It was on this day in 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a play at Ford’s Theater. [More]
And everyone here knows how much I value celebrity opinions.
Bridging the Divide on Guns a Bridge to Nowhere
Their “Diverse Coalition of Gun Rights and Gun Violence Prevention Advocates” includes rabid prohibitionist zealots who have made careers out of trying to eviscerate the Second Amendment through lawfare and gun bans, with not one recognized “no compromise” member. [More]
Oh, look, another covertly-funded AstroTurf group comprised of useful idiots and rabid prohibitionists trying to lure in low information gun owners who haven’t seen this game before. By “compromise,” they mean you do it.
An Unexplored Opportunity
Education is another area where the perceived “need” for high tech work visas actually reflects the underlying failure of Democrat-dominated teachers’ unions and school administrations.
Take a look at per capita spending in public school systems, then compare it to how much is comparably spent in, say, India, and it makes fair the question of how and why so many can outperform U.S. students, many of whom graduate unable to read at the fourth-grade level, and are effectively unemployable. Ditto for those who aren’t qualified to use DEI degrees in anything the market is willing to pay for.
Why aren’t establishment education policies and curricula geared toward producing what the domestic market demands, to where the need to hire a foreign national over a qualified citizen candidate is one of special circumstances involving individual exceptionalism? Is flooding states with H-1Bs to enrich tech billionaires really the best way for the interests of We the People to be advanced?
Look at the Democrat-dominated teachers’ unions and tell me there’s not a political opportunity to capitalize with voters justifiably objecting to economic displacement by pointing out academia establishment failures due to willful educational malpractice.
And it’s no surprise these Marxist sell-outs want a “pathway to citizenship” for illegals, too.
Eyes on the Pea
NRA Foundation Triples Down on Not Being Transparent [More]
At this point, any gun owner who puts a dime down on this shell game is a willingly ignorant mark.
John Petrolino is doing real investigative journalism here.
Broken Windows Theory
This fake Windows support website delivers password-stealing malware [More]
Lies of Commission and Omission
A recent news headline declared, “11,500 shootings occurred within 500 yards of US schools last year.” The obvious implication is that American school children are under daily fire on school campuses nationwide. But, as with most gun control narratives in national media written by reporters who mostly don’t understand the basics of firearms or criminal gun use, that narrative collapses under the slightest scrutiny. The first glaring red flag in this story is that Hearst Television Data Visualization Journalist Susie Webb and the WCVB Get the Facts Data Team built their agenda-driven narrative by relying on gun control advocacy site The Trace’s “School-Adjacent Shootings” dataset, which tracks Gun Violence Archive (GVA) incidents that fell within 500 yards of a K-12 school. Even that dataset warns that each row is a shooting-to-school match and must be deduplicated before anyone totals up the incidents, deaths or injuries. However, that was not done before Webb and WVTM’s story went live on several news outlets, on social media, on Hearst Television’s YouTube channel and was even—unsurprisingly—picked up by MSN. [More]
You don’t hate the DSM enough.
And They Say There are No Stupid Questions
Does the 2A Die in Virginia Tonight? [Watch]
I’ve noted before why I think defeatist titles suck.
[Via Jess]
The Militia Difference
The American Founders, having studied Rome’s failure in detail, deliberately designed a better system. They created three formal branches with stricter separation of powers — but they did not stop there. They explicitly empowered a Fourth Branch: the sovereign, educated, and armed citizenry itself. [More]
Some might even call it a core purpose.
FYI, I’m almost done with Miguel Faria’s latest that includes extensive analysis of Rome during this period and will be posting a “thumbs up” review when I am. I feel bad because I’ve had it for months but it’s long and very detailed, and circumstances have forced me to just read a little at a time.
[Via Michael G]
The Truth Hurts
Unveiling The Hidden Truth About Illegal Aliens And Crime – The Democrats have done their best to hide the data, but it is possible to use available information to extrapolate just how bad illegal alien crime is. [More]
Now you guys are just tryin’ to p!$$ Stephen off…
[Via bondmen]
We’re the Only Ones Secretive Enough
Meanwhile, Over at the Newsraper of Record…
When Seconds Count
Texas Democrat James Talarico Said Having Police in Schools Fuels ‘Culture of Violence’ in Newly Resurfaced Audio [More]
Why is it every time I see this lunatic I picture Elliot Page?
If it ends up being between him and Cornyn, well, this is how the system keeps gunvoters in line.
And look what else Texans can elect. Good grief.
[Via bondmen]
We’re the Only Ones Pyrotechnic Enough
Sheriff’s lieutenant with million-pound fireworks stash led to deadly blast, prosecutors say [More]
This one particularly grinds my gears because I used to work in the fireworks industry in California, initially brought in to help fight multiple municipal ballot measures to ban them. The “rationale” was to blame tepid “safe and sane” fountains for the illegal stuff brought in from Pahrump and beyond.
When I think of what we had to go through to operate in compliance, the worthy nonprofit efforts that were denied a great fundraising tool, the sanctimonioius blue noses who demanded their prejudice ruin things for everybody, and the Democrats who led the efforts to ban them, let’s just say I would not be a very fair juror.
[Via Steve T]
We’re the Only Ones Highway Robbing Enough
We’re the Only Ones Seizing Enough
Long Island Dentist Sues Nassau County Police for Illegal Firearms Seizure [More]
Not the first time the jackboots have raided a peaceable gun owner.
What the hell is it about Nassau Democrats who vote for tyranny?
To Each According to Their Need
Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: Machete-Wielding Subway Attacker Was a Repeat Offender [More]
Well, if New York Democrats weren’t racist…
Say, does that “median household wealth” distinguish between those who work and those who don’t?
[Via Michael G]
Wiping Off the MAP
WaPo Editor Pleads Guilty in Federal Child Porn Case… He was part of the newsroom team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for investigative reporting tied to coverage of Roy Moore’s Senate campaign. [More]
So he had three fingers pointing back at him?
What is it about WaPo award winners?
What is it about Pulitzer?
Did someone say “Morbark”?
[Via Michael G]
Fear is the Mind-Killer
Maryland LGBT Community Arming Up Over Fears [More]
Unfortunately, the source being The Liberal Gun Club is a stong indicator that they continue to vote for thier disarmers. I’ve pinned the cognitively dissonant down on that before:
We are Democrats, and as such we will support our party’s nominees for local, state, and federal office.
The other impression most will walk away with is they need to arm because of violent white homophobic males.
[Via Andy M]
It’s Nothing Less Than Existential
Birthright Citizenship: American Sovereignty Dangling By a Thread in the Supreme Court… The future of the United States of America is at stake. [More]
And it will be a very different country the next two or three generations grow up in, despite what critics with louder voices opine.
A Better Idea
Abdulkarim allegedly said in the video, “If you’re not going to pay us enough to [expletive] live or afford to live, at least pay us enough not to do this [expletive],” the DOJ said in a statement. [More]
How ’bout we PUNISH you enough not to do this?
Lemme guess… first generation…?