At times it is easy to feel that the gun-grabbers are winning and that our second amendment rights are being steadily whittled away. There is, sadly, some measure of truth in that perception, some of the time. But the gun grabbers aren’t getting it all their own way (but please don’t get complacent!). In addition to two recent favorable Supreme Court decisions, there’s been a quiet grass roots revolution going on for the last 25 [...]
The entire logic of people who oppose free ownership of guns is that gun ownership causes crime. They seek to restrict and control who can own guns and what sort of guns people can own, on the basis that the fewer the people who own guns, and the fewer the guns that are owned, the safer that society will become. But there is no evidence to support their contention. Quite the opposite – there is [...]
Okay, so this might seem like a trivial question with an obvious answer, although perhaps asking if the government can force General Motors to do something is a bad example; being as how these days GM translates more to ‘Government Motors’ due to the massive bailout and shareholding in GM by the federal government. Maybe they truly can force GM to do something as crazy as to open a Cadillac dealership in a depressed downtown [...]
You probably read one of a dozen different accounts of the Osama take-down, many of them including this picture, showing our illustrious President, together with Biden, Clinton, and various others all intently watching something out of the picture. We were told this picture was taken as they were watching the realtime events unfolding at Osama’s compound. Here’s a video clip of John Brennan (White House Counter-Terrorism advisor) talking about the group, depicted allegedly ‘monitoring the [...]
For sure, George Bush was a controversial President and attracted a huge amount of criticism (and, alas, not all of it unjustified). But do you ever remember reading a headline ‘Left Wingers Continue to Mean-Spiritedly Nitpick at President Bush’? Now look at this article, prominently featured on Yahoo and elsewhere, but with two key words changed : Left becomes Right, and Bush becomes Obama. This article is an appalling example of media bias, from the [...]
Here’s a video that should make your blood boil. A private citizen – Mitchell Crooks – was filming police activity. He was on private property at the time. Filming the police is perfectly lawful, on public or private property. A police officer approaches him, demands Crooks stop filming – something he has no right to demand, then beats Crooks up when Crooks claims he is within his rights to videotape the scene, then arrests him [...]
There is, ahem, a bit of controversy about our present President and the legitimacy of his claim for American citizenship. Apparently all he has had to do is show a ‘short form’ certificate of life birth, unsigned by any attending doctors or hospital officials, and that is all. Some people think that it should be necessary to show more evidence to prove one’s eligibility for the supreme office in the country, and with it, the [...]
Why is it that liberals attempt to expunge all reference to Christianity from Christmas, while simultaneously welcoming and respectfully honoring all sorts of other festivals that are new to this country, such as Ramadan, Diwali and the made up nonsense known as Kwanza? Not content with changing Christmas to ‘the holiday season’, they are now focused on making Easter a secular holiday too. You might wonder what is left when you remove references to Christianity [...]
I’m having a tough time at present. Like many of us, particularly self employed, I’m not making as much money as I used to. So, guess what – I’m cutting back on my expenditures. More meals at home; and cheaper meals when I still eat out. I don’t buy as many movies as I used to. I’ve cut back on my shooting. And so on. Chances are, you’re feeling some of the same pressures I [...]