I noted at the time of the hearings that one takeaway from watching the House assembly debates is that Rhonda Fields, one of the sponsors of this mess of anti-2nd Amendment bills, may just be one of the stupidest legislators in the history of ever — a puppet being used because of her tragic past. I also noted that it seemed to me the Democrats, with one or two exceptions

From the Daily Caller: Since arriving on the scene in Congress just a few months ago, junior Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been outspoken in public appearances and hearings on issues including Obama’s cabinet confirmations, the Benghazi attacks. He recently had a dust-up before the Senate Judiciary Committee with his colleague, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. That recent brawl has drawn the ire of MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe

(Here’s another pertinent post from my archives, this one from August of 2011. I mean, I figure as long as conservatives are spending time at CPAC giving each other awards, I may as well tout some of my own successes, fringe though they may be. “Outlawry”): Again, as with most of what the GOP establishment peddles as “complicated” and difficult to explain, the “revenue” trap is easy to overcome. Boehner

From my archives, “Outlaw Speak,” November 6, 2008. (Please note that at the time, mine was a site that could generate comment threads into the five hundreds. Today, most posts never get into the 20s. And yet the message has remained largely the same. As has my integrity. Go figure.) In response to my (evidently controversial) post yesterday on the dangers of what I take to be false nobility —

As longtime readers will recall, in the wake of John McCain’s pathetic, milquetoast, almost apologetic presidential campaign — which resulted in the election of Barack Obama — I berated the Mitch McConnells of the world, who told us (just two short years before the TEA Party revolution hit the electoral scene with an unpredicted fury) that the “era of Reagan was over,” and that Republicans who continued to speak in