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• The “Right to Marry” and The “Right to Carry”.

  Deborah on the political i wrote a wonderful post linking two very different "rights." The National Rifle Association leaned on Congress to pass the “right to... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 DEBATE

• King of Corrupt Corporate Capitalism?

  Michele Bachmann has made the self-serving attack on Rick Perry that he engages in rampant cronyism, and pay for play, where an individual or a corporation... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 DEBATE

• Rights

  There is all this talk about claiming rights which are either natural or god given, which is fairly nonsensical since anyone can claim anything as a right. The... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 DEBATE

• A New Development in Libya

  I wonder if this is something that 'we need a leader, not a reader' anti-intellect candidate Herman Cain will notice? Or is it yet another instance where he wil... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 DEBATE

• Also Not About Firearms, but Interesting, and Shows a Common Bias on the Right

  

  This is about energy, but it is also about a larger issue which is annoys me. There have been a number of people on the right who misrepresent science and... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 DEBATE

• More on the Bizarre HR-822

  via The New York Times op-ed by Gail Collins Here’s an example of the way the House plan would work. California has very strict limits on who can get a permit t... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 DEBATE

• This Has Absolutely NOTHING to Do with the 2nd Amendment Or Gun Rights

  This was just so strange, so bizarre, and both sad and funny, that I felt a need to share. I don't wish to laugh at someone else's misfortune, or to be... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 DEBATE

• The Kind of Weapons and Attacks We Face in the 21st Century

  The Founding Fathers never anticipated anything like this back in the era of muskets and cannon. Science fiction, the genre of fantasizing and fictionalizing th... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 DEBATE

• Hurdles the "individual Right" Interpretation of the Second Amendment Needs to...

  (in no particular order):The first that comes to mind is that there is no explicit language granting such a right. The text of the statute is used first, and... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2011 DEBATE

• WHY Require Background Checks on Private Sales Or Transfers? BECAUSE OF THIS Kin...

  

  I like to go to the local news sources when possible; the following is from NBC Washington DC. We frequently point out here that guns used in crimes start out a... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2011 DEBATE

• World's Most Lightwieght Material

  

  via Boing Boing from UCIrvine Today The new material redefines the limits of lightweight materials because of its unique “micro-lattice” cellular architecture.... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2011 DEBATE

• Apples and Oranges

  OK, you want to pretend that a firearm is "just an inanimate object" when it's not--it's a fucking weapon. They are intended to be used as weapons to injure or... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2011 DEBATE

• House Approves Concealed Carry Reciprosity

  The New York Times reports on how the NRA and the gun manufacturers have bought and paid for enough of the Congress to achieve this incredible result. Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2011 DEBATE

• Gun Owner Obsessed with Obama - Sounds Familiar

  

  The Christian Science Monitor published a wonderful article about the White House shooter. Dog Gone already covered it, but I liked the "obsession" angle. Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2011 DEBATE

• Hoist That Rag - Tom Waits

  Hoist that rag! Well, we stick our fingers in the ground, heave and turn the world around Smoke is blacking out the sun At night I pray and clean my gun The... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2011 DEBATE

• Lets Get Rid of the Appearance of (and Actual) Corruption in the Supreme Court

  

  The following story raises some very deep and troubling questions about our current Supreme Court Justices. The LA Times Story below is not the only instance... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2011 DEBATE

• Senator Grassley - Callous and Insulting

  via Political Correction and further to our recent post about the testimony of the heroic Patricia Maisch. In a letter to Sen. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2011 DEBATE

• Testing, Testing, Hey, is This Thing On?

  This is a test of the dDAS (democommie Daily Aggravation System). If this was the real thing there would be some splenetic invective dripping over the edges of... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2011 DEBATE

• Josh Horwitz on HR-822

  Josh Horwitz writing in the Huffington Post Richard Poplawski. Omar Thornton. Paul Michael Merhige. Jason Hamilton. Nidal Malik Hasan. George Sodini. Christophe... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2011 DEBATE

• Background Checks for All Gun Sales

  

  via NPR Patricia Maisch, one of the people who helped halt the Tucson shooting , holds up a photograph of victim John Roll, a federal judge, while testifying... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2011 DEBATE