Liberal gun-grabbing Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) has a new class of firearms she would like to ban — virtual guns. After losing in her decade long effort to ban semi-automatic weapons, the San Francisco Democrat has set her sights on a new form of gun control. Appearing on the MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” with flip-flopping former Second Amendment champion Joe Scarborough, the Senator argued for regulation, | Read More »
Dear Republican Senator: The gun control advocates have now made their intentions perfectly clear. Having demanded that gun control come to the Senate floor, they are unwilling to accept the judgment of the Senate. Rather, like spoiled playground brats, they intend to keep the game going and going and going — until they are ahead. Then the game ends. In the meantime, they will use | Read More »
Two news items should shock even Republicans into awareness of potential doom: -The first, news reports that the “Gang of 8″ has reached agreement on the “path to citizenship” (Think, 20,000,000 new voters voting 71% Democrat, plus Orwellian biometric ID’s and “Brady Checks” for jobs). -The second, an announcement by House Speaker John Boehner on a Sunday talk show that the House would “consider” any | Read More »
Do you like Cuomo’s semi-auto gun ban? D.C.’s microstamping requirement? Rahm Emaunuel’s licensure laws? The Senate is about to vote to make all of these into federal crimes, turning gun-owning Americans into prohibited persons — meaning they would NOT be able to own a firearm anywhere in the country! We have talked about some of the problems with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy’s gun | Read More »
In May, 2009, Republican senators took the unusual step of inviting a pollster to speak to them at their weekly lunch. The pollster told them, in effect, that, if they opposed health care reform, the party would suffer large losses in 2010. The same bogus polls are being used to push Republicans into destroying the largest remaining component of their “ground game” — the Second | Read More »
It’s probably a harbinger of sell-outs to come. But Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is apparently about to conclude an agreement with Majority Leader Harry Reid which would sell out conservatives and decimate minority rights under the Senate rules. The first of two changes would allow Harry Reid -– and only Harry Reid –- to circumvent the debatable motion to proceed and move directly to | Read More »
Press reports now make it clear what Vice President Joe Biden’s gun control package will look like: – A Feinstein-like semi-auto ban which, according to experts who have done the counting, would ban up to 50% of all long guns currently in circulation and up to 80% of all handguns. Incidentally, if you wanted to keep the AR-15 you currently have, you would have to have a 6-month FBI background | Read More »
It was reported yesterday that Vice President Joe Biden “guaranteed” to ailing Boston Mayor Tom Menino that sweeping gun control legislation would be passed by the end of January. How sweeping? A quick look at Feinstein’s semi-auto ban legislation suggests that up to 75% of all handguns currently in circulation would be banned, along with 50% of all long guns. Depending on its configuration, the | Read More »
Remember the really nasty bully on the school playground? The guy who would use force and intimidation to beat up the other kids? And on that rare occasion when he was actually losing, he’d just change the rules. By brute force. Because he could. Well, he’s probably stocking shelves at WalMart now. But a slimier, more vicious, infinitely more dangerous bully has now emerged on the | Read More »
They Allowed Democrats To Pick Their Nominee For Them. A succession of potential Republican nominees -– Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich –- were bright, attractive, and have compelling narratives. Instead, Republican voters (or, at least, enough of them) bought into this Democratic mantra that only a liberal stand-for-nothing Republican can win a presidential election. Having Nominated A Stand-For-Nothing, He Proceeded To Run | Read More »
We are now getting word from inside Congress that the “fix” may be in on a Boehner-Reid deal to fund the government until March 31 -– more or less on Barack Obama’s terms. Thus, Republicans would agree to fund ObamaCare, fund IRS agents to arrest ObamaCare dissenters, fund Obama’s anti-gun agenda, fund Planned Parenthood -– and then plea for the votes of people who are | Read More »
Okay. Okay. Call us gluttons for punishment. But we spend a lot of time reading the enemy’s propaganda so you don’t have to. And no one is more inimical to the Second Amendment than the New York Times. So it caught our attention when, on April 26, the Times published an op-ed by a lady who moved out of New York City six years ago, | Read More »
It would be nice if the future of federalism did not rest on what Anthony Kennedy had for breakfast –- if Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell did not spend all of December, 2009, giving Harry Reid back-to-back votes on issues which allowed Reid to buy off swing senators. But we are where we are. So… THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS ONE ARGUMENT STANDING ON BEHALF OF | Read More »
From the diaries In the eleven presidential elections since the birth of modern conservatism, five GOP nominees ran as moderates –- and were perceived as moderates. All lost, with the single exception of George H. W. Bush in 1988, and he was arguably running for Ronald Reagan’s “third term.” Conversely, all six GOP candidacies which were framed and perceived as conservative won. So it is | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick. Remember the arguments that Obama couldn’t conceivably win reelection if unemployment was over 7.2%? Or that the GOP had a lock on the Senate because they just had to defend 10 seats? Or that Democrats could never pick up the 25 House seats necessary to gain control? And, by implication, that all of these good things would happen while Republicans | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick We don’t have all the specifics. But it is pretty apparent that Obama’s “deal” on contraceptives is a trick. As to Catholic institutions, Catholic hospitals and universities would pay insurance companies premiums, which would pay for contraceptives and abortifacients. Evil doesn’t become good because it’s laundered through a third party. But, says HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, premiums would go down | Read More »
I was the sole general chairman of the New Hampshire campaign of Pat Buchanan in the winter of 1995-6. I was alone because my co-chairman, faced with unmoving single-digit poll numbers, had fled for the Dole campaign. I remember Pat’s consternation about our seemingly stagnant poll numbers. And yet, when New Hampshire voters began focusing on the election, those polls became meaningless. Just a few | Read More »
IN WHICH I OFFER MY EXCLUSIVE “PITCHFORK RATINGS”® FOR DEBT LIMIT SCREW-UP PARTICIPANTS Over the past few weeks, I have written, on this site, about topics like “the current law baseline” and “the history of sequestration.” The Far Left has taken a different approach: One commentator uses the word “crazy” to describe people who disagree with him at least four times a night -– frequently | Read More »
IF PAUL RYAN, RON REAGAN, OR MITCH McCONNELL HAS CONFUSED YOU, READ THESE SEVEN (LONG) SENTENCES Normally, I think it’s a waste of my time to debate the merits of a bill the day after it’s passed; however, there is so much really confusing information being circulated on the super-committee, that I find it necessary to clear the air. First of all, Paul Ryan thinks | Read More »
The final straw for me was a syndicated columnist who, today, compared conservatives’ opposition to John Boehner’s debt limit proposal to the murder (“fragging”) of American officers by their own troops in Vietnam. As it turns out, most of my ROTC class missed Vietnam by a year. But we spent four years enduring the physical assaults and (actual) spit of the “Barack Obamas” of our | Read More »
(1) House Republicans are walking into an enormous trap. The Boehner plan is sufficiently similar to the Reid plan, in virtually all important respects, that its passage will lead to the following compromise: The adoption of Boehner’s ten years of sham cuts,which will be ephemeral beyond fiscal year 2012. Even John McCain said tonight that Gramm-Rudman (whose “sequestration” provisions are the enforcement mechanism for Boehner) | Read More »
The main problems with the Boehner proposal are: Most of the initial $1.2 trillion of discretionary cuts are (1) from defense, or (2) are phony, out-year, and easily avoided. The compensatory immediate $1 trillion increase in the debt limit is, on the other hand, very real. Even worse, however, the notion of giving a Reid/Pelosi/McConnell/Boehner-appointed commission the power to devise non-filibusterable, unamendable tax increases (or, | Read More »
Analyzing the six-page “Gang of Six” proposal for rewriting the federal budget is like measuring a bucket of water by holding the water in your hands. Having said this, it looks like Coburn, Crapo, and Chambliss got their clocks cleaned.
Those of you who have read my pieces in the past know that I was pushing for congressional Republicans to fight for deficit reduction on the continuing resolution. This didn’t happen. Instead, explained the GOP, (1) it would be so much easier and risk-free to use the debt limit, and (2) besides, they were about to unveil a budget which would be widely applauded because | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick Barack Obama has taken a page from the Clinton playbook, and is threatening to cut social security if a deal is not reached to extend the debt limit. Social security and interest on the debt are, collectively, less than half of the revenue stream which would continue to come into the government, even if the government couldn’t borrow a penny. | Read More »
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