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Real
Solutions For American and Mexican Violence First, let us review a few basic facts. According to UN and BATFE figures, the American civilian population owns 40% of the world's supply of small arms. This seems to deeply disturb the UN kleptocrats and their US federal partners-in-crime, though why that would be I just can't imagine. I haven't seen the American CIVILIAN population start a war since.. well, ever. Or overthrow a government, unless you insist on counting that "unfortunate" incident starting in 1776, but I really think that worked out for the best in the end. Despite screaming and yelling to the contrary, the 80-100 million gun owners in this country commit a vanishingly small number of crimes with that vast arsenal. Only an infinitesimally small fraction of the several hundred million firearms are EVER involved in a crime, and most of the time the way they are "involved" is by being stolen, either by freelance criminals wanting them, or by uniformed government employed criminals in the course of enforcing some unconstitutional law or other. (Read the rest here)
Politically
Incorrect Movie Reviews When I first heard there was a film called Taken, I thought it was about the Obama Stimu-Pork bill; as in, “Aw crap! We’ve all been TAKEN!” But unlike the Pelosi Pork Pack, this story is easy to follow and all it will cost you is 8 bucks and 90 minutes. In the first 10 minutes of Taken, the story is set. Two ditsy, trampy teens are kidnapped in France by greasy brutes. Okay I get it – saw it coming a mile away. From that point on, Neeson opens up a can of whoop on virtually anyone who stands in front of him. This is what the movie trailer shows, and Taken doesn’t veer from that one bit. Whatcha see is whatcha get. No tricks, no plot twists, no gimmicks. Just straight-ahead ticked-off butt-kickin’. In fact, most of the other characters in this flick exist merely to get whacked by Neeson or to watch Neeson whack somebody else. Taken is whack-mania. More whackin’ then the KKK vs. black transvestites on the Jerry Springer Show. This movie could easily be re-titled “James Bond Meets Rambo On Meth.” (Read the rest here)
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Right To Defend Ourselves National
Gun Rights Examiner
The implications here are clear: gun owners, and those who believe in the right to keep and bear arms are maniacs and lunatics, all to be judged based on the actions that took place here. (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: Georgia Tech's school safety zone renders its students and employees vulnerable * Austin Gun Rights Examiner: Australia experiencing mass murder despite gun control *# Boston Gun Rights Examiner: Massachusetts Gun Law – time for real reform (Part I) * Charlotte Gun Rights Examiner: LibertyTUBE TV: 'Gun Controlled' * Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner: Pizza shop owner fights back, robber killed *Denver
Gun Rights Examiner: "Iron
River" of guns into Mexico is actually just a trickle * Los Angeles Gun Rights Examiner: Gun Owners and Corporate Social Responsibility *Milwaukee Gun Rights Examiner: New anti-gun ”feel good” bills now in committee in WI Capital. CORRECTION *Minneapolis Gun Rights Examiner: Should blogging require government registration? *Seattle Gun Rights Examiner: Obama administration, Congressional anti-gunners mislead public on guns in Mexico * St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner: Did IL State Rep. Dunkin lie about tabling mandatory $1 million liability insurance for gun owners? *Washington DC Gun Rights Examiner: Federal court's injunction against National Park gun ban repeal fails giggle test *Wisconsin Gun Rights Examiner: Use and threat of lethal force
OATH
KEEPERS: ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY 1.
We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
Liberals,
Want to Hoodwink a Conservative? Here’s How… Good morning fellow progressives, social revolutionaries, and Weathermen wannabees. In today’s class I’ll explain how to bewilder the conservatives, stymie their agenda, and abscond with billions in taxpayer money. Some conservatives will become so befuddled that they will even come to embrace your cause.
It’s so simple, you might not believe me. All you need to do is utter a two-word incantation. Ready?
“Domestic violence.” (Read the rest here)
External
Articles Time after time multiple- victim public shootings occur in “gun free zones” — public places where citizens are not legally able to carry guns. The horrible attack today in Binghamton, New York is no different. Every multiple-victim public shooting that I have studied, where more than three people have been killed, has taken place where guns are banned. You would think that it would be an important part of the news stories for a simple reason: Gun-free zones are a magnet for these attacks. Extensive discussions of these attacks can be found here and here. We want to keep people safe, but the problem is that it is the law-abiding good citizens, not the criminals, who obey these laws. We end up disarming the potential victims and not the criminals. Rather than making places safe for victims, we unintentionally make them safe for the criminal. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Invitation
to an Open Conspiracy: Mass
abstract testing, anonymously scored, is the torture centrifuge whirling
away precious resources of time and money from productive use and routing
it into the hands of testing magicians. It happens only because the tormented
allow it. Here is the divide-and-conquer mechanism par excellence, the
wizard-wand which establishes a bogus rank order among the schooled, inflicts
prodigies of stress upon the unwary, causes suicides, family breakups,
and grossly perverts the learning process—while producing no information
of any genuine worth. ... but I do know how to bring the testing empire to an end, to rip out its heart and make its inventors, proponents, and practitioners into pariahs whose political allies will abandon them. Let a group of young men and women, one fully aware that these tests add no value to individual lives or the social life of the majority, use the power of the internet to recruit other young people to refuse, quietly, to take these tests. No demonstrations, no mud-slinging, no adversarial politics—to simply write across the face of the tests placed in front of them, "I would prefer not to take this test." (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Albuquerque
Libertarian Examiner When a tragedy like yesterday's massacre in Binghamton NY occurs, libertarians need to be careful to not say "I told you so" to people who are hurting. It can be hard, because we do keep warning that these things are an inevitable consequence of "gun control". The fewer good people who are armed, the more bold the bad people become. That doesn't mean we stop holding accountable the tyrants who enable these horrific acts with their counterfeit "laws" against effective armed self-defense. Remember that most people, for whatever reason, can't see the logical outcome of victim disarmament "laws". The politicians and enforcers, however, do know they help madmen kill unarmed innocents. Yet, they keep repeating "don't resist; don't arm yourself. Leave protection up to the professionals". It is almost as if they want you dead. Why would they do that? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Dallas
Libertarian Examiner Suppose a lowlife teen with low-level brainwave output carjacks a Toyota Tundra Crew Max and rams it through the window of the local Shop N Slop. Our youthful felon-in-training then lopes off into the night with a dozen cartons of smokes clutched closely against his heavily tattooed torso. A definite inconvenience for the convenience store owner. The broken pane is a pain. But wait. There's a silver lining in the line of thought encountered in some economist's cogitation. The shattered sheet of windowpane, they explain, means work for the friendly neighborhood Glass Guy. Repairing the window puts a few bills in his billfold. Now he can buy that 36" flat screen HDTV to watch the Dallas Cowboys on. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute "Social" control, i.e., government control, of business is step by step substituted for private control. The "progressives" are certain that this trend toward wresting "economic" power from the parasitic "leisure class" and its transfer to "the people" will go on until the "welfare state" will have supplanted the nefarious capitalistic system which history has doomed forever. Notwithstanding sinister machinations on the part of "the interests," mankind — led by government economists and other bureaucrats, politicians, and union bosses — marches steadily toward the bliss of an earthly paradise. The prestige of this myth is so enormous that it quells any opposition. It spreads defeatism among those who do not share the opinion that everything which comes later is better than what preceded, and are fully aware of the disastrous effects of all-around planning, i.e., totalitarian socialism. They, too, meekly submit to what, the pseudoscholars tell them, is inevitable. It is this mentality of passively accepting defeat that has made socialism triumph in many European countries and may very soon make it conquer in this country too. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute President Warren Harding once said, “I have no trouble with my enemies,” but noted that his friends “keep me walking the floor nights.” That maxim should have applied to U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 and even before that. It is sometimes puzzling why the U.S. government fears faraway countries that currently pose no direct threat to the United States—for example, Iran, North Korea, Saddam’s Iraq—while downplaying actual threats emanating from “friendly” nations. We all know the story of how most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, how the Saudi government has funded radical Islamic schools all over the Muslim world, and how private Saudi money has made its way to al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation The news media are rife with stories about Mexican drug cartels operating throughout the United States and drug-related violence threatening U.S. cities near the border. Americans are becoming reluctant to cross into Mexican towns for fear of getting caught in the crossfire. Do we need another reason to end the abominable war on “drugs” (a war on people, actually)? You read that right. The drug trade is violent because the U.S. government persists in trying to eradicate the manufacture, sale, and consumption of certain substances. If there were no drug war, there would be no drug violence. Those who doubt this should ask themselves why violent cartels aren’t fighting over the tobacco and liquor trades. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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