Archive for the 'Individual Liberty' Category
Thursday, January 11th, 2018
The Senate Judiciary committee heard testimony Dec. 8 on a proposal to try to outlaw “bump stocks” — devices that allow light, modern, semi-automatic rifles to fire at rates similar to machine pistols.
Full Article Categories: 2nd Amendment, Big Brother, Common Defense, Individual Liberty, Killer Cops, Politics
Tuesday, October 24th, 2017
(Note: A version of this column appears in the Nov. 10 edition of “Firearms News,” on newsstands next week.)
Full Article Categories: 2018 Election, 2nd Amendment, About Town, Crime, Individual Liberty, Law Enforcement, Media, Nevada, Politics
Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
(Brunette here.) Are you skeptical about religion? Yes? . . . me too. Are you equally skeptical of Atheism? (Ditto.) Atheism seems quite popular at present; I take no issue with individual atheists, though evangelizing atheists (evangelists of any sort, frankly) DO irk me. Faith is an extremely personal thing to those who possess it. […]
Full Article Categories: Brunette's rants, Free Speech, Individual Liberty, Islam, Jesus, Judicial tyranny, Religion, Uncategorized
Sunday, July 2nd, 2017
(Brunette again.) With recent LGBT Pride Day celebrations fading from the headlines, especially since posting my last piece, I’ve found myself thinking about various stories I’ve read over the past year or two, particularly accounts of gay men coming out as conservative: They say — and I have no trouble believing them — that it’s […]
Full Article Categories: 2016 Election, Brunette's rants, Free Speech, Individual Liberty, Islam, Politics, Regressive Left, Uncategorized
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
(Brunette here.) Tyranny heralds its arrival first through confiscation of speech — via Orwellian inversion of language, and/or suppression of undesirable voices ‘by any means necessary,’ whether subtle or brutal or BOTH. If you want to determine who the aspiring tyrants are in a given society, and who they intend to oppress, look around to […]
Full Article Categories: Brunette's rants, Free Speech, Individual Liberty, Islam, Politics, Regressive Left, Religion, Terror
Wednesday, June 14th, 2017
(Brunette again.) The fog of war — largely an information war — will eventually clear. We’ve been in the thick of it for some time now. The long dominant left-leaning media has everyone’s heads spinning with more Russia hysteria, spurious rumors based on anonymous sources, breathless speculations about who’s in or out (or at each […]
Full Article Categories: 2016 Election, Brunette's rants, Free Speech, Individual Liberty, Media, Pedogate, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
Full Article Categories: 2016 Election, 2nd Amendment, Crime, Education, Elections, Endangered Species, Extreme Green, Global warming, Immigration, Individual Liberty, Islam, Judicial tyranny, Law Enforcement, Media, Muslim subversion, Politics, Public Land, Western Lands
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
A federal judge in Las Vegas declared a mistrial April 24 in the case of four men accused of taking up arms against federal agents during the Bundy Ranch standoff in 2014, The Associated Press reports.
Full Article Categories: 2nd Amendment, Agenda 21, Amend The Constitution, Big Brother, Common Defense, Due Process, Earth Stewardship, Endangered Species, Extreme Green, Individual Liberty, Judicial tyranny, Jury rights, Law Enforcement, Media, Nevada, Politics, Private Property, Public Land, Self defense, Western Lands
Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
A version of this column appears in the April 10 edition of “Firearms News” (formerly “Shotgun News”), now arriving in newsstands and mailboxes.
Full Article Categories: 2nd Amendment, Common Defense, Crime, Drug War, Individual Liberty, Self defense
Monday, March 6th, 2017
The following column appears in the March 10 edition of “Firearms News” (previously “Shotgun News,”) on newsstands and in mailboxes now.
Full Article Categories: 2nd Amendment, Individual Liberty, Politics, Self defense