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As per your request

Kevin at The Smallest Minority is asking for some publicity help, because PayPal is a bunch of anti-civil rights bigots and they’ve cut off Soldiers…

July 30, 2009February 15, 2021
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Hey, Big O–remember “We won.”

You can’tblame Bush any more, cry baby. The Presidency is yours now, so suck it up and deal.

July 30, 2009February 15, 2021
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As if I need something else to hyper me into a self-defense frenzy

(Via Gun Pundit) The criminals are training…are you? The entire nation is engrossed by the media coverage of the armed thugs that killed a Florida…

July 30, 2009February 15, 2021
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Rut-Row, Raggy!

Joe Huffman wonders if the ATF just created hundreds of new criminals by administrative rule-making fiat. If you own a rifle with a barrel that…

July 29, 2009February 13, 2021
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Oh no, we can’t have an e-e-evil gun culture get started, no-sir-ee!

(Via NRA-ILA) Ireland has decided to ban handguns. Don’t “brandish” a replica either. I wouldn’t trust a government that didn’t trust me.

July 29, 2009February 13, 2021
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Gut feelings

(Via Black Five) In light of Saturday’s festivities, this New York Times article on the role of hunches in survival seems particularly interesting. I learned…

July 29, 2009February 15, 2021
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In which the Geek points out the obvious

I wish I could say that I’m over the debate on health care and I just wish they do something and STFU. The problem is,…

July 28, 2009February 15, 2021
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So…just how ready are you to defend your castle?

Or your Freehold? Well, this weekend the Family Freeholder got to run a little real-world test. We need some serious work. Saturday, I slept in.…

July 27, 2009February 13, 2021
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Driving home a point

Hundreds of people from around the country tell Newschannel 36 they will boycott Concord Mills Mall because a conservative-themed kiosk called “Free Market Warrior” will…

July 25, 2009February 15, 2021
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You’re doing it WRONG!

An Albany, Ore., man was cleaning out a deceased relative’s home in Eastern Oregon when he discovered what he thought was a bomb, police said.…

July 25, 2009February 13, 2021
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Attention residents of Raleigh, NC

City Councilman Thomas Crowder is telling you that he needs a new job. For years City Councilman Thomas Crowder has heard complaints from his southwest…

July 25, 2009February 15, 2021
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TOTUS lets down POTUS

Twice apparently, since the Big O’s “impromptu” not-an-apology for making a racist remark (Hey, if no one else will say it I will) was, shall…

July 25, 2009February 13, 2021
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Well, let’s hope the NRA reads the Washington Post

(Via Say Uncle) Because they really need to watch Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor, Colorado Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet. They are hardly “friends of…

July 24, 2009February 13, 2021
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Ever heard of the “Law of Unintended Consequences”?

Sure, we all know what the “Law of Unintended Consequences” is–an action is taken that causes reactions that the instigator did not foresee. Usually this…

July 24, 2009February 15, 2021
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No, this isn’t Harry Potter

(Via A View From the Porch) If there has ever been a time for these articles, it’s now–Dark Arts for the Good Guys. There are,…

July 22, 2009February 13, 2021
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Um-m-m…that’s not quite correct, sir

(Via the Drudge Report) “…and the president says, ‘You’re going to destroy my presidency.’ “ There are so many things one can say to this,…

July 22, 2009February 13, 2021
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Yes It Is!

(Via the Drudge Report) Comrade O says that “health care reform” isn’t about him: President Barack Obama on Monday shot back at Republicans who have…

July 21, 2009February 13, 2021
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God save us from the well-meaning

The stimulus bill “includes help for those hardest hit by our economic crisis,” President Obama promised when he signed the bill into law on Feb.…

July 19, 2009February 15, 2021
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RINOs

Just for the record: GOP Sens. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the Senate’s most senior Republican, Mel Martinez of Florida, its lone Hispanic Republican, and Olympia…

July 18, 2009February 13, 2021
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The police chief of Jersy City, NJ is an asshat

Video evidence here. Yeah, the NRA just hates cops. See, they even have an NRA Law Enforcement Programs group to prove it. I mean, they’ve…

July 18, 2009February 13, 2021
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Wise words

(Via Timebomb 2000) Wise words from one of our better Presidents.

July 17, 2009February 13, 2021
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Well here’s a shocker

An ATF official overstates his case (See how nice I am? I could have called ATF Deputy Assistant Director Bill McMahon a liar, but I’m…

July 17, 2009February 13, 2021
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Incompetence at the North Carolina Department of Transportation

It turns out Wendi Johnson, a Wilson-based construction engineer for the state Department of Transportation, was right all along: The central office experts skimped on…

July 17, 2009February 15, 2021
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Crazy Joe

(Via the Drudge Report) For some weird reason, I’m reminded of the scene in Band of Brothers where Guarnere and Heffron were talking about a…

July 17, 2009February 15, 2021
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You’re doing it wrong

The director of the Congressional Budget Office issued a warning to Democrats Thursday that their health care proposals would raise costs, not lower them. Well,…

July 16, 2009February 13, 2021
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Appeasement as a failed policy

Astute readers of history (along with members of the Neville Chamberlain Fan Club) know that appeasement doesn’t work as an instrument of government policy. In…

July 16, 2009February 15, 2021
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Not human

(Via the Drudge Report) Fair warning: this is a rant. Way back in the dim mists of time, I read a book by George R.R.…

July 16, 2009February 13, 2021
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Bleg

Not for me, but for Chris Muir. It’s time for the Day By Day Annual Fundraiser. If you can, go drop some money in his…

July 15, 2009February 15, 2021
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Welcome to nationalized health care. If you don’t want it, we’ll shove it down your throat.

Well, it isn’t as if they didn’t telegraph it: House Democrats unveiled ambitious legislation Tuesday to remake the nation’s health care system and called on…

July 14, 2009February 13, 2021
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Internet serendipity strikes again

Over at the GeekWitha.45’s place I was perusing/commenting on this well written piece that, as I commented, reinforces my my conviction that government interference in…

July 14, 2009February 15, 2021

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