“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
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