Category: General Blog

The Authorized Journalist Protection Act

Dubbed “Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act,” the broadly supported bill would ensure federal protection for journalists. It would prevent authorities from abusing subpoena powers and protect reporters from being forced to reveal their sources. [More]

I know what it’s like to live with that fear hanging over my head, so I guess my biggest question is will us “just a bloggers” have the same expectation of protection or will we have to prove ourselves eligible under the presumption that we are not?

[Via Michael G]

Think of It as Plague Insurance

“Mr. Labarge’s terror campaign sent ripples of fear throughout the journalism community and violated the bedrock principles enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Our office remains steadfast in our commitment to safeguarding the rights of journalists to report without fear of retribution and to put behind bars those who try to silence the media through threats and violence,” Levy said. [More]

The DOJ suddenly finding it in its self-interest to virtue signal about the Bill of Rights notwithstanding, Levy knows the First Amendment is a restraint on government, and that’s reflected in the actual charges that didn’t mention it:

…conspiracy to commit stalking through interstate travel and using a facility of interstate commerce… conspiracy to commit stalking using a facility of interstate commerce… stalking using a facility of interstate commerce and aiding and abetting… stalking through interstate travel and aiding and abetting.

Sudden interest in rights is the DOJ careerists’ equivalent of painting lamb’s blood on the door frame so the wrath of Trump passes over them. I do wonder, though, if the same amount of energy would have been spent on “just a blogger” as on “real reporters.”

Still, it’s analagous to more ways a proactive AG could protect the Second Amendment from state and municpal infringements… if she was instructed to.

[Via Edmund M]

And They Shall Be Like Gods?

Where they were taking us through their plans, and it was – basically just full government – full government control – like this sort of thing, there will be a small number of large companies that will be completely regulated and controlled by the government, they told us. [More]

You know, fascism. The real kind, not what Democrats channeling their inner Antifa accuse Constitutionalist of being.

As for “debanking,” add that to the list of things “Gun Owners for Trump” needs to bring to his ear: No federal bailouts for discriminators.

[Via LWP]

Do You Come from a Land Down Under?

NDIS participants and sex workers feel ‘betrayed’ by sexual services funding ban now being in effect [More]

Sorry. My post title just kind of wrote itself.

Y’know, if you have a right to sex, that implies someone can be compelled to give it to you. I’m just envisioning some kind of Christian baker analogy where a provider can’t refuse services to someone whose proclivities they find objectionable.

And what if abled recipients choose to identify as disabled?

[Via WiscoDave]

That’ll Show Us!

It’s not a procedure you’d expect a 28-year-old to be planning. But for Lydia Echols from Texas, having her fallopian tubes removed is the price she’s willing to pay to ensure her reproductive rights. [More]

So, Newsweek managed to find a handful of democracy-hating Democrat drama queens choosing to permanently remove their choices… no, don’t try to make sense out of it.

Or primal screams of rage.

Or siding with the allies of the authors of this “How To” manual:

And, of course, they don’t want women — or anyone besides enslavers — to be armed.

So, we’re supposed to believe lunatics removing themselves from the gene pool is a bad thing?

Now shave your heads and tell us you won’t have sex (not that there was ever much danger in the first place)

[Via Edmund M]

The People’s Privileged Champion

The Rock says ‘freedom is our greatest privilege’ while visiting troops in Hawaii… Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson” is the people’s champion for a number of reasons… [More]

A fake “action hero” tells the real deals he doesn’t understand what rights are. I wonder if he told them he also wants to impose Biden/Harris disarmament edicts on them when they get out.

What the hell kind of suck-up lede is that, “real reporter” Tracy Wright?

None Dare Call It Mental Illness

Corporate media outlets have buried, downplayed, or otherwise shelved a new study which reveals that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies cause people to become ‘hostile’ – essentially seeing racism where none exists. [More]

You need a study to show widespread encouragment of a sense of unearned entitlement and denial of reality are personally and socially destructive?

[Via bondmen]

Round 2 Redux

Today on Armed American Radio Mark continues the conversation started yesterday with David Codrea on Pam Bondi and her 2A chops or lack thereof. Is she right for gun owners as head of DOJ after her support for Florida’s post Parkland gun control bill? [Listen]

In case you missed it live and want to hear it.

Here’s Round 1.

And my elaborated thoughts on what Donald Trump’s election means for the Second Amendment are here.

We’re the Only Ones Following Protocol Enough

FBI Special Agent Arrested on Two Counts of Second-Degree Rape, Sexual Abuse in Maryland — Lured Women to Photoshoots with Promise of Modeling Jobs [More]

Interacting with citizens under false pretenses and then entrapping them and screwing them over…? I’m trying to figure out where he deviated from standard practices…

[Via Michael G]