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Month: October, 2008

Delaware police deny 81-year-old woman’s application to buy a guy gun because she’s 81 and a woman

30 October, 2008 (10:39) | 2008 Presidential Race, 2nd Amendment, Law, Politics | By: ricjames

(Whoopsie! Thanks to Dave D. for spotting my (ahem) little slip-up in the headline!) From On High posts about this story sure to make any supporter of the 2nd Amendment angry: Delaware State Police stopped Alvina Vansickle from purchasing a .22-caliber pistol for self-defense because she was too old and a woman, said Superintendent Col. [...]

Tag Greason: Loudoun’s Class Act

29 October, 2008 (09:20) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

The Loudoun Scoop directed us this morning to a post on the Living in LoCo blog appropriately titled, “A Kind Gesture of Crossing Party Lines.” The story begins with a couple in Belmont Country Club who awoke the other morning to find their Obama sign stolen out of their front yard. Erica Garman over at [...]

Iowahawk hits the bullseye. (Within a certain margin of error.)

28 October, 2008 (21:11) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames

There are 3 types of lies, the saying goes: lies, damned lies, and statistics. A good mathematician can solve a formula and give you a great depiction of the real answer. A good statistician can take than same data and make it depict any damn thing he’d like it show. Iowahawk has a hilarious-because-it’s-true post [...]

Tragic accident: boy firing Uzi at a gun fair shoots himself and dies.

28 October, 2008 (09:50) | 2nd Amendment, Human Interest | By: ricjames

(Note: As with any accident that occurs in split-seconds, I encourage everyone to be patient for the results of the investigation.) A Massachusetts boy has died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot would at a gun fair being held in Westfield, MA. The 8-year-old boy was firing a full-auto weapon, an Uzi submachine gun, [...]

Halloween costumes with a classical flair

28 October, 2008 (03:00) | Human Interest | By: ricjames

Well, you probably knew from reading the classics that Cerberus was the 3-headed dog guardian of the gates of Hades from Greek mythology. I’ll bet you never thought to ask what breed of dog, tho…

Blogger Dean Barnett dies at 41.

27 October, 2008 (16:47) | Blogging, Politics | By: ricjames

It’s been a busy day and I’ve got a lot of irons in the fire. I’m sure you’ve had similar days. Then, when you’re busy multi-tasking your head off, something happens that causes your day to come to such a jarring halt you’d swear you’re hearing the squealing of tires on the speeding vehicle that [...]

Interesting polling info

27 October, 2008 (06:04) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

Interesting item over at Virginia Virtucon.

DC gun process experiment showed a process so onerous and prohibitive, it’s as good as the ban

26 October, 2008 (20:17) | 2nd Amendment, Human Interest, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

I had been keeping track of the efforts of WTOP News reporter Mark Segraves in which he tries to slog through the ridiculous and clearly unconstitutional rat-maze that the DC government has provided as it’s “process” to permit DC residents to legally procure a firearm. Well, my last post on that was back on September [...]

Pet peeve: fair-weather Americans

25 October, 2008 (11:13) | Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

I was directed to a story over at the Washington Post this week but I hadn’t had the chance to follow up and read it until this morning. Titled, “A Happiness Gap: Doomacrats and Republigrins” the story reports on the fact that Republicans tend to be happier with life than Democrats. I’ve heard this before [...]

The truth about the financial meltdown? It was Democrats and Obama who stood in the way of preventing it.

25 October, 2008 (10:22) | 2008 Presidential Race, Economy, Politics | By: ricjames

Update: While we’re on the subject, let’s talk about that Obama tax plan he keeps saying is going to help the middle class. (Thanks to HotAir.com for pointing these great ads out.)