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If you’ve considered OnStar for your next GM purchase you might want to consider that Cops can turn off your car via the OnStar system. Now this may seem practical especially since some people will be willing to pay for the privilege of living in an increasingly police state. At the same time you have […]

It seems that OSHA rules trump State law and the Constitution when it comes to politically incorrect issues such as gun control. I’m a huge private property proponent and a huge supporter of business. But there are times when the rights of an individual trump and this is one that can be concisely and […]

It does the heart good to occasionally read positive news on Iraq in a mainstream rag and for the most part the Telegraph story Iraq insurgency: People rise against al-Qa’eda speaks to the success of the “surge” and that the Iraqi citizenry is waking up to the fact this this is their fight, too.

The gun-control crowd actively pushes for only miliary and police to have access to firearms and especially handguns. The problem is that military and police are all recruited from the general population so while it is less likely for a soldier or COP to go wacko and go on a shooting spree it certainly […]

Other ramifications of the weakened US dollar is that foreign companies are buying out U.S. companies either to acquire technology, patents or to eliminate competitors. If you think little is actually “made in America” now just wait until all these buyouts conclude. It is bad enough now but soon America will not be […]

With all the bravo sierra nanny stuff going around I found the post on Motorcycle Crash Statistics rather interesting.
72 percent of fatalties(sic) in [motorcycle] operator age group 40-49 involved alcohol.
It is typical to blame the motorcycle for the accident just as it is typical to blame a firearm for the actions of a criminal. […]

I can’t help but, in light of recent pushes by the Nanny State do-gooders, paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem:

First they came for the Smokers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Smoker.
Then they came for the Fatties
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Fatty.
Then they came for the […]

Tobacco, seat belts, bike helmets, unhealthy eating - when you start down the road of legislating how your neighbor lives his life don’t be surprised when eventually one of your own sacred cows comes to the altar of legislation and taxation.
Everything has come down to “it’s costing me $$ on my medical insurance!”. Well so […]

America, to no one’s surprise, is the most heavily armed society at
90 guns per 100 people. What is surprising is that the normal anti-American spin seems missing from this article and actually makes a few surprising notes. First the correlation between a disarmed citizenry and poverty:
…while many poorer countries often associated with violence ranked […]

Last I read the Lautenberg amendment didn’t include ‘delusional’ as something that prohibits one from owning a ammunition, especially when the “subject” is deemed such by an ex-girlfriend! Even under domestic protective orders it’s the firearm that is prohibited. And I wonder how much pressure the ex- was under by the us attorney […]

Kalifornia municipality in an unsurprisingly typical Nanny State move bans home fireworks displays because it’s costing the police and fire deparments too much money.
This country was founded on blowing stuff up, and 231 years later it continues to be the thing that we do best. And yet in the past few decades, almost every […]

Two interesting articles about Michael Glatze; How a ‘gay rights’ leader became straight.

This years Gun Rights Policy Conference is close enough to home I’d love to actually attend. A lot can happen in 4 months so I’m not going to make reservations yet but it’s on my radar.

When the Democrat majority leader is carrying the football for Bush’s Immigration bill it should set off alarm bells in every Republican in America. This makes for 2 pieces of obnoxious legislation (the other mentioned in the previous post) that have been carried forward by rules tricks that would have gotten a Republican lynched in […]

In the legislative background noise over the immigration bills the New Federal Gun Control (HR 2640) is quietly moving from the House to the Senate. This bill moved through the House due to some Democrat slight of hand as the bill went from dead to being quietly passed by a voice vote in 3 hours. […]

Could it actually be that the placid Canadian neighbors are actually catching on?
Blaming everyone but the culprits — violent youth gangs waging turf wars — the promoters of failed social policies are demanding more of the same. They want more regulations for the law-abiding, more molly-coddling for the lawless and more America-bashing for everyone.

A wonderful YouTube treasure! In 1959 Mike Wallace interviewed Ayn Rand ( Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ) at a time when Mike knew how to actually ask hard questions. And Rand doesn’t miss a beat in rebutting Wallace and her critics. Wallace seems to miss that it is the individual who determines […]

I love the spin put on the NRA’s opposition to a law allowing the government to prohibit sales of firearms because they are suspected of terrorist activities. Basically the law allows a government official to decide who gets to buy firearms solely on their own suspicion that the individual is a terrorist or has […]

The NYT can’t even write an unbiased article about the A Liberal Case for Gun Rights but instead prefaces the article with two out right falsehoods. The first being there have been no gun laws overturned strictly on 2nd Amendment grounds and the second being the there was ever a consensus anywhere but liberal achademia […]

Just because we see a liberal under every rock doesn’t mean they’re not out to disarm us. This piece is a great example of one of “them” letting their private rhetoric get into the public view, an inside look if you will.

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 […]