The latest Afterburner, on the Constitution.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Time To Go
…Eric Holder. I doubt that he’ll go voluntarily, though. The House might want to start to think about impeachment.
[Update a while later]
This is almost certainly about the administration pushing a gun-control agenda:
AR-15 rifles routinely cost $750 for the most basic versions, and quality versions can easily run more than $1000 each. The cartels raid armories and buy selective-fire M-16 and M-4 rifles from deserting or corrupt Mexican military members for far less than the semi-automatic rifles finding their way to the cartels with federal government assistance, or obtain them from the same South American armories that they get their grenades from. It is a bit harder to pin-down a “street price” for an M-16/M-4 in Mexico, but cartels can probably obtain them for $5o0 or less.
The point, of course, is that it isn’t remotely cost-effective for cartels to buy these weapons in the U.S.
Yet the AK- and AR-pattern weapons that are most bitterly opposed by gun-grabbing groups and politicians in the United States are the most common weapons purchased by Operation Fast and Furious.
So they deliberately allowed hundreds to be murdered, here and in Mexico, so they could slander law-abiding gun dealers and subvert the Second Amendment. They shouldn’t be allowed to resign. They should be doing hard time.
[Update a while later]
Gang control, not gun control.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I hadn’t read the whole piece when I first posted the link (the first one in this post). Toward the end:
Prominent anti gun politicians who had been aggressively promoting the “90-percent lie” were in a position to use agencies under their control to carry out a gunwalking plot that planted the evidence to support their contentions. The very guns that these politicians wanted to most control or ban outright with far stricter gun control measures were then pushed to the cartels. No wonder the president laughed about his plot to advance gun control “under the radar.”
Hard time.
Pants On Fire
No, Barack Obama is not the first president to terminate America’s ability to put people into space. I would also note that while Nixon generally gets the blame, the decision to end Apollo was actually made in the Johnson administration.
Well, I Guess It’s Been Long Enough
So much for that “Speak no ill of the dead” thing, when it comes to Steve Jobs.
The Biggest Problem With Leftists
…is that they lack a sense of irony. Or self awareness, other than a heightened sense of entitlement and completely unjustified self esteem.
Occupy Wall Street
…exposed.
As Powerline says, the Tea Party is a political movement — OWS is a crime wave.
[Late morning update]
Occupy Wall Street and its war on the First Amendment.
[Very late morning update]
“Income inequality” is the new global warming. Hey, any excuse for socialism.
More Math Lessons For The President
…from Paul Ryan. I really, really wish he was running.
[Late afternoon update]
How to make it in America.
[Update Thursday morning]
More math lessons for the political class in general: why Washington will collapse. When something can’t go on, eventually it doesn’t.
[Update a while later]
Seven reasons Obama is wrong on income inequality.
[Bumped]
Three And A Half Days
Bill Whittle’s thoughts on the children of Wall Street.
The Deutsche Mark
Is on its way back? I’ve long thought that it was just a matter of time.
The EU Debt Crisis
Could hammer the US, particularly housing prices.