Brunette here (Trigger warning may apply. Or not. Reader discretion advised.) đ Trying to wrap my head around the subject of Islam, and what its increasing presence means to the West, has been daunting. Clearly Muslims are humans first and foremost, and deserve to be seen as individuals like anyone else. It would be a […]
Charles C. Haynes, who works out of Gannettâs financially strapped âNewseumâ in Washington, holds a masterâs degree from Harvard Divinity School and promotes himself as a champion of the First Amendment (though, being a statist Democrat, he has of course written in favor of federal âanti-hate-speechâ legislation — http://capcityfreepress.blogspot.com/2009/11/charles-c-haynes-say-what-you-want-hate.html .)
Rather than leave the impression that no free-market thinker of any note stands opposed to this âopen bordersâ stuff â (âPlease! Send us millions more Spanish-speaking peasants who scorn our laws and want to stick us with their medical bills, and now please add a couple million unreconstructed members of an alien religion, whose holy […]
Imagine with me weâre attending one of those âcandidate forumsâ where local office-seekers address the public. Two candidates for the office of dog-catcher rise. The first seems unaccustomed to public speaking. He offers no grandiose speech. He just calmly says âIf you elect me, Iâm going to do my best to round up these packs […]
About a week after the Libertarian Party convention in Orlando rebuffed the candidacies of John McAfee and a few other freedom radicals over the Memorial Day weekend — instead deciding to try again with âmoderateâ former New Mexico Republican Gov. Gary Johnson and the even less libertarian gun-grabbing Republican Bill Weld of Massachusetts — party […]
(A version of this column appears in the May 10 edition of “Firearms News,” formerly “Shotgun News,” on newsstands this week.)
Delegates of both parties preparing to cave on amnesty for another 10 to 14 million illegal aliens might want to take a gander at a new Pulse Opinion Research survey of 1,000 likely voters nationwide, available at http://tinyurl.com/axlxkyn. âA new poll using neutral language — and avoiding the false choice of conditional legalization vs. mass […]
President Barack Obamaâs supporters have cheered the boldness with which heâs cut through the Gordian knot of congressional âgridlock,â instituting changes in the law that meet with their approval through executive fiat. But to fully grasp the danger of a president thus bypassing our constitutional system of checks and balances — a system in which […]
How are we doing, safeguarding those âunalienable Rightsâ with which we are âendowed by our Creatorâ — in support of which 56 patriots solemnly pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred Honor, 236 years ago? We remain free by many measures. Americans can still pretty much live where we want, work where we want, […]
In twin op-eds in the Las Vegas Review-Journal of June 22, Patricia Vazquez, a professor of English at the College of Southern Nevada, and Fatma Marouf, co-director of the Immigration Clinic at UNLVâs Boyd School of Law, argued that illegal immigrants should no longer be referred to as âillegal immigrants.â âOur country has a principle […]