We’ve discussed this before — Ernst and I had an exchange in the comments recently, and my SF buddy was dubious about some hidden agenda as well, concluding as I and others had that such ammo purchases are in fact routine, if perhaps profligate (using hollow point ammo for plinking and certification practice seems excessively expensive, but then, this is the federal government we’re talking about) — and yet Andrew

And the mainstream press yawns. Because really, what difference does it make? (h/t geoff B)

Something to add into the thought experiment introduced in the previous post. CNS News: So far this calendar year, the Federal Reserve has bought up more U.S. government debt than the U.S. Treasury has issued. On Dec. 31, the total debt of the U.S. government was $16.4327 trillion and then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced that the government had hit what was then the legal debt limit. Last week, however, Congress

…and it appears to extrapolate out from Cloward-Piven (what gives it its plausibility, from my perspective, is the section on “cyber-warriors for Obama,” which seems to play into some of our own experiences here; having said that, I’m aware that confirmation bias is one way to grab people and get them invested in the conspiracy theory, so that portion of the article is also what makes me most suspicious of

Among the cynical, backdoor gun ban provisions?  An “Assault Weapons responsibility act” that would make licensed dealers and firearms manufacturers liable for any crime committed with a firearm they sold or made — which is no more than an effort to dissuade people from dealing in firearms.  Couple that with a tax for “enhanced background checks” and the dissolution of doctor / patient confidentiality regarding mental health matters, and it’s

Via Darth Levin, Mario Loyola, The American Interest, on the role of the federal judiciary in creating the conditions for usurpation of state powers by the Leviathan I noted earlier today as the primary bridge from Constitutional government to our present post-constitutional predicament. The article is detailed where I was cursory.  Please do take the time to read it.  Here’s a bit to get you started — essentially, Mr Loyola’s

So notes our resident pikachu.  And yet, her spirit remains everywhere — even having stolen into the grubby souls of those who in other contexts would so vulgarly dismiss her. Not sure if that’s ironic or not. Tell you what: I’ll put in a call to Alanis Morissette, then go with the opposite of whatever she thinks. (h/t Darleen)

Has the mainstream press covered this story ? — and if so, have they tackled it with the same eye toward politics as they would had the rogue former cop been a member of the TEA Party? Or even had a name similar to someone who once attended a TEA Party rally? Seriously, this is the first I’m hearing of it; and such an embargo of widespread mainstream media dissemination 

So writes Terry Jeffrey, under what may be the most straightforwardly obvious headline in the history of all headlines, anywhere, ever. Really.  What’s there to add?  I mean, if I start a group called “The Shiitake Mushrooms for Jesus,” that doesn’t make me either a Shiitake muhsroom or a Christian — with the self-styled designation made all the more absurd when I’m witnessed in public spraying ground clear on Shiitake

Washington Free Beacon: The Senate Armed Services Committee will not hold a vote Thursday on the confirmation of secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel. The office of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.) confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that the vote has been delayed and that no new date has been set. “Hagel vote won’t be tomorrow in Armed Services,” Politico’s Manu Raju tweeted Wednesday afternoon. “Levin: “The committee’s review of the