A Public/Private Partnership

Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records [More]

What’s the difference between an economic fascist and a rope-selling capitalist?

I mean before they’re declared no longer useful and end up in a lime pit?

[Via Jess]

Straight Outta Charlottesville

Hegseth Uses D-Day Anniversary Speech to Attack European Immigration Policies [More]

What a crock of “Unite the Right” loser sh!+, right, Stephen?. He oughta just wait a generation or two, right,Ranjit, Kostas, Hannah…?

Any self-styled “gun rights leader” who is deliberately indifferent to the implications of current immigration policies to RKBA, or overtly hostile to warnings about them, is either a willfully blind useful idiot, or an embedded asset.

Unwelcome Signs

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‘Welcome to West Virginia,” the sign read.

“Hey, I’m legal!” I noted.

We’d been visiting a convalescing friend in Lexington, VA, and had also used the trip as an opportunity to visit Appomattox the day before, a place I’d never been to. Now we were heading home, taking the eastern route to see some country we’d never been through before.

“Maryland Welcomes You,” a new sign said. “Wes Moore Governor.”

“Whoops, illegal.”

“Welcome to Pennsylvania,” the next sign read. “Josh Shapiro, Governor.”

“Still illegal.”

A few hours passed.

“Welcome to Ohio,” a new sign read.

“Legal again.”

Nothing about me or what I was doing had changed. Each one of the states we’d passed through had agreed to abide by the Constitution as a condition of membership in the Union.

Without admitting I was doing anything but exercising my rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, who was undermining the Blessings of Liberty and breaking “the supreme Law of the Land” here?

Enemy Foreign and Domestic

That would be this Third World collectivist ingrate bent on turning the Founder’s Republic into the hellhole he escaped from…

ATF Director Cekada’s Concern for Adamiak Misses Larger Point

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“Cekada promised neither he nor the ATF will be ‘offended by the outcome of the courts,’ because he wants to make sure that Adamiak was ‘appropriately sentenced’,” Williams recounted. That’s mighty big of him. However, Second Amendment advocates should be offended by such a presumptuous response. [More]

Focusing on the punishment being too harsh ignores the intolerable injustice of there being any punishment at all.

First Impressions

Embarrassment of the Week: ‘Islamophobic’ Killer Is Named… Yeah, You Guessed It [More]

That presumes they can be embarrassed, that the initial allegations aren’t what stick, that the enemy doesn’t know and exploit that, and that PJ Media isn’t an echo chamber that is self-contained.

13 retweets. For a guy with 293K followers.

Meanwhile, eating Chicken McNuggets on a roller-coaster gets 5M views.

[Via Michael G]

Social Insecurity

How, when your Social Security check could be cut by $500 a month: Report [More]

“Trust fund.” Right.

Noting all the waste, fraud and abuse, and money spent on illegals…

I sure wish I’d had the money they took from me all my working life (and forced my employers to cough up, thereby lowering my wages) to invest. Instead, we’ve been coerced into dependency by a government that presumes to be more responsible with our money than we would be, and which, despite denials, was the long-term plan all along.

Theoretically, who should be hanged?