Originally posted November 9, 2012. Literally hours after the reelection of Barack Obama, the U.S. backed U.N. arms treaty talks. We’re looking at gun control here, pure and simple. Over coming weeks, you are going to read a lot of jive as to how the intent is not to jockey with your Second Amendment rights. […]
Archives for March 2018
Tragedy Used for Politics
Originally posted January 11, 2011. The political left has turned the Arizona shooting into a cudgel to beat the Tea Party with. Without any evidence whatsoever that the deranged gunman had any connection to the Tea Party, Sarah Palin or even that he holds conservative ideals, the political left has begun assaulting all of the […]
Puerto Rico: A Survival Case Study
In Puerto Rico, Americans are getting a first hand look at how dangerous it can be to rely on government, or anyone else for that matter, to protect you. Five months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island with punishing wind and rain, Puerto Ricans are still waiting for power in some areas, and over 58,000 […]
“Here I Am! Don’t Shoot!”
Originally posted June 12, 2013. Gun-free zones don’t make you safe – they make those wishing to steal your birthday safe. As Allysia Finley of The Wall Street Journal notes: But it’s also worth pointing out that the state of California and city of Los Angeles have among the strictest gun-control laws in the country. […]
Thinking Back: Crazy Always Seems to Find a Way
Originally posted January 14, 2011. As the debate on gun control heats up in the wake of the Tucson massacre, the predictable flow of misinformation is coming out of the Brady Campaign, America’s number one gun control lobby. Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, is on the news telling Americans that the gun used […]
Give Me Your Gun!
Originally posted July 29, 2013. Allowing the government to confiscate guns with such broad strokes of the brush is a violation of the 2nd Amendment and it’s not going to stop the murderers from possessing them. Jack Nicas writes in the Wall Street Journal: Gun-rights advocates have long fought to prevent government from keeping data […]
Gun Control’s Effect on Violence, Part II
Originally posted November 2, 2016. Last week I introduced you to a piece by Robert Verbruggen explaining the flaw in a study of violence involving firearms by the Center for American Progress (a liberal progressive think tank). Verbruggen continued his exploration of research involving guns and crime here. In his second piece he addresses an […]
The Best Way to Travel in a Blizzard
Today most of Eastern New England is wrapped in a blizzard. Heavy snow and fierce winds are making conditions extremely difficult for travelers. But there are a number of ways to get around in the snow, though some of them are unorthodox. Snow shoes: These surface area enhancers can keep a person walking on top […]
Tucker Carlson Getting it Right
Writing at The American Conservative, Alan Pell Crawford calls Tucker Carlson a “Grand Inquisitor with a boisterous sense of humor.” And, adds Pell Crawford, despite his mostly mainstream conservative thinking, Carlson challenges traditional thought wherever he sees problems with dogma. He writes: He remains well within the ideological tent on many red meat controversies of […]
Bad News for the Obama Administration?
Top Republican lawmakers are formally requesting the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the Justice Department’s conduct in 2016/2017. The next bit of bad news is that the long-withheld documents related to the Operation Fast and Furious scandal are to be released to Congress. As Julie Kelley notes in American Greatness of the insidious […]
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