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The Government: Liability for Thee But Not for Me
Post Date: 2018-07-27 06:45:43 by Ada
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Why are those who work for the state never held accountable for the damage they inflict? Few Americans recognize the Yukon-sized legal rights void in their daily lives. I was recently reminded of this hard fact after encountering what appeared to be an anti-tank spike left over from the battle of Stalingrad in a government parking lot. Unfortunately, government’s promise to serve also routinely conveys a license to harm. Heading for a hike along the Potomac River, I pulled my car into a spot in an unpaved, uneven Fairfax County Park Authority lot at Difficult Run Stream. I nudged forward and stopped before my wheels tapped the concrete block at the end of the spot. The front of my ...
Court Rules Open Carry Is ‘Core 2nd Amendment Right’
Post Date: 2018-07-26 06:12:03 by BTP Holdings
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Court Rules Open Carry Is ‘Core 2nd Amendment Right’ By Chris Agee July 25, 2018 at 8:38am Gun rights activists scored another judicial win this week with a narrow appeals court ruling that deemed one Hawaii law too restrictive. According to The Washington Times, the state code allows for residents to keep firearms inside residences and places of business. Carrying a gun on one’s person, however, is generally prohibited without a license. Such permission is granted under the law only if a person can convince local law enforcement that it is necessary in response to legitimate safety concerns. When one resident applied for a license in 2011, he was denied. George ...
1984
Post Date: 2018-07-25 15:10:16 by bush_is_a_moonie
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An Unnecessary Bill
Post Date: 2018-07-24 10:00:19 by Ada
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Oklahoma voters last month, during a midterm primary election, approved a ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana. The measure, which passed by a vote of 57 to 43 percent, will allow doctors to recommend cannabis to treat any medical condition they see fit. Most other states that have legalized medical marijuana only provide a list of diseases and disorders for which physicians can authorize a cannabis treatment. The ballot title reads as follows: This measure amends the Oklahoma State Statutes. A yes vote legalizes the licensed use, sale, and growth of marijuana in Oklahoma for medicinal purposes. A license is required for use and possession of marijuana for medicinal purposes and ...
Public Education, Ben Shapiro, and the Trojan Horse in Our Culture
Post Date: 2018-07-22 05:14:30 by Ada
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Perhaps the most successful myth that has been foisted off on a gullible American citizenry is that the education of our children, from kindergarten through high school, is the responsibility of the government. And implicit in that assumption is that the natural rights and duties of the family over the education of its offspring must in nearly all situations take a back seat, must be diminished and not interfere with the prior and dominant role of the state. By and large, since the mid–20th century this assumption has been considered undebatable truth. No one, not even the most resolute conservatives, will question its basic veracity and the resulting need to continue funding, to ...
Liberal 9th Circuit surprises with pro-2nd Amendment decision blocking California ammo ban
Post Date: 2018-07-20 18:44:11 by hondo68
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Second Amendment activists were given a surprise boost this week by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. (Reuters) Second Amendment activists were given a surprise boost this week when the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals backed a lower court’s decision to suspend California’s ban on the possession of large magazines.Activists, supported by the National Rifle Association, have argued that the state's ban on ownership of magazines holding 10 bullets or more is unconstitutional. They won a preliminary injunction by a San Diego district court last year, and a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit backed that injunction Tuesday. The court found that the district ...
Watch: Sacha Baron Cohen Tried Punking Gun Dealer, Learns He Made Huge Mistake
Post Date: 2018-07-20 07:23:58 by BTP Holdings
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Watch: Sacha Baron Cohen Tried Punking Gun Dealer, Learns He Made Huge Mistake Ever eager to mock law-abiding gun owners, the left-leaning entertainment industry has gotten in on the action — and apparently has no problem creating literal “fake news” to put Second Amendment supporters in a bad light. By Benjamin Arie July 19, 2018 at 6:29am Gun owners often get a bad rap in the increasingly hostile media. When they’re not being stereotyped as redneck hicks, they’re being called insulting names or even face racial discrimination for choosing not to be victims. Take the spotlight recently given to anti-gun voices like Parkland, Florida, shooting ...
Keeping Cops’ Hands Out of Your Pockets
Post Date: 2018-07-16 07:35:38 by Ada
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Finally, a case that might put a real crimp into civil asset forfeiture abuse. The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to rule on a case that have a major impact on civil liberties and whether civil asset forfeiture can continue to serve as low hanging fruit for bureaucratic interests run amok. Timbs v. Indiana involves a man whose $42,000 Land Rover was confiscated via civil asset forfeiture. Attorneys from the libertarian public-interest law firm, Institute for Justice, don’t deny their client Tyson Timbs was convicted of selling $385 worth of heroin in two transactions and that his vehicle was used in the sale. What they do contest is that the confiscation of the Land Rover ...
James Wilson: About That Supreme Court Nominee
Post Date: 2018-07-16 07:18:54 by BTP Holdings
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James Wilson: About That Supreme Court Nominee By James Wilson July 13, 2018 at 9:29am President Donald Trump has a historic opportunity to nominate a second Supreme Court justice in as many years, and the country is in spasm that can only be described as an appendectomy on the way or a birth in process, depending. The left is hysterical that their precious right to kill unborn children may be snatched away, and still in shock that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not in the White House protecting that right from the horrible crusaders for life. The right is in a paroxysm of joy for the same reasons. Meanwhile the left trots out the fictions as vicious as they are dishonest. ...
Constitutional Law Expert Makes Huge Revelation To Martha MacCallum About Brett Kavanaugh
Post Date: 2018-07-14 11:58:26 by BTP Holdings
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Constitutional Law Expert Makes Huge Revelation To Martha MacCallum About Brett Kavanaugh Fox News host Martha MacCallum had constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley on her show the other night to discuss President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanagh. In the interview, Turley revealed some telling signs about Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy. And conservatives should be downright giddy. Turley said, “There’s no question that the center of gravity is going to move to the right.” He continued, “So I expect that we are going to see some movement in these predictions as to where he ends up. It will he end up to the right of Kennedy? I think you ...
Indians who protested Dakota Access get handed the longest prison sentences
Post Date: 2018-07-13 19:46:43 by NeoconsNailed
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Among the hundreds of people arrested in North Dakota for protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Native Americans faced the most serious charges. More than two years after the protests began, federal judges are now handing down lengthy prison sentences to the protesters. One of the Standing Rock activists, Red Fawn Fallis, was sentenced Wednesday for her role in a shooting incident during the protests. As part of a plea deal, the 39-year- old will serve the longest prison term of any Dakota Access protester: four years and nine months in federal prison for one count of civil disorder and one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon. Click for Full ...
History Repeats Itself: Recalling Early American Gun Control in the Wild West
Post Date: 2018-07-13 06:09:32 by BTP Holdings
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History Repeats Itself: Recalling Early American Gun Control in the Wild West By: Joe Warta As we watch the political fallout of mass shootings consume the nation every few months, we hear the same arguments favoring gun control rehashed by the mainstream media. It reminds us that it’s certainly true that history repeats itself. A quick survey of U.S. history shows the national, reactionary push for gun control is not a new phenomenon and has been happening almost since our nation’s inception. The history of gun rights in the United States is expansive. The American Revolution was fought by patriots with their personal firearms against a tyrannical government, and the U.S. has ...
Five Facts You Need in Your Arsenal for Debating Gun Control
Post Date: 2018-07-12 18:57:12 by BTP Holdings
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Five Facts You Need in Your Arsenal for Debating Gun Control By: Ted Patterson “More gun control” is always the mainstream media’s answer when a violent tragedy occurs. But gun control doesn’t make us safer, and it’s important to be able to counter the most popular progressive anti-gun myths with iron-clad truth. Put these facts in your arsenal and have them ready the next time someone tries to infringe on your Second Amendment rights: Fact #1: Gun-free zones are mass shooter hot spots. Every time a school shooting tragedy occurs, gun grabbers are quick to call for further shredding of our Second Amendment rights. Gun-free zones leave large populations of ...
Black Gun Ownership Is Surging
Post Date: 2018-07-12 18:21:55 by BTP Holdings
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Black Gun Ownership Is Surging By: Robert Davis When Daniel Boykin was growing up in Biloxi, Mississippi during the 1990s, his father and uncle taught him to shoot shotguns as a way for the men to bond. But guns weren’t always a recreational activity. Boykin admits he was taunted regularly because of the color of his skin. “Growing up, I must have been called the N-word more than my real name,” Boykin told Gunpowder Magazine. No one ever threatened Boykin’s life, but one night, his girlfriend had a bottle thrown at her head by a group of white boys passing her in their pickup truck. “I was really scared for her then,” Boykin said. “She was completely ...
Fox News Host Cancels Live Show After Feeling ‘Threatened’ by SCOTUS Protesters
Post Date: 2018-07-12 04:33:35 by BTP Holdings
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Fox News Host Cancels Live Show After Feeling ‘Threatened’ by SCOTUS Protesters By Randy DeSoto July 10, 2018 at 11:21am Fox News host Shannon Bream changed plans to broadcast her program live from the steps of the Supreme Court on Monday night after she determined that the location had grown too “volatile” and she “felt threatened” by the hundreds of protesters to President Donald Trump’s High Court pick. Bream, who covers the Supreme Court for Fox, regularly reports from outside the building. She, in fact, did so following Trump’s announcement — shortly after 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time — that Washington, D.C. Circuit Court Judge ...
Organizations Team-Up to Curb Urban Gun Violence
Post Date: 2018-07-10 17:17:32 by BTP Holdings
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Organizations Team-Up to Curb Urban Gun Violence By: Robert Davis Two groups, Black Guns Matter and Chicago Guns Matter, are teaching responsible gun ownership and the politics surrounding the Second Amendment in an attempt to curb urban gun violence. “I want to educate urban America about firearm safety, so people who live there can make well-informed decisions,” Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, a human rights organization from North Philadelphia, told Gunpowder Magazine. “I don’t want to do this forever. I want there to be a solution to these problems. Once the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence become pop culture again, there will ...
UN Passes Resolution Declaring Free Expression on the Internet a Human Right
Post Date: 2018-07-10 12:35:41 by Ada
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Information wants to be free. The UN has passed another resolution against the Jews. Shall it be respected? The Independent: The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution for the “promotion, protection, and enjoyment of human rights on the internet” which condemns any country that intentionally disrupts the internet access of its citizens. The resolution stresses that “the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online” particularly with regards to the freedom of expression already protected by articles 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Though it was ...
Watch: The Moment a Camera Caught Ruth Bader Ginsburg Trashing the Constitution
Post Date: 2018-07-09 20:00:22 by BTP Holdings
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Watch: The Moment a Camera Caught Ruth Bader Ginsburg Trashing the Constitution By Cillian Zeal July 9, 2018 at 9:58am As the Trump administration prepares to nominate a new justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, liberals are probably wishing for nothing more than someone in the mold of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Of course, that would be unlikely even if they had the White House, and … well, now’s as good a time as any to point and laugh. It’s also a good time to point out that Ginsburg isn’t even particularly a fan of the document she’s supposed to be interpreting. And just don’t take our word for it. Take Justice Ginsburg’s. In remarks she made ...
Kidnappers: The Tyranny of Child Protective Services Across the Nation
Post Date: 2018-07-07 08:09:18 by Ada
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242 years ago American colonists declared independence from England, in the name of personal liberty. What would it take for Americans to once again declare independence from an oppressive government? For the colonists, it was excessive taxation without representation. It was also that English soldiers were quartered in their homes, as an occupying army. The English attempted to disarm them and shot into a crowd killing five in the lead up to the American Revolution. Well, entire volumes could be written about the abuses Americans suffer at the hands of the government today. But one especially egregious violation of rights is the state kidnapping children without due process. No, I ...
Our Plastic Patriotism
Post Date: 2018-07-06 15:33:28 by Ada
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Keeping It Unreal Today Americans will celebrate Independence Day. There will be fireworks, and cookouts, and hot dog eating contests. The Sci-Fi Channel will probably run their usual Twilight Zone marathon. The alleged “History” Channel will almost certainly waste air space with absurd shows like American Pickers. There will be little mention anywhere about the War for Independence, our revolt against England. There’s a good reason for this; no politician, and no mainstream “journalist” wants to focus any attention on how this country was born. That’s the last thing a corrupt ruling elite wants to do; remind those they rule over that their ancestors ...
Where the Right Went Wrong on Criminal Justice
Post Date: 2018-07-06 07:29:57 by Ada
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Ending our 'incarceration nation' would help return conservatives to their roots, acting on principles most of them already hold. Editor’s Note: This is the first in a collaborative series with the R Street Institute exploring conservative approaches to criminal justice reform. Conservatism is not a monolith. There is no one way to be a conservative, think like a conservative, or define the conservative outlook. But there are certain bedrock principles of those on the Right: limited government, economic responsibility, and a belief that our Founding Fathers laid out sacrosanct rights in our Constitution. A firm belief in the importance of family, morality, and, for some, ...
The Constitution Is Not Neutral: Courts of Justice Should Not Act Like Courts of Order
Post Date: 2018-07-04 08:22:43 by Ada
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“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas For those still deluded enough to believe they’re living the American dream—where the government represents the people, where the people are equal in the eyes of the law, where the courts are arbiters of justice, where the police are keepers of the peace, and where the law is applied equally as a means of protecting the rights of the people—it’s time to wake up. We no longer have a representative government, a rule of law, or justice. Liberty has fallen to legalism. Freedom has fallen to fascism. Justice has become jaded, ...
U.S. Promises "Full Implementation" of UN Gun-control Agreement
Post Date: 2018-07-02 20:26:12 by Ada
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June 29 marked the end of the Third Review Conference (RevCon) of the United Nations’ Programme of Action (PoA) on Small Arms and Light Weapons. Delegates at the conference, including representatives of the United States, worked on producing updates to the global gun-control agreement. According to the text of the latest draft of the agreement, the PoA will serve as an “international instrument to enable states to identify and trace, in a timely and reliable manner” the small arms and light weapons that are the target of the scheme. In practice, this means that the governments of member nations (including the United States) should create a massive, all-inclusive database ...
NYTimes: Liberal Free Speech Defenders Turn Against First Amendment
Post Date: 2018-07-02 16:43:01 by Ada
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In a remarkably honest exposé, the New York Times acknowledged Saturday that “liberals who once championed expansive First Amendment rights are now uneasy about them” ever since conservatives realized they should apply to them as well. The Times cites First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams who noted that whereas the left once led support for First Amendment protections, they are now “at least skeptical and sometimes distraught at the level of First Amendment protection which is being afforded in cases brought by litigants on the right.” The difference between then and now? Many of the ideas currently being protected by free speech rights run contrary to ...
EXCLUSIVE: Student Punished for Wearing Shirt Depicting Map of U.S. Made-Up of Guns
Post Date: 2018-07-02 04:34:51 by BTP Holdings
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EXCLUSIVE: Student Punished for Wearing Shirt Depicting Map of U.S. Made-Up of Guns By: Teresa Mull A New Jersey student was allegedly punished for wearing a shirt depicting the United States made-up of guns. The student, who attends the Gloucester County School of Technology in southern New Jersey, was wearing a t-shirt with the phrase to the effect of, “My Constitution, My Rights,” depicting a map of the United States fabricated from silhouettes of red, white, and blue firearms. “Apparently, that was objectionable, and the student was approached and told, ‘You cannot wear that shirt in school. We’re going to discipline you if you do,’” the ...
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