With the military facing severe cutbacks, the Obama administration is giving away vehicles and destroying ammunition. With Americans already complaining about an ammunition shortage, this move is only going to stoke conspiracy theories. Destroying ammunition is one way to drive up the price. From USA Today:The Pentagon plans to destroy more than $1 billion worth of ammunition although some of those bullets and missiles could still be used by troops, according to the Pentagon and congressional sources. It's impossible to know what...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
When are news reports going to mention the simple fact that yet another attack has occurred in a gun-free zone? The above picture is from the Kennesaw facility for Fedex. Six people are listed as wounded from the attack. From Fox News:KENNESAW, Ga. – The father of a gunman who wounded six colleagues in an Atlanta-area rampage says his son didn't seem enthusiastic about his job but never mentioned problems with co-workers. Geddy...
From an op-ed piece by Tom Sowell:In 1925, a minimum-wage law was passed in the Canadian province of British Columbia, with the intent and effect of pricing Japanese immigrants out of jobs in the lumbering industry. A Harvard professor of that era referred approvingly to Australia’s minimum wage law as a means to “protect the white Australian’s standard of living from the invidious competition of the colored races, particularly of the Chinese” who were willing to work for less. In South Africa during the era of apartheid, white labor...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
The views of this popular mayor in a city that the Russians will presumably soon control provides an insight into what people in this area of eastern Ukraine think of the Russians. This mayor was a strong supporter of the former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich, who was Russia's man in the Ukraine, but even though this mayor supported Yanukovich, he does not support Russian rule. Given that this mayor is extremely popular and is an elected politician, one would think that he has a reasonable good feeling for the views of people...
Monday, April 28, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Gallup has an interesting survey asking residents of each state the "Best Possible state to live in" (column 2 on page 2). Residents of Texas, Alaska, Hawaii and Montana are much more likely to believe that their states are the best places to live, while Connecticut, Illinois, and Rhode Island don't have many of their residents who like the state. The differences are huge: 28% of Texans say that their state is the best to live in...
Saturday, April 26, 2014
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announces Russian surplus 5.45×39 type ammo is “armor piercing." From the Daily Caller:According to information BATFE provided to NRA, these actions are based on BATFE’s determination that the availability of a handgun in this caliber triggers so-called “armor piercing” ammunition provisions of federal law, which generally prohibit manufacture and importation. . . .The 5.45x39 is slightly narrower and a little longer than a .22 magnum. If you want to see the illogic of banning the importation...
Dana Loesch had an interaction with the head of Bloomberg's Moms Demand Action head, Shannon Watts. According to observers:When confronted by Loesch, Watts refused to answer any questions and eventually was whisked away in an SUV by what Loesch told TheBlaze appeared to be armed security. . . . .Apparently, it isn't just Michael Bloomberg who uses guns for protection.By the way, if you want to offset the misinformation that Bloomberg is paying for you might want to follow this link he...
Friday, April 25, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
CNN makes the bill seem pretty controversial:Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed a wide-ranging gun bill into law Wednesday that has critics howling and proponents applauding. House Bill 60, or the Safe Carry Protection Act of 2014 -- which opponents have nicknamed the "guns everywhere bill" -- specifies where Georgia residents can carry weapons. Included are provisions that allow residents who have concealed carry permits to take guns into some bars, churches, school zones, government buildings and certain parts of airports. . . .Fox News' headline...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
This seems like an obvious case when you have four robbers where it would be useful to have a sizable magazine in your gun. From MLive:For the second time in four years, Paul Medawar Fine Jewelry has thwarted a robbery attempt – this time, apparently leaving at least one of the robbers with gunshot wounds. . . .Police said two people inside Medawar shot at the robbers, who fled after breaking into a jewelry case. Police believed that at least one suspect had been shot, but that hasn't been confirmed.Witnesses reported the unnamed victims...
This is the second time that Cuomo has turned down the chance to debate Rick Perry. For Cuomo this would give Cuomo the national platform that he desires, but you can understand why he wouldn't want to do this debate. From the New York Observer:Texas Gov. Rick Perry was in New York today to make his pitch to business leaders he hopes to lure to the Lone Star State, and took the opportunity to reissue his debate challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo–who today declined the request. “Yes, I’m here recruiting business. I’m don’t...
I have to thank Erik Wemple at the Washington Post for identifying this gem. Those who like no nonsense reporters will love this.Erik provides this transcript:LEE: I have one very brief one on the QDDR.MS. PSAKI: Sure.LEE: Off the top of your head, can you identify one tangible achievement that the last QDDR resulted in?MS. PSAKI: Well, Matt, obviously it’s an extensive, expansive process.LEE: So, no.MS. PSAKI: We’re looking at how it was done last time.LEE: Just one.MS. PSAKI: I know. I’m making an important point here.LEE: Okay.MS. PSAKI:...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Police have determined that the person acted in self-defense. From the Chicago Tribune:A 53-year-old South Austin man with a valid concealed carry permit was able to shoot at two men who tried to accost him outside of his home early this morning. The incident happened about 2:40 a.m. on the 5400 block of West Van Buren Street, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan. The man was walking from his garage to the front of his home when two males in hoodies appeared in a gangway between his home and the neighbor's...
Monday, April 21, 2014
Note that this 115,000 number likely seems to be an over estimate because after the Obama administration had a hard time getting people to enter the program it cut the insurance premiums so much that it was actually cheaper for people with pre-existing conditions to get insurance than for healthy individuals.Still the issue is question is if you want to help out 115,000 people, why not provide those individuals with a subsidy rather than changing...
On April 16, 2014, Media Matters has a new post entitled: "Fox's Bolling Inadvertently Advocates For Gun-Free Zones."1) "Bolling has been a vocal critic of gun-free zones, frequently promoting the right-wing misnomer that mass shooters target places like schools where guns are banned. According to Bolling's logic, gun-free zones are 'easy targets for whackos,' so 'it's time to take those gun-free zones signs down.' He's argued that mass shootings 'would happen with far less frequency' if no such gun bans...
Sunday, April 20, 2014
This is the same type of crime that Dinesh D'Souza is accused of, though his amount is much smaller ($20,000 versus $180,000). It will be interesting to see how the penalties compare. Hillary's donor faces a maximum of 25 years, but agreed to a plea deal that looks like he will face 5.25 years in prison and forfeit $1 million. From Politico:A prominent New York hotel magnate who was a top bundler for then-Sen. Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign pled guilty in federal court Thursday to making more than $180,000...
Friday, April 18, 2014
Fox 2 News HeadlinesFrom WJBK in Detroit (Posted: Apr 17, 2014 7:23 AM EDT):Detroit police say a break-in suspect who was shot by homeowner has died after crashing a getaway vehicle into a nearby home.Sgt. Michael Woody says two people tried to break into the home . . . early Thursday through a window and a third was sitting in the vehicle.Woody says the homeowner shot at the suspects, who returned fire. He says the person in the vehicle was hit and the two other suspects fled on foot.FOX 2's Roop Raj reports a woman in the home that was crashed...
To say that Media Matters vocally supports unions and union causes would be a bit of an understatement. Media Matters for America is apparently resisting an effort by Service Employees International Union Local 500 to unionize its staff. Last week, the union filed a representation petition with the National Labor Relations Board, indicating that the nonprofit media watchdog organization rejected an effort by the union to organize MMFA's staff through a Card Check election. . . . .For some reason I suspect that if a conservative...
Thursday, April 17, 2014
There might not be many permitted concealed handguns in New York state, but fortunately this pizza delivery man was able to protect himself.A gang of robbers attacked a pizza deliveryman just before 10:30 p.m. Monday as he brought food to a house in the 400 block of Cornwall Avenue, near Erie County Medical Center. In the front hallway of the house, one of the robbers, who wore a mask and had a brown hoodie pulled over his face, hit the deliveryman on the head with a hammer, according to police. The masked man also displayed what appeared...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Of course, mass stabbings aren't just limited to China and the US. Here is a case were five people were killed in Canada, none wounded. From CBS News:A University of Calgary student was charged in the fatal stabbing of five people at a house party Tuesday that the police chief called the worst mass slaying in the western Canadian city's history. Matthew Douglas de Grood, the son of a 33-year veteran of the Calgary police force, picked up a large knife shortly after arriving at the party and stabbed the victims one by one, said...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Bloomberg is really spending much more than $50 million this year because it doesn't include the millions that he is spending to fund gun control research. Gun control groups already massively outspent gun owner groups by 7.4 to 1 in 2013. Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action are going to have more money than they know what to do with. From the New York Times:Michael R. Bloomberg, making his first major political investment since leaving office, plans to spend $50 million this year building a nationwide grass-roots...
I am still surprised the extent to which people are willing to go to stop off-duty or retired police officers from carrying guns. From the San Francisco Chronicle:The UC Berkeley police officer hailed as a hero for helping to rescue kidnap victim Jaycee Dugardis now suing her former employer, saying she was wrongfully denied approval to carry a concealed weapon after she retired on medical disability. Allison "Ally" Jacobs' instincts helped lead to the 2009 capture of Phillip Garrido, the man who kept Dugard captive for...
Monday, April 14, 2014
Remember when the media has tried to blame the Tea Party for the Aurora movie theater shooting and Sarah Palin for the Tuscon shooting of Congresswoman Giffords? Now in this shooting in Kansas City we apparently have a liberal Democrat who reads anti-Semitic books put out by the leftist The Nation. While the killer was motivated by his hatred of Jews, it turns out that none of his victims were actually Jewish. From PJ Media:What will our good friends at The Nation say now, when his very first sentence notes how...
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has a new book out where he suggests what was originally meant by the 2nd Amendment. From his op-ed in the Washington Post:As a result of the rulings in Heller and McDonald, the Second Amendment, which was adopted to protect the states from federal interference with their power to ensure that their militias were “well regulated,” has given federal judges the ultimate power to determine the validity of state regulations of both civilian and militia-related uses of arms. That anomalous...
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Here is John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily:No doubt, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg passionately believes in gun control. To his credit, he puts his own money — tens of millions of dollars, and possibly much more — into pushing the issue politically. But Bloomberg's push hasn't been just political advertising, lobbying and media appearances. He also funds studies that have gone overboard in backing up his anti-gun beliefs. To put it plainly, they have not only exaggerated their conclusions but have fabricated...
Well, these threats from the Obama administration seem to be working well. From the Wall Street Journal today:The White House said Saturday it was concerned by what it called a "concerted campaign" by pro-Russian separatists to stoke tensions in eastern Ukraine, warning Russian President Vladimir Putin against using the events there as a pretext for seizing more Ukrainian territory. In a phone call Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed his concern with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the State Department said....
Saturday, April 12, 2014
More from WFLA News Channel 8:A family in Winter Haven shot and killed a burglary suspect, according to the Winter Haven Police report. Officers responded to the burglary call around 6:50 a.m. Monday. When they arrived to 4219 Lake Marianna Drive they found the burglary suspect, identified as 40-year-old Mitchell Large, dead in the residence. According to WHPD, the suspect was a complete stranger to the family who lived in the house. Police said, the homeowner Luis F. Pena, 54, his wife Bacenbina A. Pena, 53, and their son Luis...
Friday, April 11, 2014
Despite a very closely divided state Senate in Wisconsin, Project Veritas did an undercover video that caused Republican Senate President Mike Ellis to not seek re-election this fall. From Fox 6 in Milwaukee:In the video, recorded two weeks ago, Ellis talks about creating a super PAC to spend money attacking his Democratic opponent state Rep. Penny Bernard Schaber.Ellis said he did not pursue the idea after realizing it was illegal. . . .I have two thoughts on this: 1) this shows James O’Keefe is willing...
Just some background on Holder. He has refused to provide documents for years (just one example here), lied to the House, mislead the Senate, held in contempt by Congress, refuses to investigate Lois Lerner, and a long list of other problems. I wish that I had a longer clip because it would illustrate Holder's unwillingness to directly answer questions.Then on Thursday at Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network, Attorney General Holder implied that the concerns about him and the Obama administration were motivated by racism.ABC...
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Soldiers who survived the 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning, Sgt. Howard Ray and retired Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, warn it is time the 1993 rule be revised. Now even more are speaking out. From the Army Times:In the wake of last week’s shooting on Fort Hood many soldiers and some lawmakers are calling on the military to reconsider allowing troops to carry concealed weapons on post. On social media and elsewhere, soldiers have been speaking out about their inability to defend themselves at work. “It’s...
Obama's talk at the April 9th memorial at Fort Hood again emphasized only mental illness.In our open society, in advanced bases like this, we can never eliminate every risk, but as a nation, we can do more to help counsel those with mental health issues, to keep firearms out of the hands of those who are having such deep difficulties. As a military, we must continue to do everything in our power to secure our facilities and spare others this pain. . . .The question is: what happens if you can't accurately identify all the threats due to mental...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
My newest piece from Fox News starts this way:In debates on gun control, gun opponents usually speculate about what might go wrong. Unfortunately, the current debate over arming soldiers on military bases is no different.Except for the military police, soldiers on military bases are banned from carrying guns. But that hasn’t always been the case. The ban itself hasn’t been around that long. It was proposed during the George H.W. Bush administration in 1992 as an effort to make the military a more "professional business-like environment."...
Let's assume that they can get rid of guns (which I don't concede), China can attest to the multiple victim knife attacks that they have suffered. Fortunately, the life of one of those wounded in the knife attack in Pennsylvania was spared by some fast thinking "by applying pressure to the person’s wound." From Fox News:Twenty people, including 19 students, were wounded — four seriously — during a stabbing spree early Wednesday at a high school near Pittsburgh and a 16-year-old male student is in custody, authorities say. As word...
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