Breaking--Gunwalker firearms prompts Senate forum

Breaking news from California indicates that the Gunwalker scheme--'Operation Fast and Furious'--by which the federal government placed thousands of firearms into the hands of Mexican drug cartels has prompted a Senate forum to "examine California's role as a pipeline for guns and ammunition to the Mexican drug cartels and how to improve efforts to stem such gun and ammunition trafficking."  The forum will be held Tuesday, October 25, from 10 AM until 12 Noon in the Ronald Reagan State Building in Los Angeles, and will be conducted by State Senator Kevin de.Leon, who represents the 22nd Senate district for the California State Assembly.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Hidden Gem in News Story: Gunwalker Was Never a 'Sting'

In a news report published today by Florida's Sun Sentinel, a hidden gem contained in the story serves to highlight the fact that the Project Gunwalker scandal, also known as Operation Fast and Furious, was never a 'sting' as claimed by countless mainstream media outlets.

The Sun Sentinel story contains ATF allegations that over 2000 guns stolen from Florida citizens have been linked to various crimes scenes in other states around the country. But the hidden gem in the story that is directly related to Gunwalker is found buried in the 15th paragraph:

In December 2009, Washington, D.C., police and FBI agents arrested dozens of alleged gun traffickers and seized 123 guns in an undercover sting, according to The Washington Post.

Authorities posed as gun traffickers interested in buying illegal guns to sell to Mexican cartels. In the end, 44 people were arrested in the sting, and the trafficked weapons were traced to Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina and Kentucky.

Two things in this quote are of key interest. One, the original Washington Post story states that it was the local D.C. Police Department and its Narcotics and Special Investigations Division that was responsible for the sting. The FBI provided assistance. Two, when law enforcement authorities set out to conduct a sting operation, complete with undercover officers who trace weapons to their intended destinations, arrests are inevitably made.

Undercover sting operations have become a routine tactic in law enforcement at every level, from local police departments to state law enforcement divisions, all the way up to the federal level. This is not new technology or rocket science. In this case, it was the D.C. police department that successfully implemented a sting operation that traced guns to criminals, resulting in the arrest of 44 criminals engaged in gun trafficking.

So, how does this tie in to the Gunwalker scheme?

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

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NOTICE! For all of you Codrea and Vanderboegh Fans...Both Featured Together on the Radio Tomorrow Morning! Listen in!

Ok, folks, heads up.

The big interview with David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh will be IN THE MORNING on WFHT-AM 1390 in Orlando-Avon Park, Florida, AND ON THE INTERNET.

This is the show for which I am a regular contributor called 'A Voice for Freedom' featuring hosts Lori Hendry and Ginger Carlisle.

The show begins at 11 AM, but note a special change. THIS WEEK THE SHOW WILL BE 2 HOURS IN LENGTH. David and Mike will be on the SECOND HOUR, starting at 12 Noon Eastern.

We already had the show planned for this week, but breaking news regarding the Gunwalker scandal was so important that we decided to broadcast it tomorrow as well, in a special edition immediately following the regular hour.

Click here for the 'A Voice for Freedom' website. There you will find all of the information, including the button you can use to listen to the show online. You can even listen to it later at another time and date by going to the archives.


Regular Liberty Sphere readers are already fully aware of Mike and David. This is an opportunity to hear them together, discussing the history of the Gunwalker story and providing all of the latest insider news about the scandal.

Hope you will join us.

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Breaking news--ATF 'prior knowledge' of cash in pipeline for Gunwalker plot

In a breaking news story reported today it was revealed that the ATF--the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives--had prior knowledge that cash was in the pipeline, multi-thousands of dollars from taxpayers, for the Gunwalker scheme known as 'Operation Fast and Furious.' 

New information has just been disclosed from ATF whistleblowers and other sources inside the government indicating that in 2009 ATF agents on the ground who were involved in the Gunwalker scheme were aware that money from the federal government would be made available to straw purchasers, unnamed, faceless patsies that the federal government used to buy and smuggle weapons into Mexico. These persons used the government money supplied by taxpayers to buy large quantities of weapons from gun stores in Arizona, weapons that would be walked across the border where they would be placed into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

Two key figures are central to the discovery of this new information: Hope MacAllister of the Phoenix Field Division of the ATF, and Andre Howard, owner of the Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Arizona, one of the many local gun store owners who was cooperating with the ATF in allowing straw purchases of weapons at their businesses.

A secret tape recently made public shows MacAllister admitting to Howard that there were 3 guns, not 2 as the FBI maintains, recovered at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The third gun never made it to the lab for analysis and has disappeared. It was this gun that ATF whistleblowers--agents who went public with the corruption inside the agency--contend came from the Gunwalker scheme, thus making the federal government responsible for the death of one of its own employees who was merely doing his job.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

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The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Thursday, October 20, 2011

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea reports a mind-boggling story of a health system (hospitals) that censors access to gun information from patients and visitors who use the Internet during their hospital stay.

Kurt Hofmann says that two Congressmen, one of which is none other than conservative freshman Trey Gowdy, R-SC, asked Obama some tough questions about the Gunwalker scandal.

WRSA has some soul-searching questions that each Patriot MUST ask of themselves as we go forward in the struggle to restore Constitutional law in this nation.

Way Up North is back in Alaska after a vacation in Hawaii, and here he posts a firing range report from his daughter--a young woman who is a gunny!

Mike Vanderboegh wants to know that if the 'needs of the state are so important,' then why not just go ahead and tattoo everybody with the mark of the beast? Freakin' good question!

Tam says she has some ammo that perhaps someone could use.

John Jacob H has a pretty funny sign suggesting that a 'deer crossing' sign be moved to a more convenient place. LOL.

Days of our Trailers posts 'Gun Culture for Dummies.'

CLO reports on an amendment sponsored by Senator John Cornyn of Texas that would stop the ATF from implementing 'gun running' type strategies that led to the Gunwalker fiasco.

Pamela Geller says that the American Nazi Party has just ratcheted up its support for the Obama-endorsed 'Occupy Wall Street' gang that is part of a Marxist move to implement 'days of rage' akin to that which occurred in the Middle East.

Gunwalker: The Missing 3rd Gun at Brian Terry's Murder Scene

In the continually developing story of the Project Gunwalker scandal--or Operation Fast and Furious--the latest news today is that the Obama Administration is attempting to discredit the entire premise of an illegal operation by pointing to an error made by Congressman Darrell Issa's House committee concerning the '3rd gun' found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

As previously reported, the guns found at the murder scene were part of the 2500-3000 U.S. weapons the DOJ and ATF allowed to 'walk' across the southern border, placing them into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

Initially the government reported that only 2 guns were recovered at the scene. However, secret tapes released recently prove that there was a 3rd gun and that ATF officials attempted to hide that fact. The 3rd gun was never officially reported. But it did exist.

In the following secret conversation made public between an ATF agent and a local gun store proprietor who was cooperating with the agency in its Fast and Furious operation, it is clear that something afoul occurred regarding the 3rd gun:

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Of Bachmann, Newt, Cain, Perry, and Paul

The Republican Presidential candidates met last evening in Las Vegas for a joint news conference, billed as a 'debate,' broadcast by CNN. Although fireworks ensued between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, along with a few other barbs hurled Romney's way by Rick Santorum, the forum did not provide any new substantive information.

The candidates stuck to their campaign slogans and sound-bytes, which is only encouraged by the manner in which the media conducts these gatherings that are designed more as beauty contests rather than real discussions of the issues facing the nation. 

And, lest Democrats take this as some sort of vindication of Barack Obama, the President himself is the classic epitome of sound-byte slogans, providing little depth or logical explanations for his constant flip-flops, gaffes, and outright untruths he is known to utter.

Frankly, watching the forum last evening left me a bit disenchanted. I came away from the event thinking that when it comes to supporting someone for President, my initial reaction is 'none of the above'--not Obama, not Romney, not Cain, not Perry, not Paul.

But there are a few exceptions that give me a ray of hope. First, however, an analysis of the 'state of the candidates' at this point in the campaign.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

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Big, Big, Big, BIG, REALLY BIG!! Did I say BIG????

Okay, this one is really big.

Ready?

The radio show of which I am now a part will feature none other than David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh, the original reporters who broke the Gunwalker story, this coming Saturday morning at 11 AM Eastern, on WFHT-AM Radio 1390 in Orlando-Avon Park, Florida!

If you don't live in the Orlando area, no worries. The show can be heard in its entirety on the Internet both live AND afterward in the archives.

The topic of discussion, of course, will be the Gunwalker scandal and all of the latest news coming out of that.

You will not want to miss this show!

The show is 'A Voice for Freedom' with co-hosts Lori Hendry and Ginger Carlisle, along with yours truly, a regular contributor to the show.

Regular readers of The Liberty Sphere know both David and Mike very well. You will not want to miss this important show where BOTH of these patriots talk about their monumental work in getting this scandal in front of the public.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Tuesday, October 18, 2011

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

Perfection Under a Red Umbrella has a must read entitled, 'Obama Must Go--A Cabinet of Culprits.'

Suffolk County Liberty Report presents the very latest news on the Occupy Wall Street gang, complete with new clashes with police and Bloomberg's non-action.

Maddened Fowl posts the quote of the week--and it sets the record straight on Ronald Reagan's views on guns!

From Patriots Duty: 'Eric Holder, Beyond Fast and Furious.'

Every Blade of Grass has most interesting information on a book entitled 'Boston's Gun Bible' by 'Boston T. Party.'

Brigid provides some 'lead therapy.'

Nicki gives us a firing range report.

The Gun Blog Black List is a good place to see what all is happening in the world of shooty goodness. If you haven't seen it lately, go over there and take a look.

Mouseguns is another excellent resource for those interested in firearms. The site is named after Marshall 'Mousegunner' St. John.

Blonde Sagacity reports news on the latest poll showing the results of a head-to-head matchup between Barack Obama and Herman Cain.

Occupy Wall St. Malfeasance--Obama Gives Loans to Park Owners

The current world-wide phenomenon being billed as 'Occupy Wall Street,' which was originally conceived as the 'U.S. Days of Rage,' took a dramatic turn toward malfeasance yesterday when it was disclosed that Barack Obama had approved a multi-million dollar loan for the owners of Zuccotti Park in New York City--the site where most of the protesters have gathered.

The group has not been required to obtain appropriate permits from the city to gather in the park. Why?  

From the Business Insider:

"Coming on the heels of the Solyndra debacle, the Obama administration has just approved a $168.9 million loan guarantee for the Granite Reliable wind farm project owned by Brookfield Asset Management (BAM).  Among its many holdings BAM owns Brookfield Renewable Power, which owns the Granite Reliable and it also owns Brookfield Office Properties, whose holdings include the now famous Zuccotti Park.  The Department of Energy finalized the loan guarantee less than a week after Occupy Wall Street protesters took to Zuccotti Park."

The plot thickened even more when it was disclosed that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who told the protesters that they could stay as long as they like, has personal connections with the company that owns Zuccotti Park.

As reported by this writer on August 21 in an article entitled,'Beware the U.S. Days of Rage,' the Occupy Wall Street protest is tailor-made for Barack Obama and his long-time associates who have a clear history of engaging in disruptive activity to bring about 'social justice.' And, interestingly enough, Obama gave his blessing to the gathering over the weekend and has consistently supported the protests in speeches and other public comments. 

From the start, the Wall Street protests were envisioned to be closely akin to the 'days of rage' in the Middle East in the winter and spring, during which supposed 'ordinary citizens who long for freedom' took to the streets to oust various Muslim dictators from power. However, as the days of rage progressed it was discovered that something else was driving the disruptions in Cairo and other areas of the region--the Muslim Brotherhood, for one, which would impose Sharia Law if it rose to power.

The list of behind-the-scenes instigators of these 'protests' is a lengthy and familiar one...

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

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The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Monday, October 17, 2011

All guns and politics, from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

Mike Vanderboegh notes that someone very important has been totally silent about the Gunwalker scandal, which is unusual for him. It's BILLY!! Take a look.

Kurt Hofmann reports a news story about a man who only did what police have incessantly preached to citizens to do when confronted by criminals...which summarily got the man killed.

WRSA urges us to consider ALL possible eventualities when preparing for the coming collapse.

Karl Denninger, speaking of collapse, describes why the 'recovery' meme is old, worn-out, and useless given the fact we never had a 'recovery' and the economic situation only grows worse by the day.

CLO has some deeply insightful thoughts concerning the 'Great Society' that the Marxists are currently attempting to push down our throats.

Pamela Geller reports on the behind-the-scenes fight brewing between a brave Congresswoman who has introduced a bill to de-fund the U.N. and Hillary Clinton, who will fight to the death to preserve the modern symbol of the New World Order and the totalitarianism that goes with it.

From the Barrel of a Gun posts a pretty funny cartoon on how climate science grants are issued.

Days of our Trailers provides an update on the Second Amendment and the legal front.

Around O-Town has some important information showing the rank hypocrisy of the Occupy Wall Street crowd.  Note in particular the darling of the movement--Leftwing nutcase Michael Moore.

From Alphecca: 'If Only Cops Have Guns...'

Obama's Gunwalker Damage Control--"Nobody Knew"

As the Administration of Barack Obama continues to shift into damage control mode in light of the Project Gunwalker scandal, not only are officials seeking to blame George W. Bush, but the overall strategy seems to be to engage in the unanimous claim that 'nobody knew about it.'

Congressman Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, appeared onCBS News' Face the Nation yesterday morning and provided viewers with a sample of the nature of the damage control in which the Administration and Democrats in Congress intend to engage. The following is a portion of the transcripts from the show during which Cummings told reporter Bob Schieffer that nobody in the top tier of the Justice Department knew anything about Operation Fast and Furious:

REPRESENTATIVE ELIJAH CUMMINGS: And so in other words, it-- it was hatched in the Phoenix office of the ATF. And the-- the sad part about it is that the supervisors in the Phoenix office never communicated with people higher up. And all the evidence that I've seen points that this was a more of a local issue that never got to higher-ups. And certainly there was nothing, that nobody has said that the attorney general was briefed about it.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Do you-- some people have actually said that Chairman Issa's on a witch hunt here. Do you-- do you agree with that?

REPRESENTATIVE ELIJAH CUMMINGS: I do. I think Chairman Issa has come up with some very unfortunate statements about the chief-- chief law enforcement officer in our country. And he's come up with these statements and then he goes in search of the facts. And we've seen this over and over again. For example, Bob, Mister Nelson who was in charge of the ATF has told us-- has told Mister Issa that he never communicated the controversial tactics with regard to Fast and Furious to attorney general holder. And as a matter of fact, fifteen folks in-- because you know why he didn't do it? Because he didn't know it. He didn't-- he didn't even know it. So then this is the head of ATF, and-- and we've also interviewed fifteen others in ATF, who said that-- that they didn't know it or it was not communicated either. This is and-- but yet and still, Chairman Issa goes out there and-- and Republicans accusing the highest law enforcement officer in the land of being an accessory to murder and things of that nature and calling for his resignation. All we want is what I said. We want a responsible and balanced investigation because we are the oversight and government reform committee. Bob, you cannot reform anything unless you have all the information. Just because if you don't like some facts you don't throw them out the door and say I'm not going to look at those. You look at the entire picture and that simply has not happened here.

Thus, the Administration's strategy for attempting to get itself off the hook in the scandal is to: 1). claim that Darrell Issa' investigation in the House is a 'witch hunt,' and 2). claim that the scandal was entirely localized to the Phoenix field division of the ATF, which failed to inform anyone at the Justice Department or the White House of the operation.

In short, according to Cummings, nobody in the upper echelon of the Administration knew.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Obama's Gunwalker Excuse--Blame Bush

As it has done with so many various problems facing the nation today, the 'blame Bush' mantra of the Obama Administration now had been extended to the Gunwalker fiasco--Operation Fast and Furious. Within the last 48 hours news has come to light that 'letting the guns walk' across the southern border into Mexico allegedly occurred twice, in 2006 and 2007, under the watch of former President George W. Bush.

Thus, when it was disclosed last week that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney-General Eric Holder were directly implicated in the scandal, the machinery of the Obama Administration kicked into high gear, cranking out the release of certain documents showing that 'gun walking' was used by the ATF under the Bush Administration.

The problem, however, is that with these documents camemore proof of illegal activity on the part of the presentAdministration that far surpassed anything that happened under Bush. In the attempt to shift blame to the previous occupant of the White House, the present Administration has only further damaged itself.

As previously reported, the operation known as 'Gunrunner' was implemented during the first four years of the Bush Administration. Designed to track weapons into Mexico for the purpose of catching criminals in the drug cartels, Gunrunner was a sting operation that was made fully public. The Mexican government was also informed of the operation. The number of weapons involved was relatively small.

Confederate Yankee describes the Bush sting operation, which was known as 'Operation Wide Receiver':

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Big Media Outlets Ignore Subpoena of Entire Top Tier of Obama Administration

Perhaps the biggest story in the political world since the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Bill Clinton in the 1990s, although the Senate refused to remove him from office, is the fact that this week a subpoena from the House was issued to the entire top tier of the Obama Administration. Yet as of today the big media outlets--ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post--have ignored the story entirely. And if they did mention it in passing, it was buried on a back page or relegated to an inconspicuous web page while never seeing the light of day on the air. Only Fox gave the story top billing.

Regarding the news blackout of the subpoena, one astute observer had this to say:

As evidence, ladies and gentlemen of the jury of history, I present the undisputed fact that on the evening news shows of NBC, ABC and CBS this week not one -- NOT ONE -- mentioned the unprecedented subpoena by a Congressional committee of information regarding the entire top echelon of the Justice Department in the Gunwalker Scandal.

Had this scandal involved John Ashcroft and the Bush Administration, does anyone doubt that the story would have led the nightly half-hour "puppet theater"? Or, that it wouldn't have been covered like a blanket by all news departments from the moment the blood of Brian Terry dried in the desert sands of Rio Rico?

Big media complicity in the news blackout is a heavy indictment against modern journalism in America today.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Blazing a Trail

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Gunwalker's Kevin O'Reilly--The Man Who Knows Too Much?

A central figure that has emerged in the Project Gunwalker scandal, known as Operation Fast and Furious, is an Obama-Hillary Clinton operative by the name of Kevin O'Reilly, who as it was announced yesterday is the initial focus of the investigation being conducted by Congressman Darrell Issa in connection to his extensive communication with William Newell, head of the Phoenix ATF. O'Reilly worked in the White House as a member of Obama's National Security Council during the Gunwalker fiasco and currently works as a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is now on assignment to Iraq. Is O'Reilly the 'man who knows too much?'

During the 1950s one of Alfred Hitchcock's successful thrillers cast James Stewart in the leading role of a movie entitled, 'The Man Who Knew Too Much.' Stewart played a character who by chance was provided damaging, secret information involving international politics, which placed his life in mortal danger.

Some political observers believe that O'Reilly is a real-life, modern day counterpart to Stewart's fictional character.

Sources close to the ongoing investigation into Operation Fast and Furious indicate that O'Reilly has crucial information concerning how much the White House--and Hillary Clinton--knew about the illegal operation. But when inquiries were made as to O'Reilly's availability to provide testimony in the event of a subpoena, it was disclosed that he is on assignment in Iraq for the State Department.

Emails and other documents indicate that as part of the White House National Security Council, O'Reilly was given frequent updates on the Project Gunwalker operation by the former special agent in charge of the Phoenix field division of the ATF, William Newell. O'Reilly, thus, is the alleged conduit by which information on the scandalous operation was transferred from Phoenix--ground zero for Gunwalker--directly to the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Further, as a top Hillary Clinton operative at the State Department, O'Reilly was allegedly the point-man on Gunwalker--a way for Hillary to keep tabs on the operation of which she herself was an original mastermind, as recently-disclosed documents indicate.

However, suddenly and without explanation, O'Reilly is sent to Iraq on an undisclosed 'assignment' for the State Department, placing him out of reach of Darrell Issa and directly in harm's way.

Continue reading the complete biographical info on O'Reilly at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner. 

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ODUMBO the Hypocritical Idiot Accuses Fox News Reporter of Being Spokesman for Mitt Romney

Well, this just takes the cake. What an idiot. What a freakin' HYPOCRITE!

Odumbo, you know, the Prez who bribed NBC into being his Pravda, parroting every single word he says and cheerleading for him all the way? Well, Odumbo has accused Fox News reporter Ed Henry of being 'a spokesperson for Mitt Romney.'

Why?

All because Henry, at a news conference, asked Odumbo the Hypocrite a question in light of a recent criticism of the Prez issued by Romney.

And Odumbo the Hypocrite's response?

"I didn't know you were a spokesperson for Mitt Romney."

Watch it all right here on this video.

Now, what I would like for someone to ask Odumbo is how he can possibly make such a snide remark when NBC reporters, from Brain Williams all the way down to Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, Andrea Mitchell, etc. routinely squelch negative stories about Odumbo and play up the positives, as if there are any, all in an attempt to push the Obama agenda on an unsuspecting public.

When is someone going to ask Andrea Mitchell, one of the very worst offenders at the Obama News Network, "When did Obama place you on the White House payroll to push his agenda?"

But we already know the answer to that question. All of NBC, including MSNBC, became Obama employees by extension back when Odumbo promised GE head Jeffrey Immelt (GE owned NBC) that he would be given a massive bailout if only Immelt would give him his undivided loyalty.

The deal was struck, and we have been living with the consequences ever since. Despite the fact that taxpayers rolled out multi-billions in bailouts to GE, the company pays ZERO in taxes, and NBC acts as an arm of the regime.

What a gall Odumbo has to accuse anybody, anywhere of being a spokesperson for any Republican.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Thursday, October 13, 2011

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

From WRSA: "DumpDC: The Second Amendment--Does Anybody Get It?"


David Codrea takes to task a college professor for pushing the idea that the way to stop shootings on campuses is to ban handguns altogether. 


Kurt Hofmann says that the Brady Campaign to rob citizens of their Constitutional rights is offended by the truth of the Second Amendment.

Mike Vanderboegh reminds us that a House committee is to take a vote on the gun reciprocity bill very soon. And he includes an alert about it from Gun Owners of America.

Breda provides a video from Life Magazine on 'Women and Their Guns.'

Standing By has updated commentary on the Marxist minions engaged in the Wall Street protests.

Pamela Geller reminds us that this Occupy Wall Street thing is a Leftwing operation straight from Pelosi, Obama, and as I have shown previously, unrepentant domestic Leftwing terrorist Bill Ayers, who staged the very same type of thing in Chicago in 1968. Organizers of this thing originally called it 'the U.S. Days of Rage' but apparently changed to name so as not to be associated with their Marxist roots!

Gun Values Board has a plethora of forums tailor-made for gunnies. Go have a look.

The Gun Blog Black List always has some interesting stuff to read. Take a look!

Brigid posts an excellent write-up on the Ruger Bisley, along with pics. This is a wheel gun with quite a history.

Investigation Begins--Early White House Contacts with Phoenix ATF

As reported yesterday, one of the many sets of documents and records that have been subpoenaed by Congressman Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, are those pertaining to early contacts between the White House and the Phoenix ATF field office--ground zero for the scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, or Project Gunwalker. Sources close to the inquiry report today that investigators have decided that their initial focus will be on early contacts, emails, and meetings between Kevin O'Reilly, Obama's appointee to the National Security Council who worked out of the White House, and William Newell, special agent in charge of the Phoenix field office.


Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Issa subpoenas White House Records, Media Claims 'Witch Hunt'

As expected, U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, R-California, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a subpoena today to Attorney-General Eric Holder in connection with the scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, or Project Gunwalker.

So-called 'mainstream media watchdog groups' that are notorious for covering for news bias, however, immediately began to portray the subpoena as a 'witch hunt' and lambasted Fox News anchor Chris Wallace for allegedly helping Issa conduct it.

The subpoena is extensive in scope, directing that Holder turn over a large number of documents and records of communication from his office. Issa demands, with the full backing of his legal status in Congress, that the DOJ, the FBI, the DEA, the ATF, ICE, and the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona turn over all documents and records of communication related to the Gunwalking scheme, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's murder, along with surveillance tapes from the Lone Wolf Trading Store 

A bombshell, however, lurks in the middle of the subpoena. Issa has directed that the White House submit communication records from the Executive Office of the President...

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

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The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Tuesday, October 11, 2011

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

Mike McCarville reports that U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma--one of the few true conservatives in the Senate--is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Our prayers go out to him.

Breda has a most interesting photo and graphic you need to see. Oh, and it has to do with chicks and guns...and the Jihad.

Suffolk County Liberty Report says that Obama has created a death panel of a different kind--one to determine which alleged criminal U.S. citizens are to be killed without a trial.

Patriots Duty notes that Obama's 'hope and change' has become 'despair and reverse.' Always a good read!

Randy's Right reports breaking news that a massive terror plot against both Israeli and Saudi targets in Washington, DC has been uncovered and thwarted.

From Perfection Under a Red Umbrella: 'Dead Parrots and The Cognitive Dissonance of Democrats.'

Zero Government presents a thought-provoking, in-depth piece entitled, 'Freedom Has No System.'

Maddened Fowl has explosive news on the creeping crawl of the Nanny State--taking pictures of your child could now land you in a heap of trouble.

Karl Denninger provides a profile of the man who is running for the nomination for President on the Libertarian Party ticket.

Billy Beck posts a must-read on why the late, great Steve Jobs was perhaps the last great Capitalist.

Spooked Dems to Consider an Obama-Hillary Ticket?

With Barack Obama continuing to plummet in the polls, knowledgeable sources inside the beltway claim that the Dems are so spooked by the prospects of historic losses in November of 2012 that they are considering an Obama-Hillary ticket.

Some have even suggested that other popular Democrats mount a primary challenge to Obama for the Democratic nomination.

It has become clear that Obama is viewed increasingly as a liability for the Party heading into the 2012 election cycle. And with news of scandal on several fronts, along with an economy that is continuing to tank and expected only to get worse prior to election day, Obama's prospects for reelection look more grim by the day.

Although several mainstream media polls show Obama with roughly 42-44% support among the electorate, more reliable polls depict a more dire picture. Several polling organizations show that Obama has plummeted into the 38 percent range, to which this writer has often referred as 'the death zone.' No President has ever been reelected, except for Harry Truman, with poll numbers in the 30s.

In October of 2010 this writer predicted that the Republicans were headed for an historic victory in the midterm elections, especially in the House, due solely to the fact that Obama was headed into the 38-39 percent range of public approval. With numbers that low, it was certain, based upon historic precedent, that the opposition Party would pick up a massive number of seats in Congress, which they did. Republicans gained more seats in the House than either Party had managed to gain in midterm elections in over 70 years.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner. 

A Point to Ponder

I have a point to ponder that I hope you will read.

You can find it here.


The issue discussed involves my own journey, my various physical maladies, one of which is potentially quite serious.

But the message is one of hope. I want you, the reader, to have hope as well.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Monday, October 10, 2011

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea reports breaking news that U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, whose House committee is investigating Gunwalker, has sent an email to Eric Holder stating, 'You own Fast and Furious.'

Kurt Hofmann shows that Eric Holder's lame defense, suggesting his own 'incompetence,' is a blatant lie.

Mike Vanderboegh notes Obama's growing isolation as the dominoes fall all around him and so-called 'friends' jump ship in the wake of a plethora of scandals.

Way Up North has 'Shooty Goodness--New Shooters and More Training.'

John Jacob H provides an important read on 'bureaucrat bully signs' indicating the growing arrogance of the collectivists.

Around O-Town sends a message to Nappy about her search for 'homegrown terrorists.' Seems she has been looking in all the wrong places.

Brigid provides essential reading on 'spotting danger.'

Pamela Geller reports explosive news that Leftwing billionaires are now targeting the HOMES of Republican billionaires. This is warfare, folks.

Days of our Trailers has a fantastic read that asks the question, 'What is Gun Registration Useful For?'

Alphecca reports that California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law in the state that bans open carry.

Breaking: New Evidence Shows Hillary a Mastermind Behind Gunwalker

Last week it was reported that the State Department and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were deeply involved in the scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, or Project Gunwalker. Today, however, new evidence has surfaced indicating that not only was Hillary deeply involved in the scandal but was one of the masterminds behind it.

According to investigative citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh, sources close to the development of the Gunwalker scheme state that early on, Hillary and her trusted associated at State, Andrew J. Shapiro, devised at least part of the framework of what would later become Operation Fast and Furious. It was Shapiro who first described the details of the proposed scheme early in 2009 just after the Obama Administration took office.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Gunwalker fallout--Democrats Go Mum on Gun Control

For the first time in decades Democrats on Capitol Hill have gone mum on one of their favorite subjects--gun control. The sound of silence on the issue has become deafening over the past few months in the fallout of the mind-boggling scandal in which Administration officials were caught attempting to jack up the statistics on U.S. guns in Mexico as a pretext for pushing for massive new firearms control laws in America, and then lying about it to Congress and the American people.

Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, along with their colleague Dick Durbin--three of the most rabid proponents of gun control in the Senate and who first gave feet to the gross ATF lie that '90% of the guns used by Mexican drug cartels come from the United States'-- are suddenly as quiet as church mice on the subject.

Over in the House, Representatives Carolyn McCarthy, Elijah Cummings, and Carolyn Maloney, three of the most outspoken proponents of gun bans among the Democrats, have suddenly become afflicted with a severe case of lockjaw.

Pajamas Media, in noting the silence with which Democrats have responded to the news of the scandalous 'Operation Fast and Furious', also known as Project Gunwalker, stated, 

As pressure has increased on the administration this week, the silence from House Democrats has been deafening. And like House Democrats, Senate Democrats are quietly abandoning the White House and attorney general.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Gun Rights Examiner.

Hillary' Enemies List Now Includes Gunwalker Reporters

Nixon was not the only one with an 'enemies list.' It is well-documented that Bill Clinton had such a list. So did George W. Bush. And, by extension, due to her marriage to the former President, Hillary Clinton has such a list. And apparently the reporters who have exposed her involvement in the Gunwalker scandal are on it. One reporter in particular was informed today by sources inside the State Department that he is now on that list.

So far no one in the mainstream media has reported the bombshell information revealed over the past 2 days by Mike Vanderboegh that indicates Hillary was in the loop on the illegal scheme from Day One. Thus, the mainstream media has thus far avoided Hillary's ire.

This is no surprise. It took the media several months to begin to report the story of 'Operation Fast and Furious,' also known Project Gunwalker, in spite of the fact that this writer, Kurt Hofmann, David Codrea, and Mike Vanderboegh had been writing stories about it since December of 2010--Vanderboegh and Codrea being the first.

The mainstream media is slow to report anything negative about this administration. It is unknown how long it will take them to get on the trail that leads to Hillary. And doing so comes with a heavy price to pay. Ask Sharyl Attkisson at CBS News, who revealed to several high-profile reporters last week that she had been verbally abused by the White House staff, including yelling and choice expletives, for her tenacious and thorough reporting of the Gunwalker scandal.

Nonetheless, the story of Hillary Clinton's deep involvement in Gunwalker is out, and the same sources that led to the discovery of the DOJ-ATF illegal scheme to deliberately place American guns into the hands of Mexican criminals have now directly implicated Hillary in the scandal, as reported yesterday here and here.

At every single juncture as this story has unfolded, the sources have been proved to be reliable and accurate.

Thus, Hillary Clinton's ire...

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Hillary's Smoking Gun--the Next Segment in State Department's Role in Gunwalker

"We have to recognize and accept that the demand for drugs from the United States drives them north, and the guns that are used by the drug cartels against the police and the military, 90 percent of them come from America."

The person who spoke the words quoted above was Hillary Clinton. The year was 2009 in an interview with Lara Logan of CBS News, just prior to a trip to Mexico City to meet with Mexican officials concerning gun and drug smuggling. The statement shows that not only was the State Department heavily involved in the Gunwalker scandal, as reported earlier today, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself was at the forefront of pushing the false assertion that '90% of the guns used by Mexican drug cartels come from the United States.' It has only now been discovered the extent to which Clinton was involved. 

This is, in essence, Hillary's smoking gun, the bombshell proof that she was personally involved in what became known as the Project Gunwalker scandal--an illegal scheme that was concocted in order to claim that draconian new gun restrictions and gun bans were needed in the United States, given that 'most of the guns criminals use in Mexico come from America.'

As previously reported, the meme parroted by Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, and Hillary Clinton concerning the number of American guns used by criminals in Mexico was patently false, and they knew it was false. This is precisely why the Obama Administration concocted the scheme in the first place. If the facts do not prove that 90% of the guns come from the States, then make sure those numbers can be proved correct by walking the guns straight across the southern border directly into the hands of criminals.

Thus, the State Department, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the ATF, the FBI, ICE, and a host of other federal agencies went to work to send thousands of guns across the border, deliberately placing them in the hands of the cartels.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Gunwalker Part 2--The State Department Connection

Breaking new information on the Project Gunwalker scandal, reported last evening by investigative citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh, indicates that the connection between the Hillary Clinton State Department to the illegal operation is much more extensive than previously reported.

Months ago as the news of the Gunwalker scandal exploded onto the national stage it was suggested that there was a connection between the Department of Justice’s illegal operation in gun smuggling and Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

This reporter did a story solely on the Clinton/State Department connection back on April 18, 2011.

 

Since that time, the two original reporters who first broke the story, Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea, have suggested that their sources were telling them that there is much more to the State Department’s connection to the illegal operation than had been reported.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

It's Still True

Yep, all of it. Truth is truth, no matter if you believe it or not.

Read the discussion here.

Oh, and I have a bit about quantum physics too. Yes, I like to draw parallels. Isn't that what classical education is supposed to teach us to do? To think? Yep!

Nourishment for the Mind and Soul

Music has always been my first love (apart from human love, that is) and the ultimate means of 'tending to myself' when I need to nurture my emotional/spiritual life and find respite in my mind from the pain and disappointments of life.

My first love in music was Gospel Quartet singing, as most of you know by now. But I have a wide variety of musical tastes. I don't talk about it much, but the great classical compositions and singers are at or near the top of my favorites, along with the great Gospel Quartets.

I have not been in a good place the last couple of days for reasons I have described here. So, this evening, as I always eventually do, I turned to music. And when I did, I found myself drawn to a piece of music that, in my estimation, is one of the greatest compositions ever written, and performed by one of the greatest singers of all time.

The great Luciano Pavarotti took what is known as 'classical music' to the masses and achieved rock-star status. But in his case, the accolades and the attention were very well-deserved. When he was at the top of his game, there was none better, ever. His was the best voice in the history of music, in my opinion.

And his signature song, which I have provided below in the video, is in my opinion one of the greatest and most emotionally-charged compositions in all of history. The melody, the pathos, the soaring high notes, the dramatic ending, are all classic trademarks of what is considered to be the pinnacle of musical composition.

Here Pavarotti sings 'Nessun Dorma' from an opera written by Puccini entitled, 'Turandot.' The song is an aria that is found in the 3rd act.

Pavarotti presents this deeply moving rendition of the piece in Paris before a live audience. I have heard the great Luciano sing this aria many times. This one is by far the best. Notice the emotion in his eyes. And note the ultra-soaring high tenor note at the end, which he holds seemingly endlessly and effortlessly, climaxing in a dramatic ending that sent the Parisian audience into cheers.

If you have never seen this, I present it as my gift to you. I hope you are as moved by it as I am. Here is the link to the video. The original one I posted has been removed from YouTube. This one should work fine.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Thursday, October 6, 2011

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

Conservatives4Palin has a good roundup of various reactions to Palin's announcement that she won't be running.

Gun Values Board posts a new article that is worth reading entitled, 'You're On Your Own.'

David Codrea comments on the sham in the new ATF shakeup where, not surprisingly, the new bosses are the old bosses.

Mike Vanderboegh, as a follow-up to the Codrea story, says that the stooges are merely playing musical chairs at the ATF. 


Kurt Hofmann reports that in response to recent explosive reports on the Gunwalker scandal, the Obama Administration says to 'be reasonable and calm down.' Sheesh.

WRSA points to the notion, mouthed off by certain political elitists, that 'we have too much free speech' in this country. A pox on the them all!

Standing By says that the 'poor little rich kids' are the ones occupying Wall Street in the 'days of rage.' And they are also part of an Obama front-group to boot!

Days of our Trailers reports that a rogue Sheriff in Broward County, Florida is violating the right of citizens to  self-defense with firearms!

Mike McCarville informs us of the mind-blogging number of citizens living on the government dole...nearly 50% of the population, which is why I am pessimistic that the election process will give us anything other than the continued growth of the nanny-state (Marxism).

Blonde Sagacity has THE MUST-READ of the week! Here, she blasts Mitt Romney and has evidence that has not been reported anywhere else. She also says she will NOT pull the lever for him. Like I've said all along, if that idiot is the GOP nominee, may as well vote for Stalin (Obama) because there's not a dime's worth of difference between Joe Stalin and Joe Stalin-lite.

Opinion--To GOP Elitists: If I Wanted Joe Stalin-lite, I'd Be a Democrat

The GOP elitists of the leadership establishment did everything in their power to prevent Sarah Palin from running for President. Thus, to a great degree, the Republican Party elites are responsible for her decision yesterday not to run.

To be sure, I take Palin at her word when she says that she and her husband prayed about it and decided that in their list of priorities, family and God come first. Then, country. She knows that with the vicious and even violent hatred fired in her direction, running would not only be difficult for her but also for her family. She stated that she had to consider the safety and security of her children, who have been threatened by ruthless, amoral Leftwing nutcases.

Thus, I fully understand. I have always loved Sarah Palin, and I always will. And if she ever decides to run in the future, I will be the first in line to ask, "What can I do to help?"

But only an imbecile would deny that the Palin Derangement Syndrome exhibited not only by the Left but also the GOP elitists played a huge role in her decision not to run. Over the past few weeks, the moguls of the Republican Party, their pundits, strategists, and operatives--along with their mouthpieces on Fox, such as Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Karl Rove, and to some degree Megyn Kelly--have engaged in what at least appeared to be a concerted effort to pressure Palin not to run. And for good measure they engaged in a bit of Palin-bashing of their own.

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's Conservative Examiner.

Well, this one took the wind right out of my sails, I am devastated

Palin said no to running.

I understand why, believe me. She is a mother. What mother in her right mind would want to put their children, not to mention themselves, through the suicidal process of candidacy in modern America, where conservatives are ground up and spit out like a lawn mower? AND where THEIR UNDERAGE CHILDREN ARE DRAGGED THROUGH THE MUD!!

This nation is in deep doo-doo.

The GOP establishment, the elitist Republican leadership, is to blame for this to a great degree, because they joined in the Palin Derangement Syndrome.

So, Karl Rove, Dick Morris, Ed Rollins, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and Roger Ailes, among others, can kiss my royal behind (to put it mildly).

Don't even THINK about calling me a Republican anymore. Conservatives--real ones--are not welcome. I am a CONSERVATIVE, a Jeffersonian.

Looks like I will be voting 3rd Party, Independent, or a write-in, provided the candidate meets my criteria on the 10 key issues of importance to conservatives that I have written about extensively at the Examiner.

Politico: GOP Establishment Looks Past Palin

Following yesterday's story concerning the Palin team's checking into filing deadlines in the various states holding GOP presidential primaries, Alexander Burns at Politico writes today that the GOP establishment is looking past the former Alaska Governor, claiming that with the thumbs down Chris Christie gave to the idea of running, the field is 'set.'

One political activist in Nevada went as far as to say this:

“She stirs up a lot of conservatives in the base, but I don’t think conservatives are looking to her as a presidential nominee who can save the conservative movement,” said Chuck Muth, the Nevada-based conservative activist. “What niche in the conservative movement does Sarah Palin fill that’s not already filled by one of the other candidates?”

Burns claims that Palin has worn out the patience of Republican Party leaders who have been waiting for an announcement as to whether or not she's in the race.

However, as reported yesterday, other Party activists are convinced that Palin has been running all along in an unconventional campaign that defies all of the commonly accepted 'wisdom' of the pundits. In fact, the Palin team has gone out of its way to avoid a campaign that is directed by pundits and political strategists, relying instead on Palin's own tried-and-tested natural instincts that have served her well throughout her career.

But the GOP establishment seems to be aligning itself against Palin.

Republican elitists have constantly harped on a poll released Tuesday, conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News, which are not particularly known for accuracy, showing that two-thirds of the GOP voters surveyed do not want Palin to run. Strategist Ed Rollins, veteran GOP insider operative who once worked for Michele Bachmann stated...

Continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner. 

Things That Should Not Be Forgotten

America has forgotten some vital truths that made it great. Unless those truths are recovered, we will not survive.

I discuss some of those truths here.


Read, mediate, pray. America needs healing and restoration.