Category: Second Amendment

The Bookworm Beat 2-4-15 — The “Obama’s not sad” edition and Open Thread

It’s been pouring paying clients lately, which is a good thing but, as always, it cuts into my blogging time.  I’ll skip the preliminaries and throw myself in the round-up. It’s a bad thing when our president is happy My Mom, in commenting on the state of the world today,

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Marin County Prosecutor wants to make sure citizens think twice about self-defense *UPDATED*

I have been engaged engaged in a running battle . . . er, discussion with a Progressive acquaintance about the Castle Doctrine.  This is the doctrine derived from the ancient Anglo-Saxon principle that “a man’s home is his castle” and he has a right to be safe within its wells.  In

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[VIDEO] Lies, damn lies, and statistics, when it comes to guns

One of my favorite rhetorical firebombs when people start talking about the wonders of socialized medicine, and the fact that it’s soooo much better than America’s pre-Obamacare sort-of free market insurance central medicine, is to tell them the dirty little secret behind infant mortality statistics. Socialized medicine fans like to

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One theory behind the fact that jihadists been targeting Europe instead of just America

Paris is under jihadist siege. The head of British intelligence promises that the West (mostly England, apparently) can expect another mass jihadist attack. My question is why are Muslims attacking Europe at all? Well, of course, part of the answer is that, like the scorpion, jihadists attack and kill because it’s their

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Progressives already have their sights set on Obama’s next executive order — gun control *UPDATED*

I’ve been reading on Facebook what my Leftist friends, and their Leftist friends, have to say about Obama’s imperial pronouncement on amnesty.  One comment struck me especially strongly, because I have no doubt that Obama already has something prepared on his desk.  I’ve changed the wording slightly to protect the Facebook

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The Bookworm Beat (10/29/14) — High blood pressure edition (and Open Thread)

I went to the doctor yesterday for an ear infection and discovered that I have high blood pressure. The doctor’s not treating the problem yet, in case my blood pressure was spiked from my ear pain. I certainly hope that’s transitory pain is the reason.  In two months, we’ll check again and see

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The Bookworm Beat (10/24/14) — Friday’s New York “E-bowling” wrap up

My friend Sally Zelikovsky came up with the pun about a new sport called “E-bowling” after word emerged that the New York physician, who was ostensibly “self-isolating” himself, actually trawled all over the New York, using subways and Uber, to engage in activities ranging from dining out to bowling. I

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The Bookworm Beat (10/18/14) — Saturday night special edition, Open Thread

After a day of wholesome domesticity, what could be better than a little political commentary? As was the case yesterday, I want to begin with a comment about a Facebook poster a liberal friend put up. This one has to do with complaints about the Obama administration’s anything-but-rapid response to Ebola,

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