I will be on Lars' show again this evening to talk about the Students for Concealed Carry on Campus convention tomorrow....

As the Wednesday Journal reports, Oak Park, IL is short on cash due to decreased revenue, which is blamed on the faltering economy.  Despite the $1,368,100 budgetary shortfall, Oak Park will still spend taxpayer money defending their (likely unconstitutional) handgun ban. It is unfortunate for the people of Oak Park that the village management has...

A clear discussion, at last, in the St. Petersburg Times. The ruling apparently upheld rights of employees to have guns in parked cars, but not the right of customers to. The latter was keyed to how the legislature worded the statute, so they can amend it to cure the problem. In the meantime, I wonder how a company would enforce against a custome...

It’s not easy to get lawmakers to pay attention to issues other than energy and housing when gas is $4 per gallon and banks are announcing record losses due to failing mortgage investments. Yet that’s exactly what the National Rifle Association is attempting to do by grading members on whether they sign a discharge petition to force a vote on ...

The Willoughby News-Herald has published an excellent story updating readers on the ongoing 101st running of the National Matches, which are being held at Camp Perry, a sprawling 640-acre Ohio National Guard base along Lake Erie in Ottawa County. From the story: Fifteen-year-old Claudia Duksa hopes to earn a college scholarship by being right on t...

The NY Times has this:The Empire State Development Corporation today declared blighted a 17-acre swath of Manhattanville where Columbia University is seeking to expand, a major step toward allowing the state to use eminent domain to acquire the property of two businesses that have declined to sell their land to the university.Opponents of the $6 bi...

I got to see a preview of the new movie Swing Vote last night. Grover Norquist put on the event. It was fun. Got to meet Tom DeLay for the first time and a few other interesting people. In any case, the movie was just OK. Some funny lines and some attempt at balance, but there was just too much: people need help and the government has to help ...

Man decapitates passenger aboard Greyhound bus in Manitoba Grisly: Garnet Caton, who was sitting in the seat in front of the victim, said he saw the attacker stab his seatmate, a young man sleeping with his headphones on. Caton said he heard a "blood-curdling scream" and turned around to see the attacker holding a large "Rambo" hunting knife a...

Rep. Souder, who introduced a bill to curtail DC's resistance to Heller, has a well-written letter to the editor in the Washington Post. Via Instapundit......

The A-Team has the best of both worlds: Lots of evil fully-auto weapons AND no one ever gets hurt....

This shouldn’t even be necessary: Bi-Partisan Bill Introduced to Restore the Second Amendment Rights of D.C. Residents Thursday, July 31, 2008 Fairfax, VA — Today, in a bi-partisan effort,  Congressman Travis Childers, Congressmen John Dingell, John Tanner, Mike Ross and Mark Souder, along with 47 of their colleagues,  intr...

If the campaign finance laws mean that Obama will be able to outspend McCain by 5-to-1, this story will be repeated many times. From WSJ's Political Diary today:Paging Charlie CristUp until last month, John McCain led Barack Obama in every poll taken in Florida this year -- eleven in all. Since the middle of June, Mr. Obama has moved ahead in thre...

I was unaware the Rusty was taken to the hospital. Squeaky reports he’s doing well. ...

Back on Monday, we had a pretty good discussion going about hate crimes. Frequent Lean Left commenter LarryE expands on this theme: The usual (flawed) understanding of “hate crimes” legislation is that it would make the hate itself, rather than any actions based on the hate, the crime. It’s that misunderstanding that leads people...

Okay folks, it is time to play "What's Wrong With This Picture?"Now, back to the image of the college police officer who is there to protect our kids, just how effective do you think she will be?...

At The Hill: Details of the compromise were still incomplete late Wednesday, but a bill is to be introduced Thursday that would narrowly enforce a June Supreme Court decision rejecting the District?s decades-old handgun ban. A vote on the bill could occur this week, but is more likely in September. Such a delay could give opponents of such a deal t...

http://www.nasa.gov/Part of what I do is being able to work in the absence of absolutely certainty. And today, like many others, events transpire to ensure I'm brought back to the reality that things change, disaster strikes, and though my heart may be my own to give, my time is not. It's not just a job, it's a commitment I've made.. I do have a po...

Gotta get my hits back up after vacation you know. Besides, after I welded a steel rod down the barrel of my Glock 29, encased it in cement, and melted the frame, it still fired (except for that one time I limp wristed it)....

Any editorial that starts out with...Oil is the fuel of free nations, guns and speech the tools of free men. Thus the three have freedom in common. Ironically, oil, guns, and free speech have something else in common as well: all three are scorned by the Left.A.W.R. Hawkins has written The Tools of Free Men, an editorial for Human Events that is we...

It's one of several Illinois communities — reluctant to spend money on legal fights — rushing to repeal their gun bans after the court struck down a Washington, D.C., ban, even as cities such as Chicago and San Francisco stand firm.For some reason, that bit about Frisco doesn't sound quite right. But the hold 'em/fold 'em reactions to these pos...

Apparently, you get offers of organs. ...

Alabama Boy Gets Death Threats for Hunting 1,000-Pound ‘Monster Pig’Anonymous cowards wishing death on children they hate. How very courageous.My feel is, the boy could no doubt take 'em.On a positive note, if the Zargonians are resorting to psy-ops instead of direct engagement, it means we've got 'em on the run.[Via Zachary G]...

Mayors dogs killed in drug raid. This one is a bit odd. Seems the mayor had 30 pounds of weed mailed to him: “My government blew through my doors and killed my dogs,” Calvo said. “They thought we were drug dealers, and we were treated as such. I don?t think they really ever considered that we weren?t.” And a bit of like you ...

I'm getting so many "Only Ones" tips I'm losing focus on other issues of equal importance.They will continue to be a regular part of this blog, but I'm noticing how many I've already posted today, and several more are in the queue I doubt I'll be able to get to.It's a tough balance to know how much is too much. I don't want to discourage tips and ...

I now need a vacation. Regular blogging will resume after I unwind....

One of the UU guys that stopped the shooter left a comment at Walls of the City. ...

Weston Cartwright remembers his first week at LeTourneau University in 2006, and how he amazed his dorm mates when he returned unharmed from a walk to a South Longview restaurant. "They were like, 'Are you serious?' " Cartwright said. Since then, he's seen and heard why fellow students deemed a trip into the surrounding neighborhood suc...

I like readin' a good court ruling, and this was a good one on Florida's "take your gun to work" law. On the surface, the judge sure looks like he cut the baby in half: • Florida employers have to let employees keep guns in their cars if they have concealed-weapons permits. • But businesses can still have a no-gun policy for custom...

Mike Vanderboegh revisits an essay, available for both your edification and general melanin-deficient individual traumatizing purposes, at two convenient locations: Mindful Musings and Western Rifle Shooters Association....

Bitter on why a professional web presence should matter to NRA. I should note that the offending blog is offering good coverage of the National Matches at Camp Perry. ...

The Examiner has the debate in Congress this week over who should make decisions for us.Big government versus big tobacco took a personal twist on the House floor in debate Wednesday afternoon as one powerful member called out another for his smoking habit.Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, took to the floor to oppose legislation that would plac...

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children – even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for emotional and developmental problems.Securing the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our post...

NRA’s Wayne LaPierre on HopeChange! ...

I wouldn’t say I support McCain, so much as I oppose Obama. Transadvocate: feeling torn between my affiliation with both what i?ll call ?gun culture? and the ?trans community??. Like Chris said:Only on the interweb, could you find such a group of people arguing with each other. ...

“I’m shocked - completely shocked,” Raynham Police Chief Lou Pacheco said of Valerio Rodriguez’ no-show at Taunton District Court on July 29.Yeah--after reading about how you let the groper go, Chief, and went after the child victim's father, why would any reasonable person believe the suspect was a flight risk?Good grief.[Via JD]...

So, after nearly six years of doing this for free, I decided to put up a tip jar figuring you freeloaders may want to tip your host, with whom you are six years in arrears, btw. There’s two over there on the right, currently below the empty ad slots (note empty). One for you Amazon people and one for you PayPal people. Full disclosure: PayPal...

Mike’s latest acquisition. ...

A good read on carrying a concealed handgun in our neighbor state. And restaurant carry. ...

Sebastian has thoughts. ...

I thought it was a parody. But it turns out it really is Barack En Vogue Obama’s new ad. These people really, really scare me. ...

Sticking with bad movie sequel themes. NRA has a statement: Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia?s gun ban, the District, Mayor and City Council are being sued again over the District?s thinly veiled attempt to continue its restrictions on firearm ownership. D.C. residents Dick Anthony Heller and Absalom F. Jorda...

Mark Souder: Considering the Supreme Court’s broad decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, I’m surprised that The Post would continue to raise the tired old canard of home rule [...] Moreover, when Congress chose to delegate home rule to the District in the 1970s, it specified that legislation enacted by the District must be “...

Local man who is a felon is challenging his arrest for having a gun. Unfortunately for him, this guy is a killer, a felon, and had a machine gun hidden in a wall. Oh, and that whole bit in Heller about how it should not be read as invalidating laws banning felons from possessing firearms. ...

Seems that Paul Helmke, Keith Olbermann, and Kevin Drum are all butthurt because the NRA (which actually has members, resources, and stuff) engaged in a bit of deception. Now, what is funny is that I’ve seen no evidence that Mary was actually working for NRA. But we’ll see. PGP is equally nonplussed about the whole thing. The other amu...

From an insurance company. ...

Joe Horn walkthrough. ...

A family whose house was raided by police in error is outraged that eight officers involved were honored. Police say the eight, who also took fire, "performed bravely."Fine.The "Only Ones" at the Minneapolis PD want to play it that way, then let's give 'em back their own policy in spades.The criteria is "the officers 'performed very bravely under g...

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Maybe so, but I'd rather be a well-defended and self-sufficient Heartlander than a helpless "sophisticate" bleeding out all over designer clothes.[Via cycjec]...

Mary McFate was a prominent gun control activist. Mary Lou Sapone was a freelance spy with an NRA connection. They are the same person.In general I have nothing against an activist going underground to mess up the enemy. In general I'm uneasy when they do it for pay at the behest of an organization, because if they get caught, "it makes us all look...