What’s the difference between a businessman-turned-president and a “progressive” liberal career politician? One understands how to make things happen and the other specializes in screwing them up, or sitting back and doing nothing at all. That might be the main takeaway from the Carrier deal in Indiana that appears to be the result of Donald […]
Has Someone Declared an Open Season on Police?
There is no small amount of irony in the fact that the weekend saw unprovoked shootings of police officers in St. Louis, San Antonio, outside Kansas City and Sanibel Island on Florida’s west shore, and a story on Seattle’s KIRO noting that Seattle Seahawk Doug Baldwin – the son of a career lawman – will […]
Cases in Washington, California Show False Security of Gun Control
Criminal cases unfolding right now against an alleged cop killer in Palm Springs, the accused mall gunman in Burlington, Washington and a suspected “straw purchaser” in Seattle once again underscore the futility of promoting background checks as an effective crime prevention tool. Today’s Seattle Times reports that detectives investigating the Cascade Mall rampage last month […]
Gun Prohibition Lobby Spending Millions to Erode Civil Right
Buried in the text of a story in Wednesday’s New York Times about gun control is an interesting revelation about just how determined the gun prohibition lobby is to chip away at traditional Second Amendment rights, spending millions of dollars to ratchet down on gun owners. Much of it is coming from the deep pockets […]
Instead of Seattle, Maybe AGR, Giffords Should March in Chicago
The Seattle-based Alliance for Gun Responsibility (AGR), one of the most active gun prohibition lobbying groups in the Pacific Northwest with funding from several wealthy elitists, has announced it will march on Saturday, Oct. 22 to “get out the vote.” This event will feature prominent gun control supporter and former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Presumably […]
Seattle Mayor And King County Exec Have Some Explaining To Do
Anti-gun Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and King County Executive Dow Constantine, both liberal Evergreen State Democrats, have some explaining to do after announcing their support for “public, supervised sites where addicts can use heroin,” as reported by the Seattle Times Friday. The body count for “heroin-involved deaths” in King County exceeds the statewide toll of […]
