Common Folk Using Common Sense

From director J.J. Abrams (“Mission: Impossible III,” “Lost” and “Alias”) and screenwriters Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (“TRANSFORMERS,” “MI: III”) comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, “Star Trek,” featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before. Coming December 25, 2008. Be still, my beating [...]

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John McCain gets a bit of a free ride from Lefties and Media. Check out McCain’s record of changing his position to whatever Republican belief will get him closer to the White House. He far closer to an Opportunist than he is a Statesman. From that rascal Ann Coulter: John McCain is Bob Dole minus [...]

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From Starpulse Entertainment News Blog: Jamie Lynn Spears will give her baby to her mother in order to concentrate on her career, according to reports. The 16-year-old stunned the world last month when she revealed she was pregnant with her first child – and now the Zoey 101 star has allegedly agreed to let her [...]

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From the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL): Defending the Self-Defense Case By Lisa J. Steele March 2007 A self-defense case is fundamentally different from most other criminal prosecutions. The essence of the defense is that the defendant is the victim of an attempted or completed violent felony such as assault, rape, or homicide [...]

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Normally I detest beauty pageants. They are usually nothing more than thinly-veiled soft-core voyeurism. The women watch it and say, “Wow, I wish I could be hot like her,” while the men watch it and say, “Wow, I wish I could be inside of her.” But tonight’s Miss America Pageant contains a tiny slimmer of [...]

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From news.au.com: A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say. It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting [...]

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When someone asks me why I carry a gun, I reply: – Because it is my right. – For self defense. – Why aren’t you carrying? – Because when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. – Do you see a cop close enough by to save your life in the next 5 seconds? [...]

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OK, Fred Thompson is out. He could’a been a contender. That leaves: – Romney: Massachusetts Liberal in Conservative clothes? – McCain: RINO poster child? – Huckabee: genuine Right Wing nutjob? – Giuliani: New York Liberal in Conservative clothes? – Paul: Republican version of Ralph Nader? Ugh. Says UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge: God made the [...]

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From Breitbart.com: Republican Fred Thompson, the actor-politician who attracted more attention as a potential presidential candidate than as a real one, quit the race for the White House on Tuesday after a string of poor finishes in early primary and caucus states. “Today, I have withdrawn my candidacy for president of the United States. I [...]

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Hat tip to Red’s Trading Post and WorldNetDaily: STEP 1: A drill instructor in the Wisconsin National Guard named David Olofson loaned a rifle to a student. Olofson had been instructing the student in the use of guns, and the student asked to borrow a rifle for some shooting practice. STEP 2: The rifle’s manufacturer, [...]

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There might be light/sporadic posting over the next handful of days. The Georgia Legislature is in session and there are some heated fights going on regarding our gun control laws. The NRA is in town pushing their bill down our throats while several of us locals are trying to educate the law makers about what [...]

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When your number’s up, your number’s up. But some people’s numbers come up in a most unusual way. Here are some notable bizarre deaths (from wcbstv.com): New Yorker Carol Gotbaum died while in police custody at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in 2007. Authorities said she may have strangled herself while attempting to get out of [...]

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From the National Shooting Sports Foundation: New statistics show that firearm and ammunition sales are on the rise, coinciding with steady downward trends in gun crime, suicide and accident rates, in the U.S. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the shooting, hunting and outdoor industry, has released U.S. Dept. of the [...]

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Political Correctness A term used to describe language, ideas, policies, or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offense to racial, cultural, or other identity groups through an imposed doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick [...]

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Excellent analysis, and a challenge, from Joe Huffman at The View From North Central Idaho: My “one question” is this: Can you demonstrate one time or place, throughout all history, where the average person was made safer by restricting access to handheld weapons? There are three possible answers to this question. 1. “I don’t know.” [...]

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