Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Guns are the great equalizer — and nobody on the Left likes equality. This is why the Left twists itself in knots to avoid the implications of the 2nd Amendment. Here are Penn & Teller with one interpretation: There’s a differing interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that also sees the
Continue readingI finally figured out the Second Amendment when Hurricane Katrina struck. I mean, I’d always known before that the police can’t be everywhere and that they often show up to mop up after a crime, because the criminal and done and gone so quickly. The knowledge that they’re out there
Continue readingIs it a coincidence that, the day before Hanukkah, my blog is suddenly hopping with references to the Second Amendment? After all, Hanukkah commemorates a battle against government tyranny, something that happens only when a citizenry can protect itself. No, I don’t think it’s coincidence, especially because I just read
Continue readingRobert Avrech nails the stupidity that is gun control. (And yes, I was once that stupid, but I’ve recovered.) It’s pretty much a perfect post: short, riveting, persuasive. Hat tip: Sadie
Continue readingOne of the blessings of blogging is that I’ve met so many wonderful people. I haven’t met most of them in the conventional sense — that is, I haven’t been in the same physical space with them — but I’ve corresponded with them over the years and feel I know
Continue readingMany, many have written on this, but I like Keith Koffler’s summation the best, as I think he does a remarkably good getting to the core point about the latest twist in Fast and Furious. He also manages to highlight why I like Rush: Rush is not afraid to identify
Continue readingPerhaps because they often tend to live in tightly packed urban environments, when it comes to the gun debate, liberals always forget that the cops cannot be relied upon to be there at the moment a crime is happening. In a city it’s entirely possible that there are lots of
Continue readingTwenty years ago, if you had offered me the opportunity to fire a gun, I would have recoiled in absolute horror and read you the riot act. I can still recite my standard factoids from memory, although I’m too lazy now to string them together into a coherent narrative: Guns
Continue readingOne of the things that baffled me as a child was the way in which the Jews passively walked into the gas chambers. My parents explained to me that Jews were not warriors. Outside of Israel, Jews still aren’t warriors. Jeffrey Goldberg thinks that’s stupid: You can’t fight a rifle
Continue readingHere’s one for the embittered crowd: While we’ve all heard about the Annenberg Challenge, I think few, if any, of us have heard about Obama’s eight years as director of the Joyce Foundation. You’d think he would have been playing up a directorship, considering that it would prove executive experience.
Continue readingThis is not a picture in America, but the top two pictures in this story illustrate perfectly why it matters that a nation’s citizens — the vast majority of whom are law abiding — can bear arms. It is also interesting to note that, while the Beeb instantly tried to
Continue readingJust in time for July 4th, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Second Amendment says what it means and means what it says. I personally am not now, nor have I ever been, a gun owner. I keep meaning to go the local firing range and take lessons (operating on
Continue readingThat the North Bay region (SF, Marin, etc.) will send a Democrat to the California Senate in November goes without saying. What’s interesting is that North Bay Democrats selected the most extremely Progressive (read: far Left) of the three people vying for that seat (Carole Migden, Joe Nation and Mark
Continue readingHere is a message from the NRA: Anti-gun hysteria has reached a fever pitch in the Golden State. The California Assembly is considering a bill (Assembly Bill 2062) this session that, if passed, will have dire consequences for California’s law-abiding gun owners. AB2062 is scheduled to be heard on Wednesday,
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