ted nugent running for presidentHuffington Post – by Madeline Boardman

Ted Nugent joined a Google Hangout with Detroit radio station WCSX this week, and the rock star didn’t hold back when given the chance to speak about politics.

“Politics in America are very embarrassing right now,” Nugent said. “They’re dire. I won’t go into the gory details because I think we all pay attention, I hope everyone is paying attention to what this administration is doing and what the attorney general does and how it doesn’t matter that four Americans died in Benghazi.”   Continue reading “Ted Nugent On Running For President: ‘Sure, Why Not?’”

Business Week – by Paul M. Barrett

Gun control lives. On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a man barred from owning a firearm because of a 45-year-old misdemeanor assault conviction. As Bloomberg News’s high court guru, Greg Stohr, notes, the justices have repeatedly declined to take up gun-rights appeals over the last three years. The practical effect of this non-action is that the Supremes have let stand lower-court rulings preserving various restrictions on civilian gun ownership.   Continue reading “Supreme Court on Gun Control: Waiting and Watching, for Now”

Reasonable Control, the arsenic that is slowly poisoning liberty.AmmoLand – by Paul Markel

Biloxi, Mississippi (Ammoland.com)Yet again I find myself in that precarious position of confronting a fellow parishioner, someone ostensibly of the same faith. Yesterday evening I was made aware of an op/ed column written by Mr. Dick Metcalf, longtime writer for Guns and Ammo magazine. It would seem that in his “Backstop” column in the Dec. 2013 G&A Dick decided to address the topic of reasonable restrictions and limits on “rights”. After reading a digital copy of the column my first instinct was to comment via social media. I opted instead to hold back and sleep on it. Well, it’s 7 a.m. and my reaction has been fomenting long enough.   Continue reading “Reasonable Control: the Arsenic of Liberty”

United Gun Owners of New York StateAmmoLand

Ovid, New York – -(Ammoland.com)-  Joseph Fazzary, Schuyler County District Attorney, will discuss the NY SAFE ACT and New Yorkers’ Second Amendment rights at United Gun Owners of New York State’s November 10 2013 meeting.

Also addressing the group will be prominent anti-SAFE ACT activists Al Belardinelli (“albel1”) and Denver Jones.   Continue reading “District Attorney, Anti-SAFE Act Activists To Address United Gun Owners’ November Meeting”

Florida CarryAmmoLand

Florida – -(Ammoland.com)- The recent decision in Mackey v. State is being hailed by police and state attorneys, especially those who are anti-gun.

Don’t believe it? Take this gem from the Office of the State Attorney for the 15th Judicial Circuit (Dave Aronberg, NRA F-rated candidate 2008):   Continue reading “State Attorney Brings Bloomberg Style NY ‘Stop n Frisk’ Policy to Florida”

Principal threatens to expel third-grader over these awesome drawingsThe Daily Caller – by Eric Owens

Yet another student has landed in trouble for having something that represents a weapon, but isn’t actually anything remotely like a real weapon.

This time, an Arizona couple pulled their eight-year-old son out of a charter school last week after school officials threatened to expel the boy for his colorful drawings of a ninja, a soldier and a character from Star Wars. All three figures are clutching guns and knives.   Continue reading “Principal threatens to expel third-grader over these awesome drawings”

Keystone pipeline biketrail #4 Bloomberg -by Jim Snyder

The debate over the Keystone XL pipeline has gotten pretty heated and Kinder Baumgardner has an idea to cool the emotions: a really long bike path.

The creative director for the SWA Group, an Houston-based architectural firm that designed Google Inc.’s corporate campus, says building the lane along Keystone’s path through the country’s mid-section could turn what is now a source of rancor into a tourist attraction.  Continue reading “Sunflowers to Schwinns Proposed for Keystone Pathway”

Flanagan South PipelineThe Nation -by Rick Perlstein

This past weekend I was thrilled to attend the second annual Great Lakes Bioneers conference in Chicago, which has been a wonderful introduction for me this year and last to the remarkably dedicated work citizens are doing around the concept of “resilience”—a word frequently used in psychology to refers to people’s ability to bounce back in the face of life challenges and which environmentalists have adopted into an umbrella term for practices centered around how communities can create a sustainable future within an unsustainable present—to build a new world in a shell of the old. In 2012, I learned about one of the movement’s coolest big ideas, “biomimicry”—the concept of better design through imitating nature. This year I learned about “food forests,” which is amazing stuff too—“a gardening technique or land management system that mimics a woodland ecosystem but substitutes in edible trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals.”  Continue reading “The Next Frontier for Pipeline Organizing Is Your Backyard”

ccsuThe Hartford Courant

NEW BRITAIN — Police were seen leading a man away in handcuffs from Central Connecticut State University on Monday afternoon, about 2 1/2 hours after a report of a man with a gun put the campus into lockdown.

There was no immediate word of any arrest or the number of people involved in the incident.

State police had been talking with a man who had been boxed into a dorm room in James Hall, a source told the courant. There had been no hostile act, the source said.   Continue reading “CCSU On Lockdown; Police Seen Taking Away Man In Handcuffs”

NBC News – by Pete Williams, Andrew Blankstein and Daniel Arkin

Clues on a possible motive for an armed assault at Los Angeles International Airport emerged Saturday, with reports that the suspect was carrying a “manifesto” associated with the antigovernment “patriot” movement and a note saying he intended to murder at least one Transportation Security Administration officer.

The Associated Press, quoting a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation, reported that suspect Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, said in the note found in the duffel bag he carried into the airport on Friday that he wasn’t targeting a specific TSA employee.   Continue reading “LAX suspect had ‘patriot’ movement propaganda on him, expert says”

The Hill – by Megan R. Wilson

Gun rights groups are throwing their weight behind efforts on Capitol Hill to rein in the National Security Agency (NSA).

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is among a number of groups that have signed on to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit against the secretive government agency.    Continue reading “Gun rights groups go after NSA”

Some of the weapons that have been taken off the streets over the years by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are displayed in the Dublin field office's lobby. Photo: Michael Macor, The ChronicleSF Gate – by Dan Freedman

For gun rights advocates, distrust toward the federal agency charged with enforcing firearms laws dates from a single raid on a gun collector’s apartment.

It was a 1971 raid by agents of what was then the Division of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on the apartment of Kenyon Ballew in Silver Spring, Md. The agents had been tipped by a burglary suspect that guns and grenades were stashed there.   Continue reading “How the NRA became ATF’s biggest enemy”

Town Hall -by Michael Schaus

I assume people with billions of dollars wake up in the morning – every morning – thinking to themselves, “should I use my money for good. . . Or for evil?” Mayor Bloomberg, in his Blofeld style lair, apparently decided to utilize his monetary powers in an effort to impact the lives of citizens thousands of miles away. (From a libertarian point of view, this would fall in the category of “evil.”)

It is one type of annoying authoritarian-idiocy to ban guns, high-capacity sodas, and trans fats; but his efforts to export his New York socialist utopia on unsuspecting citizens (of other states) adds a whole new level of “Billionaire Elitism” to the mix.   Continue reading “The Bond Villain, Mayor Bloomberg, Strikes Again”

PARDON Abused Mother Marissa Alexander for Standing Her GroundCare 2 – by Susan Vaughan

Update #3 November 2, 2013

Prosecutor Corey did not drop Marissa’s case last week, so a new trial is scheduled to begin in March, 2014. However on November 8, the court will decide if Marissa, who’s been away from her children for nearly three years, will be able to live with them outside of prison in the meantime. Please keep the pressure on prosecutor Corey to drop the case and at least allow Marrissa to be with her children until she is finally acquitted.   Continue reading “PARDON Abused Mother Marissa Alexander for Standing Her Ground”

Business Insider – by KIRSTEN ACUNA

Last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” opening skit poked fun at the difficulty people had gaining access to the Obamacare HealthCare website.

In the skit below Kate McKinnon portrayed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the cold open joking the site “was only designed to handle six users at a time.”   Continue reading “Here’s The ‘SNL’ Skit That Correctly Predicted How Few Users Would Sign Up For Obamacare”

Huffington Post

One British man recently learned a hard life lesson while drooling over photos of a model in lingerie online: fantasize all you want, but never comment about how you’d totally leave your wife for a one-night stand with the woman in the photos.

That’s what happened Tuesday, when a Manchester man named Tom got all hot and bothered over photographs showing model and TV presenter Kelly Brook in sexy lingerie on the Daily Mail’s website, including this photo:   Continue reading “Lingerie Photos Land Drooling Husband In Hot Water”

St. Louis Today – by Robert Patrick & Jennifer S. Mann

Shannon Renee McNeal was torn from her screaming children by police who were seeking a woman with a similar name — a woman who they should have known had been murdered seven months before.  A clerical mistake set up the arrest, sloppy attention to fingerprints put her behind bars and months of indifference to the error cost McNeal her home, $15,000 and, for a while, her job driving a Metro bus.

Yet she may be luckier than scores of others who have been wrongfully arrested and spent weeks, even months, trapped behind bars in a broken St. Louis city justice system.   Continue reading “Jailed By Mistake – Wrongful arrests jail 100 people for over 2,000 days”

axe shuts down schoolHuffington Post

A school in Brooklyn was shut down this week following reports of a noxious odor, which turned out to be Axe body spray.

In a statement, the Department of Education said eight students were taken to the hospital Wednesday for reactions to a hazardous substance at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, according to the Smoking Gun. Two other students of the Crown Heights school were also evaluated by private doctors.   Continue reading “Axe Body Spray Shuts Down School, Sends 8 Students To Hospital”