Arm America? John Wayne Would Lose Real Shootouts

NOTE: Well, son of a gun (oops) – this author seems to be somewhat of an anti-gun believer – but READ through it anyway. There are some very good points here. OH – and Mister Jones? The author talks about Sandy Hook too… WOW – I KNEW that we would receive response on this one. One of the BIGGEST responses that we have had in some time. And – I fully agree with each and everyone of you. Thank you all. ~ Editor

John Wayne and Marsha Hunt in the 1937 movie “Born to the West.”

When Pat Buchanan kicked off his presidential run in the 1996 Republican primary, he posed wearing a gun belt in Tombstone, Ariz., at the entrance to the O.K. Corral. “I wanted to wear a gunfighter’s outfit,” Buchanan told reporters. “So I did it.”

If Buchanan had been wearing that gun on the streets of Tombstone in 1881, he’d have been lucky not to run into Virgil or Wyatt Earp, who would have clubbed him over the head (“buffaloed” in the parlance of the time), hauled him off to jail and fined him $25 for carrying a firearm within the city limits.

Like many frontier peace officers, the Earps didn’t debate gun control, they enforced it. Continue reading

Is the U.S. heading toward a frightening future? ‘We are here’

In another troubling sign the Biden administration views distrusting American citizens as dangerous and subversive, the public learned this week the FBI has been reading private Facebook posts, and labeling the writer a domestic terrorist threat, if you questioned the 2020 presidential election. Those comments then earned the Facebook user his or her own investigation by their own disapproving government.

In an exclusive story published this week, The New York Post quotes Department of Justice whistleblowers who describe a 19-month operation in which a Facebook employee secretly sent online messages to the FBI if the author complained about their government – specifically if they questioned if Joe Biden legally defeated Donald Trump. Continue reading

Another 50 illegal immigrants – including a one-month-old baby – are bused from Texas to Kamala Harris’s DC residence, as THREE additional buses arrive in NYC

Aid workers quickly swooped in to remove the group from the vice president’s doorstep, taking them to a local shelter for support services.

Three additional buses arrived at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan early on Saturday, days after the border crisis shot to national attention when a plane full of migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard. ..

‘Texas will continue sending migrants to sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C. until President Biden and Border Czar Harris step up and do their jobs to secure the border,’ he added.

Since April, Texas has transported more than 11,000 migrants by bus to Democrat-controlled states and cities, including 8,000 to DC and 2,500 to New York City.

At least 600 migrants from Texas have also been transported to Chicago since late August. (Continue to full article)

Illegal migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis go shopping at Target, after being ferried from billionaires’ enclave to Cape Cod military base

Wee got thee monee!

Five of the Venezuelan migrants shipped from Martha’s Vineyard to Joint Base Cape Cod today enjoyed a shopping trip to a nearby mall.

A family of three and two young males – among the 50 originally flown to the exclusive Massachusetts island by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday – strolled around a Target excitedly gazing at the goods.

They were dropped off at smart Cape Cod Mall in Hyannis in the same yellow coach that had whisked them by ferry from Martha’s Vineyard the previous day to the massive military base on the mainland.

The bus also stopped at an urgent care center on the way to the mall to drop off five other migrants for evaluation after they had complained of various illnesses and conditions.

One of the migrants at the mall, Jean Carlo, 35, told DailyMail.com exclusively as he walked among the aisles in Target: ‘We are so very happy to be here at the mall and in America.

‘We are just going shopping, looking for household items. We are trying to set up our situation.’ (Continue to full article)

My Retirement ~ I’ve had enough!

September 15, 2022 ~ I awoke this morning to a feeling of dread. An uneasiness and uncomfortable feeling consumed me. I know the reasons and the source of this discomfort.

I’ve lost all faith in the American government.

Today’s America is not the country I volunteered to serve and for whom I swore an oath to protect with my life. I consider that oath valid in perpetuity as long as that country existed.

Since that country is no more, I consider my oath fulfilled. Continue reading

Overthrow the Government: All the Ways in Which Our Rights Have Been Usurped

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

It’s easy to become discouraged about the state of our nation.

We’re drowning under the weight of too much debt, too many wars, too much power in the hands of a centralized government, too many militarized police, too many laws, too many lobbyists, and generally too much bad news.

It’s harder to believe that change is possible, that the system can be reformed, that politicians can be principled, that courts can be just, that good can overcome evil, and that freedom will prevail.

So where does that leave us? Continue reading

Griffin: The Tyrant Is a Slave to His Own Desires

Thoughts on Plato’s The Republic and current events.

The “Young Heretics” podcast is truly an enlightening experience. In his latest episode, host Spencer Klavan talks about Book 8 and Book 9 of The Republic, where Plato talks about the decaying of a republic and, more specifically, the issue of tyranny.

After an oligarchy devolves, a tyrant rises to power.
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Ross: This Is NOT Fiction

Imagine that it is 10-20 years in the future and you need to do some grocery shopping. No longer do you pay with cash; in fact, there are no longer any cashiers in stores; everything is almost entirely computerized. To enter the store, you either scan your wrist (which has an RFID chip in it) or scan an ID card that identifies you; allowing you to enter the store. You grab your cart, which has sensors that identify the goods you put into it; providing you with a running total of how much you are spending. Then, when you check out, you scan your wrist, or ID card again, and the amount of your purchase is automatically deducted from your account. No fuss, no muss; in and out without having to wait in long lines with slow cashiers who can’t count the correct change, right?

That all sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it; pretty far-fetched and futuristic. Well, welcome to the future friends and neighbors, Continue reading

Martha’s Vineyard residents HIT THE ROOF as Gov. DeSantis flies in 50 Venezuelan illegal immigrants to the affluent liberal enclave in stunning move straight out of Texas Governor Abbott’s playbook

Martha’s Vineyard residents are reeling after two planeloads of migrants landed on the wealthy Massachusetts island, in a dramatic escalation of a campaign by Republican governors to shift the impact of the border crisis to Democratic areas. 

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is taking credit for two planeloads of migrants arriving in Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. Pictures published by the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette and the Martha’s Vineyard Times showed the migrants in the affluent community where prominent liberals such as the Obamas, Oprah Winfrey and Larry David all have homes.

Following their arrival on Wednesday, the migrants stayed overnight at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Edgartown, which provided emergency shelter by clearing out the parish hall and setting up cots.

In a statement, DeSantis’ office said: ‘Yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha’s Vineyard today were part of the state’s relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations.’ The remarks continued: ‘States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country’ by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as ‘sanctuary states’ and support for the Biden Administration’s open border policies.’ (Continue to full article)

‘It’s not secure Kamala, it’s WIDE OPEN!’ Illegal immigrants laugh at VP Harris’ claim that the border is secure as they get dropped off outside her DC home in bus organized by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

Two migrant buses sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott arrived at Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington DC this morning in an escalation of the ongoing immigration crisis. More than 100 people traveled from Eagle Pass, Texas, to the Naval Observatory after crossing the border – just days after the Vice President insisted it was ‘secure’.

During an interview on Sunday, Harris told NBC’s Chuck Todd: ‘The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed. ‘We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration.’

But many migrants who arrived from Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia and Mexico told Fox News that they thought the border was open despite her comments. Those who arrived on the bus said that they had travelled from Venezuela, with many women, children and families smiling as they got off the vehicles. Gov Abbott appears to have directly retaliated to Harris’ comments, by sending the latest load of migrants close to her home in DC. (Continue to full article)

Rand Paul’s GOTCHA moment

Senator clashes AGAIN with Fauci in Congress over child vaccines and plays him 2004 video in which the COVID tsar said ‘natural immunity is the most potent vaccination

The Fauci-Paul show returned to Congress on Wednesday, when the world-renowned immunologist traded blows with his libertarian tormentor in a contest that did not even mention monkeypox – the subject that had brought them to the Senate hearing.

Once again, Sen. Rand Paul went to the archives to dig up old comments by Dr. Anthony Fauci in an effort to paint him as a scientifically inconsistent fraud.

And once again Fauci bested him with a factcheck and a quip. “I have never ever denied fundamental immunology. In fact, I wrote the chapter in the textbook of medicine on fundamental immunology.” Continue to full story…

Panel advises removal of Confederate statue at Arlington

If our national cannot memorialize fallen soldiers (Americans) in a cemetery, then where?

WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent commission is recommending that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be dismantled and taken down, as part of its final report to Congress on the renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy.

Panel members on Tuesday rolled out the final list of ships, base roads, buildings and other items that they said should be renamed. But unlike the commission’s recommendations earlier this year laying out new names for nine Army bases, there were no suggested names for the roughly 1,100 assets across the military that bear Confederate names.

Retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, vice-chair of the commission, said the final cost for all of its renaming recommendations will be $62,450,030. The total for the latest changes announced Tuesday is $40,957,729, and is included in that amount. Continue reading

Living in a Bizarro World

• We shut down travel from Europe over fear of COVID-19, but have an open southern border.

• If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.

• Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.

• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegal Mexicans voting in our elections are good.

• It was cool for Joe Biden to “blackmail” the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.

• Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.

• Sexualizing children is bad, but 11-year-old drag queens are good.

• Illegals aren’t required to show ID, but citizens can’t buy cough medicine without it. Continue reading

21 Years and Counting ~ On Reflection

I’ll not take the time this day to dissect and discuss all of the nuances and stories about what happened September 11, 2001. I know where I was and what I was doing – as most people do.

There are many questions and much evidence out there to raise questions about the real story behind the tragedy… and THAT is my point – no matter how you address the issue – it was a tragedy. People lost their lives and maybe in some respects – we lost our country.

But THIS is how I choose to honor that day today…

I’ll see you at Sundown,

Smith: The Nightmare Will Never Be Forgotten

~ Forward ~
There are reams of all manner of information pertaining to Islam and the nature of its ideology that address it from many perspectives, but from my own many long years of research, I have found nothing of any social redeeming value within it. It has never gone through any reformation process and holistically it stands pretty much as it did at the split between Sunni and Shia Islam in the 12th century, still as deadly, backwards and vile and evil as ever.

And it’s especially maddening to hear so many so-called “experts” and scholars attempt to differentiate between “moderate” and “radical” Muslims. Even Islamic theologians laugh at he idea, because they know that the Sura, Hadith and Koran broker no such nonsense and demand complete submission and obedience to the commands of Mohammed and Allah. They understand the abrogation clause in the Hadith that give Mohammed’s last words more authority than his first, and they accept and demand that Islam be held supreme above all other religions, above all the world’s governments. Continue reading

The American Kleptocracy: A Government of Liars, Thieves and Lawbreakers

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) continues to suck the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere.

Think about it.

Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizenry – purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure – has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another by our own government. Continue reading