The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
Rob Doar points out what the MSM has ignored:
Jared Loughner DID NOT legally obtain a gun.
In news story after news story, I see the claim over and over again that Jared Loughner legally obtained his Glock 19 9mm handgun from Sportsman’s Warehouse on November 30th, 2010.
This is false. Jared Loughner obtained his gun by means of a felony.
Allow me to explain.
RTWT, because he’s exactly right.
(h/t to Papa Todd)
From Thomas Sowell:
I think that if the average citizen understood economics as well as it was understood by economists 200 years ago, most of the nonsense that’s done in Washington would be impossible politically.
From a very recent Uncommon Knowledge interview you can watch (and I strongly recommend you do) below, courtesy of Power Line:
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If you don’t have 33 minutes to devote to watching this video at the moment, here’s a short (2:39) excerpt to whet your appetite:
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Sowell’s Basic Economics (Third Edition) is still sitting on my headboard waiting to be read.
Somewhere in Utah, at dawn.
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I’ve mentioned this little jewel once before in a post, but I got an interesting link in an email from the moderator of the Gun Values Board to a piece about the gun itself. Yes, I’d imagine that a double-barreled 20 gauge pistol would be a quite intimidating – and effective – personal defense weapon. Still, if I ever go the NFA route, I think I want the AOW (Any Other Weapon) Serbu Super-Shorty.
This shouldn’t happen in this country, or anywhere else, but in a free society we’re going to be subject to people like this. I prefer this to the alternative. – John Green, father of 9 year old Christina Green
Christina was slain Saturday by the nutjob who tried to assassinate Congresswoman Giffords here in Tucson. Quoted on Sunday’s Today Show in a clip at Reason online. Watch the whole piece.
Found via SayUncle.
UPDATE: The video is currently available on YouTube:
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Thanks to Linoge for the pointer.
I’ll be spending the last week of January on the lower North coast of Quebec, about 400 miles North of Quebec City.
I’ve lived in Tucson since 1981. I’m not sure my system will be able to deal with daytime high temperatures of, oh, 21°F.
I just ordered quilt-lined bib-overalls from Carhartt off of Amazon. Now I need to get some long underwear, heavy socks, and some heavy long-sleeve shirts. I get the feeling I’m going to be spending some quality time tramping around the jobsite taking pictures and notes.
Engineering. It’s not just a job, it’s an adventure! Can’t keep me in a fabric-covered box! 😉
George Bernard Shaw was a socialist. There is no doubt about that. He was also a promoter of eugenics.
The two ideas are not mutually exclusive. They are, as Jonah Goldberg pointed out in his Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change, commonly associated.
They are commonly associated because socialism requires a “New Man” in order to succeed. For the Russian Communists, it was the “New Soviet Man.” For the Nazis it was their “master race” of Übermenschen, but either way, it requires those “others” to cease to exist so that they’ll stop gumming up the works of their scientifically- and socially-engineered utopia.
Yes, the socialists were all in favor of “the workers,” as long as they were the right type:
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Source: The Soviet Story
It is suggested that Shaw was using satire here, to poke holes in (as Wikipedia puts it) “the eugenicists’ wilder dreams,” but the fact of the matter is, joking or not, his call for chemists to “discover a lethal gas” for carrying out mass killings was eventually taken seriously. And it wasn’t satire that killed millions of Ukrainian kulaks, it was deliberate starvation, starvation that the New York Times’ Walter Duranty covered up, saying “Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not – they must be ‘liquidated’ or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian mass.” Nor was that the first – or the last – mass murder carried out in the name of socialist utopianism.
Mass murder isn’t a bug with socialism, it’s a feature.
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Just thought you might want to know.
So I suppose I should write some analysis of Saturday’s assassination attempt and mass shooting.
Sorry.
Larry Correia beat me to it.
Damn:
‘Band of Brothers’ inspiration dies at age 92
Richard “Dick” Winters, the Easy Company commander whose World War II exploits were made famous by the book and television miniseries “Band of Brothers,” died last week in central Pennsylvania. He was 92.
Winters died following a several-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, longtime family friend William Jackson said Monday.
An intensely private and humble man, Winters had asked that news of his death be withheld until after his funeral, Jackson said.