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Entries from November 2007

Results Of The Australian Gun Ban

November 30th, 2007 · Comments Off

The following is a synopsis of an interview conducted by Ginny Simone with Keith Tidswell of Australia’s Sporting Shooters Association.
One year after gun owners were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed, including semi-automatic .22 rifles and shotguns, a program costing the government over $500 million, the results are in.
A dramatic increase in [...]

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Tags: Australia · Crime/Law · Government · Guns · The Left

Fred Thompson On National Defense

November 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

From Fred08:

Fred today unveiled his “Four Pillars of a Revitalized National Defense” at The Citadel, where he called for increasing defense spending, building a “million-member” Army and Marine Corps, modernizing our Armed Forces, and ensuring better treatment for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and veterans.
Fred Thompson’s “Four Pillars of a Revitalized National Defense“:
First, the [...]

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Tags: Election · Military · The Right · The US

Moonbats On Parade In The UK

November 28th, 2007 · Comments Off

From the UK Telegraph:

Injured soldiers who lost their limbs fighting for their country have been driven from a swimming pool training session by jeering members of the public.
The men, injured during tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, were taking part in a rehabilitation session at a leisure centre, when two women demanded they be removed from [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Military · The Left · The UK

What Are You People Thinking?

November 28th, 2007 · Comments Off

While checking my referrer logs the other day I noticed that someone in Myrtle Beach, SC, using Road Runner Business as their ISP, found this humble blog during a search on Google for “breasts exposed”.
Huh?
Supporting our troops, talking about Conservative values, guns and the Second Amendment, promoting Fred Thompson maybe … but “breasts exposed”? [...]

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Tags: Blog · Strange/Funny

The BATFE: Protector Or Menace?

November 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

From the Times Union:

The Albany Police Officers Union wants to keep secret the names of any officers who illicitly purchased machine guns through the department years ago.
The scandal was first exposed in an Aug. 26 Times Union story which reported that dozens of officers, as well as an assistant chief and at least one Albany [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · The US

Waiting On District of Columbia v. Heller

November 26th, 2007 · Comments Off

While waiting to see if the Supreme Court will do anything with 07-290 (District of Columbia v. Heller), on whether the Second Amendment protects a person’s right to own a gun, let’s look at this from the Washington Post:

Three decades ago, at the dawn of municipal self-government in the District, the city’s first elected mayor [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · The US

Saudis Punish Gang Rape Victim

November 25th, 2007 · Comments Off

From Breitbart:

A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
The 19-year-old woman — whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms — was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for “being in [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Islamofascism · Muslim/Islam · Saudi Arabia

guN pr0n, w00t!

November 24th, 2007 · Comments Off

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