So far, so bad. And Ezra Klein, to the surprise of no one intelligent, comes off as a fool.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Gun Clubs At Schools
As Glenn notes, this is about oikophobia, even though it’s as, or more, important for kids to learn about the proper use and handling of guns as it is for them to learn to drive, particularly considering that the former is a fundamental constitutional right. As Glenn notes, this insane “gun-free zone” and “zero tolerance” policies have been a horrific failure.
I wonder if drum and bugle corps still carry the wooden rifles, as they did when I was in high school? Or is that too “terroristic“? More and more, it seems like sending your kids to a public school constitutes parental malpractice.
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Why are anti-gun activists so violent? as Glenn says, maybe the people we need to keep guns away from are elected Democrats.
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Related: the loving, tolerant Left:
Over the last few years, I’ve heard the left talk about how hateful conservatives can be. Being a libertarian, there have been plenty of occasions where I disagreed with conservatives in discussions on social issues, but I’ve never at any moment gotten to the point where they were berating me or wishing harm upon me.
Needless to say, I’m strongly considering sending this one to the police since the e-mail address, which I’ve left off the post, is from a legitimate account.
They don’t want us to have guns because they project and think that we’re as violent and deranged as they are.
Hot Women
…cause global warming?
Hey, it makes about as much sense, correlation-wise, as the “scientific” theories.
Piers Morgan
For all the talk of the decline of the British Empire, even the most red-blooded American has to admit that somehow, they managed to relieve themselves (dare I say excrete?) the creature from their brave little island, and we seem to be stuck with it.
If I were the Obama administration, I would blame this (as on all else, now four years since the end of his disastrous dictatorial reign) on George W. Bush, but sanity and honest compels me to lay it at the foot of the cable news network formerly, and currently known as the Cable News Network. Which is one of the many reasons that I (and judging by the ratings, many others) find it less than indispensable.
McCain’s Middle East Madness
Comparing and contrasting the “sensible” senator versus the “extremist crazy” Michele Bachmann.
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Chuck Hagel’s historical delusions.
What an awful pick for SecDef. He’s unqualified on every level.
Outrage Over Overzealous Federal Prosecutors
Can it outlast the Swartz case?
It should. As he points out, it’s not like it’s anything new. It’s all part of the growth of Leviathan and a tyrannical state, and it needs to be trimmed way back.
Also, be sure to read Radley Balko’s piece on abuse of federal power.
The NRA
…is more popular, and less unpopular, than Barack Obama.
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The president’s nonsensical gun proposals. Either he’s profoundly ignorant, or he thinks we are.
Being “Socially Liberal”
…is not being libertarian. And as he points out, no one who supports Barack Obama and the Democrats in the budget fight can credibly claim to be a “fiscally conservative.”
Anthony Watts Versus Greg Laden
What should he do? The goal should be to get an apology from Nat Geo, and an end to Laden’s privileges at their web site.
Here’s Who Shouldn’t be Allowed To Have A Gun
“I don’t mind being yelled at, like verbally abusive, fine,” he said. “But I think the mayor — and I made this point in an email later to his staff, clearly crossed the line by grabbing me.”
Hastings said that he has interviewed “terrorist leaders…dictators…a lot of politicians…a lot of angry people,” but that no one had ever put their hands on him. The journalist also claimed that Emanuel didn’t seem to be “in full control of what he was doing” during the exchange.
I’d love to see him charged with assault. But you know the cops would ignore it.
And I agree with Glenn: “I think one reason why these people support gun control is that they assume everyone else is as unstable as they are.”