tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21989748614927371862011-11-27T17:22:12.115-06:00Musings on motorcycles, boom sticks and politics but mostly politics.Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03625557682819115254noreply@blogger.comBlogger2111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198974861492737186.post-81275539271623670132010-03-14T16:57:00.000-05:002010-03-14T16:57:27.253-05:00

I have moved my blog since I got me a domain name and if I ever figure out the redirect thing I'll close this one, until then go here.

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I am moving to my very own domain name. Now I just need to figure out how to redirect because copying and pasting is slow and dumb.

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Krugman vs Krugman

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It’s  Ron Paul with some leadership skills. Rep Ryan’s webpage complete with plan.

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But it’s the Republicans fault.

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Peggy Noonan. I very rarely agree with Ms. Noonan but on occasion she is spot on.

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To Keep and Bear Arms « Doctor Zero. An excellent essay on the right of self defense with a few thoughts on the American ideal.

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I have a confession I have paid no attention to American motorcycle racing since DMG bought out the AMA for the rights to AMA roadracing but this makes me sad. (and I know I’m late, like I said I haven’t been paying attention) Superbike Planet notes that Kevin Cameron wasn’t at Daytona this year his reasons are sound but it’s still a sad day for Motorcycle racing. Not as sad as Honda not being

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So I see a rumor that Charles Schumer mr. anti civil rights   himself has a NYC unrestricted gun permit, meaning he is one of 30,000 people out of 8,000,000 and actually about 22,000 of those are retired cops which leaves us with about 8,000 non LEO permit holders.  That 8,000 is primarily the ultra well connected of NYC, people such as Robert DeNiro, Don Imus, Harvey Keitel,Joan Rivers, The

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It's economics day evidently. I found another good article on why Health Care Reform won't work here at the Fiscal Times ,there is also a blog post here from the comments section that makes some fine points. Then there is this from the CATO Institute. Again government interference in markets distorts said markets.

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  It's been slow at work for the last 8 months but really slow the last two, now February and March are typically kinda slow in the auto repair biz but this is pretty amazingly bad. Yesterday in my ample free time at work it occurred to me that I had forgotten one of the probable contributors to this time of suckage... Cash for Clunkers.   Anyone who had the cash or credit went out and bought a

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This is interesting  from Walls of the City comes some fun math and statistical goodness. Go read.

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Zombies, now I do.

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 I like spicy food, I have been known to ask for Thai hot when the stars align but it sounds like Larry found something evil hot. By the way Larry is the author of Monster Hunter International so if you find this good he has a book you'll love.

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Treasury to TARP Inspector General: Drop Dead | BeyondBailouts.orgI swear the level of hubris is stunning, and again I see no real difference from the last administration.H/T to Instapundit.

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From Real Clear politics"If elected I promise to vote "No" on any bill that proposes to expand government power for any purpose. I promise to vote "No" on any bill whose net effect does not reduce government spending. I promise to vote "No" on any bill whose net effect does not reduce federal taxes." I could get behind a No! campaign.

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From the Gay Patriot comes a really good lesson on economics. I'm leaving it as a embedded link because he has a good website and you should go there and read a bit.  

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  Some friends* of Sari's and I created a goof called the Tuna hotdish smack down last year mostly to give us all an excuse to get together over the winter and visit. So as reigning champion I decided this year I needed to twist things a bit.   My initial thoughts were to deconstruct the ingredients, foody talk for using traditional ingredients in a different arrangement, so one way to do it

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Oh boy some people make it hard to not start cleaning the gene pool. Atlanta Progressive News was not planning to make any public statements regarding Jonathan Springston’s departure from Atlanta Progressive News until having been contacted by Andisheh Nouaree at Creative Loafing with the news agency’s threat of publishing a blog entry about it.It should be noted that Nouaree’s motives in

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  I find it quite refreshing that a bigoted asshole got soundly booed at CPAC. The GOP looks to be moving towards a more libertarian outlook on gay and lesbian issues than it has in the past. The group said bigoted asshole was whining about is a cosponsor of CPAC called GOProud, something that would have been unheard of a few years ago. I understand that some people have a religious

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It appears the WA state Supreme Court has incorporated the 2nd amendment under the due process clause of the 14th. Volokh Conspiracy  link. A couple excerpts "Like Presser and Cruikshank we question the relevance of United States v. Miller to the instant matter, albeit for different reasons. Miller concerned the constitutionality of a federal regulation barring interstate transport of, for

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So Sunday I'm going to give money to Starbucks in a show of support as detailed by gun bloggers everywhere but I think I'm going to pass on the political statement to the barista because Stingray brings up a couple good points. I have emailed Starbucks and will fill out a comment card Sunday when I make a 30 mile trip for a cup of coffee.

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From Tam comes some excellent cranky.

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  There have been a few intriguing pieces on the Tea Party of late here's one. Real Clear Politics had another the other day here and then there is this one from Mr. Instapundit that I like enough to link to again.    The thing for my non minarchist friends to understand is this irritation at the federal government and profligate spending started before the election, I know it's hard to believe

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Well this sucks for someone but evidently not for the super evil corporation. What I do know is as work has gotten slower and my paycheck has shrunk because of said work slow down I am spending more of my money on groceries from WalMart and less and less at the Co-op. At this point The Wedge or The Seward Co-op gets money for coffee, seafood and some specialty fruits and veggies that the HP

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'Rape prevention' or 'rapist protection'? Kent makes some excellent points. It's the 21st century, women (and men) are allowed to say no to unwanted attention and enforce that no if necessary with an effective tool.

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Glenn Reynolds the pundit at Instapundit and commentator at PJTV.com wrote an opinion piece for the gray lady.

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The decision could complicate efforts to intensify screening of potential terrorists who are Muslim. 

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This administration is pushing the edges of state power every chance they get. When your government wants to track you through cell phone info without having to get a warrant the cliff is close. "the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S.

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Wyoming Starbucks cowboy ups   Good piece on open carry and Starbucks. Posted using ShareThis

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 A teenage girl beaten in a Seattle bus tunnel as three security guards who were following company orders looked on said Friday that she sought help from the guards and police but was rebuffed. It's been said over and over neither police nor security guards are required to protect any one individual and the vast majority of the time the police are no more than the recorders of fact that show up

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From Carteacho is a reminder that the when the 4 rules are violated bad things often happen. There is a whole bunch of lessons in this story for most of us to learn.

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Populist Constitutionalism & the Tea Parties seen at Roberta Xs and a couple other places. Posted using ShareThis

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From Dave Kopel over at The Volokh Conspiracy comes this explanation on the 2nd amendment reinforcing and allowing the 1st to be exercised. Pay attention, VPC and the Brady Campaign when you disarm people you empower the bullies and bigots. See Joe Huffman and Sebastian over at SIH for more thoughts.

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From Alterhouse comes this link to a video from UF.

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A story on Judge Thomas's opinion of the SOTU dust up and Citizens United is here in the NY Times.

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Pretty interesting post from a small business guy on Porkulus II.  H/T to Tam who always finds the cool stuff first.  Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Economic Stimulus Posted using ShareThis

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CBC News - Nfld. & Labrador - Danny Williams going to U.S. for heart surgery For those who don't know Mr Williams is the premier of Labrador/ New Newfoundland. Posted using ShareThis

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McDonald v. Chicago: Summary of Chicago's Arguments H/T to Sean on facebook Posted using ShareThis

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Pretty interesting thoughts, as a vet who served with a couple gay guys and knew several more from other MOSes and as a flaming libertarian I have no problem at all with repealing DADT. As a side note I love the internet there are so many different ideas you get to look at. Actually, Jonah, in taking on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ Obama is saying to gays, ‘bite me’ — Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative

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The snark is strong in this one. Hinkle: Talking Down to the Public Will Surely Work . . . | Richmond Times-Dispatch Posted using ShareThis

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Created by Oatmeal

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The founder of the JPFO  Aaron Zelman wrote a book a few years ago about mass murder and who the reigning champs are and it isn't Timothy McVeigh or Osama. http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm#chart   it's something to keep in mind when a politician says he or she wants to infringe on the 2nd amendment. 

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Obama: We Had Nothing to Do With Cornhusker Kickback, Emanuel: Yes We DidOne of these two are lying to us, wait they are politicians of course they are both lying.

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 From Les Jones comes this bit of financial news on the Legacy media.  Should have the paper all paid off in oh say 30 million years or so. Newsday goes subscriber-only, gets whopping 35 subscribers Posted using ShareThis

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From The Breda Fallacy comes this cool little video which ably points out not everyone has the freedom to speak or even read.  

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Which brings me to the most disturbing aspect of the speech for me – the notion that we have a “deficit of trust” in government. My objection to this notion is not that it is insulting to, or casting blame upon, the American people, asMatt Latimer, and to some extent Craig Shirley, have suggested. My objection is that it champions the erroneous and extremely dangerous notion that we SHOULD trust

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How Obama Rid Washington of Special Interest Lobbyists, Except for All the Special Interest Lobbyists - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine Fisking at it's finest, the comments are fun too. Posted using ShareThis

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From Dave Hardy over at Of Arms and the Law  "It's 1974. No legal academic is thinking seriously of the Second Amendment; there is just a vague belief that it has something to do with the National Guard. The NRA has about 600,000 members, and has no ILA. One person, as I recall, handles all political and legal affairs. The Cincinnati revolt that would create the modern NRA lies in the future (it

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Another gem from Joe Huffman Will this law make it difficult or impossible to protect innocent life from a government intent on their imprisonment or death?  Although I pretty much made everything up on the spot I told them I called this test my "Jews In The Attic Test".  Furthermore I told them that if it fails this test no further discussion is really needed, the law must be opposed in the

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From Joe at The View From North Central Idaho - Israel and Guns Posted using ShareThis

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More thoughts here and here.

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Identifying info has been redacted Hey ________,  XXXX forwarded this to me: Greetings: If you're looking for a concise way of capturing (the) supreme court's  decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission how about:  "We are all royally, hopelessly fucked for the rest of recorded time."   It's course, I know but it really does the trick.  (from Huffington  Report) We may be

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 Mr Mead says no. He also says a few things that the democratic leaders and progressives might want to think about a bit. Some of us commoners are getting tired of being told we are stupid and wrong.

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This is my position on badges.

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The Message from Massachusetts | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: CommentaryComments?

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Obama has several models to choose from: He could reverse his tax-spend-and-regulate policies and hope for the same economic and political results that Reagan achieved. He could, like Bill Clinton, recognize the political obstacles to his sweeping ambitions and learn to work with Republicans on modest reforms. He may well end up like Lyndon Johnson, with an ambitious domestic agenda eventually

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Ah Chris that's not a good thing to admit as a supposed journalist. Hat tip to Kevin over at the Smallest Minority.

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  I could live with a nuclear reactor or an oil well in my backyard  if it meant not giving these  intolerant religious assholes another dime. Religion of peace my ass.

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  So I was looking for photos of Bonny Doon after Roberta X reminded me of Heinlein's second foray into architecture and came across his bibliography while practicing my google fu and came to the startling conclusion I have read everything he wrote, most of it twice and some is read biannually. As I have mentioned before he had a huge influence on both my political and societal outlook. A quote

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Obama’s Other Massachusetts Problem From the Cato Institute using the CBO numbers and stats "Our study evaluates Massachusetts’ 2006 health law, which bears a “remarkable resemblance” to the president’s plan." Just something to think about before losing a bunch more seats in "safe" democratic areas. Posted using ShareThis

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Oh look the government figured out the obvious. H/T to SayUncle

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Often advocates of the right to keep and bear arms mention that every nation that bans firearms is soon to become a tyrannical oligarchy or dictatorship at which point someone on the other side uses Great Britain as proof that the RKBA people are crazed nuts. So for the folk that believe in Great Britain's benevolence I give you the following article. Britain appears to be working on restricting

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From Arms and the Law comes this tidbit; The city of San Diego got a ruler across it's grubby little fingers regarding it's denial of a concealed carry permit to a resident. There are a couple interesting bits when reading the PDF I linked to. One is the plaintiff brought a section 1983 civil discrimination suit, plus he cited the 2nd, 8th and 14th amendments as rights he was denied by the city

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NYC proving yet again why I wouldn't even think of visiting. Let's lock up the victim it's safer than going after real live criminals.Hat tip to Tam.

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What is Driving Rising Healthcare Costs? — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

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About the only winter sport I ever liked. Vid

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From the comments section comes a really great idea: In order to pay for all the liberal programs and the expansion of those on the government payroll, I propose we the people require anyone who wants to be a politician to have to pay a special "Politician Tax" on their income at the percentage rate of the National Debt to GDP. In addition, for each law or bill proposed by a politician there

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Michigan HistoryShortly after this case came Michigan's purchase permit law and handgun safety inspection requirement. The history of gun control is full of racist policy and law.

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RealClearPolitics - Conservative Libertarianism's Comeback

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One of my favorite authors was Robert Heinlein who apparently designed his own house back in the day. Some very interesting ideas built into a small space.

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A telling paragraph from the article;"Yet to listen to the VPC's Kristen Brand - who says "concealed handgun permit holders are killing people over parking spaces, football games, and family arguments" - you'd think the cohort of permit holders was as dangerous as the gang at Rikers Island." The freaky thing is this is a newspaper article and gun owners don't see a lot of love from the press as

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From Chris over at AnarchAngel comes something to think about regarding healthcare costs.

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Heroin for dummies - NYPOST.comSweet the same city government that demonizes guns and gun owners hands out a primer on how to shoot heroin.

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We just had a fox blow through our yard chasing a rabbit and run around the house a couple times. Wife got video, I may post it if I can figure out how. This may explain why the rabbit population has seemed lower of late in our yard.

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Snowflakes in Hell has a copy of the Bloomberg shill group MAIGs Federal Blueprint on Guns here he also has a couple other thoughts here .

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Bloomberg, MAIG and the fourth estate are lying again trying to drum up support to use the no fly list to deny people trying to buy guns. The NSSF has some corrections here.

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An interesting article by David Kopel on Shari'a law as it relates to arms and self defense. For me it reinforces that Islam isn't all that peaceful if you don't believe in it.Dhimmitude

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Apparently the FBI has some info on gun control laws and only ones Dave discusses it here.

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Heh it's a few months old but cool.

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the government that is check this from Roberta X morons

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From Joe over at The View From North Central Idaho http://www.joehuffman.org/Freedom/JewsInTheAttic.htm This is all pretty basic human rights stuff but I am constantly amazed at the people who think we have no reason to fear our government might go sideways on us.

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A list of case filings for the petitioners in the Chicago v McDonald case here. The Brady Campaign brief is humorous as it rewords the question the Supreme Court asks and that has no bearing on either the 2nd or 14th amendments. I suspect it will get tossed into the round file by a court clerk.

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Chi-Town gun case h/t to Uncle

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The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » How Private Property Saved the PilgrimsFrom my favorite legal blog.

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It doesn't seem to matter how many times it's pointed out that gun control doesn't disarm anybody but the honest some statist suggests it as a cure for violence and crime.Holder tells Senate committee Justice Department supports more 'gun control'

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Ben Spies finished 7th on the Sterilgarda Yamaha team at Valencia today. Pretty good for his first ride on the Yamaha GP bike and only third race with the big boys. He said Friday he would be happy if he could get a top ten and stayed on the bike. Spies teammate Colin Edwards finished 4th with Nicky Hayden on the Ducati in 5th. Oh and for weird race news Casey Stoner high sides himself on the

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Back at the beginning of September I tried trap shooting for the first time, I got hooked immediately on the game. This after years of viewing shotguns as irrelevant to me for anything other than something more effective than any pistol for zombies. I had two shotgun choices at home a Mossberg 500 built in the 60's with a 26" barrel , variable choke and a youth stock or a S&W 916T I bought at a

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From the Campaign for LibertyThe War on Some Drugs

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This thinking from dictators is what leads to mass executions in the name of order.Rule of man

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Mr. Reisman raises a very good point about Ms. DunnPerhaps she would like to rephrase her remarks. Perhaps she would like to substitute Adolf Hitler for Mao Tse-tung. Perhaps she would like to say something like this:"In the days when the Fuhrer was being challenged even within his own party on his plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe, the Jews and their allies controlled many major businesses,

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From Kevin at The Smallest MinorityBritain now has some of the toughest gun laws in the world. We recognize that only the strictest control of firearms will protect the public.-- Home Office Minister Alun Michael, 11/3/97 press release.That was right after passage of the handgun ban.Today?Armed officers placed on routine foot patrol for first timeAnd not just any guns, either!Police officers

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Spies To Race Valencia MotoGP Saturday, October 03, 2009 This just in: BEN SPIES TO MAKE 'WILD CARD' ENTRY INTO VALENCIA GPIf you haven't seen Spies race now might be a good time, check your local listing for Sundays time on Speed channel.

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From a guy named JahWarrior over on the PAFO with a little bit about the woman killed by her psychotic ass husband who happened to be a cop. There are a lot of anti gun people dancing in this woman's blood already to them I ask how is it disarming the civilian population going to help using this case as an example? The man was a jealous, raving lunatic and carried a gun as part of his job as a

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It sure would be nice if Mayor Blloomberg with all his millions could buy a clue.'Mayors Against Illegal Guns' scrambles for relevanceMy favorite comment and very true Kevin Wilmeth - Anchorage Libertarian Examiner says: While technically I would go even further and say there is only ONE legitimate law, anywhere--the Zero Aggression Principle--I'd certainly hold that Gregg's

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From Days of Our Trailers comes some interesting Chicago statistics. Something to think about.

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As Tam from View From the Porch would say today was a day of shooty goodness. Three rounds of trap (post 1 is still kicking my ass), one round of skeet (fun), zeroing in a Ruger 10/22 and then blowing through 200 some rounds in that and the Ruger 22/45.

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Interesting article read and discuss.The History of HMOs: What You--and Your Employer--Probably Don't Know About Your Health Plan by Scott Holleran -- Capitalism Magazine

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And now for a refreshing change from Janine Garafalo and Jimmy Carters cries of there's aracist in every teabag.A MINORITY VIEW

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Marek Edelman, Commander in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies at 90 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

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