Libertarian thinking about everything. --Ere he shall lose an eye for such a trifle... For doing deeds of nature! I'm ashamed. The law is such an ass. -- G. Chapman, 1654.
Mar 31, 2010
Spring Cleaning
How to go to college
Those Madcap Hoosiers
Mar 30, 2010
Quote of the Day
Hutaree and me
Mar 29, 2010
Gurgle Gurgle
Iowa Shall-Issue CCW Law: Got It.
The Glory that Was
Plague
Mar 28, 2010
Controversially speaking
Mar 27, 2010
Iowa Senate Approves Shall-Issue
Shall-Issue Update -- CCW politics in Iowa
Mar 26, 2010
Sort of a BULLETIN on Iowa Gun Rights; Shall Issue
Mar 25, 2010
A little more on the health care bill
Mar 23, 2010
An Unhealthy Interest in Firearms
"During a search in his bedroom (Bobbies) found an imitation pistol, illegally converted to fire 8mm bullets and capable of killing."
Killing whom, pray tell? The cops might have saved the Queen a pretty pence in incarceration expenses by making the accused demonstrate his gunsmithing ingenuity through discharging one of the "8 mm bullets." My bet would be forearm lacerations and a quick bleedout.
Mar 22, 2010
Priorities
Roy Steinfort of the Associated Press. RIP
The Firing Pin Journal
Mar 20, 2010
All kinds of p0rn
More on Ice
Mar 19, 2010
The highly accurate M1 Carbine
Mar 18, 2010
Change
Mar 17, 2010
Delayed spring
The Associated Press Wins
Mar 16, 2010
When toilets are outlawed...
Mar 15, 2010
A Constitutional Response to the Census
Mar 14, 2010
Memo to the First Lady's Staff
Mar 13, 2010
Sioux Falls AAR
Let us praise the gun show loophole
Mar 11, 2010
Try the 700 Club
Mar 10, 2010
Halt! Your papers!
The Dog bites Grandma
Jealousy
Mar 9, 2010
Write your critter
As to the Olympics recently ended:
Mar 8, 2010
Evading Justice in Massachusetts
Gun auction AAR
...fair for the Gander
Mar 7, 2010
Buck it?
Mar 6, 2010
Mar 5, 2010
Loopies versus guns in St. Paul
It's hard enough keeping track of my own state legiscritters, but a friend to my north passed on timely wire note from the AP:
"...Gun control and gun rights advocates are ready for a clash over a bill that would require a background check on buyers of firearms at Minnesota gun shows. (The sponsor), a St. Paul Democrat , says he's trying to address what he and others argue are gaps in law. Members of the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance say the bill violates federal law governing background checks over private gun sales."
Since it occurs that I am acquainted with an influential Minnesota editor, I sent a message to the media:
"Any report on this should probably note prominently that there really is no "gun show loophole." Federal law simply does not require background checks for sales between non-licensed private individuals, anywhere. The point seems almost always to get lost ..."
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The "clash" today is in a committee, so passage would be the first of several steps necessary to actually cave in to wet-pants Gophers.
( I think the trimmed-down AP quote is covered by the fair use doctrine, but just in case it isn't I wanna say the AP is a great news organization and all of you should call your local papers and broadcasters and ask them to buy more AP services, which are uniformly excellent according to a blogger who can't afford to get sued.)
Mar 4, 2010
Bulletin: Faulty Political Pitch Identified!
Witches in the corn fields, shoo fly shoo...
I'm pretty much on the kid's side. If he wants to build a Wiccan altar in shop class, what the Hell? Why not? His shop teacher telling the newspapers that he personally figures it's bad to worship rocks and trees isn't a really compelling argument. Mr. Shoppie should do his five-day suspension, then go back to yelling at kids to sand the shelf some more.
Mar 3, 2010
Size matters; "I charge by the inch."
There oughtta be a law!
Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which--(A)
is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by another person, or(B)
in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person's goods, services, or commercial activities, shall be liable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act.(2)
As used in this subsection, the term "any person" includes any State, instrumentality of a State or employee of a State or instrumentality of a State acting in his or her official capacity. Any State, and any such instrumentality, officer, or employee, shall be subject to the provisions of this Act in the same manner and to the same extent as any nongovernmental entity.
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After we get this one passed, we just need a companion piece, almost identically worded, which criminalizes the acts mentioned.