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20, 2009 WARNING: According to the U.S. government, I am an extremist. I am a Christian and meet regularly with other Christians to study God's word. My faith convinces me the Bible is true - including its prophesies. I believe in the sanctity of human life and so I oppose abortion, and believe that "marriage" is nothing but the union of a man and a woman. I am a veteran with skills and knowledge derived from military training and service overseas on three continents. I own several firearms, and I frequently shoot them, buy ammunition, and consider efforts to infringe on my Second Amendment rights to be wrong and unconstitutional. I fervently support the sovereignty of the United States, and I am deeply concerned about our economy, increasingly higher taxes, illegal immigration, soaring unemployment, and actions by our government that are unconstitutional and, among other things, will bury me and my children beneath a mountain of debt. Apparently, all this makes me a "rightwing extremist." At least, that's what it says in the April 7 "Assessment" issued by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security. Read my writings at your own risk. (Read the rest here)
TEA
Party Thoughts Clearly, the numbers were not "tens" but "hundreds" of thousands - and I've seen estimates of as many as 2500 cities. Given the numbers I've heard from various locations, I would say there is a very good chance that more than a million people participated: Durango 500, Cortez 200, Rapid City 1000, Spearfish 100, Casper 1000, Billings 500, Denver 5,000: and I suspect most were undercounted by the media. Indeed, there is strong evidence from more than one town that such is the case. The question now is, will people do this just once, or will they repeat it, and more important, back it up with more action. What kind? Refusal to cooperate with tax-agents, refusal to accept government contracts and money, demands for impeachment and resignation and constant pressure on politicians (and on the media) can be the next steps - but will take more guts than showing up for a four-hour rally. (Read the rest here)
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Gun Rights Examiner The same concerns I expressed about the UN Protocol apply to the regional agreement. I wrote about it yesterday on my WarOnGuns blog, and see Kurt Hofmann features it today in his St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner column. If you're interested in protecting your rights, you'd do well to explore these links and see what those who would abridge them are conspiring to do. And there's something else about the WaPo story I just have to point out: The political left is making great noise about Obama backing away from a new "assault weapons" ban--obviously so they can ridicule and dismiss people who warn against it as paranoids. Keeping yesterday's observations about "imminence" in mind, we can't let that distract us from his clear and oft-stated intent: But Obama indicated that while he favors reinstating the U.S. ban on assault weapons, which Congress allowed to expire five years ago, the move would face too much political opposition to happen soon. (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: Mainstream media misleads on the gun permit issue * Austin Gun Rights Examiner: Armed hero saves 4 lives during home invasion robbery * Boston Gun Rights Examiner: The Educated Patriot: Is a rightwing extremist! * Charlotte Gun Rights Examiner: Armed self-defense & ‘The Stopwatch of Death’ * Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner: Obama laments not being able to ban assault weapons *Denver
Gun Rights Examiner: A
peek into a liberal's mind * Los Angeles Gun Rights Examiner: An Examiner answers another Examiner... *Seattle Gun Rights Examiner: Homeland Security’s outrageous insult to veterans, conservatives and firearms owners * St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner: Senate must reject Inter-American Arms Treaty *Washington DC Gun Rights Examiner: Breaking News: Federal civil rights lawsuit filed against West Milwaukee *Wisconsin Gun Rights Examiner: Lawless or ignorant cops
Abuse
Excuse: How Liberalism Keeps Women in their Place
Liberals have become the unapologetic predators of women, gleefully playing on their fears and psychological vulnerabilities, all in the name of curbing domestic violence. Of course women’s only hope lies in heavy-handed state intervention.
Before proceeding, I will warn you this column is filled with high-octane statements made by the willfully dishonest, the social schemers, and the patently unhinged. As you wade through the claims, keep in mind two facts.
First, all forms of violent crime have fallen dramatically in the past 30 years. The incidences of rape, intimate partner homicide, and non-fatal partner violence are now half what they were in 1980. We’ve made tremendous progress in the last three decades and everyone should be feeling a lot safer. (Read the rest here)
External
Articles "The most difficult right to respect, and this is true for both the Right and the Left, is the right to be wrong. Everyone believes in the right to be right. Very few believe in the right to be wrong. And let me be clear as to what I mean by wrong. I mean an action that may well be destructive or counter-productive to the self, but which does not violate the life, liberty or property of others. Actions that violate the sovereign realm of other people are crimes. It is true that an action can harm others and also harm oneself. It can be both wrong and a crime. However, an action that harms only the self is wrong but not a crime, in liberal thinking at least. Invariably it is when people make wrong choices that the inner statist is released." (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Albuquerque
Libertarian Examiner Statism is rude and childish. It demands that everyone play according to the "one size fits all" rules it imposes, whether they want to or not, and no matter if it is in their best interest or not. Statism is selfish. It doesn't consider the impact it has on others. It truly doesn't care if it inconveniences or harms you. It always wants "something for nothing", not caring that the "something" is stolen from the rightful owners, and "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch". Statists don't doubt the legitimacy of government; only the legitimacy of government when it isn't being used the way they want it used. Any power the government uses for their benefit is OK; any power the government uses to their detriment is bad. Taxation isn't "wrong" unless it is used for things they don't like. Statists are easily trapped by their inconsistencies. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Dallas
Libertarian Examiner It may require some serious professional psychological sleuthing to understand why Marxist socialist left liberal progressives are so anti handgun. But even a rational layman can do a certain amount of surmising. Guns are just tools like screwdrivers and hammers and trowels. Load a Glock and place it on a table. Watch what it does. It does nothing. It isn’t motivated. It’s not self-animated. It won’t jump up and shoot someone all by itself, any more than a screwdriver resting on the same table will leap into the room in search of a screw to tighten, or the hammer will suddenly take it upon itself to bang the head of some hapless nail, or the trowel will go flying out of your house in search of somebody’s wet cement to smooth over. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute There is a way of transforming the fiat-money regime into a sound money regime. Praxeology, the science of the logic of human action, allows us to state the very principle along which a sound money system must be (re-)built: namely allowing for complete freedom of the supply of and demand for the currency. This, in turn, implies privatizing the money system, establishing free banking, based on 100% reserve banking that complies with traditional legal rules of property rights. The corollary would be ending any government inference in monetary affairs, abolishing the central bank. But how can the current fiat-money regime be transformed into a sound-money system? The answer to this question can be found in Mises's regression theorem. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute The recessionary trembles that Latin American and Caribbean nations are experiencing had their epicenter in the United States. The drop in exports, investments, remittances and access to financing has put an end to six years of economic growth that lifted some 40 million people out of poverty in Latin America—although the burgeoning middle class is still more “low” than “middle.” No wealth transfer scheme did this—not the Inter-American Development Bank’s $7 billion worth of annual credits, not George W. Bush’s doubling of aid to Latin America, not the International Monetary Fund, which has been effectively “exiled” from the region. Regardless of the growing pressure to “reflate” Latin America’s economies via multilateral financing, no Alliance for Progress redux will put these countries back on track. Only the recovery of the U.S. economy and a continuation of the reform process that stopped at the end of the 1990s will do that. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation For decades, labor unions struggled for power, but until the 1930s they had made little headway. Unions were based on force and violence, which repelled a substantial number of employees as well as employers. The aim had been to raise the wages of members above market levels, but this was only possible if they went on strike, forcibly prevented employers from hiring other employees, shut down businesses, and ultimately forced employers to accept union demands. Union bosses talked about securing the “right to strike,” but they didn’t mean the right to quit which everybody already had. In practice, the “right to strike” meant the right to forcibly prevent others from filling jobs that strikers had left. Union bosses proclaimed the ideal of “collective bargaining,” even described this as the essence of “industrial democracy,” but what they sought was compulsory unionism — a labor market monopoly. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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