Former anti-gun congressman Anthony Weiner drew a 21-month prison sentence for sexting with a minor. (YouTube, MSNBC) The downfall of former Democratic U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, the diehard New York anti-gunner, came only a couple of weeks after another high-profile anti-gun Democrat took a tumble at the far end of the country. Former Seattle Mayor […]
Seattle Mayor Murray Out Over Sex Abuse Claim
Anti-gun Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s political career ends Wednesday at 5 p.m. after a fifth allegation of sex abuse against minors was reported by the Seattle Times, this one involving a cousin in New York, where Murray lived for a time decades ago. Liberal Democrat Murray, the openly-gay politician who spent several years in the […]
Seattle’s Liberal Lip Service Exposed By Surprising Source
Veteran Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat can drive conservatives nuts, but this week he took a rare course change and let liberals have it with both barrels; a deliberate “gun language’ description because what left-tilting Jet City politicians exhibit so well is their visceral dislike of the Second Amendment. Where they excel, it appears, is […]
Hey, Seattle, How’s that ‘Gun Violence Tax’ Working Out?
Tuesday’s Seattle Times carried a column by Nicole Brodeur about a shooting that occurred in the Columbia City area of Seattle, which she suggested may have been a “reality check” for that neighborhood, located north of the Rainier Valley. Brodeur noted that there have been 85 shots-fired reports this year in South Seattle, “and most […]
Embattled Seattle Mayor Murray Drops Re-election Bid
UPDATED: 2:45 p.m. PDT — Embattled Seattle Mayor Ed Murray on Tuesday dropped his bid for re-election with a statement that seemed designed to portray him as sacrificing his career in the interest of the city where he grew up. Murray’s long political career came crashing down amid a scandal that erupted when he was […]
Seattle Takes 2nd in Car Gun Thefts, 7th in ‘Snobbishness’
Seattle was second on a list of ten cities where gun thefts from automobiles have allegedly spiked, in a story published by The Trace earlier this week, an online magazine that has received financing from billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety, but is that accurate? Curiously, The Trace based its “Top Ten” gun theft […]