The "Gun Show Loophole" - An Interesting Twist

An interesting development in the ATF's Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal has brought to light another instance of the government's "do as I say, not as I do" attitude. It appears that George Gillett, who is up to his neck in the Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal  as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix field office, utilized the much maligned - by the ATF and others - "Gun Show Loophole" to sell a personally owned weapon to an individual in Arizona. There is nothing illegal about the transaction, from one private citizen to another, but ironic in that the ATF has had a crusade to eliminate this type of sale since the 1990s.

Hat-tip to Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News @SharylAttkisson on Twitter

Only In America

1) Only in America, could a certain politician talk about the greed of the
rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.

2) Only in America, could people claim that the government still
discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a
black Attorney General, and an 18% black federal workforce, but a black
population of only 12%. .

3) Only in America, could they have had the two people most responsible for
our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department, and
Charles Rangel, who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to
be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

4) Only in America, could they have terrorists kill people in the name of
Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be
harmed by the backlash.

5) Only in America, could they make people who want to legally become
American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of
thousands of dollars for the privilege while they discuss letting people who
sneak into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.

6) Only in America, could the people who believe in balancing the budget and
sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."

7) Only in America, could they need to present a driver's license to cash a
check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

8) Only in America, could they demand the government investigate whether oil
companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up, when the
return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less
than half of the return of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

9) Only in America, could the government collect more tax dollars from the
people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars
more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and
complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.

10) Only in America, could the rich people - who pay 86% of all federal
income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who
don't pay any federal income taxes at all.

Simplistic Beauty, Arrogant Government

It has been a long time coming. First, a pretty long wait from the dealer - this is a very popular item and they sell them as fast as they make them. Next, the onerous seven waiting period established by the State of Maryland-the seven day waiting period that is actually eight days.  With that behind me tomorrow, I will become the proud owner of this:

Now if the State of Maryland would stop preventing law abiding citizens from carrying concealed, I might be able to utilize it for its intended purpose.  They are fighting tooth and nail to reverse the Court's decision in the Wollard case, which basically states that a citizen shouldn't have to ask the government for permission to exercise a right.

The future looks bright, you better have shades!

 

 Maryland Shall Issue-The Citizens Defense League of Maryland

A Very Important Anniversary

A very important part in the development of the Second Amendment

What are you if you aren’t free? The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms

Hat tip to our friends at Cheaper Than Dirt

Border Patrol group calls for Holder’s resignation

Project Gunwalker / Fast and Furious - great video

The American Future Fund has produced a video calling for answers and accountability in the Obama Administration's coverup of the ATF operation that allowed over 2000 weapons to be purchased illegally and then transported across the border into Mexico, purportedly to track them to the bosses of the drug cartels.  Nothing was ever tracked and two of these weapons were used in the shootout that killed Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Hundreds have been killed in Mexico with these weapons and who knows how many more will die going forward.  Please watch this video and share it with everyone.

Hat tip to the American Future Fund - excellent work!

Count Me In !!!

How about you?

Don't Laugh at the French Anymore

We have surrendered. Surrendered with barely a whimper, just like the French. That's right, surrendered part of our Nation's sovereign territory to Mexico, by way of the Mexican drug cartels. This is what was posted today on the Fox News website:

"Federal officials make 80-mile stretch of Arizona-Mexico border -- including part of national wildlife refuge -- a virtual no-man's land as violence by drug smugglers and illegals runs rampant."

So what would you call it? A foreign entity has crossed our border and now controls part of the United States of America to the extent that a Department of the US Government has warned American citizens not to go there. What is it going to take for the Obama Administration to do it's constitutionally mandated duty and protect us from our enemies? Send in the military and don't tie their hands with asinine rules of engagement. Just shoot the bastards.  I hope we have plenty of radiological detection equipment there as well because this surrender of 80 miles of US border territory is a clear signal to the jihadis that the backdoor to America is now wide open for them to bring in a nuke.

Would we be willing to surrender the border from Pebble Beach to Ragged Point? How about from Cape May to the Barnegat Light? So why on our southern border?

So much for the illegal immigration invasion just being "poor people just trying to make a better life for themselves and their family." I think the movement to reclaim Aztlan has taken a giant step forward.

The Mount Vernon Statement

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Constitutional Conservatism: A Statement for the 21st Century


We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding. Through the Constitution, the Founders created an enduring framework of limited government based on the rule of law. They sought to secure national independence, provide for economic opportunity, establish true religious liberty and maintain a flourishing society of republican self-government.

These principles define us as a country and inspire us as a people. They are responsible for a prosperous, just nation unlike any other in the world. They are our highest achievements, serving not only as powerful beacons to all who strive for freedom and seek self-government, but as warnings to tyrants and despots everywhere.

Each one of these founding ideas is presently under sustained attack. In recent decades, America’s principles have been undermined and redefined in our culture, our universities and our politics. The selfevident truths of 1776 have been supplanted by the notion that no such truths exist. The federal government today ignores the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant.

Some insist that America must change, cast off the old and put on the new. But where would this lead — forward or backward, up or down? Isn’t this idea of change an empty promise or even a dangerous deception?

The change we urgently need, a change consistent with the American ideal, is not movement away from but toward our founding principles. At this important time, we need a restatement of Constitutional conservatism grounded in the priceless principle of ordered liberty articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

The conservatism of the Declaration asserts self-evident truths based on the laws of nature and nature’s God. It defends life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It traces authority to the consent of the governed. It recognizes man’s self-interest but also his capacity for virtue.

The conservatism of the Constitution limits government’s powers but ensures that government performs its proper job effectively. It refines popular will through the filter of representation. It provides checks and balances through the several branches of government and a federal republic.

A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat to moral self-government, and national security conservatives that energetic but responsible government is the key to America’s safety and leadership role in the world.

A Constitutional conservatism based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda.

* It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal.

* It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life.

* It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions.

* It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that end.

* It informs conservatism’s firm defense of family, neighborhood, community, and faith.

If we are to succeed in the critical political and policy battles ahead, we must be certain of our purpose.

We must begin by retaking and resolutely defending the high ground of America’s founding principles.