Second Amendment News Roundup for 1/2/08

Good morning! Hope you all had a wonderful New Year's holiday.

Focusing on guns and politics, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

A Keyboard and a .45 met up with USCitizen of Traction Control for a day at the range on New Year's Day:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-years-day-at-range.html

Traction Control adds his perspective on the day's events at the shooting range, along with pics!:
http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=886

Armed and Safe muses on whether or not 2008 will be the year of the 2nd Amendment:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2008/01/2008-year-of-second-amendment.html

Ever since I began blogging, Atlas Shrugs has been a regular read. Pam Geller is one of the most effective voices against the Jihad in the blogosphere. Her New Year's Resolution is to work to get the U.S. OUT of the U.N. And here is one of the main reasons why--the U.N. mandates the number and type of refugees that are relocated here!:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/un-picks-who-be.html

The most beautiful blond on earth, Blonde Sagacity, tells us why both the Right AND the Left should be supporting Fred Thompson:
http://mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-right-and-left-should-rooting-for.html

Born Again Redneck says that television personality Pat Sajak has some poignant words about Fred Thompson and the media:
http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.com/2008/01/media-and-fred-thompson.html

Syd has a very interesting read on how to teach your girlfriend to hate guns (and get killed in the process!):
http://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/news/how-to-teach-your-girlfriend-to-hate-guns/

Of Arms and the Law reports that D.C. is expected to file its brief in the Heller case on Friday:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/01/parker_the_wait.php

Of Arms and the Law also reports that the GOA's chief federal lobbyist, John Velecco, is in very serious medical condition and needs surgery:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/01/john_velecco_go.php

Snow Flakes in Hell points to a startling admission on the part of the New York Times concerning the NRA:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=2287

You gotta see this over at War on Guns concerning the Ceasefire PA Director:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/01/ceasefire-pa-directors-watch.html

Tam provides a link to her Sunday Smith blog, and this post is about the S & W Model 19-5 Combat Magnum:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/01/soups-on.html

John Lott has an interesting read on Giuliani's views on gun control:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/01/giuliani-on-gun-control.html

I know some have already written about this, but you MUST see this from Michelle Malkin. The Dallas Morning News named the 'illegal alien' as the 'Texan of the year.' We all know that the DMN is just another leftwing rag, but this is over the top even for them:
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/12/30/dallas-morning-news-names-illegal-immigrant-the-2007-texan-of-the-year/

The quintessential conservative, Mr. William F. Buckley, Jr., writes about the Iowa caucuses from the perspective of what the news people are not allowed to ask:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTViN2MwNDA5NjQwNTU0ODQ2Y2UxYjBlMzcwOWE1OTU=

The Volokh Conspiracy comments on the exclusion of Ron Paul from a candidates' forum in New Hampshire:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_12_30-2008_01_05.shtml#1199210673