Common Folk Using Common Sense

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We Won’t Help You Unless You Pay The Tax

January 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From The Anchorage Daily News:

A Fairbanks couple lost a home to fire Thursday because it was just outside the fire service area and firefighters turned back from the scene.
Ace Callaway, the owner of the house, said officials told him his house on the Steese Highway was only 180 feet outside the area that the Steese [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Government · Taxes · The US

To Keep And Bear Arms

January 9th, 2008 · Comments Off

By Steve Freitas, posted at the Contra Costa Times:

A well-regulated militia
(the able-bodied male citizens in a state who are not members of the regular armed forces, but who are called to military service in cases of emergency)
being necessary to the security of a free state,
(the supreme public power within a sovereign political entity)
the right [...]

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Tags: Guns · The US