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Before
starting the week's commentary, let me touch on an issue that many of
us have noticed, and bat it around a bit. I
ask any readers willing to do so to share (anonymously, if you wish)
their own experiences in this. Can you go down to your local gun store
- or even a big-box retailer - and buy 9mm Parabellum or 5.56-mm or 7.62x39? What gives? The business with DRMO de-mil-ing their shells before selling them MIGHT account for part of this, but that seems to be well resolved and yet stocks are still short - or just plain missing. Is it just that some people - including some very wealthy people - are either scared or thinking to own a significant part of the market? Or is it a deliberate act by a variety of agencies to cause supplies to collapse? I've heard and read a lot of theories, and don't have anything new to offer on my own, so I'd appreciate hearing from you, dear readers! Mama's Note: I have not even tried to find handgun ammunition in a store for months now, but it is still available on line. Here are a few sources: Sportsman's Guide, CheaperthanDirt. The prices are insane, but it is available. I do hope that the manufacturers can catch up soon and the prices can normalize somewhere within reason. In the meantime, if you don't have any - or enough - get it while and where you can. You just never know. (Read the rest here)
Who Is Arming
the Mexican Drug Cartels? This week, Secretary of Homeland Defense, Janet Napolitano, announced a new plan to curb the alleged flow of weapons from the US into Mexico. This program, which will cost the overwhelmed US Taxpayer another 700 million dollars plus, includes machines that employ what is referred to as "virtual strip search." This plan will supposedly slow down the number of guns traveling south from the US to the drug cartels in Mexico. If this program has the same success rate as the government’s efforts at stopping the flow of contraband north into the US, the Mexican drug cartels will have nuclear weapons by the end of April! While not stated as such, I am sure this will eventually morph into "the war on guns." Funny, is it not, every time our government "declares war" on something, it always increases exponentially! Whether it is poverty, drugs, terrorism or guns, when the state declares war, rapid growth and expansion of that which is the object of that war is inevitable. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Our
Right To Defend Ourselves National
Gun Rights Examiner Pick your poison. But if the grid for delivering energy goes down, the network for delivering products and services follows. And people who are unprepared will do what it takes to survive--including banding together and seeking out those who have prepared, because that is where the food will be. No one seriously thinks civil authority will be able to do a damned thing about protecting their neighborhood, do they? How many thousand people per cop are there in your town? No one seriously thinks the military won't be focusing on the hot spots, leaving what happens in the vast majority of territory up to the people who live there, do they? And don't forget we're not just talking about a domestic event. Some of our competitor nations may just decide that our resources are what they need to survive. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Check out the latest from other Gun Rights Examiners *Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner: Self defense is harmful to the environment * Austin Gun Rights Examiner: Bad day for a robbery *
Charlotte
Gun Rights Examiner: Prize
fight for the Second Amendment: Levy vs. Henigan * Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner: Double standard for some in law enforcement *Denver
Gun Rights Examiner: Why
is all the ammo gone? * Los Angeles Gun Rights Examiner: Saturday Special: Revealing the Second Amendment, Part II. *Milwaukee Gun Rights Examiner: New anti-gun ”feel good” bills now in committee in WI Capital. CORRECTION *Minneapolis
Gun Rights Examiner: There
are no super heroes *Seattle Gun Rights Examiner: Are anti-gunners coordinating with Obama administration to push semi-auto ban? * St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner: Gun rights victories in Illinois *Washington DC Gun Rights Examiner: DC Council's Mendelson's defense of DC gun registration stretches truth beyond breaking point *Wisconsin Gun Rights Examiner: If you open carry - Wisconsin laws you must know
OATH
KEEPERS: ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY 1.
We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
Wailing
Women of NOW Descend on the Emerald City of OZ Soon after the election the National Organization for Women issued its Action Agenda for 2009 and Beyond. This mind-boggling 10-page manifesto calls on Obama to mandate 50% female cabinet appointees, install NOW lackeys throughout the federal bureaucracy, enforce Title IX, impose “comparative worth” on the workplace, and more.
In the abortion arena, the NOW-nags call on Obama to repeal all federal limits to abortion on demand, force doctors to perform abortions against their will, allow teenage girls to get contraception without a doctor’s prescription, and of course install activist judges to advance their culture-of-death jihad. A socialist society requires a revamp of the traditional family, as well. So the NOW wants to stop marriage programs, oppose any constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and appropriate $10 billion a year for daycare programs. And don’t forget to fully fund the Violence Against Women Act – VAWA might come in handy if you ever need to send dad packing on bogus abuse charges.
Last but not least, the feminists are demanding that we enact the International Violence Against Women Act, ratify the UN Treaty on Women (CEDAW), and spend $1 billion to subsidize global “family planning.” (Read the rest here)
Demography
and Economy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The
release on March 18, 2009, of preliminary childbirth data from the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) for 2007 has yielded mixed news –
some good but most providing troubling insight into potentially crippling
problems for American society and the American economy. These data suggest
that 2007 was a very bad year, indeed. While most media focused on the
teen pregnancy data, they missed the bigger picture. Here is the bigger
picture.
External
Articles “When stopped by an officer, do as he asks. Never run from the police, never fight with the police, never get into a shouting match, don’t try to escape from custody. Simply submit, but try to obtain all the info you can, i.e. why am I being stopped, etc. If you feel the officer is in error, there will be ample opportunity to contest the allegations later.” That comprises the entirety of Officer Ron’s letter, and advice: “Just submit.” On March 27, 2006 People magazine published an article (easily found here) that reported what happened to a number of Americans who “just submitted”: (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) The
Twenty-First-Century Abolitionist Project: Slavery and Taxation So how high is the domestic tax burden in America? The Tax Foundation places Tax Freedom Day at April 23rd when the tax burden is complete. The problem with their calculation is that it is at 30.8 percent effective 2008. My personal estimate is closer to 60%+ of American incomes are consumed by government tribute when all the various and sundry taxes and excises across the nation are counted. It gets worse: James L. Payne, from my hometown of Sandpoint, Idaho, authored a brilliant book called "Costly Returns." The thesis is simple: we all pay corporate income taxes as an additional cost of doing business as consumers and we all pay for the tax accountancy and regulatory compliance businesses are forced by law to obey. We then pay indirectly for the enormous dislocation of rational resource investment and return dictated through government fiat through this economically illiterate statist interference. Acres and acres and tens of stories of every corporate building devoted to the hidden tax of indirect extraction and compliance with all manner of government absurdity in the Federal Register and its loyal subsidiaries at the state and local level. What some refer to as the "Vampire Economy." (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Albuquerque
Libertarian Examiner "Isolationist"? "Anti-war"? I hear some people use those reasons as an excuse for why they can't support libertarian philosophy (and Libertarian candidates). It is dead wrong and absolutely absurd. I am not "isolationist" in the slightest. That would be barring the door and ignoring the rest of the world. No, I agree more with the founders of America who warned that we should pursue "Trade with ALL nations; entangling alliances with none". That is reasonable and logical behavior. It avoids the mistakes that have marched deluded folks off to foreign battlefields and made otherwise sensible people into murderers in foreign lands. Yet, the false "conservatives" use this excuse a lot to avoid facing their own lack of consistency. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Dallas
Libertarian Examiner Rejection from the right doesn’t count. That’s a given. Only rebellion from within the ranks counts as backlash. The theory goes like this. The “rich,” as defined by the Obamacrats, includes the very Yuppies, Dinks, Bobos and socially progressive Edge City citizens who breathlessly supported him. When economic reality finally sets in and the head rush of fashionability fades, they will end up repudiating the man. But first some definitions. During the never ending campaign, the “rich” were defined as anyone making more than $250,000 a year, or $200,000 a year, or $150, 000, or $100, 000, depending on whether it was Obama’s or Biden’s lips flapping on whichever campaign stop or TV sound bite you happened to hit on. With “stimulus” and “bailout” now household words, “rich” will likely end up being closer to $50,000 a year. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute 1.
Adam may legitimately command Benjamin to refrain from action C if and
only if C is a demonstrable initiation of aggression against the person
or property of Adam or against the person or property of another innocent
human being.[1] What is true of the one is true of the many so that if no one person has a right so to command me, no two persons acting severally or in concert have that right. They may, of course, combine to use their superior force to coerce me into doing what they require, but that is a matter of might, not right. Whether the number purporting to command me be one, two, seven, 1223, or 10 million, it cannot, except under the conditions sketched above, be a matter of right. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute On January 27, State Farm Florida Insurance Company, the largest provider of homeowners insurance in the Sunshine State, gave formal notice to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) that it intends to withdraw completely from the state. This action will leave more than one million policyholders, including many in the riskiest areas, searching for coverage. Once the withdrawal is complete, the company will surrender its Certificate of Authority to transact insurance business, indicating it has no intention of returning to Florida. In the notice, the company blames regulatory price controls for its decision, saying they have created an “unacceptable probability of impairment or insolvency.” (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation An urgent message to the people of China: Don’t lend the U.S. government another dime. If you do, you will be hurting not only yourselves but also the American people. Invest in real productive ventures here or elsewhere. But — please — don’t buy any more government debt. That may sound unpatriotic, but I can’t think of anything that would better serve the long-term interests of honest Americans and therefore the country itself. The national government, regardless of which party was in power, has been binging for ages. The national debt is more than $10 trillion (not counting trillions in unfunded commitments such as Social Security and Medicare). The budget deficit will be much more than $1 trillion a year for years. Spending is up to $3 trillion a year and growing. Something’s gotta give. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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