One wonders: where are all those concerned “civil libertarians” so distraught over Bush’s “imperial presidency” now? Their silence is deafening and predictable. Whereas their hypocrisy may as well be wearing a tornado siren. MARK LEVIN: I’m not into imperial presidents who act imperial and speak imperial and Obama forgets there’s a Constitution. Yes, he keeps telling us he won reelection. Congratulations, but guess what? The Constitution wasn’t up for election,
January 14, 2013
I’m all for this Gun Appreciation Day on January 19
But frankly, I’d rather seeing something like A Million Firearms March. On heavily gun-controlled DC. With the text of the Second Amendment plastered to placards and worn on t-shirts. The nation can watch live on TV its mainstream national media and their cabal of leftist academic “experts” demonize the gun-fetishizing fringe extremists to set the rationale for its government turning a million erstwhile law-abiding citizens with natural and Constitutional rights
January 14, 2013
“The Democrats’ magic-coin fantasy”
Marc Thiessen, Washington Post: If there were any doubt that leverage had shifted to Republicans in the debt-limit standoff, it was dispelled when Obama supporters urged the president to create $1 trillion out of thin air by minting a magic coin. Seriously. On Saturday, the Treasury Department finally put a halt to the magic-coin insanity, declaring, “Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or
January 14, 2013
Waco Ridge?
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 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