To everyone, including all those serving far from home and protecting our freedoms. We appreciate what you are doing and we are thinking of you!

Russian Weapons Destroyed By Estonian Customs

Just think of how many lives could be saved by those weapons? Crushing guns, any guns, makes me sick. In the former Soviet Union they need those guns — they are overrun by corruption from organized crime and in many cases from their government (have you read what Russia is doing with its control over their oil industry?). Guns in the hands of private citizens would help ensure freedom for those poor souls who have only recently thrown off the chains of communism.

via Joe Huffman and Say Uncle

Professor Williams has this to say about the Fair Tax proposed in last year’s book “The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS.” by Neil Boortz and Congressman John Linder:

“The Fair Tax has much to recommend in its favor, such as being a more efficient form of taxation. It would go a long way toward protecting our privacy and preventing Congress from using the tax code to micromanage our lives. The Fair Tax is an excellent idea, but only under three conditions: first, the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment that created the income tax; second, a provision fixing the tax at, say, 23 percent; and third, a constitutional amendment mandating that a tax increase requires a three-fourths vote of Congress. Notwithstanding any provisions within the Fair Tax, if the Sixteenth Amendment weren’t repealed, down the road we’d find ourselves with a national sales tax and an income tax.”

There’s not much more to say than that, I agree completely with Prof. Williams. You can read the rest of his essay here on his website.

According to this article from JT News, the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) is going to be working with Washington Ceasefire to pass gun control legislation in Washington State.

The two organizations will also be working together this upcoming year to pass gun-control legislation in Olympia. Their target is a controversial gun-show loophole that allows private, unlicensed gun dealers to sell firearms without conducting background checks as required by the 1994 Brady Bill.

The only controversy I see is that they don’t understand the law and how it applies to gun shows and private sales. In Washington State it is legal for private citizens to buy and sell guns from each other. A gun show is just a collection of private individuals, and by closing this mis-named gun show loophole they will be stopping private sales of guns — which I’m sure they will be perfectly happy to do.
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This comes in from Mr. Completely, some news from Dan McKown:

Then, if that isn’t enough; I too will actually be receiving an award. Many of you either heard or saw that I had received a commendation from our local chapter of the American Legion. Well they put me in for nationals and I hardly gave it a second thought. First, the award usually goes to soldiers and with two wars (or one war on terror) and a hurricane, there were plenty of opportunities for heroism, second; there are an enormous amount of American Legion halls across this country– I wouldn’t stand a chance!

Except for the fact that… I won.

On Friday, Dec. 15th 7:00ish (double check with me) I will be the American Legion 2006 HERO of the year! Wow. God just seems to insist on sharing his glory with me. Wow. Ceremony will be Friday at American Legion Post #138, 7515 Cirque Drive (56th turns into Cirque). Look for a 7-11, a drug store and a whole lotta flags!

CCRKBA APPLAUDS OHIO SENATE, STATE GUN RIGHTS GROUPS FOR VETO OVERRIDE

For Immediate Release: Contact: Alan Gottlieb or Joe Waldron (425) 454-4911

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today offered its congratulations to the Ohio State Senate for overriding anti-gun Gov. Bob Taft’s veto of concealed carry reform legislation, by a vote of 21-12.

In overriding Taft’s veto, Ohio has effectively become a state in which residents will enjoy the benefits of preemption, meaning that local governments can no longer adopt differing, and often contradictory, firearms regulations. CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb called the vote “a common sense move that will eliminate confusion among private citizens and peace officers.”

“We’re proud of the lawmakers, including Marc Dann, who will be the next Ohio Attorney General, and fellow Democrats Charles Wilson and Kimberly Zurz for joining all but three Senate Republicans in taking this sensible, courageous vote,” Gottlieb said. “This reform measure effectively overrides local gun bans in such places as parks, and it also will nullify local bans on certain firearms.”
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“My first thought was, what a great pity that another nation should be added to those aggressors who choose to limit our freedom…I find myself at the age of eighty, an old woman, hanging on to the tail of the world, trying to keep up. I do not want the driver’s seat but the eternal verities. There are certain things that I wish to express: one thing that I am very sure of is that hatred is death, but love is light. I want to contribute to the civilization of the world but…When I look at the holocaust that is going on in the world today, I’m almost ready to let go…”

Lena Jamison, “What A Great Pity,” December 9, 1941
John Lomax, interviewer

Read more about the attack at Library of Congress

by Humberto Fontova

Thirty-nine years ago this week, Ernesto “Che” Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial he was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot. Historically speaking, justice has rarely been better served. If the saying “What goes around comes around” ever fit, it’s here.

“Executions?” Che Guevara exclaimed while addressing the hallowed halls of the U.N. General Assembly on December 9, 1964. “Certainly we execute!” he declared, to the claps and cheers of that august body. “And we will CONTINUE executing as long as it is necessary! This is a war to the DEATH against the revolution’s enemies!”

Read the rest of this article at Lew Rockwell’s site. Hat tip to Stratiotes for pointing this out. For reasons unfathomable by sane people the libtards insist on making heroes out of oppressive tyrants. Is it their lack of education? Their lack of compassion? Or simply their lack of moral character that motivates them to follow the crowd and fail to question why you would want to support people like Che Guevara and Fidel Castro?

By Walter E. Williams

Unlike today’s Americans, the founders of our nation were suspicious, if not contemptuous, of government. Consider just a few of their words.

James Madison suggested that “All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”

Thomas Paine observed, “We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. . . . It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.”
John Adams reminded, “You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.”

Read Professor Williams’ latest essay here.

It seems that the phrase ‘its for the children’ can be used to justify almost any law you want to get passed. But this case is reaching a new low:

In a federal indictment announced this week, the U.S. Department of Justice accused Pierson, 43, of being a child pornographer–even though even prosecutors acknowledge there’s no evidence he has ever taken a single photograph of an unclothed minor.

It sounds like some prosecutor has a vendetta against Pierson, or maybe he forgot to pay his kickback money to the local goon squad last month.

First Amendment scholars interviewed Wednesday raised questions about the Justice Department’s attack on Internet child modeling. They warned that any legal precedent might endanger the mainstream use of child models in advertising and suggested that prosecutors’ budgets might be better spent investigating actual cases of child molestation.

If they continue down this path they are going to have to start tossing the parents of beauty pageant contestants into jail as well. Have you seen how they dress up their 8 year old girls? I don’t like the sexualization of pre-teens, but there is nothing illegal about it. Using the excuse that these pictures might attract a pedophile is just an excuse for a grand-standing prosecutor to try and make a name for themselves. If you accept that argument then you ought to be calling for a dress code in your local shopping mall, have you seen how girls dress these days?

Prosecution of real child pornography is a good thing. I especially like the sting operations that snare a pervert showing up for a tryst with a 12 year old and finding a TV camera in their face. But go after the real criminals. By going after people who are obviously engaged in a lawful business you are confusing the definition of what real child porn is.

Hat tip to Bob Thompson, who has this to say:

As Ayn Rand pointed out fifty years ago, the goal of all these ridiculous laws is to make all of us criminals, because the government can control criminals. Arbitrary and selective enforcement means we’ll all be afraid to do anything at all for fear of being arrested. Am I now to be imprisoned if I take a photograph of my 13-year-old friend Jasmine and some government dolt decides it’s too sexy? That’d be a nice way to force critics of the government to shut up, now wouldn’t it?