You have the right as an individual to own a gun and defend yourself.
Prohibition didn't stop liquor use; the drug laws can't stop drug use. Making gun ownership illegal will not stop gun ownership.
The primary victim of these misguided efforts is the honest citizen whose civil rights are trampled as frustrated legislators and police tighten the screws.
Banning guns will make guns more expensive and give organized crime a great opportunity to make profits in a new black market for weapons. Street violence will increase in new turf wars. Criminals will not give up their guns. But, many law abiding citizens will, leaving them defenseless against armed bandits.
Rather than banning guns, the politicians and the police should encourage gun ownership, as well as education and training programs. A responsible, well-armed and trained citizenry is the best protection against domestic crime and the threat of foreign invasion. America's founders knew that. It is still true today.You have the right as an individual to own a gun and defend yourself.
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Rep. Steve King has been bold and right about Obama and his gangster 'Czars' in the past.'gangster_government.'
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In his decision dismissing a lawsuit filed by Orly Taitz late last month, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carterr mentioned that some witnesses complained that the birther chief urged them to lie on the stand. Now, more details are out, as one of the witnesses has made his affidavit public.
Lucas Smith, a fellow conspiracy theorist who Taitz identified in her lawsuit as the discoverer of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate, gave his statement to the Orange County Register.
Among the allegations Smith makes is that Taitz asked him to say that he was the one who obtained a document that was alleged to be a 1964 Kenyan birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama II. He says he didn't. That document had been called a forgery by experts, and Smith said his own research also concluded that the document was fake. He also alleges that Taitz asked him to give false testimony about speaking to specific people in Africa, and that she asked two other people to lie under oath.
"It began to become clearer and clearer to me that Orly Taitz had no understanding of the law," he writes. "I came to an exhaustive conclusion that Orly Taitz may be the 'Birthers' worst nightmare. Outside of paying attention to her own voice at length, Orly Taitz has the attention span of a small child."
Follow link for the rest of the story at The Huffington Post.
1) I typed in "faux news"
2) I clicked the Timeline option
3) The result showed a significant increase in the term being used over time starting in 2001
This comforts me because I believe Fox News has had a profoundly negative impact on Americans. Although I believe MSNBC is also biased to some extent, it doesn't come close to the emotionally charged, fear-mongering, cynical tactics of Fox News. Most people who watch Fox News seem to not question the information they are given by their news provider. I think democrats more often take each individual story from their news providers into consideration rather than believe everything they are told whether or not their news providers lean to the left.
What do you think?It took me a simple Google search:
1) I typed in "faux news"
2) I clicked the... more
On Friday night, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) responded to the question, "Why should a woman pay more [for health insurance] than a man?" with, "Well, we're all different. Why should a smoker pay more?" Sessions, notes Politico, "runs the National Republican Congressional Committee -- which is tasked with recruiting new female candidates."
And the GOP wonders why it has trouble reaching women. Seriously.
Rep. Stacey Campfield (R-TN) was escorted out of the University of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium for wearing a luchador mask and reportedly scaring little children.Rep. Stacey Campfield (R-TN) was escorted out of the University of Tennessee's Neyland... more
Sean Hannity speculated that "there is a chance our government knew all about" alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan "and did nothing because nobody wanted to be called an Islamophobe," and asked, "What does it say about Barack Obama and our government?" But there is no evidence that Obama was aware of the emails between Hasan and an imam with alleged ties to Al Qaeda; moreover, Hannity did not address what the incident says about President Bush, who was in office when the authorities reportedly first intercepted the emails.
A chief spokesman for the pro-life, far-right organization, American Family Association, has called for the purging of Muslim soldiers from military ranks in the wake of the tragic killings at Fort Hood.
"As soon as Muslims give us a foolproof way to identify their jihadis from their moderates, we'll go back to allowing them to serve."
The Election Day 2009 was not good for Obama. His party lost Virginia and New Jersey. His electorate, made by young people and Afro-Americans, didn't go to vote.
Is it an alarm bell? http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/world/elezioni2009usa041109.htmlThe Election Day 2009 was not good for Obama. His party lost Virginia and New Jersey.... more
After rewriting New York City term laws Mike Bloomberg, who is said to have spent close to $85 million self-financing is own campaign, was re-elected Mayor.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1225241/The-100m-mayor-Michael-Bloomb... more
A rape victim in Baton Rouge asks David Vitter why he supported big corporations over sexual assault victims when he was one of only 30 senators who opposed a Senate amendment to make sure assault victims get their day in court.A rape victim in Baton Rouge asks David Vitter why he supported big corporations over... more
GOP senator dodges tearful rape victim’s questions
By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 -- 11:20 am
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Confronted by an impassioned rape survivor at a town hall Saturday night, Sen. David Vitter tried everything from sympathizing to deflecting blame onto the Obama administration for his decision to vote against an anti-rape amendment.
Finally, amid shouts from protesters, the Louisiana Republican simply walked away.
Vitter was one of 30 Republican senators who voted against Sen. Al Franken's amendment, passed in the Senate last month, that would de-fund government contractors who prevent employees from seeking justice when they have been raped.GOP senator dodges tearful rape victim’s questions
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Texas Republicans opposed the $787 billion stimulus package, but their districts are getting more than their fair share of emergency funds. Working my way through the detailed data this morning from Recovery.gov, a quick analysis shows that more than $8.6 billion has been awarded to entities in GOP districts. About $4.3 billion is going to Democratic districts. (The Texas delegation includes 20 Republicans and 12 Democrats.)
Rep. Lamar Smith, who I always think of as a San Antonio-area Republican, leads all members in stimulus grants because his district includes part of Austin. That means his stimulus haul includes many research grants awarded to the University of Texas. Rep. Kenny Marchant, R-Coppell, is doing well because his district includes Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where TxDOT chose to invest $250 million to reconstruct State Highway 114.
Last week, Liz Cheney berated the President of the United States for publicly honoring the war dead. The scathing rebukes, most notably Lawrence O'Donnell, were well-deserved.
Most were also misguided.
To be sure, the facts and perspective they presented were important. After all, Ms. Cheney's egregious contentions were disingenuous lies, and to even think that the American President shouldn't honor the war dead in public is shameless. It is suggesting that the commander-in-chief should only salute the war dead from past wars, not those newly-arrived back to our shores. A nation is comforted when it is allowed to honor with the president those who fell defending it. It understands more deeply what the national sacrifice is.
Moreover, had it been George Bush at Dover Air Force Base, Elizabeth Cheney would be exalting him as America's Greatest Patriot.
And none of this includes her lie that George Bush did such a thing at Dover. Even privately. Nor did her father. The two architects of the lie that caused those deaths. Her own lie that Mr. Bush did is self-serving deceit.
All such comments about Ms. Cheney's dishonesty - and her many previous lies - have all been highly merited. What is misguided, though is something else.
Why in the world are putting Liz Cheney on television??
Responding to lies is one thing. But to give such a nonentity face time? Even sportscasts have stopped showing the loon who runs onto the field, realizing that getting on TV only encourages the next one.
