Firearms and Freedom

Now with running commentary!

Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:
When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of collapse.
Well, [...]

A while back Tam linked a comment calling the NRA (along with pro-lifers, tea party goers and others) “our Taliban.”
I want to take a look a little earlier in the comment, where the writer says “It is not only possible, but likely that these people think the Second Amendment makes it legal to shoot someone [...]

Poor lefties. They’ve been playing on astroturf for so long that they don’t know grassroots even when fed a mouthful of divot. – Tam

And, yet, incumbents are still re-elected about 95% of the time. If you want to throw the bums out, you gotta start with your bum first. – Say Uncle

Via CNET News (hat tip PGB):
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
Huh… giving power to shut down the biggest avenue for free speech an administration that says
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.  These rumors often travel just [...]

Legislatures at all levels are prime case studies in unintended consequences, and the only thing more appalling than the blatant partisan self-interest exercised by both parties is the invariable attempt to mask that self-interest as “the will of the people”, and “what’s best for the state/country.” – Marko

Mike and I always get a kick out of lefties in a tizzy so we decided to strap on our pistols and visit Whole Foods. I considered open carry for a moment but then thought it might be too much for the usual clientele and decided to be merciful. Besides, I wasn’t really in the [...]

From an article by Frank J. Tamel at Examiner.com:
Obama’s spending spree is projected to cost the American taxpayer over 13 trillion dollars over then next ten years. Let’s put that number into perspective. One trillion miles is roughly the distance of a round trip from Earth to Pluto three hundred fifty times. One trillion dollars [...]

Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, “If we can put a man on the moon … ,” grab your wallet. – Jonah Goldberg

When your children know the proper steps to take to keep themselves safe, they will do what’s right when they do find the firearm the parent lied about or simply didn’t know was there.
Have you asked your children what they would do? Because otherwise, you’re just asking the wrong question? – Robb Allen
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Did you hear about China’s bold new environmental program? They’re calling for a 30% reduction in PCB’s in baby formula by 2011. – Tam

…it’s really not good for one’s mental health to try and walk through life attempting to be an optical illusion. – Breda

How would George Washington — a man who actually turned down the presidential salary and preferred being called “Mr. President” over other ‘too majestic’ sounding titles — react if he could see the current state of American politics, exemplified by what Senator Boxer did last week? At a recent hearing, Boxer had the gall to [...]

You cannot wrap the world in Nerf and your children in bubblewrap. There simply is no way to make your little darlings perfectly safe. Sure, you get rid of the guns. Then you have a home invasion. Or your child can drown in a bathtub. Or die by eating household chemicals. etc. The trick to [...]

None of that was sufficient evidence for Obama, in part because anything associated with Bush’s freedom agenda was deemed absurd and ideologically rigid.
Well, Bush is gone. Obama has extended his hand. And the regime is supplying fresh evidence of the absurdity of his approach. All that’s left for Obama now is to abandon his own [...]

Now, we here at The LawDog Files kind of consider a “stab-proof knife” to be somewhat analogous to a “ride-proof bike”, a “drive-proof car”, a “swim-proof pool”, or a “swing-proof hammer” – LawDog