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The DC courts handed down a decision in the Parker case today which has me thinking Christmas came late. Witness, logic :
In determining whether the Second Amendment’s guarantee is an individual one, or some sort of collective right, the most important word is the one the drafters chose to describe the holders of the right—“the […]

No Child Left Inside has posted a piece titled Economist on National Parks (TreeHugger) concerning the increased green awareness coinciding with declines in attendence at some of the major National Parks such as Yosemite.
I would love to visit especially Yosemite and Yellow Stone, they’d make great motorcycle trips. But as much as I’d like […]

Everyone has heard the old adage about outlawing guns and only outlaws will have guns. Yet it it often ridiculed as trite propoganda by the anti-gun crowd. But despite their dismissal of it the truth of it is easily evident.

Even if you’re not planning on seeing the new movie The Good Shepherd it is worth taking the time to read J. R. Nyquist’s thoughts on the movie and bone up on your CIA history since, obviously, this movie about the CIA’s history isn’t going to give it to you. Surprised? Me neither.

Looks like Castro, Putin and Ahmadinejad’s good buddy Chavez is taking another step in the shoes of his heros and is nationalizing U.S. owned telecommunications and power companies. In the meantime the U.S. legislature sits on their hands while unabashed, self professed Communists take over South America.
More interesting is that the story is […]

The loss of human life is always tragic. But there is also a saying that if nothing else a person’s life stands as a warning to others. Recently in Arizona an 80 year old man found himself erecting such a signpost that will reach the criminal mind more effectively than a dozen extra […]

When President Bush was campaigning for office he clearly stated that he would sign the renewal of the Semi-Auto ban if it got to his desk. A lot of us took that as “like you’ll ever get that to my desk anyway”. Once elected (like it was an option for Gun Owners to vote […]

Interesting that the AP would even write a small bit about the FBI blocking further investigation into the OKC bombing but they did down play Islamic ties to McVeigh and Nichols.
Rohrabacher said he also was denied access to others with suspected ties to the Oklahoma City bombing, including al Qaida-linked terrorists Ramzi Yousef and […]

After nationalizing Shell’s investment in Russia Putin is not only eying BP’s invesments in Russian energy production. This is especially worrisome when Putin will obviously use energy as a poltical weapon against his neighbors. I guess you can take the thug out of the KGB, but you can’t take the KGB out of the […]

Yet again the media is selective about who’s rights they recognize as legitimate though most of the time they’re on the opposite side of logic anyway. And the Second Amendment has long been on their “ignore” list. Case in point, it seems they feel the public has a right to know who owns […]

Let those who bash President Bush on the wiretapping stuff explain their wonder boy’s actions in spying on Princess Diana. Of course it was probably prurient on the part of the Boy President it’s private and none of our business, right?

After a rash of judge shootings a few years ago more Judges are packing court. I think this is a positive step mainly in social acceptance of the fact that law enforcement cannot be everywhere at once and ultimately they’re only responsible for filing the follow up report anyway.
At the same time […]

If you ever need an example of why the UN is bad how about their voting against the world’s right to self defense? What this effectively means is that if you follow the UN’s decrees you can buy firearms but if you recognize the UN is a 2-bit dictators club reaching for control of […]

The media has been in the cross hairs for sometime for their choices on what to cover and what not to cover. Especially when reporting on our boys overseas and only report when they get killed or kill someone they shouldn’t have. They have effectively controlled the American people’s view and understanding of what is […]

Police serving a drug related search warrant on a 92 year old woman had to shoot her to serve the warrant. Besides the implication of the police acting on bad information and shooting a harmless 92 year old woman (harmless like granny in Every Which Way But Loose apparently).
Much to the dismay of the […]

It is sad that in England an honest shop owner cannot own a pistol to keep under his counter but a 14 year old gir can get sub machineguns for a drug gang. Society focuses entirely too much on law that curbs the rights of the citizenry because it’s easier than actually catching crooks. […]

If only all chidren were raised like these girls America would be a different place.

CFR: Building a North American Community
North American Leaders Unveil Security and Prosperity Partnership
Bush, Fox, Martin outline trilateral efforts during March 23 meeting
Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, Report to Leaders
Bush sneaking North American super-state without oversight?
Mexico, Canada partnership underway with no authorization from Congress
N. American students trained for […]

Looks like at least some New Yorkers have had enough of Bloomberg’s and New York’s antics where private ownership of guns is concerned. Bloomberg, proving once again the Republicans will let anyone in the party (like John McCain wasn’t evident enough).

Yup, the Indy Star is again showing it’s ignorance. Their staff Op-Ed today looks like it was written by the Brady Campaign: Disturbing the peace of gun-free parks .
So far, Indiana’s application of the Second Amendment has pleased the NRA and kept the state above the national average in gun-related deaths. Opening the public’s […]

The Indiana Department of Naturual Resources director Kyle Hupfer has announce a 1 year reprieve on the policy which bans Hoosiers from carrying their concealed handguns in state parks.
“We’re a society of rights,” he said, “and it’s a basic constitutional right of citizens to bear arms, and any restrictions on that need to […]

We could end up having all firearms classified as “machine guns” even if they cannot fire a single round because of the ATF changing its mind on things already classified and ruled on. What that means is if you were to get a letter from them saying that it’s OK to build something a certain […]

Just a thought… but if the courts have deemed it illegal to charge a poll tax which could deny people their Constitutional rights.. why is it then OK to charge a citizen to live by his Second Amendment rights? Is it not simply a type of poll tax?
Remember that the poll taxes were originally […]

Looking at the front runners, so far, for the 2008 Republican nomination is not good for my digestion. The only light at the end of that dark tunnel, other than the train coming at us full speed, is that many others are also aware of how bad it could be for gun owners. First […]

As a quick followup to the sulfur Global Warming Fix; I was listening to a discussion today on “clean coal technology” involving gassing coal to remove the methane so that they do not have to burn the coal itself. One of the problems with Indiana coal verses coal from, say, Utah, is a high sulfur […]