Second Amendment News Roundup for 4/3/08

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

First it was Miller Lite. Now it's Absolut Vodka. These seem to be the beverages promoting open borders, with the approval of Hillary and McCain. Michelle Malkin has the story:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/02/absolut-reconquista/

Tam has a link to a site that shows that the powerful pro-gun images of Oleg Volk has the antis in a panic:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/04/their-own-weapon-turned-against-them.html

FreedomSight says that there have been scattered reports of violations of citizens' Second Amendment rights in Greensburg, Kansas in the aftermath of the tornadoes. It seems the Jack Booted Thugs are at it again:
http://freedomsight.net/?p=2400

Eugene Volokh has an interesting read on firing an employee for lawfully carrying a gun while on company business:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_03_30-2008_04_05.shtml#1207206303

Nicki posts 'Paranoid and Cowardly in Kansas':
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2008/04/paranoid-and-cowardly-in-kansas.html

Dr. John Lott has the story of a senior adult who held a burglar at gun-point in Maryland:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/04/senior-citizen-holds-burglar-at.html

Cats. Being a dog man I don't normally write about cats, not that I have anything against them...they were just never kept around our house as pets when I was growing up. But Breda has some pics you might enjoy if you are a cat person:
http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/2008/04/zzzzzzzz.html

To those of you who may still think that Barack Obama is 'such a nice guy' although a bit misguided, wait till you read what he said about those who have concealed carry licenses! The Buckeye Firearms Association has the story:
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/5571

Roberta X says that we gunnies seem to have certain things in common, and some of it will surprise you:
http://twowheeledmadwoman.blogspot.com/2008/04/social-whirl.html

Always controversial, often infuriating, Ann Coulter is anything but boring. But in her latest article she hits the nail on the head about Barack Obama as she discusses his autobiography, which Ann says is seething with anger:
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=243

David Codrea blogs on 'the middle ground' when it comes to D.C. vs. Heller:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/04/middle-ground.html

Despite their big talk prior to the 2006 midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi's House and Harry Reid's Senate have totally forsaken earmark reform. All American Blogger has the story:
http://www.allamericanblogger.com/2511/earmark-reforms-schmearmark-reforms/

I remember the day when the American Medical Association was one of the most conservative professional groups in the nation. That day is long gone. An example is an article in the New England Journal of Medicine on guns. Alphecca has the story:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=702

Sebastian reports that, despite their resounding defeat this week in the Pennsylvania legislature, the antis in the state insist they are undeterred in their attempt to enact more gun control:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/04/03/undeterred/

Take a look at 'There Ought to be a Law' over at Robb Allen's place:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2008/04/03/There-ought-to-be-a-law.aspx

Uncle has the latest on gun laws in Tennessee and the shenanigans of a few state lawmakers:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/04/03/gun_laws_in_tennessee/

ROFL!! Ted Turner says global warming will make cannibals out of those of us who survive. Jack Pribek has an appropriate challenge for Ted:
http://pribek.net/2008/04/03/cannibal-aid/

My favorite Jewish lady, the stunningly beautiful Pamela Geller, reports the ominous news today that Syria is amassing troops along the Israeli border. Pamela believes war is imminent:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/04/syria-amassing.html

Second Amendment News Roundup for 12/31/07

Notice! The Roundup will take a break for New Year's Day tomorrow. We will resume on Wednesday.

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

We start with some good news today. Armed citizens are having an impact on crime. Here is a news report about a home invasion gone bad, the result of which was two criminals dead:
http://carolinacountryside.blogspot.com/2007/12/home-invasion-ends-with-two-criminals.html

Mike McCarville has the latest scoop on Iowa as we head down to the last 3 days before the Caucuses:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/12/iowa-down-to-wire-in-both-parties.html

A Keyboard and a .45 blogs on a great gun show at the Will Rogers Center in Fort Worth:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/12/day-at-gun-show.html

Armed and Safe posts the BBC's take on the American gun rights debate:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/12/defense-through-defenselessness-now-ive.html

Blogonomicon reports that gun owners are safer than ever before:
http://blogonomicon.blogspot.com/2007/12/firearms-owners-are-safer-than-ever.html

Born Again Redneck has the responses of Thompson supporters to the latest smear by the mainstream media:
http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.com/2007/12/thompsons-supporters-respond.html

Cap'n Bob and the Damsel write about their last target practice for 2007:
http://capnbob.us/blog/2007/12/30/last-2007-target-practice/

Syd presents Part 2 of his interesting discussion on 'The Second Gun':
http://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/tactics/the-second-gun-part-two/

Sebastian has a brief wrap-up of the shooters' shindig at Uncle's place in Knoxville:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=2278

Tam has more about it here:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2007/12/well-that-was-fun.html

Squeaky has some notes on her life of late. She has moved, and as we all know, that is quite a chore...in fact, I had just as soon eat road-kill as to move:
http://www.squeakywheelseeksgrease.com/blog/2007/12/30/notes-on-life/

Breda reminds us that 'the Breda fallacy' is still true:
http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/2007/12/pretty-good-year.html

David Codrea at War on Guns has been hit with an anonymous troll who apparently is using the name of a college professor. Read this post and the others connected to this mystery:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/12/bring-it-on.html

Traction Control has the link to the video Fred Thompson just released that lays out a vital message to Iowans and the rest of the nation on the brink of the Iowa Caucuses:
http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=882

We could very well call this 'the swine Congress,' due to the excessive pork (earmarks) the Dems promised they would stop in 2006. John Lott has the story:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2007/12/somebody-please-provide-economic.html

Gun Law News alerts us to a bill in the Georgia Legislature that would restore 2nd Amendment rights infringed upon by state laws:
http://www.gunlawnews.org/State-Politics/ga123107-2.html

From the NRA: Cook County, Illinois is stepping up its assault on gun rights:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3329

Duke University seems to be in hot water again in the aftermath of its botched handling of the Duke lacrosse rape hoax. Liestoppers has the story:
http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2007/12/blog-hooligans-find-duke-boo-boo.html

Rangel and Feinstein: King and Queen of Pork

When the Democrats asked the American people in November of 2006 to put them in charge of Congress, they made many promises to close the deal. Two of those promises were ethics reform and a major curb on earmarks.

The ethics reform promise has turned out to be a joke. This is one of the most corrupt and ethically challenged Congressional terms ever seen in modern history. We have documented examples of the corruption many times on The Liberty Sphere.

This Congress is also poised to be the most reckless purveyor of pork in recent memory as well.

Pork barrel spending is the practice of politicians of inserting into legislation spending amendments that benefit their home territory--'earmarks,' as they are commonly called today.

The promise of the Democrats to do something about earmarks is also quickly becoming a big joke in Washington. Recently U.S. Senator Jim Coburn, R-Oklahoma, castigated the Senate for putting earmarks ahead of bridge safety, even as the nation reels from a major tragedy regarding an unsafe bridge in Minnesota.

What did the Democrats decide to do instead?

Two examples, one from the Senate, and the other from House, perfectly depict the attitude of this Congress toward pork-barrel spending.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California, who has yet to face one single hearing into the scandal revolving around her awarding lucrative government contracts to her husband's businesses, requested a $4 billion dollar earmark in order to build a park in--and get ready for sudden onset nausea--Beverly Hills.

You read that right. Beverly Hills, California.

Even the dimmest watt in the socket knows that Beverly Hills is absolutely the last place in America that needs a park funded by taxpayers to the tune of 4 billion dollars. Without doubt, the top ten earners in the Beverly Hills zip code could build the park out of their own pockets and never miss it.

Moving on to the U.S. House of Representatives we have Charles Rangel, that jovial ole chap whose intellect never quite climbed up to equal his personality. A pleasant fellow, no doubt, Rangel nonetheless has always been afflicted with the disease that epitomizes the woes of the Democratic Party leadership. He has never met a tax he didn't like, and he believes that taxpayers exist to fund government programs so that government can help taxpayers.

The circular logic of such a thing aside, Rangel wants to build a monument to himself in New York City. The U.S. Representative from New York wishes that the taxpayers of America--you and I--pay the sum of $2 million to refurbish an old building for a library on the campus of City College of New York in Harlem.

And that's not all. Rangel wants the building named after himself.

Maybe I am drawing a complete blank at this point, but I thought this sort of thing is what they do for politicians who are dead. Or at least to honor those who retire from Congress after years of service.

But who's really concerned about such things? When you are the King and Queen of pork barrel spending like Rangel and Feinstein, I suppose you can get whatever you want at taxpayer expense, whenever and wherever you want it.

As the late Republican Senator and conservative icon Everette Dirksen quipped about the spending of Congressional Democrats during the 1960s, 'A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.'

It turns out that Dirksen's observations are just as relevant today as they were then.