This is a horrible and heartbreaking situation. What is being done to this good boy is really horrible.Island fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpenerBy DANIEL BROWNSTEINdbrownstein@islandpacket.com843-706-8125Published Thursday, September 11, 2008A 10-year-old Hilton Head Island boy has been suspended from school for having somet...

As reported, there were 6 more armed and strong arm robberies in the village of Oak Park, IL, in spite of the handgun ban.  This should come as no surprise, given events in Oak Park: First, a slim majority of Oak Park’s voters decided to deprive all law abiding Oak Park citizens of their right to [...]...

New York Bank Robberies are up and the NYPD blames the banks. While the banks certainly could do more such as utilizing bulletproof glass for the tellers (and not banning their employees from......

From Senator Jim DeMint in the WSJ:Mrs. Palin used her veto pen to slash more local projects than any other governor in the state's history. She cut nearly 10% of Alaska's budget this year, saving state residents $268 million. This included vetoing a $30,000 van for Campfire USA and $200,000 for a tennis court irrigation system. She succinctly just...

Bitter and I had a surprise appearance on Cam & Company.  Surprise to us, because we went there to say hi to Cam and ended up doing two segments on the show in studio.  I think I did pretty well!  Despite the fact that I can’t shut up here, I am not a talkative guy in real life, so having to be the social butterfly at these things is n...

I knew Legal affairs would be iffy to attend.  Mostly because discussion of that stuff tends to be sensitive — when you’re dealing with attorney client privileges, and with NRA being a party to lawsuits, I had a feeling we might not get to stay long.  After a brief introduction by Chris Cox, where he outlined two pronged legislative a...

Hunting policy was actually a pretty interesting committee meeting.  Legislative affairs is mostly stuff I’m already pretty aware of, so it’s not really anything surprising.  Most of the really interesting information comes out in the discussions in executive committee.  But this had several issues that I wasn’t wasn’t at...

Check this story out. So those smart guns they’re developing which: “University officials say it works 99 percent of the time when paired with an off-the-shelf handgun” … well, it’s your tax dollars paying for it. Thanks to an earmark to last year's annual Congressional appropriation bill by U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Ro...

By Jeff Riley On Sept 10th, 2008 I watched in dumbfounded amazement a Today Show news report covering the vicious beating of an unarmed man on the Philadelphia subway. The victim was attacked by a man wielding a hammer and took place over a 5 minute period all the while approximately ten onlookers watched but did not intervene. The surveillance vid...

By Tim Inwood Recently at a gun show, I was looking over an old US service 1911 .45 pistol. Its serial number was low and the gun itself in only fair condition. The seller said the previous owner claimed the gun had been used in the Mexican Punitive Expedition in 1916. This comment brought back a flood of memories about why I have an interest in th...

On Tuesday, while driving through a part of Arkansas where the only radio choices are literally God and Country, I had a thought. I was commenting on how “new country” always tends to sound an awful lot like the pop/rock of two decades earlier, and how by that standard, we should start hearing “angst country” in a few years...

Joe Huffman at The View From North Central Idaho has a good one: Of course they are worried No one should be surprised that Concealed Weapon Laws Make Security Practitioners Worried. I’ll bet there were lots of "security practitioners" that were "worried" about blacks being released from slavery too. Reading the study they...

So, when CafePress got all squeamish about my bumper stickers, I meekly pulled them and went to Zazzle. Now Zazzle is apparently being squeezed, too...Thank you for your interest in Zazzle.com, and thank you for publishing products on Zazzle. Unfortunately, it has come to our attention that many of your products are in violation of Zazzle’s Copy...

America's Defense, Featuring linkin parkI found it at GrouchyMedia a couple years back, but it seemed appropos to link it again......

Sonya Jones and I have a new piece at Investor's Business Daily: Democrats are expected to make strong gains in state legislatures this fall, but what do these stronger Democratic majorities mean? A look at Washington State may show what is in store for the rest of the country.Public employee unions are handing over vast amounts of money to the inc...

Some amazing quotes in the Financial Times:Democratic jitters about the US presidential race have spread to Capitol Hill, where some members of Congress are worried that Barack Obama’s faltering campaign could hurt their chances of re-election.Party leaders have been hoping to strengthen Democratic control of the House and Senate in November, but...

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Backing away by half is better than nothing. BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- EU lawmakers voted Thursday to cut in half an ambitious target for using crop-based biofuels for 10 percent of its road transport needs by 2020.The vote by the European Parliament's industry committee deals a blow to climate change goals agreed by EU leaders last year to try to...

My local Cheesecake Factory has some pretty odd stanchions all around the restaurant ...

The Chicago Sun-Times has this today.Some were rejected from suburban police departments.Others sold cocaine and smoked pot.'Why is it so hard to fire a policeman?'A few were thieves. Others are related to crooks. One was even a gang member.They're among dozens of people restored to the Chicago Police Department's hiring list after they were found ...

There are scopes and then there is the Eotech. I know there have their share of naysayers but I was impressed with the first one I bought for an AR15. The EOTech HWS MIlitary Model 511.A65 Used by SWAT, this has been my sweaty dream since I first saw one demonstrated last year. This is similar in technology to the Heads Up Displays used in the Bo...

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Just as for the assassination of JFK, we all remember exactly where we were.I was asleep in my bedroom in Ireland, after an early run to the airport in Shannon to pick up someone joining one of my groups. A friend, who was on his way to Dublin, called me on my mobile told me to look at CNN, that a plane had had crashed into the WTT. I thought "smal...

I had the opportunity to attend both The Legislative Policy Committee, and also the Hunting And Wildlife Policy Committee, which I’ll talk about later.  All the NRA committee meetings are starting out this year with a disclaimed about the Biparisan Campaign Finance Reform Act, and asked if anyone was working as an employee of a volunteer for...

From the end of the new piece by Maxim Lott:However, no DVD has ever been released of the film despite the industry normally releasing miniseries on DVD within months of the original air date."This is a shame; it's censorship in the most blatant way," director Stone was quoted saying in The Los Angeles Times. "I'm not vouching for its accuracy — ...

From the sidebar:DirtCrashr remembers Seven Years Ago.SailorCurt posts a quick note on 9/11.Xrlq reminds us to Never Forget. While Remembering 911, DoubleTapper reminds us of the Palestinian Reaction.A Jacksonian echos my thoughts with his to the point comment on 9/11/2008.FireHand has a must read with I woke up with a headache.Mike is Remembering ...

When you hang out with guys who do that martial arts-type stuff for fun, you sometimes overhear the most amazing snippets of conversation. Check out this juxtaposition, overheard at the Friends of the NRA dinner in Lafayette, IN last night:"Yeah, I haven't been punched in the face good and hard in so long I kinda miss it..." (whips out camera phone...

From Obama's position paper on "SUPPORTING THE RIGHTS AND TRADITIONS OF SPORTSMEN":As a long-time resident and elected official of Chicago, Barack Obama has seen the impact of fully automatic weapons in the hands of criminals. Thus, Senator Obama supports making permanent the expired federal Assault Weapon Ban. These weapons, such as AK-47s, belo...

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This video clip includes interviews with a family whose home was invaded by a criminal that shot two occupants, including a 3 year old boy. Tags: Criminal, Home Invasion, Victim, Video Clips, Why I Support Gun Rights Related Articles ABC’s 20/20: John Stossel Links Gun Control to Higher Crime Rates Video Clip Wrongful Gun Confiscat...

Here are two polls from late July to the beginning of September.American Viewpoint (September 2, 2008):Her job approval rating is astoundingly high with an 86% overall approval rating and 63% strongly approving of her job performance. Independents approve by a margin of 86% - 10% and there is absolutely no gender gap. 97% of Republicans approve o...

It's time for me to do something I never thought I'd end up doing - It's time for me to trade in the 1995 Jeep Wrangler and buy a new car. Nothing's wrong with the Jeep. For a 14 year old car (don't kid yourself, it was made in 1994) it has its dings and scratches, a slightly bent front wheel flare, and a broken door handle, but mechanically she's ...

Brace yourselves, but apparently Palin tried to get other people with her views elected to the Wasilla city council so that she could get the proposals that she was backing passed by the council. This is undoubtedly the most damaging charge against her so far. The notion that she would try to "pack" the city council and elect council members who ...

“Let’s Roll” - Todd Beamer ...