Only three candidates responded. Those were Scott Lingamfelter, Jeannemarie Davis, and Susan Stimpson. His emails have had the title of “Taking (candidate name) To The Woodshed” in the case of those who didn’t respond to his questionnaire. He first attacked E.W. Jackson for his lack of experience… And his personal financial troubles. That’s rich, considering Del. Gear’s own sketchy financial problems. I bet he didn’t count on anyone doing a little research of their own, did he? He went on to attack Susan Stimpson, who in my judgment, fared pretty well in answering his survey and setting him straight about some pretty obvious distortions. He responded by attacking her:

she comes across as a “angry soccer mom”, in showng her disdain for the Transportation plan passed Susan turned on those that helped gain her seat in public office and that alone troubles me greatly. Susan Stimpson greatest problem is she has fallen in with the extreme Libertarian fringe of the Republican Party and these are the folks that have proven to be the downfall for our nominees.

This tells me where Gear is coming from. He wants the Republican Party of Virginia to keep doing what it’s been doing. How has that worked out for us?
He also attacked Davis for her answers, granted, she’s an easy target. And he attacked Pete Snyder for not answering, and as readers of this blog know, that’s no big trick either. He’s clearly out to boost Lingamfelter, and I have no doubt that’s how he got the email contact list he’s been pushing out this nonsense to.

The Republican Liberty Caucus of Virginia sent out a survey to every Republican candidate for statewide office. We didn’t attack anyone for their answers or failure to respond. This is politics at its worst. In sum, Gear is just trying to draw attention to himself and help Lingamfelter by trashing everyone else. He needs to shut his yap. Hard.

Welcome to Jersey, where respect for the Constitution is tossed out in favor of power-hungry politicians’ power hungry power grabs.

h/t: Guns Save Lives

But it looks like the rest of the presidential media fan base is following suit.

“The Justice Department’s collection of journalists’ phone records and the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups have challenged Obama’s credibility as a champion of civil liberties – and as a president who would heal the country from damage done by his predecessor.” — Washington Post

“…reporters are tripping over themselves to condemn lies, bullying and shadiness in the Obama administration.” — Politico

This isn’t just about press rights. It’s about the right of citizens to know what their government is doing. In an atmosphere of secrecy and punishment – despite the hollow promises of transparency – that’s getting harder every day.”– New York Times

It didn’t take Benghazi. It didn’t take the deaths of four Americans and the subsequent lies. It didn’t take Fast and Furious. It didn’t even take the IRS.

It took a rogue Justice Department violating the sanctity of the First Amendment by trying to get its claws on the phone records of the Associated Press for the media to wake up and quit playing domestic abuse victim to Zero’s wife beater.

Maybe they’ll finally start reporting objectively what is really going on in this administration.

Nah.

“What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn’t like dealing with other politicians — that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn’t particularly like the press…. He likes to write the speeches, likes to rewrite what Favreau and the others wrote for the first draft,” Matthews said.

“So what part does he like? He likes going on the road, campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple days somewhere in Ohio or somewhere,” Matthews continued. “But what part does he like? He doesn’t like lobbying for the bills he cares about. He doesn’t like selling to the press. He doesn’t like giving orders or giving somebody the power to give orders. He doesn’t seem to like being an executive.”

Poor Chris. I guess he’ll have to go back to the festering carcass of Marx hidden away in his closet and kissing the ring on the shriveled claw.

Don’t judge me. That’s how I deal.

So I figured I’d catch you up on my views about what is going on lately.

1.  Benghazi: there’s not too much I can say about it, frankly. There have been lies told. There have been witnesses intimidated. The now infamous talking points were redacted to such a degree, that they said nothing at all. No mention of attacks. No mention of threats. No mention of al Q’aida. Nothing. Why is this important? Because four Americans died. Because they died even as this administration claimed Libya was all fabulous thanks to our involvement and the removal of Qaddafi. Security wasn’t what it should have been, apparently, given the threat level. Why? Maybe because the party line about having defeated al Q’aida and about how useful and good our involvement in Libya was was threatened by actual events. Yes, a lot more Americans die in Chicago on any given day, but you know what? It’s important. The truth always is.

2 . IRS targeting specific groups. This is so reprehensible, I don’t even know how to begin to address it. This is not the first time, and it’s not new. But this is the first time the IRS actually admitted it. Publicly. Brazenly. Also, I can’t help but think that at no time did the IRS have more technology and power than it does now. Targeting groups opposed to the government? This is exactly what the First Amendment is supposed to protect against – the right to speak out against the government. They’re in violation. Deep violation. Someone needs to be held accountable, and Eric Holder is not impartial or competent enough to do it.

3. Government’s grabbing phone records of the Associated Press. Not only does this administration have absolutely no respect for the Second Amendment, it’s now apparently going after the First – not just in its use of the IRS to target groups who oppose the government, but also in this unprecedented intrusion. From what I hear Holder is claiming this was a matter of national security, which is the catch-all phrase petty, pathetic tyrants use when they try to destroy your rights. And then he recused himself, claiming he knew nothing about it. So which was it? According to Justice Department regulations, subpoenas of this kind have to be signed by the Attorney General. Why did this not happen?

It is quite obvious that this administration has absolutely no respect for the Law of the Land, and no respect for individual rights. Again and again we see efforts to destroy the Second Amendment, as well as infringements on the First Amendment and continued lies to the American people.

I’m sick of it.

Aren’t you?

DC officials refuse to prosecute Gregory, even as they ruined the life of a young military veteran. And the saga continues today. Emily says her requests to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the Office of Attorney General (OAG) to turn over the documents in the Media Maggot’s™ case were ignored, so she used a Freedom of Information Act request, which yielded nothing but public documents.

So I wrote separate extensively-detailed FOIA request to the attorney general, MPD and Mayor Vincent Gray. The police and prosecutor responded with a large amount of documents — 75 percent of them were useless to me (every public email and news story) and seemed to be an effort to bury me in paper. The rest was heavily redacted with big black marks.

On Monday, I got a press release from Judicial Watch announced it has filed a FOIA lawsuit against MPD and OAG on behalf of the Legal Insurrection blog. In reading through the documents that were not turned over, I noticed there was one that I had gotten — the Jan. 9 letter from the NBC’s lawyer Lee Levine to D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan.

I called William A. Jacobson, the lead author of the legal blog, to tell him I had that letter. “I am shocked that the D.C. attorney general would withhold from us the letter from David Gregory’s attorney using a claim of FOIA exemption, and force us to go to court, when they already gave the letter to another person,” Mr. Jacobson, a clinical professor at Cornell Law School, told me.

I emailed him the Levine letter. He sent back a Feb. 20 email from Victor Bonett in the attorney general’s office that said, “OAG is withholding the Jan. 9, 2013 letter from Lee Levine and certain responsive emails between OAG and MPD, pursuant to D.C. Official Code Section 2-534(a)(3)(A)(i), (a)(4) and (e).”

So new information revealed that the Media Maggot™ “borrowed a magazine from a private citizen who lives outside DC, and that he supposedly returned the item to its owner.

It’s interesting to me that a private citizen who owns such a magazine would let the Media Maggot™ borrow it to promote its ban.

But what’s even more interesting is that the claim that the magazine was returned to its owner immediately following the show is a blatant lie.  A January 9 a police “property record” document says “a Kay Industries 30-round magazine was recovered from Mr. Gregory (at a redacted address) as part of an active investigation.”  January 9, 2013 is two days after the magazine supposedly had been returned to its owner.

Other lies are also cropping up in this case, and still the Media Maggot™ goes free, with not a single stain to his pristine record, while regular citizens get slammed by the law for exercising their rights.

When I heard about this planned march in Washington DC the other day, I had to kind of wonder what the point of it is.  The plan is to get 1,000 people to march in Washington DC with rifles on Independence Day.

On the morning of July 4, 2013, Independence Day, we will muster at the National Cemetery & at noon we will step off to march across the Memorial Bridge, down Independence Avenue, around the Capitol, the Supreme Court, & the White House, then peacefully return to Virginia across the Memorial Bridge. This is an act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny. We are marching to mark the high water mark of government & to turn the tide.

Now, I’m all about civil disobedience. I think that sometimes, it’s the only way to draw attention to unconstitutional laws and government abuses. I support the idea in spirit, but I can see some problems in this poorly-planned attempt to garner attention.  Especially the following line in the protest’s Facebook page: This will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent.

Goodness! This only sounds vaguely threatening, doesn’t it?

Kokesh claims that if met with physical force, they will peacefully turn back and go back to Virginia. Like anyone wants him and his retarded posse here in the Old Dominion.

Arlington National Cemetery prohibits firearms unless you’re part of an official funeral and the firearm is part of your full dress uniform or you’re a LEO.

Firearms are prohibited on federal property, unless it’s part of your job.

I don’t agree with these policies, and I don’t like them. I would choose to work to change them through legal channels.

Kokesh is trying to gather together a bunch of goobers to intentionally violate the law – to somehow show that peaceable armed citizens aren’t welcome in DC. Well NO SHIT SHERLOCK! We didn’t know this before?

It’s not like Kokesh thinks his little tard march is going to change federal policies! His specific purpose is to show “that free people are not welcome in Washington, & returning with the resolve that the politicians, bureaucrats, & enforcers of the federal government will not be welcome in the land of the free.” Um, yeah. OK. You going to stop them? Doubt it.

Acts of civil disobedience are non-violent resistance to tyranny. They don’t include threats of violence if the government turns violent on the protest. They are many times intended to provoke arrests and physical violence against the protesters. This is an act to show what we already know. Stupid and pretty much pointless. And it could turn ugly.

But whatever…

I have a real problem with the current Dominatrix-in-Chief of the DC Police. This is the same woman whose police force didn’t even bother investigating media maggot David Gregory for intentionally and with full knowledge committing a firearms violation in DC, while studiously destroying the life of a military veteran for inadvertently doing the same.

This is the same woman whose department allowed the filthy, foul, criminal Occutards to smell up and soil our capital city with not so much as a slap on the wrist.

But now she’s promising that her posse will meet Kokesh’s protesters should they choose to violate DC’s firearms laws and march into the city.

What’s even more amusing is that this petty, tyrannical bureaucrat really doesn’t understand the whole point of civil disobedience.

[Cathy] Lanier said there’s a difference between civil disobedience and violation of the law. It is legal for D.C. residents to have registered firearms in their homes, but they may not carry them in public.

“Passing into the district with loaded firearms is a violation of the law and it will be treated as such,” Lanier said during an interview with NewsChannel 8.

Ummm…. what?

The very definition of civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws. That is the whole point! But apparently, in Lanier’s eyes, it only applies to Occutards, whom she actively refused to eject even when their protest permits expired and they basically squatted in McPherson Square, along with their garbage, excrement and other trash.

Apparently, that’s OK. But a bunch of ostensibly peaceful protesters – no matter how misguided – will be arrested.

Yeah, Kokesh is nothing more than an agent provocateur, intent on escaping his own irrelevance.

But Lanier and crew… they’re petty, authoritarian swine, who obviously don’t think the law should apply equally to those with whose political agenda they disagree. And that makes them a lot more foul in my book.

In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half. Other gun crimes fell even more sharply, paralleling a broader drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns. Violent crime dropped steeply during the 1990s and has fallen less dramatically since the turn of the millennium.

This is great news, not that anyone would know it, because Americans still think that we’re in the midst of an epidemic of violence!

A newly-released survey by the Pew Research Center reveals that more than half of Americans believe that gun crimes are on the increase.

Now why would that be?

The LA Times article I cited above says it’s not clear whether the media shapes these perceptions, but I think their own article is telling.

The number of gun killings dropped 39% between 1993 and 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in a separate report released Tuesday. Gun crimes that weren’t fatal fell by 69%. However, guns still remain the most common murder weapon in the United States, the report noted. Between 1993 and 2011, more than two out of three murders in the U.S. were carried out with guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found. [emphasis mine]

This type of focus on firearms and the media’s insistence on sensationalizing every shooting, while studiously ignoring instances of self defense is instructive.

When I Google “Sandy Hook shooting,” I get nearly 38 million results.

However, when I search for this story about a gas station manager recently defending himself against two armed suspects, I get…

Two relevant stories.

When I search for “Aurora Colorado Shooting,” I get 3.15 million Google hits.

When I try to search for news about Philly homeowner Lee Heng, who defended his children from two home invaders last month, I get…

2,400 stories.

As a journalist, you know the “If it bleeds, it leads” meme pretty well. Obviously, these two stories weren’t dramatic. They weren’t exciting. There was no drama. There was no blood. And no one knows how many lives were saved by putting an end to the armed thugs. Many instances of self defense go unreported, because ultimately, the gun isn’t brandished, and no crime is committed.

Self defense generally doesn’t bleed, so it won’t lead.

But the mainstream media will certainly take sensationalism to new lows with headlines such as this one in USA Today a few weeks ago – Epidemic: Guns kill twice as many kids as cancer does!

Nationally, guns still kill twice as many children and young people than cancer, five times as many than heart disease and 15 times more than infection, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

“We see guns as much of a threat in their life as we used to see bacteria and viruses,” said Dr. Judith S. Palfrey, a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the co-author of the New England journal report. “If you look at what’s actually killing children and disabling children, guns is one of the major things.”

Accidental firearms injuries have been on the decline nationwide. In 2001, 5,091 children ages 19 and under were injured by a firearm. Those numbers steadily decreased through 2009, when 3,587 children under 19 were reported injured by a firearm, according to the defense fund.

Interesting statistics from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which couldn’t in any way be described as political, could it?

All of a sudden young adults and legal adults ages 15-19 are considered “children” and counted as “killed” by guns. I guess the APA isn’t aware that this is the prime age for gang activity. Apparently 25 percent of gang members are aged 15-17. But I don’t suppose that would have anything to do with these statistics, would it?

According to the Centers for Disease Control, some of the leading causes of death for actual children between the ages of 0 and 14 are unintentional injury, congenital anomalies, malignant neoplasms, heart disease and homicides.

Unintentional injury statistics don’t support Palfrey’s analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine either.

Two percent of unintentional injuries that resulted in the deaths of children in 2010 were due to firearms. Motor vehicle accidents and drowning were responsible for more than 60 percent of these deaths.

And yet, the media screeches about a gun violence “epidemic,” and takes every opportunity to publish questionable research from obviously biased sources.

Is it any wonder that Americans are ignorant about significant declines in gun crime?

The politicians screech about stemming gun violence every time a lunatic or criminal goes on an armed rampage.

Gun grabbing advocacy groups exploit every tragedy to further their political agenda.

The media focuses on carnage, but not on positive stories involving firearms.

And groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is supposed to be apolitical, features biased political hacks such as Dr. Judith S. Palfrey, who push a political agenda while hiding behind their medical degrees to promote dangerous policies.

So crime committed with firearms decreases dramatically, despite the gun banners’ most dire predictions, despite the availability of high-capacity magazines and “assault” rifles, and despite the passage of concealed carry laws in numerous states.

And the majority of Americans don’t even know it.

What does that say about them?

Julie Frein, has offered the space she thinks that she’s earned at Arlington National Cemetery to the family of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. And, you know, she says that if we’re upset about that, we should “get over it”.

You can’t make this shit up.

Only problem is, the cretinous cuntmuffin hasn’t earned it. Her husband is a Naval retiree, so he’s eligible, and if he supports this traitorous twat’s mission to provide a heinous pigfucking terrorist a final resting place next to this nation’s heroes, he should be eviscerated with a rusty fork as well.

Arlington National Cemetery posted the following on its Facebook page:

We have been receiving calls about the interview a veteran did regarding giving up her space at a veteran cemetery to the Boston Bombing suspect so he can be buried. We want to make it clear that this suspect is not eligible to be buried at Arlington — a veteran can’t transfer their eligibility to another person. Please pass this along to those who are concerned!

So for those of you who were worried that this terrorist pig humper would be interred anywhere near America’s military heroes, not to worry.

But I have to say, I’m more than repulsed by this military veteran, who thinks that she’s entitled to desecrate the holy ground at Arlington with this shitbag’s remains. A sub human turd who attacked innocent people as an act of terrorism in a nation that gave him not just freedom, but resources and opportunities, buried THERE?

BITCH, PLEASE!

This woman makes me want to reach right through my screen and pull her ovaries out through her fucking eyes!

First, according to Uncle Joe, they have to tongue bathe the collective anuses of the illegal aliens prior to the 2014 Congressional elections, so they will force “immigration reform” (read: amnesty and a road to citizenship for millions of illegals whose first act in a country they claim to love and respect was to violate said country’s immigration laws) down our collective throats first, then regroup, and then continue their assault on the Bill of Rights.

The vice president’s words mark the first time the White House has revealed a timeline that has been widely discussed among gun control advocates and senior aides to senators who are pushing background checks.

“He doesn’t think it will come back before they’ve made some pretty good steps on immigration,” said Sister Marjorie Clark, a lobbyist for Network, the Catholic social justice organization. “He said, ‘I don’t think it will happen before immigration but it will come back.’”

The timeline adds to Biden’s Thursday revelation that he plans to travel the country to push the White House gun control agenda. Then, in a meeting with representatives of law enforcement organizations, Biden said he planned extensive travel to states where senators voted against background checks and said he would take an active role in tweaking the legislation to win more votes.

Here’s the problem I have with this immigration reform. Several, actually.

1. Amnesty has been tried before and was a miserable fail.
2. I have a problem with rewarding lawbreakers.
3. It’s not fair to the folks who have been waiting patiently to enter this nation legally.
4. We need highly educated, skilled workers. That’s not who is going to be given amnesty, for the most part.
5. Security. Security. Security.
6. And also… imagine this scenario:  We allow anyone who wants to stay to remain here and legalize them.  These are generally people who work for low wages, but whose salaries are way higher than what they would have ever gotten back home, which is part of the reason why they all came here to begin with. All of a sudden, they’re legally here, and the politicians now have more ammo to raise the minimum wage, increase benefits, etc. “Why just look at these poor people! They’re working for practically nothing! Their salaries are soooooooo low! We must raise their standards of living! Vote for us, recently legalized immigrants, and we’ll make sure you get even higher salaries! There are way too many impoverished immigrants in this country. We need to do something to raise their pay.”   Sorry, but that’s a no-go for me.  Libertarians will get exactly what they ask for when they advocate just allowing these people to stay – a whole new voting base to vote themselves benefits out of the public coffers. No thanks!

But anyway – back to my original point…

Gun control isn’t dead. Not even close.

Expect the “90 percent of Americans support background checks” lie to get resurrected. Expect more pressure brought on by Bloomberg money on legislators who actually respect the Constitution. Expect more assaults on your rights. Are you ready?