Meet the Citadel. CNS: A group of like-minded patriots, bound together by pride in American exceptionalism, plan on building an armed community to protect their liberty. The group, named Citadel, intends to purchase 2,000 to 3,000 acres for the project in western Idaho. The community will comprise of 3,500 to 7,000 families of patriotic Americans who “voluntarily choose to live together in accordance with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal of Rightful Liberty.” According
January 2013
January 13, 2013
The Assault Spatula
“Politics and the English language.” Orwell was trying to teach us how to identify and avoid the rhetorical trappings of would-be tyrants. The New Left? Considers it an instruction manual. (h/t Guido)
January 13, 2013
Outlaw Gunsmithing [guest post by a former sniper and current pw reader]
Did you know that you can walk into a shop, plunk down $200, and walk out 20 minutes later with an AR15 lower receiver (or actually a completely finished rifle, if you have the scratch) that has no serial number, no FFL records, no government intervention, and it is all COMPLETELY LEGAL? Welcome to the world of “Outlaw Gunsmithing.”
January 13, 2013
“A conspiracy so immense”: ideological commitment and the timidity of pragmatic politics
“What will it take for the mainstream media to cover the progressive movement?” Washington Free Beacon: Let’s pretend that in the spring of 2012 Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, John Engler of the Business Roundtable, Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity, and Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association began to organize an assembly of right-leaning groups. Let’s pretend that in the months since there had been not one
January 13, 2013
“You know what would be awesome? If the United States had a real nanny state.” [Darleen Click]
So starts a risible (and mercifully short) exercise in irrational “compassion” by Joel Mathis. Joel trots out the usual favorite go-to Left-lib statistics on how Americans are just so much “sicker” and “die younger than they should” and clutches his pearls so tightly you can almost hear his voice go up full octave What is that rugged individualism getting us? We’re living sicker and dying younger than we should. America
January 12, 2013
Katherine Webb to appear in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition [Darleen Click]
No word that the issue will be sold with an age restriction — no one over 72 will be allowed to purchase it.
January 12, 2013
Did David Gregory benefit from prosecutorial discretion or personal connections? [Darleen Click]
Interesting, that no where in DC AG Irvin Nathan’s letter attempting to explain the reasons for declining to prosecute does Nathan reveal his personal connection to the Gregory family. It further undermines public confidence in such decisions to find out that Nathan knew Gregory and his wife, high-powered attorney Beth Wilkinson. Anne dug up the connection in which in 2011 Nathan and Wilkinson participated together in a charity mock trial
January 11, 2013
The Obamiad [Darleen Click]
Book the First by Tarzana Joe Canto 1 Speak, O Muse, inform me of this idea that’s been floated Of our financial future—light as lead—but platinum coated A scheme to swell the debt promoted by the best and brightest That to the average citizen makes no sense in the slightest Sisters of invention, boon to artists, wise and fair Tell us how they’ll make a trillion bucks out of thin
January 11, 2013
palate cleanser: Satchel scores his second tech fall Saturday, 19-4
Weigh-ins for Districts are this evening, with the tournament tomorrow. It’s an hour ride, so we have to be out of the house tomorrow morning by about 6 am. Because the thought depresses me, I figured I’d post this, from a happier time: last weekend’s season finale dual meet.
January 11, 2013
On experts and expertise
In the real world of guns and gun ownership, this is how responsible gun owners and instructors actually think. If we need fear anything gun-related in this country, leaving aside those wicked people who would presume to do us or our family and friends harm, it is the vocal, entitled, and demonstratively ignorant anti-gun zealot who seeks to substitute ostentatious indignation for knowledge and cartoonish scapegoating for reasoned discourse. They