Archive for August 2013
Colorado legislator says self defense is “absurd”
Nobody needs to be told that she’s a Democrat from Boulder. When I first learned that self defense was actually illegal in the UK, I thought I was being lied to. It didn’t seem possible that any human of normal intelligence could think no one has a right to defend their own life. I knew…
Read MoreHere’s what you looked like 12 weeks after conception — sucking your thumb
This is just one of 16 things you didn’t know about your life before birth
Read MoreHarvard Study: Fewer guns = more homicides!
You read that right — “Hahvahd” of all places does a study that actually found the truth. I guess hell just froze over. Read all about it here.
Read More“I Have a Dream Today”
” I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!” Alas, Martin Lurther King’s dream that he described in a speech delivered 50 years…
Read MoreElderly farmer and wife alive and well because they had a gun when they needed it
Rodney Eugene Long, 38, broke out of the Clarinda Correctional Facility about 20 miles from Bedford, Iowa on Friday. He was serving a term for burglary. Some time later he broke into a home and stole a gun. A sheriff’s deputy was sent to investigate a suspicious character walking along the highway on Sunday night.…
Read MorePat Buchanan — Wordsmith
Regarding the racially motivated murder of Christopher Lane, who is white, by Black teenagers in Duncan, Oklahoma: What happened in Oklahoma and the reaction, or lack of reaction to it, tells us much about America in 2013, not much of it good. Teenagers who can shoot and kill a man out of summertime boredom are…
Read MoreCam Edwards at the Independence Institute in Colorado
If gun control worked Chicago would be Mayberry…
Read MoreCan you find your own pixel on this map? Click to enlarge. Does the USA appears to be whiter and more empty than you thought?
Read MoreSleazebag congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton leaves voicemail soliciting a bribe from a lobbyist
Eleanor Holmes Norton is a non-voting delegate to Congress from the District of Columbia. Non-voting she may be but still powerful enough in a gangster congress to be bribed, apparently. Low information America rolls on…
Read MoreWhen the law loses its moral stature
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any…
Read MoreCountry Store — Gordonton, North Carolina 1939
Photo by Dorothea Lange, New Deal Artists Project. Colorized by Jordan J. Lord, see more old B&W photographs in color at Lord’s website. Note kerosene pump on right and gasoline pump on left. Click photo to enlarge.
Read MoreActual impairment versus the breathalyzer machine
DUI prosecution has been called “trial by machine” because the reading on the breathalyzer is what convicts you of the crime. You are not allowed to introduce scientific evidence to refute the machine in any state in the country. You can thank Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) for that. MADD’s lobbying efforts in the Washington…
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