Comment O’ The Day
“To be fair, swing sets ARE a sign of white supremacy đ
Their basic design dates back to the structures used to suspend slaves to be whipped in the South.
Something something systemic racism, blah blah whiteness.”
Apparently the demand for ‘White Supremacy!⢒ exceeds the actual supply.
Isn’t ‘Higher Education!ÂŽ’ supposed to promote critical thinking?
Earlier this week, a pair of black Penn State University professors reported a ânooseâ in a tree behind their house.
As reported by the PSU student newspaper Daily Collegian, the professors said the incident was âdeeply distressing to them and their family.â
The Centre Daily Times notes the profs believed the ânooseâ was âdeliberately placed [on the tree] to harass them.â
Responding to the profsâ call about âpossible harassment,â Patton Township Police Department collected the ânooseâ and began investigating around the neighborhood.
PSU President Eric Barron sprung into action, posting a statement âexpressing concernâ about the incident and âoffering support.â
â[T]he incident underscores the importance of our anti-racism work as a University, and as a community of scholars,â Barron wrote. âIt also underscores the importance of our town-gown work to build a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for all who live here. Groups like Community & Campus in Unity that have formed the Centre Region Anti-bias Coalition are critical to helping create a climate of acceptance and support.â
Alas, according to the professorsâ neighbor who was interviewed by police, the ânooseâ actually was part of a swing set. The neighborsâ kid told police he merely had thrown the rope âinto the woods.â
Miami Imam: If You Love Jesus, Islam Is the Religion for You
Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi, imam at the Masjid As-Sunnah An-Nabawiyyah in north Miami, struck a blow for interfaith harmony recently when he preached a sermon in which declared: âIf you truly love Jesus, this [Islam] is the religion for you.â Kablawiâs sermon was an excellent illustration of why Muslim persecution of Christians continues unabated in Nigeria and elsewhere.
After declaring that Palestine is âthe land of Islam â and we will take it back,â Kablawi began a lengthy expatiation on Islamic martyrdom. âEvery true Muslim,â Kablawi asserted, âshould talk to himself about dying as a martyr for the sake of Allah. The Prophet said whoever does not do that is a hypocrite. Can you imagine? There is nothing higher than to die for what you believe.â
Kablawi then struck the victimhood pose that is so very much in fashion nowadays among Islamic advocacy groups in the U.S.: âBut they make people heroes because they die for what they believe. Only when it comes to Islam, our martyrs become terrorists. They come to talk to you about Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela didnât die for that, but he fought his whole life, and he was imprisoned for years for his cause, for whatever he believed in⌠Even thought I have some reservations about what he believed⌠Gandhi, same story, [was considered] a hero because he died for what he believed in. The guy from Mexico [sic], Guevara, [Che] Guevara, or whatever, a big guy. Even Bob Marley died for his⌠You know what? [He is] a hero. Why do you praise these people? Because they died for what they believe in. So why is it forbidden for us, when we say that the greatest level that you can attain is to die for what you believe in â for Allah? Why? You have double standards, hypocrites, why?â
The biggest example of this hypocrisy, as far as Kablawi was concerned, was Christiansâ reverence for Jesus: âAll day long you are bugging us that Jesus died for us⌠We donât believe that Jesus died for us, we donât even believe that Jesus died, period. Yet. But here, you are praising Jesus because he died for what he believed in, to save you from your sins. Why is it forbidden for us to die for our belief, why has it become a big deal?â
Well, one reason is because Jesus didnât take anyone with him. By contrast, the Qurâan states: âSurely Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their belongings and in return has promised that they shall have Paradise. They fight in the way of Allah, and kill and are killedâ (9:111).
Suspect in Ardmore dispensary robbery shot dead
ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) – A suspect is dead after getting shot during an armed robbery at an Ardmore dispensary.
It happened around 8 p.m. Friday at the Highest Choice dispensary on Grand Avenue and H Street in Ardmore.
Police say the suspect went inside armed with a handgun, and the employee got out a gun. They say shots were fired and the suspect was shot and died on scene.
Police arrested a woman who was in the suspectâs car, Melissa Love . She was booked into the Carter County Jail for conspiracy to commit robbery. Police say the employee was not injured.
The suspectâs identity isnât being released at this time.
Woman shoots man in the head to defend herself according to Colorado Springs Police
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Colorado Springs Police were called to a shooting early Friday morning.
It was about 2 in the morning when a man called 911 claiming he was shot in the head. This happened in the 5000 block of Ridenour Dr. just northwest of the Colorado Springs Airport on the southeast side of the city.
According to police, the investigation revealed the man had strangled the woman and threatened to kill her. The woman was able to get a gun and shot the man one time, âfearing for her life,â according to police.
The suspect, Morgan Chess, survived the shooting and was taken into custody. The woman was released after she was questioned by detectives. The woman and man knew each other, 11 News is choosing not to share the relationship between the two to help keep the victimâs identity from the public.
The incident remains under investigation
Man trying to burglarize Ocala home held at gunpoint by homeowner
A woman held a man at gunpoint after he tried breaking into her residence, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office reported. The man was arrested once deputies arrived.
The homeowner said she was in her residence, located off Southwest Second Place, when she heard a noise by her back door. The woman said she grabbed her handgun and confronted the would-be burglar.
The woman said the man ran and she followed him. She told deputies she fired a warning shot into the ground. The suspect went into a vehicle that was on the victim’s property. She called deputies.
When deputies arrived, the man refused to come out; instead, he hid under a rug. Deputies managed to get the man out. He ran and was subdued with a Taser. The man, later identified as Domonique Travion Hargraves, 28, of Tallahassee, was handcuffed by deputies.
Hargraves faces several charges including loitering and prowling, trespass and resisting an officer without violence.
As of Wednesday, Hargraves remained at the Marion County Jail with bail set at $7,500.
MS-13, other gang members exploit migrant wave to cross into US
Members of MS-13 and other gangs are slipping across the southern border, hidden in the waves of thousands of Mexican and Central American migrants who continue to surge into the US.
Border Patrol officials detained five gang members in the last week near frontier crossings at Laredo, TX., said US Border Patrol Agent Chief Matthew Hudak in a tweet Friday.
âThey attempt to evade arrest by exploiting the influx of migrants attempting to enter our country,â Hudak tweeted.
Among those caught was a member of MS-13 and two 18th Street gang members, he said.
Both gangs are extremely violent and have origins among Central American immigrant communities in Los Angeles. MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, tried to establish an east coast stronghold on Long Island, responsible for dozens of murders in Suffolk County beginning in 2016. After an intense crackdown, Suffolk County authorities said they had practically eradicated the gang in the region two years ago.
A Trump supporter infiltrated an Antifa group in Sonoma
San Franciscoâs ABC affiliate was investigating the some recent vandalism including leaving a pigâs head and pigâs blood at the home of an expert witness in the Derek Chauvin trial. Somehow, during that investigation, they discovered that there was already a Trump supporter whoâd been infiltrating one group of activists and keeping records on their activity, including recordings of some of their online chats, like this one:
Marb:Â âItâs May Day, baby, like come out and take, take somethinâ over with us, I donât, I donât (bleep) know.â
Member:Â âLetâs kill people. (laughs)â
Marb:Â âLetâs kill some cops.â
Member:Â âYes.â
The text sounds a lot more threatening than the audio. In the recording, which you can hear below, this sounds like college kids larping as radicals. That doesnât mean it shouldnât be taken seriously. I wonder how much of the dumb behavior these groups get up to is really about college-aged guys trying to impress college-aged women with their commitment to the cause.
The group apparently kept a list of people they planned to dox and/or harass and even visited the homes of some individuals late at night to scout and observe. They also appear to have either been directly involved or at least learned about acts of vandalism, such as the incident with the pig head, before anyone else.
The group initially called itself SoCo Antifa, but concerns about attracting FBI attention led them to rebrand it SoCo Radical Action. ABC 7 reports that it identified the leader of the group, who goes by the name âMarbâ online.
The I-Team has learned the groupâs leader who goes by the screen name âMarbâ is a 25-year-old college student, who was arrested for âfelony assault on a police officerâ last year at this Oakland riot after the death of George Floyd; the district attorney declined to file chargesâŚ
Since weâve been working on the story, Marb has been taking down his social media, both the public and private accounts.
I donât support doxing people to harass them but I also donât think people who vandalize public and private property deserve a pass. It appears Marbâs ID has been passed on to the police so they can investigate his connection to vandalism and possible threats. If the police decide thereâs evidence to charge him then weâll eventually get his name along with a mugshot.
As for the infiltrator, he said he just saw the groupâs manifesto online and sent them a message saying he wanted to help them smash the fash. It wasnât hard to convince them he was a like-minded comrade. âIt felt like seeing Antifa getting sort of a pass all the time from government saying they donât exist, saying that theyâre a myth, saying that theyâre just an idea. You know, when obviously, they are very real, and theyâre a big threat,â he said.
I donât think he means that this particular group constituted a âbig threatâ but heâs certainly right that groups like this in places like Portland have done a tremendous amount of damage and largely gone unpunished thanks to progressive DAs who just keep dropping charges against them. Hereâs the full report from ABC7.
For your contemplation.
The Need for Combative Skills as a Handgunner
I canât tell you how many times I have heard the same outrageous quip: âI would just shootâem.â Or, equally troubling, âI carry a gun so I donât need to fight.â This will ruffle some feathers, but if you carry a gun so that you donât need to know how to fight, the gun is a talisman rather than a tool. The operative word in âgunfightâ is fight, not gun. A firearm is only a force multiplier, a tool to more effectively accomplish a given task. In the world of violence and personal protection, relatively few tasks fall into the scope of where the firearm is justifiable in use. The gun should be a tool in the overall defensive toolbox, not the toolbox. Unfortunately, many gun carriers lose sight of this and focus too heavily on the particular tool.
Concealed-carry permit holder acquitted in fatal shooting at Far East Side gas station
A Franklin County jury decided Friday that a 32-year-old man with a concealed-carry permit was acting in self defense when he fatally shot another man during a confrontation at a Far East Side gas station.
Nehemiah Martin of the Far East Side was acquitted of murder charges in the Jan. 22 shooting death of 31-year-old Brandon Clark.
The jury deliberated for less than three hours before returning the not-guilty verdict to Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Colleen O’Donnell.
Although murder cases rarely go to trial in less than a year even without the Covid-19 pandemic, Martin refused to waive his statutory right to a speedy trial while in jail on a $1 million bond, which meant prosecutors had to bring the case to trial within 90 days.
“Nehimah was in jail on a sky-high bond,” his attorney, Sam Shamansky, told The Dispatch. “We felt that we would be fully available to proceed within the speedy trial guidelines and felt a delay would be prejudicial to my client. Usually the passage of time works to the benefit of the defendant, so this was counterintuitive.”
Shamansky, a veteran Columbus defense attorney, said he has never tried a murder case so soon after the date of the incident.
Testimony during the weeklong trial revealed that Martin went to the Shell station in the 5900 block of East Main Street, near McNaughten Road, on Jan. 22 for a pre-arranged meeting to pick up his twin boys from the children’s mother.
Martin testified that he was trying to remove the children from their car seats when he was assaulted by Clark, the mother’s live-in boyfriend, who had accompanied her to the gas station.
Martin, who was lawfully carrying a concealed handgun, said he was being beaten so savagely by Clark that he pulled his gun and fired one shot in self-defense.
Clark was struck in the abdomen. He was transported in critical condition to Mount Carmel East hospital, where he died the next morning.
After the shooting, Martin went to his grandmother’s house, where Columbus police arrested him after he called 911 to report the incident.
The mother of Martin’s twin boys testified against him and in support of her late boyfriend during the trial.
Clark had been released from prison just four months before his death after serving a six-year sentence for a kidnapping conviction in Franklin County, court records show.
Root of Mass Shootings Pandemic Is Not Gun Access
Growing up in rural South Carolina on my familyâs farm, I developed a love, appreciation, and, most importantly, a respect for firearms.
To this day, I remain a collector of firearms and a supporter of the American right to keep and bear arms as enshrined in the Second Amendment. I was taught that safety is paramount to gun ownership, so I have always encouraged responsible gun ownership and use for all Americans.
With that being said, I have noticed a disturbing trend in our country: an ever-increasing number of shootings and gun-related deaths.
And while the quick response from some, namely the left-wing mainstream media and liberal politicians, is to ban weapons and become more restrictive, it appears to me that we have serious mental health and poverty issues contributing to gun violence. I donât believe that banning guns will result in any significant decline in shootings attributed to these two categories.
In the United States, since January 2021, we have had 195 mass shootings, with 245 people dying and approximately 731 wounded, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker.
While itâs important to acknowledge that there is not a universally accepted definition of what constitutes a âmass shooting,â these numbers are staggering. They are some of the highest numbers in the industrialized world.
Letâs contrast 2021 with when I was growing up, when mass shootings simply werenât a problem. I believe that this is the direct result of the era and the family structure: Parents were involved in their childrenâs lives and children were taught discipline and respect.
By and large, members of my generation were raised in households with two parents, and we were taught how to deescalate and talk things out when problems arose. Today, that no longer seems to be the case.
We have a moral and social failing in our country that has caused an increase in mass shooters, predominantly young men. One has to pause to think about whatâs different today from 30 or 40 years ago. It certainly isnât guns, because itâs harder to get guns today than it was in the past, when you didnât have to go through nationalized background checks. When I was growing up, you could purchase a firearm with no questions asked, yet we didnât see so many mass shootings.
Americaâs young men are struggling with mental health issues or are broken and living in poverty with single mothers struggling to survive. Many of them are clearly crying out for help, and we owe it to them to listen.
BLUF:
Compared to nearly the entire rest of the world, people in the United States have retained the ability to choose to be legally armed or unarmed. Most people in the USA want to keep the option. Nearly all the rest of the world does not have it.
The Case for More Guns, Learn to Think Like The Sheep Who Chose to Be Unarmed
U.S.A. â-(AmmoLand.com)- People in the gun culture often express amazement about people who want them disarmed. They ascribe the desire to hostility and malice. It may be true for a minority of those who actively wish for a disarmed population.  A significant number, likely a majority, have made a voluntary decision to be unarmed.
It is important to know your opponent and to understand their motives.
Three years ago, this correspondent wrote an essay on how to understand people who want a disarmed population. It was popular but did not appear on AmmoLand News at that time.
I have updated the essay for current conditions.
There Is An Easy Way To Understand People Who Wish You To Be Unarmed.
It takes a little discipline. You may have a little mental discomfort, but it is not particularly difficult. For the ability to understand the other side, assume you have deliberately chosen to be unarmed.
Choosing to be armed is more difficult. It requires action. It requires training. It requires an investment in money and time. You think about unpleasant realities and plan for unpleasant possibilities. You devote time and money to be armed. A higher level of responsibility is required.
Once you internalize the decision to be unarmed, arguments on the other side become understandable. The voluntarily unarmed people we are attempting to understand are those who have moved from the decision to be unarmed, to the policy statement âguns are badâ.
Armed people have a power advantage over unarmed people. People do not want others to have a power advantage over them. It makes them uncomfortable. To prevent this, the voluntarily unarmed often want everyone else to be unarmed.
While it’s a year old, it’s still a good article.
May Day Is a Communist Holiday
One suspects that Nobel Prizeâwinning economist Paul Krugman doesnât see any irony in launching his new capitalistic subscription-based website with a tweet noting the celebration of May Day, a nefarious and un-American tradition.
In 1901, May Day (the one for âworkers,â not the Catholic one) became a mandate by the Second International Socialist Congress that proletariat groups âenergeticallyâ celebrate the advent of the eight-hour work day.â Leon Trotsky was one of May Dayâs greatest champions. In his 35th anniversary speech for the holiday, this contemptible despot, whose only problem with Stalinâs genocide of the Ukrainian populace was that it wasnât sufficiently âmilitarized,â stressed that it was a holiday to commend âred militarism.â
Indeed, May Day was inspired by the 1886 Haymarket incident in Chicago, in which an anarchist and terrorist threw dynamite at policemen (the police had killed a protester the day before), sparking a riot. By the end of the day, seven police and four more protesters had been killed.
It was an ugly incident. But while American workers would one day benefit from capitalism in ways that would have been unimaginable to the 19th-century Chicago striker, the ideological progeny of the May Day organizers would go on to kill tens of millions of people and ask millions more to work a lot more than eight hours a day in the Siberian Gulag.
Bystander shoots, kills man assaulting woman in parking lot
A bystander who police said helped a woman who was being assaulted by her boyfriend shot and killed the man in a bank parking lot Wednesday night.
Detectives determined that Velderrain was physically assaulting his girlfriend in the bank’s parking lot before the shooting. The woman managed to get away from Velderrain and approached a bystander for help. The woman got into the bystander’s vehicle as Velderrain verbally confronted them, police said.
The woman sustained injuries from the assault, police said.
The bystander was interviewed by police at the scene and no arrests have been made. Detectives will complete the investigation and forward the case to the Pima County Attorney’s Office for a review of possible charges.
The real questions are whether or not SloJoe has the mental capability to know he’s a hypocrite, or if he does, does he really care?
Also possible is that he’s restricting travel from Chinaâs biggest rival, India, because China told him to.
White House to restrict travel from India.
The White House will restrict travel from India starting at midnight on Tuesday, May 4, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Friday………
Stupid people are still dangerous, so laugh, but be ready to defend yourself.
Woke people are stupid, and stupid people are funny.
Woke people are funny. They are funny because they are stupid, and stupid people are funny. I insist upon this. If it becomes necessary, and if God grants me the courage, I will insist upon laughter right up until I am in the stocks or whatever modern equivalent these sniveling putzes dream up. When they march me out or lock me up or come for my head, I will laugh.
Recently when I expressed this sentiment online I was rebuked: âNazis were hilarious until they werenât.â âStupid with power is not funny anymore.â I want to take these objections seriously enough to answer them, because I think they express a real and growing anxiety. It is an understandable anxiety for anyone who sees how dark things could get in this country and around the world.
The upshot of the objection is: critical race theory and woke doctrine are no longer any laughing matter. We sniggered at the Leftists while they worked diligently away, and now they have taken over our schools and our government. They are seriously engaged in bringing the country down around our ears. In the process, they are doing terrible harm to us and our children. This is nothing to be scoffed at.
Idaho Becomes First State to Ban Discriminatory Critical Race Theory
When Idaho Governor Brad Little (R) signed HB 377 into law this week, he made Idaho the first state in the country to ban its public educators from forcing the damaging ideology that underlies critical race theory on students.
The law’s objective is simple and should be noncontroversial, but the current state of education in America that begs action to prevent discrimination and protect intellectual freedom means Idaho’s anti-indoctrination measure is somewhat of a novel idea.
As the law explains, the principles of critical race theory “exacerbate and inflame divisions on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, or other criteria in ways contrary to the unity of the nation and the well-being of the state of Idaho and its citizens.”
Simply put, those who advance critical race theory are attempting to institutionalize racism by teaching the next generation that certain individuals and their ideas are more valuable than others simply because of the color of their skin or the things they believe.
To prevent this in Idaho’s public schools, Republican leaders have enacted a prohibition against students being forced to adopt the key tenets critical race theory’s proponents use to inflict their damaging goals.
“No public institution of higher education, school district, or public school, including a public charter school, shall direct or otherwise compel students to personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to any of the following tenets: That any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin is inherently superior or inferior; That individuals should be adversely treated on the basis of their sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin; or That individuals, by virtue of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin.”
Critical race theory’s nefarious aims undermine the foundation of American freedom and our long-running work to create a more perfect union. To follow the Left’s direction and teach students their appearanceârather than their individual actionsâdetermines their rights and value is to return to the very bigotry the Left claims to oppose.
Idaho’s bill protects the critical American principle that all life is inherently valuable and created with the same inalienable rights as everyone else. It’s a principle that we, as a country run by fallible people, have not always lived up to, but it’s one we’ve always strived for. Certainly, schools should not follow the Left’s attempts to institutionalize critical race theory. To do so would be to run in the opposite direction and undo the progress our country has made.
Liz Peek: Joe Biden, after 100 days, finally talks truth — cutting US carbon emissions won’t matter
President Joe Biden, contrary to expectations, said something consequential in his first address to members of CongressâŚby mistake.
It was a whopper that went unnoticed on Wednesday night; with just a few ill-chosen words Biden utterly toppled any justification for the Green New Deal, which plays a central role in his $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan and which, without a doubt, puts our economy at risk.
This is what he said, according to a New York Times transcript of the presidentâs remarks: “The United States accounts, as all of you know, for less than 15 percent of carbon emissions. The rest of the world accounts for 85 percent. Thatâs why I kept my commitment to rejoin the Paris Accord, because if we do everything perfectly, itâs not going to matter.”
That was not in the version of the speech the White House handed out ahead of time.
No wonder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Kamala Harris looked visibly anxious throughout the presidentâs remarks: they were petrified he could make just exactly this kind of goof.
This is not a “gotcha moment”, where a politician is caught embellishing his life story or fabricating excuses for some misdeed. On the contrary, Joe Biden was being honest.
And, for once in his life, Joe Biden was completely correct. Even if the Biden White House clobbers our economy, puts every last coal miner and oil driller out of work and drives down U.S. fossil fuel production and consumption, it will barely bend the curve on rising global emissions.
Saul Cornell has always been a elitist political hack when it comes to gun control.
Preamble he says?
He’s trying to make people believe ‘A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state’ somehow overrides ‘the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed‘ and thus only the military & the national guard – the elistist/anti-civil rights, wanna-be gun controller’s current definition of ‘militia’ – have a right to have guns.
Of course common English sentence diagraming, taught in grade school, confirms he’s lying.
But – again – Preamble he says?
Well, I’ve got one for him. One that I think he believes he can evade through general ignorance due to the lack of civics education:
PREAMBLE TO THE BILL OF RIGHTS
“THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its (the Constitution’s) powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.”
Bold & parenthesis are mine.
That preamble clearly states that the amendments are to declare certain things that are restricted from the government exerting its powers on them. The Bill of Rights is a list of restrictions on government, not the people, and Mr Saul Cornell knows this.
Cornell: Originalism Means Gorsuch and Barrett Should Rule in Favor of Strict Gun Control
In another of Hellerâs odd intellectual moves, Scalia read the Second Amendment backwards, and in the process effectively erased the textâs preamble. To justify this unusual reading strategy, an interpretive approach that Stevens reminded his colleagues on the bench had never been done in the courtâs history, Scalia cited legal treatises written decades after the adoption of the Second Amendment. Once again, to obtain his preferred result Scalia rummaged among sources written a half a century after the adoption of the Second Amendment to find evidence of the textâs original meaning.
Such a move only makes sense if one believes that nothing significant happened in American legal history between the adoption of the Second Amendment and the Civil War, a view most historians would find bizarre and erroneous. Curiously, Justice Scalia did not turn to a legal source more readily available that was written at the same time as the Second Amendment. John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and co-author of The Federalist, had ruled on this issue in 1790s.
Jay wrote: âA preamble cannot annul enacting clauses; but when it evinces the intention of the legislature and the design of the act, it enables us, in cases of two constructions, to adopt the one most consonant to their intention and design.â
A Texas bill that would allow people to carry handguns without a permit quickly sailed Thursday out of a state Senate committee recently created to specifically tackle the legislation.
The move marks a significant step for the controversial proposal that for years struggled to gain momentum in either chamber of the Texas Legislature. But it remains to be seen whether the measure â already passed by the Texas House â has enough support to make it out of the Senate and to the desk of Gov. Greg Abbott.
The proposal would nix the requirement for Texas residents to obtain a license to carry handguns if theyâre not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun. Texans would also no longer be required to receive training before carrying a handgun in public.
Texans under current state law must generally be licensed to carry handguns, either openly or concealed. Some law enforcement officers, concealed carry license instructors and Democrats have voiced opposition to the legislation, citing safety concerns.
The Senate Special Committee on Constitutional Issues voted 5-2 along party lines to advance the measure to the Senate floor Thursday. The Texas House gave its approval to House Bill 1927 earlier this month, marking a win for gun rights activists who have for years pushed the measure at the Legislature. But the lower chamberâs approval was also a blow to some Democrats who have been fighting for gun safety measures since the 2019 massacre in El Paso.
âWe cannot allow another session to come and go where we pay lip service to the Second Amendment, while failing to fully restore and protect the God given rights to our citizens,â said state Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, the billâs sponsor in the Senate.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who leads the Senate, created the special committee last week and stacked it with supporters of the permitless carry proposal. Schwertner, a strong proponent of gun rights, was tapped to chair the committee. Patrick said Thursday he is “optimistic” about the legislationâs chances of passing even though he is still rounding up the necessary votes.
“We’re gonna come out with a strong bill, and I’ll believe we’ll pass it because we brought people together,” Patrick told conservative radio host Dana Loesch on Thursday afternoon. “And hopefully it’ll be on the governor’s desk soon, and we’ll get it signed.”
Before even taking up the bill or hearing from the more than 170 people who signed up to testify, Schwertner opened the hearing by declaring his intent to advance the measure out of committee on Thursday and to the Senate floor next week.
âWe’re moving with all deliberate speed on this bill now because now more than ever Texans want to make sure that their Second Amendment rights are not only protected, but restored,â Schwertner said………………..
Tyranny is the inevitable consequence of liberalism
The past, weâre so often told, is a dystopia â a cauldron of backwardness and bigotry
Are citizens of liberal societies permitted to question liberalism? In theory, the answer is yes, given liberalismâs commitment to âfree thoughtâ and âthe marketplace of ideasâ. Such tolerance is rarely in evidence in practice, however â a reality illustrated in hilarious fashion by a writer for a Washington magazine who recently decried âcancel cultureâ even as he insisted that: âItâs absolutely necessary to de-platform public intellectuals who object to liberal democracy.â
To the liberal mind, to question liberalism risks opening portals to the past, a place populated by tyrannical kings, Catholic inquisitors, Spanish conquistadores, religious warriors, zealous apparatchiks, âcollectivistsâ, fascists and sundry other ghastlies. Over the past few years, as voters registered discontent with the global liberal consensus, an entire cottage industry of books, essays and charities has sprung up to warn against revivifying the past.
The past, weâre so often told, is a dystopia â a cauldron of backwardness and bigotry. One that must be repressed at all costs.
Liberals disagree over where exactly lies the line dividing the enlightened time and the dark time. âClassicalâ liberals tend to mark 1789, whereas âprogressiveâ liberals â noting that much of reality since that watershed year has failed to conform to their own liberal ideal â are uncomfortable with anything not from the present or the future. Hence they now issue fatwas against even the avatars of liberalismâs own recent past (Cher, Dr Seuss, J.K. Rowling, etc).
Comment O’ The Day:
Bingo! The last sentence in the story tells us why they got raided. The couple were members of a seditious group, Alaskans for Constitutional Rights!
 FBI breaks into Homer, Alaska house, looking for Nancy Pelosiâs laptop
A couple in Homer, Alaska reports the FBI raided their home on Wednesday morning looking for House Speaker Nancy Pelosiâs laptop.
Twelve agents, FBI, Capitol Police, and other apparent police agents, broke down the door to their home and told Marilyn and Paul Hueper to put their hands up. Paul counted seven guns trained on him when he came out of the bedroom. The agents cuffed the couple and held them for hours.
It was a case of mistaken identity, but the FBI now has possession of Marilynâs HP Probook laptop. The photo above is on the FBI website as a person of interest in the January 6 surge into the U.S. Capitol, during which Pelosiâs laptop was stolen. The photo above is of the woman the FBI is looking for. Marilyn has no real social media presence or photos online.
âThey showed me a different view, where it could have been me,â Marilyn said. The photo they showed was a side shot where the hair and coat were only visible. âThey purposely withheld the picture where I could have easily seen it was not me.â Eventually they showed her the photo above â at the end of their search â where the person-of-interestâs face was clearly shown.
âI said oh no, that is not me, I would have never worn that sweater,â she said. âShe is wearing this hideous sweater that I would never be caught in. She has detached earlobes, and mine are attached. She has arched eyebrows, and I donât.â
But Marilyn said the agents told her she had been positively IDâd. Marilyn said that Wendy Terry, special agent in Anchorage, went to Matthew Scobel, the federal magistrate judge in Anchorage, and said was 100 percent positive Marilyn was the woman in the Capitol, Marilyn reported to Must Read Alaska.
âAt this point, they said it was a trespassing misdemeanor but if we did not cooperate, they said they would charge me with obstructing justice,â she said.
When Marilyn said, âThatâs not me,â she said the agent told her âso you want to go there,â as if she was lying and obstructing justice.
âPaul and I laughed during it. They wouldnât let us be with each other. He was in the other room. They would not let us go to the bathroom or have a glass of water. The agents did not show the search warrant for two hours,â Marilyn said. Finally, a warrant was flashed at her, but it was quickly taken away.
Marilyn said the FBI now has her laptop, phone and she gave them all codes so they could get into her electronics, because she hopes it will hasten the time it takes to get them back.
Marilyn said, âSo I guess that answers one question [about Pelosiâs laptop]. It really did get stolen and is still at large. Not conspiracy theory⌠if they were telling the truth.â
The couple has been active with Alaskans for Constitutional Rights, a group of civil rights activists across Alaska.