No one spent much time talking about the role of the Internal Revenue Service in causing the death of seven employees at a Wakefield, Mass., software company on the day after Christmas, 2000. The defendant in the killings, Michael McDermott, 43, was convicted on seven counts of first-degree murder.
I see where our drug police — including the Nevada Department of Wildlife and the Drug Enforcement Agency — have found and seized four acres of scattered marijuana plants growing on Mount Charleston, northwest of Las Vegas. The pot farmers are bad people because they litter and sometimes hunt wildlife out of season, says Forest […]
The text for today’s reading in the Gospel of the Politically Correct comes to us from the July 25 London Evening Standard, current sad spokesrag for a nation which rose to greatness in the day when the average peasant was supposed to regularly practice his ability to kill with a longbow at several hundred yards. […]
On the night of Dec. 14, 2010, a firefight erupted in the southern Arizona desert. According to court documents obtained by CBS News, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was part of a squad that spotted a group of illegal immigrants, some armed with assault rifles. When the illegals refused to drop their weapons — in […]
Eighteen-year Las Vegas police officer Laurie Bisch keeps running for sheriff against her boss, Doug Gillespie. She says her independent attitude sometimes makes her feel “like a woman without a country” when she goes to work — though other officers have been known to approach her in private and thank her for raising issues others […]
I wrote recently that under the Second and 14th Amendments, the average citizen must be “allowed” to own, without government license or permission or taxation (the tax having been specifically designed to discourage possession, in the case of the $200 “machine gun tax,” enacted in 1933 when that sum was equivalent to 6,000 to 13,000 […]
As we grow older, hearing an old familiar tune can make us wax nostalgic. The other day, I heard this one again:
SPECIAL TO THE SHOTGUN NEWS Back on Nov. 15, “Reason” magazine headlined their story, by senior editor Radley Balko, “New Jersey man gets seven years for being a responsible gun owner.” Sounds a bit far-fetched — unless you’ve ever had dealings with the anti-gun madness in some of our coastal states, where illegal alien gang […]
The Associated Press represents itself as an unbiased purveyor of objective news. So I reserve the right to be disappointed — if not truly shocked or even surprised — when I see the time-honored news service embracing some of the ridiculous but currently fashionable presumptions of the ignorant but politically correct. This past week, the […]
A reader who refers to himself as “a common sense liberal” writes in: “In view of the agonized calls for increased restrictions on firearm ownership resurrected by the recent shooting in Arizona, could you write a column with meaningful statistics on death and injury nationwide prevented by the civilian ownership of firearms?