From Mike...

So with everything else going on in the world... global economic downturn, deteriorating relations with the Russians, US airstrikes in Pakistan, more attacks in Iraq and the U.S. economy still in a slide, why does the BBC feel it important to cover Sarah Palin's friggin' wardrobe and makeover?  Seriously?  Who gives a shit?  The Demo...

I happened across one of the more beautifully written blog posts I’ve ever read, and wanted to encourage more people to read it: http://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/rkba/i-dont-carry-a-gun/ Tags: Why I Support Gun Rights Related Articles Yet Another Handgun Shooting In Oak Park - Despite the Handgun Ban Wrongful Gun Confiscation After ...

By Ken Hanson, Esq. Orson Scott Card has an excellent essay on the sorry state of U.S. Media posted at Greesnboro, N.C.'s RhinoTimes, entitled "Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?" It is an excellent examination of what the media is telling (and not telling) the public this election cycle. He takes it a step forward in a foll...

Hitting the airwaves in Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin... Per ABC reporter Jake Tapper's Political Punch: The ad refers to a 2003 incident when a Wilmette, Ill., restaurateur named Hale DeMar shot and wounded a burglar who broke into his house. DeMar was prosecuted by th...

WASHINGTON – House Republican leader John Boehner on Wednesday urged President Bush to block all federal funds to a grass-roots community group that has been accused of voter registration fraud. "It is evident that ACORN is incapable of using federal funds in a manner that is consistent with the law," Boehner, R-Ohio , wrote Bush, ...

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Back in my Interior days, a small Indian tribe wrote requesting to be listed under the Endangered Species Act, as a publicity move. I wrote up a really hilarious opinion for the Associate Solicitor's signature, and she signed it. Later others became terrified, wrote another opinion that took it very seriously. When the Associate, Gale Norton, was...

Basic Instructions - How to Make It Clear That You're Joking I have a tendency to skip to the last step though......

Lunch was spent with a few fellow bloggers and Second Amendment advocates on a conference call with Governor Blunt of Missouri. The call was courtesy of a couple of the folks over at QandO Online Magazine. I left my notes at work, so I will not list the bloggers who participated which will prevent me from leaving anyone out. I was happy to see that...

I just yelled at my 6 year old to not run with scissors.......

I've thoroughly enjoyed the Patrick O'Brian nautical historical series, starting with Master and Commander and continuing on. Some of you may remember this from one of my later favorites - The Hundred Days. "I am very sorry for the pandemonium, Stephen, he said at last they sat down to their breakfast, brought in by a now silent, timid Kill...

She likes to travel with her kids to state functions!  Burn her at the stake! ...

The NY Times article on conservative judges criticizing Heller says so, but a post at Blakanization argues otherwise. (Read the comments, too). The argument is that Posner's method -- pretty much pure pragmatism, with no great regard for traditional tools such as textualism, original intent, construction by principles of language, etc.. I'd guess ...

The NY Times article on conservative judges criticizing Heller says so, but a post at Blakanization argues otherwise. (Read the comments, too). The argument is that Posner's method -- pretty much pure pragmatism, with no great regard for traditional tools such as textualism, original intent, construction by principles of language, etc.. I'd guess ...

...to make Farmer Vincent's fritters, and all......but certain search queries just scream "Help Me!" loudly and clearly....

Apparently the official hotel of the 2008 2A Blog Bash is being demolished: Over the years, overnight guests at the Executive Inn have included the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Bob Hope and Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. They forgot the most famous guests of all.  The gun bloggers!  And I’ll bet we got a lot dr...

Ward leaders in Philadelphia, and our illustrious Governor, are worried they won’t have enough “street money” to pay volunteers.  I should note that in suburban wards, our volunteers are volunteers.  They do the job because of a sense of civic duty, so that an important function of our republic can be carried out. ACORN is a shi...

Not here.Here.Happy sixth, Jeff.Sixth? Wow....

Bryan Pick of Q&O gave me and a few other bloggers a terrific opportunity today to participate in a conference call with Matt Blunt - the current governor of Missouri.  The Governor is justifiably proud of his Second Amendment record in Missouri, where during his tenure the state passed castle doctrine legislation as well as Katrina legisl...

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Unrolling Scotch tape in a vacuum produces x-rays. From what I heard, the scientists were too afraid to try duct tape. Duct tape is made primarily out of awesomeness, something you don't want to unleash too much at a time....

We hope that, unlike ground-up bits of tigers, rhinos, gorillas, and Sylvester Stallone, that an increase in... er,... "potency" is not attributed to Yeti toes.However, in a sane world V1agra would have knocked the black rhino and the Siberian tiger right back off the endangered species list, so I'm not getting my hopes up about the expedition bein...

Governor Blunt hosted a conference call a few minutes ago with several gun bloggers.  Mostly it was to talk about the upcoming election.  Not much in the way of news to me, since I’m already pretty familiar with the campaign’s talking points on guns.  Several bloggers expressed concern with John McCain’s record on guns, and ind...

Liberated self has a post regarding Ohio State. The newspaper finally carried a story about on-campus crime, because an officer had to shoot a perp after he stabbed another officer. But, as pointed out, there had been seven robberies within the past seven days that went uncovered. Most involve gangs of perps who travelled a fair distance to get t...

I absolutely love her new banner graphic. ...

Looks like ACORN has gotten into some hot water back home in Delaware County.  ACORN is saying it’s just one bad apple.  There seem to be an awfully lot of bad apples then. ...

Once again, the local radio rag started out a story on McCain’s appearance in Bensalem with “Despite a double digit lead by the Obama campaign …”  Well, I’ve already been telling folks that McCain’s internal polling shows it within 2 points.  Now we also know that Obama’s internal polling is showing the s...

Anti-gun groups routinely blame mass murders on the availability of firearms, especially any particularly-evil-gun-du-jour (most recently the .50 BMG) they are trying to ban, and use mass murders to raise money and lobby for laws that would have been completely irrelevant to the event. And they are not above using a non-event to promote their cause...

The National Rifle Association will continue taking aim at Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. in battleground states, including Virginia, with this new ad."Imagine your child screaming in the middle of the night when a convicted felon breaks into your home," the narrator says. "Worse, he comes back a second time. You use a firearm to defend yourself and you...

The oral argument heard before the 7th Circuit Appeals Court can be found here.Levitt's original correction letter....

Cokeville, Wyoming: An Afton hunter killed a mountain lion earlier this month while hunting deer with his father in western Wyoming. The state Game and Fish Department determined the killing was self defense. Adam Lancaster told Warden Todd Graham that he killed the mountain lion on Oct. 7 as it approached the hunters while they were field dressing...

Via Music City Miracles:I highly encourage everyone to vote for LenDale for the FedEx Ground Player of the Week award, which BigW also linked to in the Fanposts; not just for the adulation of our boy Smash, but because if LenDale wins FedEx will make a $1,000 donation to the Nashville branch of the Safe Kids USA coalition. So, unless you hate child...

James Rummel re-posts Confessions of a Deathbeast. If you missed it when it was previously posted, go read it. If you read it the first time, go read it again. ...

Whoopiteedo. "National distribution of the Student Pledge sends a message that is essential if we are to reverse the tide of violence in this country: that violence is neither inevitable nor an abstract force against which we are powerless." Gad, what meaningless words. "Distribution" of a piece of paper "sends a message" (I'd hope so, unless it ...