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In an op-ed piece yesterday on Politico, Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) tries to make a bizarre connection between Al Qaeda and the tragic rampage by the mentally deranged gunman in Tucson. Her conclusion? Enact more gun control legislation before Al Qaeda strikes again.  I know it sounds like something from the Onion but its absolutely true. Read for yourself.

Now for the  really scary part.  According to her website she is  “Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence. “

from Dudley Brown, Executive Director, National Association for Gun Rights:

“I’ve just received word from inside sources in the U.S. Senate.

Senate Democrats are planning to execute a sneak attack on gun rights as soon as TODAY!

Their plan is to sneak Carolyn McCarthy’s Magazine Ban into law as an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration Bill, a routine piece of generally non-controversial legislation.

And they hope YOU won’t notice.

That’s why you and I need to make our voices heard RIGHT NOW!

We need to let them know we’re watching them like a hawk!”

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Dan Baum over at the Huffington Post has written an article asking liberals to not to be tempted to call for tighter gun laws in the aftermath of the shooting in Tucson. His theme of the article I think is expressed best by this quote:

Gun control not only does no practical good, it actively causes harm. It may be hard to show that it saves lives, but it’s easy to demonstrate that we’ve sacrificed a generation of progress on things like health care, women’s rights, immigration reform, income fairness, and climate change because we keep messing with people’s guns

I am impressed by his honest understanding that this issue is a losing one for Democrats, or any politician. However, from reading the article I get the feeling that he doesn’t truly believe that people should have the right to bear arms. It seems that he has given up the issue in order to pursue other causes which are more important to liberals.

I do have hope for the liberals and Democrats when the author compares gun control to the prohibition of marijuana:

It’s helpful to think of gun control as akin to marijuana prohibition — useless for almost everything except turning otherwise law-abiding people into criminals and fomenting cynicism and resentment.

This statement gives me hope that he is on his way to becoming more libertarian. I heard someone once say, if we can get the gun guys stop worrying about drugs and the drug guys to stop worrying about guns then we would be on our way to a much better country.

From: EFF

Last week’s post about the increasingly draconian and desperate measures the Tunisian government was taking to censor bloggers, journalists, and activists online was rapidly made irrelevant by subsequent events. Over the next few days, Tunisian dictator El Abidine Ben Ali promised not to run for re-election in 2014, then offered widespread reforms, including freedom of expression on the Internet, and finally stepped down from power and fled the country. The steps that EFF called on Facebook, Google, and Yahoo to take in order to protect the privacy and safety of their Tunisian users soon lost their urgency. For now, Tunisians are experiencing unprecedented freedom online after years of extensive government filtering and censorship of websites.

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From: Investors Business Daily

The president of FIFA, the international soccer organization, said recently that gays should avoid having sex at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar because it is illegal there. This statement reveals the true character of the organization. By deciding to have the 2022 World Cup in Qatar FIFA demonstrated its corruption and hypocrisy. Before every game at last summer’s World Cup the captains of each team spoke about the evils of racism. The European division of FIFA, UEFA, also has a program called RESPECT, which is designed to help end racism and bigotry. FIFA has betrayed soccer fans everywhere by endorsing racism, bigotry and intolerance by awarding the World Cup to a backward culture that produces nothing for the world. I suggest that all fans of soccer all over the world who care about human rights avoid traveling to the 2022 World Cup. Stay home and watch it on your big screen HDTV, you will have a better view of the game I assure you.

Here is a quote from the article:

Qatar’s stance on homosexuality and women’s rights has been widely questioned since it won the right to host the 2022 tournament by promising to bridge east and west. According to Amnesty International, last year in Qatar at least 18 people, mostly foreigners, were sentenced to floggings of between 40 and 100 lashes for offences related to “illicit sexual relations” or alcohol consumption.

In the span of one minute Michelle Obama says that the health of children is “ultimately the responsibility of parents” then says that “we (read:the government) can’t leave it up to parents.”

This folds directly into the health care debate. If the government is responsible for paying for one’s health then the government has the right to tell a person what they can and cannot put into their bodies.

In a few days I will begin posting the entire Constitution of the United States of America. I will post each section separately to make it easier to read. The document is so small that I could easily post the entire thing, but instead I will divide it up over the course of the next few weeks.

A post on Warrior Times led me to this Reason.com article that you absolutely must read. It seems clear to me that the rabid anti-gun crowd will stop at nothing to persecute gun owners. They can’t get the U.S. Supreme court to go along with dismantling the U.S. Constitution so they use state legislation to turn technical infractions of state law into felonies with mandatory prison time. Reading the following section of the Reason article made my blood boil.

“New Jersey gun laws are insane,” Nappen says. “It makes a criminal of every gun owner and forces him to prove his innocence.” Worse, in 2008 the New Jersey legislature and then-Gov. John Corzine changed the law to make the penalty for possessing a gun the same as the penalty for using it to commit a separate crime. That means someone like Aitken gets the same punishment as someone who assaults another person with a gun. In November 2008, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram issued a directive (PDF) urging the state’s prosecutors to apply the new law “vigorously,” “strictly,” and “uniformly.”

I think I’ll go donate some more money to  Reason and to pro-gun lobbyists and maybe my blood pressure will return to normal.  Be sure to read the whole article.

From: Bosch Fawstin

“I never met in my life such an arrogant man,” says the arrogant NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg about Barack Obama to Rupert Murdoch. Obama is the most glorified community organizer in history, with no accomplishments to his name outside of an unlikely rise to the highest office in the world. Murdoch added that President Obama “might make great speeches but doesn’t get things done and doesn’t listen to anybody.” His arrogance will not allow any rational ideas to penetrate his policies, as we’ve seen in his post-election comments where he seems determined to continue the illusion that he knows what is best for America.

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Pauline Hanson, the former One Nation party chief who warned that Australia was at risk of being “swamped by Asians”, said France was also inundated with foreigners and she had decided to stay in Australia.

“I love England but so many people want to leave there because it’s overrun with immigrants and refugees,” she said.

“France is becoming filled with Muslims and the French and English are losing their way of life because they’re controlled by foreigners.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/8132290/Australian-politician-claims-Britain-is-overrun-with-immigrants-and-refugees.html

The California Supreme Court weighed in Monday on the politically charged immigration fray when it ruled that illegal immigrants are entitled to the same tuition breaks offered to in-state high school students to attend public colleges and universities.

While the ruling applies only to California, the case was closely watched nationally because nine other states, including New York and Texas, have similar laws.

Republican congressmen Lamar S. Smith of Texas and Steve King of Iowa filed a so-called friends of the court brief urging that illegal immigrants be denied the reduced rate.

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/15/5470581-court-upholds-in-state-tuition-for-some-immigrants

Sen.-elect Marco Rubio (R-FL), the son of a bartender and a maid becomes a US Senator.

Censorship, whether its speech, TV, movies, or games is just about one thing, control. Gee that sounds like a line from the Matrix doesn’t it? Before Gore was trying to control your greenhouse gases he wanted to control your TV. Don’t think he is a scary madman? How’s this for a quote, “the link between real-world violence and television violence is exactly analogous to the link between cigarette smoking and cancer.” I’ll bet that after he presented “scientific” research to back up that statement, the time for debate was over.

From: David Horowitz

A few years ago I found myself in Nashville at a two-day gathering of liberal “media experts” sponsored by Vice President Al Gore. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a “scientific” rationale for the censorship that Gore and the president (who also attended) were preparing to launch against the nation’s entertainment industry.

The event was held in an auditorium at Vanderbilt University, where Gore orchestrated the proceedings from the stage. With all the obtuseness that generally characterizes his thought process, the vice president was saying scary things like “the link between real-world violence and television violence is exactly analogous to the link between cigarette smoking and cancer.”

Of the 200 attending the event, only Jack Valenti, Tom Selleck and I took issue with Clinton and Gore’s “solution” — the V-chip — which they proceeded to unveil at the conference.

When Gore called on me to speak, I asked how crime rates could be so different in various neighborhoods of a given city, when the TV shows were the same. I also asked how the experts attending the event could have witnessed 100,000 murders on TV without becoming the desensitized, violence-crazed thugs that they implied was a television-watcher’s inevitable fate. My questions were not appreciated and I even heard some hisses as I spoke.

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Reason TV filed this video from the Rally to Restore Sanity:

A pastor in Florida who said that he would burn the Koran on Saturday has relented. Today he told the media that he would not hold the book burning ceremony. Let me say that I don’t condone the burning of the book and I defintely think that had he gone through with it, it would have caused violence. What I will defend is the freedom of any American to exercise their rights, and if you don’t like it tough. There is no provision in the Constitution that says one has the right “to not be offended”. I will defend anyone who wants to burn the Koran, Bible, Torah, American Flag etc. I don’t think any of those should be burned, but if everyone who tries to do it is intimidated from doing so, then if becomes a de-facto ban, and that I cannot abide.

Everyone has spoken out about this story including the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, General Patreaus and the President. In an interview the President said:

“And as a very practical matter, I just want him to understand that this stunt that he is talking about pulling could greatly endanger our young men and women who are in uniform,” the president added.

Said Obama: “Look, this is a recruitment bonanza for Al Qaida. You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan.” The president also said Jones’ plan, if carried out, could serve as an incentive for terrorist-minded individuals “to blow themselves up” to kill others.

The violence that would have occurred says nothing about the pastor and everything about the people who would have carried out the acts. The President, in this interview demonstrated the the desired outcome of terrorism. The terrorists want to change our behavior under threat of attack. The President is afraid of what will happen should an American express them self as protected by the first amendment to the Constitution. I would expect a sane person who’s holy book is burned by another religion to be offended and outraged, but not to blow them self up. People who decide to blow them self up after incidents insulting their faith are already in that mindset of insanity. These acts of insult simply bring those people into the open. I think that is a good thing, because once we know who they are we can identify them and eliminate them.

From: EFF

While users were celebrating the new jailbreaking and unlocking exemptions, Apple was quietly preparing to apply for a patent on technology that, among other things, would allow Apple to identify and punish users who take advantage of those exemptions or otherwise tinker with their devices. This patent application does nothing short of providing a roadmap for how Apple can — and presumably will — spy on its customers and control the way its customers use Apple products.

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