Colorado Consensus on Gun Laws
After the Columbine High School murders, Colorado enacted eight specific gun-law reforms. Three of these reforms are examples of what people usually call “gun control,” and five of them are in the “gun...
View ArticleUnder the Gun
Where are the most important opportunities and dangers for the Second Amendment in the congressional and gubernatorial races? Here’s a state-by-state rundown, including every gubernatorial and U.S....
View ArticleTurning Gun Owners into Felons
Public-opinion polls about “universal background checks” for gun sales show widespread support. While President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg talk about “gun sales,” the actual legislation moving through...
View ArticleTime for a Real Response
‘Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” So said Winston Churchill after the Second Battle of El Alamein, the turning point of...
View ArticleBait-'N'-Switch
At midnight tonight, the federal ban on so-called "assault weapons" expires. As a constitutional moment, the expiration is as significant for the Second Amendment as the March 3, 1801, expiration of...
View ArticleThe Torch of Freedom
Thanks to Senator John Kerry, there has been a lot of talk recently about the proper response to Pearl Harbor. He claims that "invading Iraq in response to 9/11 would be like Franklin Roosevelt...
View ArticleVoting On Target
Here is this year's installment of NRO's biennial Second Amendment Tip Sheet. This document provides the Second Amendment perspective on all Senate and gubernatorial races, and selected House...
View ArticleArms Alive
Tuesday was a good night for the Second Amendment. Here is the summary, followed by state-by-state breakdowns. The results are based on totals from early Wednesday morning.#ad#Senate Summary: Change...
View ArticleThe Resistance
Since the Columbine murders in 1999, several important steps have been taken to prevent or thwart school shootings. Much more still needs to be done.The good news is that, since Columbine, police...
View ArticleArms-Bearing Can Bear the Defeat
The Second Amendment has emerged from the biggest Democratic victory since 1974 with relatively little damage. One reason is that in races all over the country, Democrats returned to their...
View ArticleThe Dalai Lama's Army
An al Qaeda organization is attempting to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Lashkar-e-Toiba, al Qaeda’s South Asian affiliate, is acting consistently with Osama bin Laden’s April 2006 denunciation of “pagan...
View ArticleRomney, a Second Amendment Killer?
From the viewpoint of a Second Amendment supporter, it doesn’t matter whether Mitt Romney is an expert varmint stalker. It does matter whether he is sincere in his support of the Second Amendment. His...
View ArticleRon's Revolution
This weekend, I attended and spoke at the Second Amendment Foundation’s annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, which was held at a convention center in northern Kentucky, a few miles away from...
View ArticleTricked by UNICEF
Americans mostly know UNICEF through the “trick or treat for UNICEF” campaigns. The “trick” is on the donors who think that UNICEF is all about helping poor children.UNICEF has been a major financier...
View ArticleGunning for Victory
In a very tough election climate for Republicans, the good news is that the gun issue is increasingly non-partisan. We can see this every day in the Senate, where Democratic Senate Majority Leader...
View ArticleStick to Your Guns, Senator
What should Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand do about guns? As a two-term U.S. representative from upstate New York, she had a perfect pro-Second Amendment voting record. A week ago, she admitted to Newsday...
View ArticleSecond Thoughts
Things look a lot better for the Second Amendment than they do for the Republican party. A race-by-race analysis of the Senate suggests that, while party control of the Senate could change, the Senate...
View ArticleGenocide Resistance
Whatever may be said about the U.S. House of Representatives committee vote concerning the use of the term “genocide” in reference to Turkey’s atrocities against the Armenians during World War I, two...
View ArticleRe Kerry's Gun
S. 1431, co-sponsored by Sen. John Kerry, says that an "assault weapon" is any semi-automatic rifle or shotgun with a "pistol grip." According to the bill, "(42) PISTOL GRIP- The term 'pistol grip'...
View ArticleMy Focus Group
I watched the VP debate with a Boulder, Colorado, focus group, consisting of my relatives and neighbors. Except for me, none of them was considering voting for Bush. Some were confirmed Kerry voters,...
View ArticleFyi
My latest media columnexamines the draft hoax. Along the way, I point to good work by Beldar Blog, INDC Journal, Snopes.com, and two anti-draft websites with intellectual integrity. And I show that...
View ArticleAlternative Reading
The new issue of Liberty magazine includes a detailed analysis of Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Bandarik's swing through Colorado, by Colorado writer Ari Armstrong. Armstrong discusses...
View ArticleMarrying Up
With all due respect to my esteemed webmistress KJL,Kerry's "marrying up" line was a disaster. For the voters who are deciding on character rather than issues (many of the undecided and uninformed...
View ArticleAk-47
Ramesh is wrongbut that doesn't mean he should apologize. The AK-47 (an automatic rifle) is not and never has been illegal; but it is very severely regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934, which...
View ArticleFor Your Viewing
A new 14-minute film,now available for web viewing, uses Michael Moore's film-making techniques to examine The War of the Ring: "Michael Moore's searing examination of the Aragorn administration's...
View ArticleDebunking Moore
A new college student activist website, Must Have Info,promotes campus screenings of the movie "Farenhype 9/11," which debunks thelies in "Farenheit 9/11." Among the people appearing in the "Farenhype"...
View ArticleMe, .Inf
What file extension am I? "You are .inf. You are informative. When you are gone you make life very difficult for others." What operating system am I? "You are HP-UX. You're still strong despite the...
View ArticleHoly Bias, Batman!
Have the New York Times and other media been fair in covering the controversy over Catholic Bishops urging Catholics to vote pro-life? Not entirely, I argue in my new media column.
View ArticleHistory Point
Jonah, approvingly quoting a reader, posts:"Germany and Japan had no major victories after Pearl Harbor." Actually, inthe months after Pearl Harbor, Japan conquered Malaya, Singapore, Burma,British...
View ArticleNew Anti-Gun Strategies
To mark the tenth anniversary of the expiration of the federal ban on so-called assault weapons, the anti-gun lobbies made a surprising announcement: They are not attempting to push for a new ban. This...
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