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April 02, 2012 Mama's back on internet radio. Tune
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Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2012 Self-defense
FL: Female store owner kills teen robber (Tampa Bay Online) "Moore entered Baker's Mini Mart, 2504 Armenia Ave., about 10:45 a.m. and asked the owner to make change for a bill. He returned to the store 30 minutes later armed with a handgun, police said. Moore pointed the gun at the store's owner, Taquanda Shanti Baker, who was behind the counter, police said. Baker told investigators she pulled out her handgun and accidentally shot one round into the ground. She fired again, hitting Moore, police said." (03/27/12) Mama's Note: Needs range time and some instruction. Probably pulled the trigger as she drew. Glad she got the job done. Nathan: Yes, I am also. But I notice something else: based on her name, it is about a 95% probability that she is black, which makes her another indicator that many Black Americans are rejecting the Tranzi idea that self-defense using guns is evil (like the bar owner in Chicago in Friday's news). Mama's Note: Yes! I noticed that too. I talk to quite a few women shooters on various fora these days, and they are coming from many different ethnic and national origins now. Some of them were card carrying hoplophobes before they or a member of their family became a victim. Amazing what a large dose of reality will do sometimes. (Read
the rest
here)
April
Fools: The editorial board at the Denver PostI Love
My Guns
By Susan Callaway, Editor Some recent comments on various message boards
frequented
by shooters
indicate that a few people are either changing their minds or are
bowing to the politically correct pressure of the day. They have begun
to assert that they do NOT "love their guns" and only view them as
necessary tools.
While I couldn't agree more that guns are simply tools, pretty much like any others, I don't know why that would make them unlovable. Most men love their tools, all different kinds, and men have always loved their guns. I'm certainly not ashamed to join those men. But, you might ask, just what is it that we (who still profess it anyway) actually love about guns? Aren't they killing machines, good only for harming others? We hear that a lot. So, why do I love my guns? Let me count the ways. (Read the rest here) External Articles The Apolitical Economic Superpower By The Tireless Agorist Christiane Amanpour of ABC News is the latest
to grasp the significance of the world's off-the-books, untaxed,
unregulated marketplace. This surprising economic superpower was
featured in her Around the World segment on February 1st.
This market is most often referred to by government spokesmen everywhere as the "black market," in the hopes that people will equate dodging the taxman and bureaucratic busybodies with slavery, child trafficing for pornography, murder for hire, heroin sales, and other, such unsavory pursuits. But people are waking up to the reality behind the hype. When a market is the second-largest in the world, topping 10 trillion dollars, second only to the United States $14.26 trillion, and currently provides approximately half the world's jobs, it becomes increasingly hard to conceive of it as fundamentally evil. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return) By Dave Workman Once the principle of federal mandates is
embraced, it is rather difficult to creep back under cover of some
concern about a state’s right to regulate anything within its borders,
much less the right to keep and bear arms; a right affirmed in the text
of the Second Amendment. Evidently, the Post is just fine with laws
that clamp down on gun rights, but the newspaper has an aversion to
laws that expand gun rights. Wonder how the Post would react to a law
expanding First Amendment rights, as opposed to one that imposes
restrictions.
(Read
the rest here) (Use
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Greece
Surrenders to the Underground Economy
(Read
the rest here) (Use
the back button to return.)By Agorist Don Greece has officially blessed "off-the-books"
economic transactions conducted using an alternative currency. From
what I can ascertain, there is no established exchange rate between
tems and euros; collecting government revenues based on economic
activity conducted in tems is certain to prove problematic, although
the terms of service state "Network members have the sole
responsibility of the possible obligations to the Internal Revenue
arising from transactions between other network members." (Google's
translation from Greek) Even if tems and euros are assumed to exchange
at parity, the actual exchange rate appears to be considerably
different as the following story illustrates.
Castle
Doctrine is 'not guilty'
(Read
the rest here) (Use
the back button to return.)By Paul Valone Castle Doctrine comprises three parts: The
first establishes legal presumption that if somebody “unlawfully and
forcefully” enters your home, workplace or vehicle, you have a
“reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily harm” and may use
up to deadly force in self-defense. You may not, as some suggest, shoot
door-to-door salesmen; invasive entries must be both unlawful and
forceful.
Second, anywhere you may lawfully be, if you face “reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily harm,” you have no duty to retreat before using deadly force.5 Media misstatements notwithstanding, this provision, like Florida’s, does not change centuries-old standards for deadly force. It merely reinforces existing doctrine that you need not risk attempting escape before responding.
So who is Michael E. Horowitz? Most recently he’s
been a partner at a law firm. He’s been a commissioner on the U.S.
Sentencing Commission, a deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of
Staff at the Justice Department, an Assistant U.S. Attorney, a law firm
associate, and a U.S. District Court clerk. He got his law degree
from Harvard. Tatiana Moroz: Singer, movement activist, libertarian By Garry Reed While her father, "a fantastic singer who even
sang at Carnegie Hall" Moroz told the Libertarian News Examiner in an
exclusive interview, may have influenced her musically, it was her
mother, "who is from Warsaw, Poland and moved here in the late 70's,"
who taught her an early political lesson.
At age 5 or 6 Moroz told her, "Mom, why don't we make a society where everyone works and they share what they make? This way everyone can have stuff equally and everyone will be happy and have enough." Her Mother's reply was, "Sorry Taniusz, but that's Communism, and it doesn't work." Also, check out the NEW Freedom Feens
forum.
An on line community of hip freedom people and their friends. Features From The Last Issue Libertarian Commentary on The News By Nathan A. Barton © 2012 by Nathan Barton © 2012
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