Safer Streets 2011: Recommended reading after the election.
The Republicans are in office now, promising smaller government. Alright, what's our move? And, it's our move to make. Free people understand the nature of the relationship between the governments and...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: We are not supervised; We do the supervising....
The key to safer streets is self-rule. Safer streets are a culminating, final evidence that self-rule is at work, and this will not happen as long as officials feel free to supervise us when it is we...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Safer airlines 2011, maybe?
FOX News and others report that our TSA has confiscated firearms among other things in their passenger screening. On this morning's Bill Handel Show on KFI, Los Angeles, Handel ridiculed the idea of...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Is incoming Congress serious about smaller government?
Because gun control was the very first departure from legal authority's limitations on government and the first abuse of due process in this country, it has been a more-than-satisfactory proof that...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: How the first amendment protects the second amendment.
My Newsletter topic today is critical thinking as a safeguard of our sovereignty. I am joined today by Newt Gingrich, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, David Codrea and Gerard Valentino. Thanks to all my...
View ArticleBook Review: Poor Lenin's Almanac.
I'm reviewing my copy of Poor Lenin's Almanac - Perverse leftist proverbs for modern life by liberty writer Bruce Walker (Outskirts Press). I re-read Poor Lenin's Almanac yesterday and there's more...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Anti-liberty debates examined.
Twenty years ago, I responded to an ad about national health care. I phoned the advertiser who said that he was taking no side on the issue, but only encouraging debate. I wasn't fooled: his side was...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Time for gun owners and non-gun owners to unite.
I can imagine a political cartoon where a gun owner, denoted by a sidearm on his hip, is turning his back on a non-gun owner who is denoted by some sort of political demonstration sign on anything but...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: A credentialed anti-gun position???
It's nice to know that anti-gun writers are, themselves, gun owners. Yeah, right. So many gun control articles begin with the claim that the writer is a gun owner, how many guns they own and how many...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Guns in the homes of others.
Today's Safer Streets Newsletter and Commentary hosts David Codrea, Michael Barone, Bob Parks, Dr. Laura, The Heritage Foundation, and Phyllis Schlafly. You can subscribe to the Newsletter here. I...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: The Tucson Shooting.
The part the Sheriff overlooks is that this shooter's background is unfolding to look like a Communist flag burner and not a talkradio or TEA Party listener. This negates nearly everything the...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: The Tucson Shooting, Part II: Year of the sovereign citizen?
In the aftermath of the Tucson, Arizona shooting, there will be plenty of analysis. One of the best arguments I have read comes from Sean McClanahan at Examiner here. Sean admonishes Americans to...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Conservatives now reaching for gun control?
The liberals, we expect to be anti-gun. They want to grow government so they eliminate liberty's safeguards one by one and try to replace you with officials or some policy. And when you complain and...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: The system is not broken, it is short-circuited.
In 1987, the City of New York did to Billie Boggs what our public servant governments are doing to the rest of us. It is important to understand that when the rights of some are violated, all our...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: What do you do in the absence of first responders?
I have often been asked how a Paramedic reconciles the use of lethal force with a mission or philosophy of saving lives. I was asked this so often that I put it on the liner notes on the back cover...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Guns on campus for killers, but not for loving parents.
Another shooting in school, this time in Gardena, CA. This one is reported to be an accidental shooting thanks to a kid who brought a gun to school in a backpack. The gun went off when the backpack...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Doctors against personal safety?
I'll take this one, guys. I just finished reading an article by a physician who is against guns. As a non-physician medical practitioner in my own right and a second amendment authority in one, I am...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Gun control as an intentional interference.
When gun control has its way, people die. Gun control is a policy which is never around when you need it most. It is another case of smothering the life out of personal independence and sovereignty...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Positive Attitude, Superior Attitude.
The President is expected to discuss gun laws in the near future. On deck to check in were and still are the anti-gun crowd and some of the best known non-profits on the subject. But nobody ever asks...
View ArticleSafer Streets 2011: Another smoking gun . . .
One of my favorite books on my shelf is Violent crime – The challenge to our cities. This is The Report of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence [1969]. There is an...
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