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Year: 2013

Guns

Follow this advice and go to jail

(Via the Drudge Report) “If there’s ever a problem,” Biden said he told his wife Jill, “just walk out on the balcony here–walk out, put…

February 20, 2013February 15, 2021
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Now here’s a Republican who is worth having around

(Via the Drudge Report) In just two months, Mr. Cruz, 42, has made his presence felt in an institution where new arrivals are usually not…

February 16, 2013February 13, 2021
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Nag, nag, nag

Yep, I’m back with my weekly “Have you written your Congresscritters?” nag.  His Obamaness has made it clear he wants teh gunz.  State legislators all…

February 15, 2013February 13, 2021
A funny
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A funny

OK, if you haven’t spent time listening to NPR (National Proletarian Radio), this might not be quite so funny… (anti-gun story fades out) “Funding for…

February 14, 2013February 15, 2021
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Interesting

I find it interesting how little headline coverage the State of the Union speech has gotten.  Sure there’s some, but I would expect a lot…

February 14, 2013February 15, 2021
Statists Gonna State

Dealing with the police state

For any number of reasons, we’re seeing an increase of, for lack of a better description, hard-ass cops who think they are the law–and the…

February 13, 2013February 15, 2021
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Let’s do the math

Everyone from the Pentagon to the President, fromPelosi to McCain are bemoaning those terrible budget cuts that are coming on March 1.  It’s gonna be…

February 11, 2013February 15, 2021
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And the hits just keep on coming

In Budget Rescission Land, we don’t look for excess or extraneous government agencies that we can do without and shut them down.  We shut down…

February 10, 2013February 15, 2021
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Just damn

Ed Rasimus, the proprietor at Thunder Tales, died Friday, February 1. He’d been fighting the good fight with cancer.  His last post is vintage Rasimus;…

February 9, 2013February 15, 2021
Guns

Registration Leads to Confiscation

(Via SurvivalBlog) Always.  Vote with your feet, people–leave while you still can.

February 9, 2013February 13, 2021
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Got to love the game

(Via the Drudge Report) Remember a few years ago, when states, counties and municipalities where in budget trouble?  Remember what they did?  Rather than cutting…

February 9, 2013February 15, 2021
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What a statist prick

(Via the Drudge Report) The King Governor of Massachusetts has decided his subjects the citizens can’t be trusted to use their good sense about traveling…

February 9, 2013February 13, 2021
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Short, sweet and to the point

All the things a message to politicians who want to steel your rights should be. Well said, sir. (Apologies, embedded video is fixed now. Stupid…

February 7, 2013February 13, 2021
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The Wounded Warrior Project steps in it again

This time, they turned back a request from a church to raise money for them.  They also were somewhat less tone deaf than their last…

February 5, 2013February 13, 2021
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You lie!

Of course, pointing it out is getting tiresome. President Obama on Monday tried to undercut National Rifle Association leaders and appeal directly to their membership,…

February 5, 2013February 13, 2021
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
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Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

February 3, 2013February 13, 2021
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Support the people who support us

(Via Claire Wolf) In case you weren’t paying attention, the Eastern Sports and Outdoors show in Pennsylvania has been canceled due to a vendor boycott. …

February 2, 2013February 13, 2021
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Scissors

(Via the Drudge Report) Really?  Scissors against a nut job with a gun?  Screw you, Homeland Insecurity.

January 31, 2013February 13, 2021
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A friendly reminder

Please remember to email your Congresscritters every week.  Tell them that the current round of gun control proposals are nothing more than the same old…

January 31, 2013February 15, 2021
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A capitalistic solution to the “guns on the streets” problem

(Via Claire Wolfe) “Why not offer them cash versus a gift card? I’m still taking the guns off the streets; they’re just going in my safe.”…

January 30, 2013February 15, 2021
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He gets it

January 30, 2013February 15, 2021
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Another weekend, another gun show

This time, the festivities were in Greensboro, NC at the Greensboro Gun and Knife Show, and again it was an interesting experience.  Guns shows have…

January 27, 2013February 15, 2021
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Not quite, Sparky

President Obama is suggesting that House Republicans on the issue of gun control appear neither willing to work with him nor listen to the American…

January 27, 2013February 13, 2021
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Awarding some kudos

Once in a while, you get some customer service that is just astounding for these times, or perhaps you run into a product that is…

January 26, 2013February 15, 2021
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As seen on Say Uncle

Publicola has returned home, found the place trashed and is threatening to ground us. Damn.  We hadn’t even gotten around to throwing the grill into…

January 26, 2013February 15, 2021
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Welcome to Obamacare, Episode 125: Let the Health Sinners Die

(Via the Drudge Report) Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead…

January 26, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns

I’ll say this for the new gun ban proposal

I’ve never seen a more cynical press conference to introduce a piece of legislation in my entire life.  I may have never seen such a…

January 25, 2013February 15, 2021
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Been busy at work this week

So the blogging has been non-existent.  However, I have taken time to contact both Senators and my Representative again.  Have you? We need to keep…

January 24, 2013February 15, 2021
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You’re not helping

So yesterday, in a single day, we manage to have not one, not two, but THREE IDIOTS shoot themselves or someone else at three different…

January 20, 2013February 13, 2021
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I believe this is called “winning”

Nearly twice as many voters say there would be less violent crime if more law-abiding Americans owned guns, than if guns were banned.  In addition,…

January 19, 2013February 15, 2021

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