Way back in Y2K the city of New York pressed a lawsuit against gun manufacturers for crimes committed using their products. It was bogus lawsuits like this that led to the passage of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005, a component of which specifically directed any pending lawsuits of this nature [...]
The latest round of ads from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are causing quite the stir among people paying attention. Drawing the most ire is an ad that blatantly misrepresents McCain’s position on the Iraq campaign and makes use of footage of a couple of US soldiers coming under an IED attack. You can see [...]
I just got done reading the 8 pages of 60 Minutes’ report on the interview with Justice Scalia. If you’ve not seen it yet, you should do yourself a huge favor and go read it. Scalia is, frankly, the kind of Justice we need 9 of on the Supreme Court. Reading about the interview only [...]
In writing that previous post on the Supreme Court ruling on voter ID laws, I had to shake my head again over the blatant bias present in the story I read. Mark Sherman, the AP reporter who wrote this thing, ought to be ashamed. Given that we’re talking about 1) a member of the journalistic [...]
The Supreme Court has upheld an Indiana law requiring people to show photo ID’s before being allowed to cast a vote in an election. In a 6-3 ruling, the Justices have backed the law as a valid protection against fraud: The law “is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting ‘the integrity and reliability [...]
They’re doing everything in their power to get the message across that they’re not suggesting what they’re suggesting, but the truth of the matter is that the Virginia State Crime Commission’s decision to take a “limited look” at private gun sales that happen to occur at gun shows is an opening move toward requiring background [...]
It was 1 year and 6 days ago that the last batch of “angry truckers” made a call to come into the DC area and screw up the morning rush hour to protest something. Tomorrow, they’re supposedly returning to protest high gas prices: A group of truck drivers is planning to caravan past the White [...]
It was 6 years ago that John Allen Muhammad and his teen sidekick Lee Boyd Malvo roamed the streets in their rolling sniper blind and picked off random innocents at long range. It was just over 4 years ago that a Virginia jury convicted Muhammad of capital murder and sentenced him to death. Two years [...]
Thanks to a reference on The Loudoun Scoop, I found this little gem over at LoudounExtra.com: The Guide 2008: Where We Live. There are stories about local flavor, guides to all manner of community services, and explanations about how some processes work. Case in point is this story on “Deciphering the Code for Land Development [...]
Bob Owens over at Confederate Yankee has a long history of pointing out 1) misinformation regarding firearms and 2) media incompetence or deception. He hits a two-fer in this story about a recent ABC news article on guns in use by Mexican drug cartels. He highlights the deceptions, both visual and textual, in the story [...]
