You probably know that, after 12 years of planning and two conferences that ended in chaos, the United Nations finally managed to pass an anti-gun treaty on Tuesday. BHM asked me a couple of months ago to track this monstrosity and write an article about the treaty and its implications. Here it is as a website exclusive. Bottom line for those who’ve been worried about it: As always, be fierce, be prepared, but don’t panic.
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Thanks to the good idea and good offices of MamaLiberty, our collective (is that a bad word?), in-the-works short story “Tansy Shrugged” now has a home at The Mental Militia. ML was even kind enough to pin it at the top of TMM’s Writers Block. So if you’re interested in seeing the tale continue, or even if you just want to read it again without comments interspersed … have at it. This will be a lot better than trying to work in a comment section that has to close after a short while to discourage spammers. If anyone has trouble…
4 CommentsGood news and think pieces only today. How mindfulness (aka meditation) might improve brain power. (H/T. JB) Young goldendoodle saves pregnant woman and her unborn baby. (H/T ML) Also, while this “news” isn’t new, it’s a nice v*te of confidence for bully breed dogs. (One of my neighbors has the most gorgeous, most sweet pit bull/American bulldog mix — aka aka Bullypit or Colorado bulldog. I could fall in love.) “Why I’m getting rid of most of my stuff.” By the inimitable (and slightly crazy) James Altucher. (I can identify. I’ve been in an accumulating mode since buying this house;…
12 CommentsI sorta forgot to keep the “Tansy Shrugged” story thread alive. Which means WordPress’s spam settings cut off new contributions. Puptent was the only active contributor at the end. The story was going where I didn’t feel equipped to follow and perhaps that’s the way other contributors felt, too. Or maybe we all just got busy. But puptent was writing fantastic stuff and the story definitely had fans, including me (and Laird, it’s biggest cheerleader). So … should we open a new “Tansy Shrugged” thread to keep this thing going? (I liked MamaLiberty’s suggestion of taking T. and friends over…
8 CommentsThis is a hoot. But with a point. Source in case the embed doesn’t show.
5 CommentsWas growling over last week’s semi-useless disaster preparedness talk and pondering the wisdom of some of your comments. Then I came upon this: John Longenecker’s thoughts on why emergency management (EM) “experts” are having such a hard time getting through to the rest of us. (Tip o hat to the Dutchman over on Sipsey Street.) Longenecker says (in short) that the fact that millions are buying guns shows we’re more than willing to take responsibility and prepare for danger. We’re just not buying the elitist, top-down, “do it to us” (as opposed to “do it with us”) approach to disaster…
19 CommentsI really hope this is an April Fools joke, too. Though of course even if it were, it’s only a matter of time …
6 CommentsJoe Biden confesses: “I’m a moron and a waste of taxpayer dollars!” Police department investigates itself and declares: “Guilty! We demand to be prosecuted!” Eric Holder charged in “Operation Gunwalker”; ATF to be disbanded. Obama orders immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from ______________ saying, “They can’t be there unless Congress declares war.” Feinstein and Schumer admit hypocrisy; dismiss personal bodyguards. DEA chief’s shocker: “Asset forfeiture without due process is illegal.” Ben Bernanke fired; replaced by Lew Rockwell. Supreme Court decrees: “All of the Bill of Rights for all people all the time.” American people wake up; demand privacy, accountability,…
11 CommentsThe question for today: Where does your state rank on the 50 States Freedom Index — and do you care? (Readers from Wales and South Africa and Germany, et al — if you want to play, you could use the Heritage Index of Economic Freedom, the Fraser Institute’s Index (.pdf) or some other index that rates countries.) Some states, like NY, CA, and IL are so generally hellish that it seems the rankings mean a lot. Others, like WY and WA (that have oddball tax structures or something else non-standard about them), tend to produce rankings that don’t mean as…
47 CommentsYou’d think — you really would — that if you were in a place where a man had just shot a cop and the cops were setting up a siege (which would ultimately end with more shooting and a house going up in flames), you’d see immediately that something dangerous was going on. And you might logically take action to avoid the area. But nope. Happens that a friend and I were driving down a street yesterday where a cop had just been shot. Squad cars were zooming in. Lights were flashing. Yada yada. When my friend remarked, “Something big…
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