We’ll Always Find Reasons Not To

…if you cancel a card, your credit score takes a hit. So….don’t like the card’s policies? Don’t use that card, just retire it to the back of your wallet, or even shred it, but don’t cancel it. [More]

For what it’s worth, I had a card I never used and after a few years the credit card company canceled it.

The thought strikes that if this concern is enough to not even take a small action, what chance is there for larger actions when there’s a larger price to pay?

It’s Not Like the Bill of Rights was Meant for the People…

The ruling is major for many reasons, including that the government tried to claim that charter boat fishing is a “closely-regulated industry” to which the Fourth Amendment does not apply. [More]

Ah, the Scarborough Doctrine of authorized free speech exercisers

And don’t forget Hogg’s Resurrected Postulate

[Via Michael G]

A Crash Course in Politics

North Carolina House of Representatives Speaker Tim Moore, another state congressman, and Moore’s security were driving back to the state capital from an event when a vehicle repeatedly rammed into the back of them, the speaker’s spokeswoman said Thursday. [More]

Coincidentally, with quotation marks, if you like, this was the day after the House voted to repeal handgun purchase permits. In any case, it’s fair to question if this was garden variety ‘roid rage or if he was targeted

Check out the cheesy excuse Rep. Michael Wray gave for voting against the bill he originally sponsored– no doubt his earlier feigned support was to sucker the Fudds at election time. What a weasel.

Ultimately, there is no such thing as a “pro-gun Democrat.” Besides, it’s never been about guns anyway.

Playing to the Crowd

Alabama congressman’s bill would make AR-15 ‘the National Gun of America’ [More]

He knows it doesn’t have a chance in hell with a Democrat Senate and Biden, so forgive me if this feels like a self-serving and disingenuously patronizing headline ploy, which is unfortunate because it detracts from an otherwise pretty good record on RKBA and on the greatest political threat against it.

Speaking of ‘A Long Train of Abuses’…

“There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent and Experience.” [More]

To believe in such a conspiracy means to believe the government would lie to the people about everything, from Kennedy to Covid.

Next, you’ll be telling me there’s an ulterior motive behind “commonsense gun safety laws”…

[Via Maingun]

California Dreamin’

But did anyone bother asking whether California’s “cure” for mass shootings even works in California before peddling it to the nation? [More]

Sure. Many times. For years.

Hence the graphic.

Not that I expect the DSM to notice…

But it’s to their advantage for them to give an occasional platform to someone who is helping them advance on a major front.

[Via Remarks]

Once is Happenstance

Billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound in NYC office: sources [More]

I wonder if the people in the blonde and pink wigs might offer a clue

And not to cast doubts on the official story, but the “suicide” angle would have a lot more credibility with me if he’d been found tied to a tree or something…

Hey, “Twice is coincidence,” right?

Notes from the Democrat Freak Show

Spiritual adviser and bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson is making a second straight run for the White House and taking aim at President Biden. [More]

“Why are we so violent?” she asks.

“We”…?

That’s an old grabber tactic, stumping for a totalitarian monopoly on arms by assigning collective guilt for the predations of an identifiable few.

What kind of cat lady/Demanding Mom/The View watcher would someone have to be to seek spiritual advice from this self-deluded charlatan? That question kind of answers itself…

Background Checks, Genuine Reason, Licensing, Registration…

The couple had been off on a visit to Palawan and were staying in Makati, a district in the capital region of Manila, on Feb. 19 when a pair of robbers on a motorcycle stopped them and held them at gunpoint. [More]

But…but…but commonsense

In Defense of Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years, effectively ensuring the former Hollywood mogul and convicted rapist will spend the rest of his life behind bars. [More]

Speaking of wishing he wasn’t alive

As much as my inner Nelson Muntz wants to point and laugh, there’s a bigger issue here that threatens all– an unproven allegation from an unnamed witness should not be enough to do this to anyone.

Show trials are the stuff of tyranny.

Besides, it’s not like plenty of famous “stars” much of America takes its political cues from didn’t get their willing start on the Hollywood casting couch, and like that hasn’t been a tradition.

My guess is if you took a look at “Jane Doe #1,” you’d find plenty of notches on that crotch.

Merchant Codes Show for Gun Owners It Doesn’t Pay to Discover

But if the merchant codes don’t go to the SKU (stock keeping unit) level and identify specific items purchased, some may question what the big deal is. For that, look to the proponents of the codes and how they have announced they intend to use them. [More]

The rope-selling “capitalists” don’t seem to realize what historically happens when their usefulness is up.

Bringing Home the Bacon

According to House Bill 23-1169, which only has one sponsor, Denver Democrat Rep. Jennifer Bacon, the change is needed because “Public safety is served by responding to low-level offenses with increased services rather than custodial arrest because non-prosecution of low-level offenses has been shown to reduce reoffending, or recidivism, for these populations.” [More]

Because nothing says “Don’t go on to bigger violations” like excusing victimizing others in smaller ways without consequences.

It figures she doesn’t want you to be able to defend yourself against the sociopaths she’s helping.

Any government that allows this has deliberately reneged on its basic charter and absolved the governed of giving consent. And “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.”

[Via Michael G]

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