remember, our diversity is our strength!

[Via Steve T] 

Nothing More than Feelings?

“Selling Tupperware doesn’t give my life purpose but making people feel safe and confident, and help their kids feel safe and confident is huge," Lusk told Denver7's Anne Trujillo. [More]

See, it's not about "feeling" safe...

I have mixed "feelings" about this.  About instilling expectations that a device will do the trick, and about the conspicuous absence of the one device that does it best...

[Via cydl]