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“Does she want to serve me Cheez Whiz on Triscuits, or bust a cap in my ass?”

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Via Tam, I visited the Creative Loafing web site for a review of the book She’s Got a Gun by Georgia State University photography professor Nancy Floyd. This book is similar to Kyle Cassidy’s recent Armed America, but it concentrates specifically on the fairer sex. It’s a pretty good piece, and I’ll probably pick up a copy of the book, but the site also has a slide show of some of the images from the book, narrated by the writer of the Creative Loafing review.

You’ve GOT to watch that.

Here are a few images from that slide show:

That last young lady is eleven years old. According to the review, her comment for the piece was “Shooting is FUN!”

Indeed it is.

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Quote of the Day.

In keeping with the recent Liberal Facism / Locke v. Rousseau post:

All public policy issues ultimately boil down to one thing: Locke versus Rousseau. The individual comes first, the government is merely an association protecting your interests, and it’s transactional, versus the general will, the collective, the group is more important than the individual. Everything boils down to that eventually. And the problem with “compassionate conservatism” is the same problem with social gospelism, with Progressivism and all the rest: it works on the assumption that the government can love you. The government can’t love you. The government is not your mommy and it’s not your daddy, and any system that is based on those assumptions will eventually lead to folly. – Jonah Goldberg in his podcast interview with Glenn and Helen Reynolds, 12/27/07. (MP3 file.)

Give it a listen.

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Nate Sends an Open Letter to College Students.

And it’s a good one. Quote of the Day:

So, how can you, the college student, as an individual and as a group, change the circumstances of the violence you face on campus and in a bigger sense, citizens face everyday in their daily lives whether it be at the shopping mall or at lunch at Wendy’s? You can accept that your protection is your responsibility and then you can choose to be prepared to face potential violence and prepared to stop the violence when it presents itself.

I’ve been saying that for quite some time.

Go read the whole thing.

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Quote of the Day.

The American Left (to the extent that Leftism is consistent with an authentically American outlook) is a totalitarian movement dedicated to the bringing forth of unlimited Good, through governmental mechanisms.

These aren’t people who seek evil. They are people who seek Good, albeit through dubious means. They are people who blind themselves to the truth that the power for unlimited good is cannot be distinguished, even in principle, from the power for unlimited evil. As such, they do not understand that we oppose them for their means, not their ends, and many believe that we oppose the Good they seek to bring forth, and cannot understand why anyone (other than a reactionary degenerate seeking to preserve a position of oppression based privilege) would oppose such Goodness.

This premise, government as a source of unlimited Good, directly contravenes one of the few axioms upon which America is predicated: that since it is impossible to create a government capable of doing unlimited good without creating a government capable of doing unlimited evil, we shall not make a government so capable, because it will inevitably degenerate into the unlimited evil case.

(Emphasis in the original.) The Geek with a .45 from his post Initial Thoughts…

This is somewhat more briefly expressed by Charles Krauthammer’s Fundamental Law of American Politics: “Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil,” but such brevity loses much of the nuance.

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Quote of the Day.

One thing that can be read from this analysis is that, after all the attempts to write down all these high falutin’ words to keep government in due bounds, we in the end are not ruled by laws, but by men. When men are determined to reach a given result, a piece of parchment will not stop them.

Wade Jensen – “PolyKahr” – in a comment to Of Laws and Sausages

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Quote of the Day.

Folks, if you want “Political Leaders” you’re living in the wrong country; the closest provision we have for a “Political Leader” in the Constitution is the guy we hire to mind the Army & Navy and shake hands with foreigners for us. This is the country where we’re supposed to be leading ourselves, not waiting for solutions to be handed down from on high.

From Tam. Again. Go read the whole thing. Print it on T-shirts. Make posters of it, and put them up in every educational institution in this country.

Because too damned few people understand this concept anymore.

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I’m enjoying this Democratic primary, as it seems to be causing our friends to the left to notice phenomena that they had previously pooh-poohed. – Instapundit on the Left’s infighting over the Democratic primaries

Don’t worry, Professor. After it’s all settled, they’ll deny it all again. Like a Terminator, it’s what they do. It’s all they do. And they never, ever stop.

(Hey, I’m making a habit of the QotD thing!)