A few days ago, I wrote about how much it hurts to have a friend betray you - to steal your property and your trust.I haven't been a member of the High Road for a very long time, and I have no stake in the game. It's not my site. I don't go there. But hundreds of others do every day. They enjoy it. They have created a community there that one ...

As I’ve previously mentioned, the murder rate in Chicago is up 18% this year.  Instead of hiring additional police, or at least maintaining the same number of police, Chicago has intentionally allowed hundreds of vacancies to remain unfilled in the police department to cut costs: As ridiculous as it sounds to cut police protection as crime [...

This evening I attended the the 2008 Gun Rights Policy Conference Reception here in Phoenix. I met Eric of the Handgun Podcast & we walked around introducing ourselves to some of our favorite......

A few observations, in no particular order: I think John McCain won, although not a blowout.  Obama main foreign policy plan seems to be bombing Pakistan, although he later denied it Apparently Iraq is the only country we shouldn’t be at war with. Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Russia all need military attention. McCain used the more proper and ...

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Going into the debates, I was wondering whether Obama would be on his best game.  I’m seen him give fantastic speeches from the telepromter, but off the cuff he’s always seemed to be at somehwat of a disability.  I didn’t see any of that tonight.  Both candidates did very well, I thought.  I didn’t think there was a clea...

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I watched some of the debate, between Mario Kart races.One thing I noticed is Obama deferred to McCain a lot. Not good for him.He did well in the last question, saying we didn't have ports and other things properly protected. McCain danced around that last question.I think McCain did well, and I doubt either hurt themselves tonight.I liked the form...

...is everywhere. When I got home from work this afternoon, I checked my Google Alerts for Texas related gun news. An Austin college paper, The Ranger, published a "point/counterpoint" type editorial on Campus Carry titled "Both sides - Guns on campus debate". The view from the anti side was based on emotion and was ripe for fisking. I check the...

As we've seen here and here, the DNC has set up a mass e-mail site that sends e-mails out to the TV stations running the NRA ad we all have come to know and love.While you can use their program and change the wording to a pro-NRA message, Sebastian warns us:URGENT: I got a response back already. Do not use their e-mailers, as they send attachments...

I understand some people are anti-gun, but why must they resort to lies to make their point? Take this story from Yale, which uses a shameless lie to promote the position of the writer. If the Anti-Gun groups have the moral and logical high ground, why do they avoid logic and truth like the plague? You’d think they’d have nothing but brilliant ...

I think for tonight I agree with Squeaky and Dr. Z. I am so tired of all the media reporting of the election, especially in that so much of it is just so patently false. The TV is no better, I turn it on and there's some bleached blond, shiny toothed meat puppet spouting the liberal message, words filling the air like blind, erratic birds. For j...

If you live in Texas House District 96, you may find me knocking at your door tomorrow. Texas H.D. 96 is represented by Bill Zedler and includes portions of Fort Worth, Crowley, Burleson, Kennedale, Mansfield and Arlington.We will be informing voters of Representative Zedler's campaign and making a personal appeal for votes. We will also be registe...

It’s here!  The BBTOJ arrived with a package from Para USA. Special thanks to Para and Crimson Trace for their support of the Gun Blogging community! ...

Here's the latest: a page where members can mass email TV station management. I went up on it, gave a fictitious name, address and email, and sent the stations an email thanking and encouraging them. One of the webpages (you go thru three to send the mail) has the following: "Time and again, Barack has defended citizens’ Constitutional right to...

The National Review’s Kathleen Parker on The Palin Problem: Palin?s narrative is fun, inspiring and all-American in that frontier way we seem to admire. When Palin first emerged as John McCain?s running mate, I confess I was delighted. She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood ? a refreshing feminist of...

URGENT: I got a response back already.  Do not use their e-mailers, as they send attachments along that do contain Obama’s legal threat, along with all the material from FactCheck.org and various other sources.  They do send your content, but you don’t want the baggage that goes along with it. The Democratic National Committee is now ...

NFL Week 4 Predictions:Atlanta Falcons @ Carolina Panthers - my pick: PanthersCleveland Browns @ Cincinnati Bengals - my pick: BrownsHouston Texans @ Jacksonville Jaguars - my pick: JaguarsDenver Broncos @ Kansas City Chiefs - my pick: BroncosSan Francisco 40ers @ New Orleans Saints - my pick: SaintsArizona Cardinals @ New York Jets - my pick: Card...

Story here. The story, at least, doesn't suggest there was reason to suspect the dealer, but when ATF caught a felon in possession (and with drugs) they let him walk in exchange for trying to set the dealer up. The jury didn't buy it....

A guest post by Ashley:"The Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad during the presidential campaign." :Reporter John Mills from county election board in Maplewood, MO: "...good evening - Prosecutors and sheriffs from across Missouri are joining something called 'the Barack Obam...

So go the words that we are probably all familiar with thanks to Charles Schultz and Snoopy. There is a writing contest called the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest where one is supposed to write the opening sentence of a really bad novel in the spirit of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, author of "Paul Clifford" that began with those immortal words.Since I am w...

In comments here, Greg wonders:everyone, including the Obama campaign, is falling over themselves to try and say "no, we believe in the Second Amendment."Notice the Violence Policy Center isn't responding to these ads? I wonder why that is.Maybe because the VPC were to say that, they would react like this guy did:Forward to 4:45 if you don't want t...

I keep noticing a strange referral link for today's site visitors:I wonder who could be doing that--and why....

Gus the talking groundhog was creepy enough, but now apparently the Pennsylvania lottery is promoting one of thier new games with giant walking phalli. ...

Barack Obama and Joe Biden are likey the two most anti gun candidates in presidential history, and they know that this may cost them the election. They are therefore attempting to confuse gun owners by (untruthfully) casting themselves as pro gun.  Biden did it last week, and now Obama is at it, making the utterly [...]...

An emotional Leonard Elliott left his chair, walked across the room and knelt down to embrace his wheelchair-bound father as the court clerk read the jury’s verdict...The father and son, owners of the former Bacon Creek Gun Shop in Corbin, which closed in 2007, were charged with selling firearms to a person they knew to be a convicted felon and f...

As I previously mentioned, armed robbery in Oak Park, IL is up over 250% this year,  Instead of stepping up police patrols to protect residents, Oak Park is cutting back on police protection and wasting money trying to uphold their pointless handgun ban.  Since criminals like easy targets (such as unarmed Oak Park residents), the [...]...

We’re getting some comments in the post directly below that touch on a few issues I want to address in a separate post.  I don’t deny that the gun rights movement is a civil rights movement.  The ability to defend oneself is one of the most basic natural rights that one can imagine to exist.  I can’t imagine what comes ahead of...

Video here. Gist is that an "Obama Truth Squad" (using that title) is being organized, specifically composed of prosecutors and sheriffs, to respond immediately to any ads or "statements" that might violate Missouri ethics laws. I can see nothing wrong with a squad that rebuts the other side or lays out its version of the truth. But word that an...

Just picked up my Gun Blog 45. And Todd Jarrett said some of us screwed up and left our lasers on and the batteries would be dead. I would be one of those. ...

The Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad during the presidential campaign. ...

Tarrant County (Texas) residents are giving their U.S. lawmakers an earful about the proposed $700 billion bailout of financial institutions. It comes down to, in a word, "no." Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville: Has received about 957 e-mails, 952 against, five in favor. Phone calls: 364. Six were in favor. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Arlington...

Story here. I figured it was just some politicos' publicity stunt anyway -- a city sues the State over its pre-emption laws. The PA Court of Appeals held that, under those laws, Philiadelphia's one-gun-a-month and its "assault weapon" ordinances were invalid....

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1 in 10 firearms cases were found to have serious errors during an audit of the Detroit Police Crime Lab which led to its closure - there are likely innocent people in the slammer placed there with......