Reminder: the NRA will score Holder contempt vote.
I’m not sure why I missed this at the time – the letter’s dated June 20th – but it’s official: “the NRA will consider this vote in [their] candidate evaluations.” That doesn’t guarantee a contempt...
View ArticleBuzzfeed: upset that the NRA not rushing to get shooting details wrong, like…...
Point: Buzzfeed: How The NRA Twitter Handles A Mass Shooting: Silence Counterpoint: Huffington Post: Media Initially Identify Adam Lanza, Newtown Shooting Suspect, As Ryan Lanza, His Brother Before...
View Article…This.
[UPDATE: Link fixed.] Simply… this. There are, in fact, ten amendments in the Bill of Rights, and they’re all in there for a reason. I despise gun-grabbers intensely; but neither am I particularly...
View ArticleQotD, Start With Eric Holder, Joe Biden edition.
From the New York Times’ glum realization that no, the President has no stomach for a fight with pro-gun civil rights activists over the 2nd Amendment comes two sentences that really did deserve a...
View ArticleWashington Post: Mark Begich (D) is terrified of the NRA.
The poltroon. Well, that’s what the WaPo wanted to say: Sen Mark Begich declared a “sea change” in the politics of gun control immediately after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., telling his local...
View ArticleSo… *which* NASCAR car drivers don’t want to be associated with the NRA?
Because there’s a crucial bit missing from this report of anti-NRA shenanigans at the Texas Motor Speedway (TMS): Sources confirmed Friday that two drivers were advised by their public relations...
View ArticleThe NRA goofs on that goofy Bloomberg gun-grabbing ad.
For some reason, when that now-infamous Bloomberg ad of the quote-unquote ‘responsible gun owner who happens to think that Bloomberg’s right on the money, yes-siree, no fooling’ came out, I didn’t...
View ArticleSic transit gloria Toomey-Manchin?
They apparently don’t have the votes for a ‘compromise’ amendment extending background checks for firearm purchases. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell tweeted this morning “Sen. Joe Manchin tells me ‘ we will not...
View ArticleReminder: gun rights are *civil* rights.
I’m highlighting this for a somewhat tangential reason: “When you have not one, not two, but dozens of women well over 70 come in here to buy a gun, something is going wrong out there,” he says. “It’s...
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Is there a better category than “Safe Republican?”
Because if so, Eric Cantor just hit it: You don’t walk into a R+10 district and tell a bunch of lawful gun owners that they’re actually a bunch of illiterate bigoted losers who have to wear white...
View ArticleHarry Reid offers the NRA a scalp on controversial Surgeon General nomination.
Tell me again about how smart it was for Harry Reid to kill the filibuster over nominations. Because I’m pretty sure that it’s going to end up giving the NRA a public win: A number of Senate Democrats...
View ArticleDid ANYBODY actually watch that town hall thing?
Even the NRA apparently checked out, much to the President’s barely-throttled fury: “The National Rifle Association sees no reason to participate in a public relations spectacle orchestrated by the...
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The Obama administration’s mistakes on the assault weapon ban.
The administration that couldn’t shoot straight*. [UPDATE]: Welcome, SayUncle readers. Note plural. Mistake #1: picking an Attorney General and administration spokesman who doesn’t even know current...
View Article#rsrh In which I solve the NRA’s dilemma for it.
Said dilemma being, as Jim Geraghty put it, that the organization will have to make some hard choices this election on whether to endorse Republicans or Democrats: fortunately, it’s actually easy to...
View ArticleWHY WOULD NINJA AVOID THE NRA?
[UPDATE: CORRECTION! CORRECTION! CORRECTION! AN ALERT READER POINTS OUT THAT GLENN REYNOLDS HAD IN POINT OF FACT SPECIFIED “EVIL NINJAS!” I THUS APOLOGIZE TO GLENN REYNOLDS FOR THE ERROR, AND WILL NOW...
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