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Archive for June, 2010
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 |
The BBC reports as below about what I would call a failed, futile attempt by the Taliban to attack a NATO base. These quotes are excerpted. See what you think, but it sounds like the BBC reporter just can’t accept a NATO victory. I played with what their headline could of been and decided on my own subject header for this post.
NATO Devastates Desperate Desert Dumb-bunnies
Taliban Attackers Bent on Suicide Succeed
NATO Swats Off Ineffective Taliban
I could play with this and have some more fun, but here are the lines from the article that I found so strange.
An Afghan soldier and one international service member were wounded.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said six suicide attackers had taken part in the assault.
Eight insurgents died in the ensuing gun battles, the Associated Press news agency reports.
The attack is yet another example of the increasingly sophisticated assaults favoured by the Taliban, says the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville in Kabul.
I am sure I am missing something, but, Mr. Sir Quentin Sommerville, how sophisticated is it to attack a western base, blow yourself up, die and fight your way through the crowd to where that 70 Virgin Express is coming up to the platform? I mean, who won here? Two of ours were wounded by RPG fragments; eight of theirs died.
I suspect our forces would welcome more of these sophisticated assaults. Might you find it within yourself to love your Island and celebrate the NATO victory?
Here is the link to what MJM thinks is a strange, dour, skeptical report about a clear victory.
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 |
I was reading New Jovian Thunderbolt’s blog tonight. He comments on a piece Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote in support of the Supreme Court’s McDonald decision. NJT is troubled by Dr. Sowell saying (probably wryly) that the amendment could be repealed. The troubling–and unstated–implication by the way Dr. Sowell says this is that your right is conferred by the government, at the whim of the government, and may be taken back.
Today’s big government presumes the authority to take away or adjust the right in any way its minions want. We absolutely must fight even the whiff of this kind of thinking. Here is why.
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 |
Headlines today moan, asking if we have returned to the days of The Cold War. We have not. The Cold War never ended. The Cold War simply continued, under less overt tension. Breaching the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union were dramatic and real, but the Communists remain our mortal enemies. They–regardless of the country of their residence–can never accept our liberty. Never. It is not possible.
However, I am not at all angry with the Russians. I fully expected them to continue to infiltrate us with spies.
So, at whom should our anger be directed today, reading that Russian spies moved into our neighborhoods and burrowed into our flesh like parasites?
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Monday, June 28th, 2010 |
This post simply updates my earlier post about the McDonald opinion, announced this morning. This post provides you a copy of the opinion in pdf that I have bookmarked so that you may more easily navigate through it. Click here to read or download the bookmarked McDonald v Chicago 6-28-2010 SCt.
Much will be said and written about the decision as we all study it. I will observe now that the quality of the majority thinking and writing stands in stark contrast to the illogical rambling of the dissents.
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Monday, June 28th, 2010 |
Top breaking news: McDonald and gun owners win!
Only minutes ago, the Supreme Court announced its 5-4 decision applying the second amendment to state and municipal governments as well as to the federal government. The practical impact is to block state and municipal oppression of the right of citizens to actually arm themselves. Technically, the Court remanded the case back to circuit. You will have plenty of opportunity to read elsewhere about the details and commentary, but I want to talk with you more about Chicago. Do not miss my article below telling you a gun-control tale of two cities. This post is chocked full of commentary you won’t want to miss.
Download a copy of the Supreme Court’s decision here: McDonald v Chicago 6-28-2010 SCt.
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 |
You never know when, or where, and you are not “safe” at your own home. When will the Left get this?
One homeowner knew what to do today, and he taught one thug a valuable lesson. “‘Don’t call me bro and get out of my house or I will shoot you,’” the homeowner said. And he did.
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 |
You take that new .22 out of the box and mount that nice spare scope you have. The one that will zoom up to 9x. Might as well. Not using it for anything else and the more magnification the better, right?
Maybe not.
You throw out three shots and check your group. Nice group. You feel smug and adjust the cross-hairs.
The next group doesn’t move. Still tight, but still at the same place despite those clicks. Or, it moves but to a place on the target other than where you told it to go. You scratch your head, shrug your shoulders, and fire off three more.
Fifteen groups later, sweltering in 90-degree heat, wishing you’d brought that bottle of water after all, you can’t figure out why your scope adjustments aren’t landing the group on the bull’s-eye. You hand the rifle to a buddy whose tight three-shot group lands even at a different place! You decide the scope is poltergeist-possessed with a demented mind of its own.
It may be–possessed of the parallax poltergeist. Parallax is to the shooter as a mugging is to a liberal: It always happens to someone else. No it doesn’t. This little adventure is not hypothetical: I watched it unfold last weekend with a nice, new Henry lever action and a 3x–9x scope.
I recommend this article in GUNS Magazine, page 36. It’s humorously written, simple, and explains why that scope you put on that .22 is tricking you. Even better, it guides us to optics better suited to that particular .22 caliber mission.
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010 |
US and Israeli warships sailed through the Suez, on their way to enforce the embargo against Gaza. The Turks line up with Hamas and Hezbollah. Egypt cooperates with the US–and Israel.
Meanwhile, the Russians continue to arm Iran’s military, using the radical Islamic elements within Iran as their proxy warrior, reminiscent of Cold War days.
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010 |
 
When I’m talking with a liberal about gun control, I ask whether he supports the death penalty for first-degree murderers. I insist on a clear answer. Rarely do I get a “Yes.”
My response is this: “Then, don’t even talk to me about getting guns off the street. You are not serious about protecting the public. You are not serious about stopping crime. You shouldn’t even entertain the thought of taking away liberty from law-abiding citizens if you won’t execute murderers. End of argument. You have nothing to say.”
That stark photograph says it all. My only other remark about the above symbol of one state’s guts is, “What a disgrace that leftist lawyers and legislators hampered the sovereign state of Utah by the 25 years it took to get Ronnie Lee Gardner behind the bull’s-eye.”
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