“Ruling unanimously Nov. 18 on two lawsuits that had been filed against the firearms industry – one by the City of Chicago and Cook County, the other by five individual plaintiffs – the Illinois Supreme Court not only tossed out both cases, but dealt a serious blow to the gun control crowd.”

Another victory for 2nd Amendment rights! Read the rest of Dave Workman’s report

By default WordPress allows anyone to add comments to a message. This would be nice, except that the spammers abuse it and add spam to every single posting. This simple snippet of code added to the wp-comments-post.php file, after the check for require_name_email, will require posters to first be logged in.

# Require user to be registered and logged in before allowing posting
# 30 second hack by Brian C. Lane - www.libertynews.org
get_currentuserinfo();
if( empty($user_nickname) && empty($user_email) )
die( __('Error: You must be logged in before you can post') );


this posting has a couple of similar methods that block the comment posting form (but to block actual posting you need my hack).

I’ve been an on and off reader and poster to Slashdot.org for years, I’ve had posts modded up and down, but this takes the cake! In this posting I responded to their somewhat biased Thanksgiving poll. I got modded down to flaimbait, and also banned from posting! When I try to reply I get the following message:

Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled.
If it’s you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner . If it’s someone else, this is a chance to
hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5′d
IPID and SubnetID, which are “md5hash-removed” and “md5hash-removed” and
(optionally, but preferably) your IP number “xx.xx.xx.xx” and your username “libertynews”.

I appears to me that they didn’t like me taking offense to the majority of responses being ‘Thanks for living outside the US’ and not having an alternate choice in the poll.

The story of Thanksgiving that you learned in school is not quite historically accurate. We are taught that the Pilgrims almost starved to death and would not have survived but for the help of the local Indians. This isn’t quite how it happened. You can read the real story as related on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show. You can also listen to an mp3 of the broadcast.

I wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving, especially those who are defending our Freedom overseas.

I’m getting ready to move LibertyNews.org over to running on WordPress software instead of my custom written scripts. Its a really nice ‘blog’ system (although I really cringe every time I hear that word).

I will also be offering libertynews ‘blogs’ to Liberty minded writers for $10 a month (using WordPress and secure copy access to the html directory tree). This includes a subdomain of libertynews.org, such as iraqblog.libertynews.org or whatver you want to name your site and an email address like iraqblog@libertynews.org

ed.