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Entries from April 2009

More On April 15

April 15th, 2009 · Comments Off

On April 15, 2005, I woke up pissed off about Tax Day. So I visited a place called Blogger.com, created an account, and wrote an anti-tax rant. That was four years ago, and I’m STILL ranting and raving about stuff, namely attacks against the personal freedoms that our country’s Founders thought were so precious and [...]

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Dear IRS …

April 15th, 2009 · Comments Off

From a Letter To The Editor in the Times Record News by Ed Barnett of Wichita Falls: Dear IRS, I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April 15, but all is not lost. I have paid these taxes: accounts receivable tax, building permit tax, CDL tax, [...]

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Tags: Government · Money · Taxes · The US

I’m A Domestic Terrorist

April 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

On Feb. 20, 2009, Missouri’s Department of Public Safety issued a report to all law enforcement in the state entitled “Missouri Information Analysis Center Strategic Report: The Modern Militia Movement.” The report linked people holding conservative views on immigration, abortion, the U.N., the New World Order, etc., to dangerous and violent “militias” that Missouri law [...]

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Tags: Abortion · Crime/Law · Government · Guns · Immigration · Law Enforcement · Media · Military · Money · Race · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The Right · The US

“Make the possession of all handguns totally illegal”

April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off

Many times you will see a quote from the Brady Campaign on the nightly news advising to enact “common sense” gun laws and restrictions in order to save a civilized society from gun crime. But don’t let them fool you as the Brady Campaign has but one goal. Armed and Safe reminds us: A common [...]

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

Atlanta’s gun free zones are not free of guns

April 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

From the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner, by Ed Stone, Atlanta attorney and President of Georgia Carry, a citizens advocacy group working toward the reform of Georgia’s poorly written, overly restrictive, ignored by the courts gun laws: Atlanta’s gun free zones are not free of guns or violent crime. Georgia has one of the toughest laws [...]

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Tags: Atlanta · Crime/Law · Government · Gun Free Zone · Guns · School

20 Questions from the Western Rifle Shooters Association

April 4th, 2009 · Comments Off

By Concerned American: If your spouse ran into the room and said her brother – a state trooper – just called to warn that raids under the new Federal assault weapons/domestic terrorism laws were beginning tonight: 1) Would you flee, assuming that you believed yourself to be “a person of interest”? 2) Whether your decision [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Guns · Law Enforcement · Socialism · The Left · The US

Robbery suspect dies after getting shot, run over

April 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off

From The Houston Chronicle: A man allegedly attempting to rob a northwest Harris County cell phone store died after he was shot by the business owner and then hit by a car as he attempted to flee, authorities said. Deputies answered a call around 6:15 p.m. Saturday at a cell phone store in the 5200 [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Guns

The Change You Believe In

April 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

The US federal government is the nation’s largest employer, contractor, consumer, debtor, lender, creditor, tenant, property owner, insurer, guarantor, pension guarantor, and healthcare provider. This was the case before Comrade Obama started his increase in government, and now it will get only worse. This is not why this country was founded. This is not the [...]

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Tags: Government · Socialism · The Left · The US

The Logic Of Gun Control

April 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

By Michael Z. Williamson at Political Humor: That rather than spend a few hundred dollars on a firearm and an afternoon learning how to use it, one should instead spend thousands of dollars and several years learning a martial art, so you’ll be well-prepared to fight anyone, as long as they’re in your gender division [...]

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Tags: Government · Guns · The US