Combat knitters in Afghanistan.
I refuse to be cynical about this.
(H/T Lisa)
Mar 11, 2011
Mar 10, 2011
You can oppose U.S. adventures in nation-building-via-war while at the same time standing awe-stricken at the heroism of some of our fighters.
Random acts of Patriotism details one chapter, even if the valor was officially recognized 42 years too late. Care to join me in saluting HM2 Dennis Noah?
Random acts of Patriotism details one chapter, even if the valor was officially recognized 42 years too late. Care to join me in saluting HM2 Dennis Noah?
Mar 9, 2011
Connecticut Carry Redux
Connecticut law:
"All persons shall bear arms, and every male person shall have in continual readiness a good muskitt or other gunn, fitt for service."
Things have regressed since that happy legal code of the Nutmeggers in 1650, but we're trying to restore the spirit in Iowa where Constitutional Carry isn't quite yet dead.
A CC bill was supposed to have died last week when it failed to make it though the mid-session funnel. The bill's sponsor found a loophole -- wouldn't he just :). Tax bills are exempt from the funnel rules, and Rep. Tom Sands of Wapello said since the measure eliminates permit fees, it's a tax bill. The appropriate committee will probably go along and vote it out with a do-pass recommendation. Love it. We're getting sneakier than a Chicago alderman.
However, I doubt this will make it all the way. In the first place, our brand-new shall-issue was a big gulp for gentle Iowans, and it isn't quite digested yet.
Republicans hold a 60-40 house margin, but even some of them are afraid of this bill. Democrats run the senate and are not under the kind of electoral pressure to back liberty measures as they were last year.
The organized cop unions are, of course, soiling their stepins.
(Carnage under the new law is so far limited to one dimwit who waved his pistol around in a bar and thereby lost his permit, his pistol, and the respect of brainier freedom advocates.)
"All persons shall bear arms, and every male person shall have in continual readiness a good muskitt or other gunn, fitt for service."
Things have regressed since that happy legal code of the Nutmeggers in 1650, but we're trying to restore the spirit in Iowa where Constitutional Carry isn't quite yet dead.
A CC bill was supposed to have died last week when it failed to make it though the mid-session funnel. The bill's sponsor found a loophole -- wouldn't he just :). Tax bills are exempt from the funnel rules, and Rep. Tom Sands of Wapello said since the measure eliminates permit fees, it's a tax bill. The appropriate committee will probably go along and vote it out with a do-pass recommendation. Love it. We're getting sneakier than a Chicago alderman.
However, I doubt this will make it all the way. In the first place, our brand-new shall-issue was a big gulp for gentle Iowans, and it isn't quite digested yet.
Republicans hold a 60-40 house margin, but even some of them are afraid of this bill. Democrats run the senate and are not under the kind of electoral pressure to back liberty measures as they were last year.
The organized cop unions are, of course, soiling their stepins.
(Carnage under the new law is so far limited to one dimwit who waved his pistol around in a bar and thereby lost his permit, his pistol, and the respect of brainier freedom advocates.)
The things we pay for
Local radio is running a somewhat breathless report from the DNR. The conservaton bureaucrats revealed that the ice on the lakes is getting thinner. After a careful study, they attribute the cause to spring. They say you should be careful out there.
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