Archive → November, 2009
Arming ships beats UN whining
While bureaucrats at the United Nations continue to wring their hands and whine that arming merchant ships in order to defend their crew and cargo from well armed Somali pirates infesting the waters off the Horn of Africa will only lead to more violence, at least some US owned ships are arming their crews and actually employing force to repel the increasingly violent maritime invaders.
California: San Mateo County proposes more gun laws
County officials are considering tighter restrictions on where firearms and ammunition dealers can operate and requiring employee background checks and permits.
Kansas: Right-to-Carry quietly in effect
For almost three years, Kansans have been able to carry concealed handguns if they obtain the required license. So far, there have been no major incidents or widespread controversies involving the concealed carry law, said Phil Journey, the former state senator and firearms advocate from Haysville who helped concealed carry become law. The head of the Kansas police chiefs association agrees with Journey.
Connecticut: Concealed carry permits up 50 percent in ‘08
According to the Department of Public Safety’s Special Licensing and Firearms Unit, based out of Middletown, the issuing of pistol permits increased this year by 53 percent from 2008. There is also a 14 percent increase in the renewal of permits.
In 2008, 9,601 new permits were issued along with 26,457 renewed licenses. As of Nov. 24, 2009, more than 14,660 new permits have been issued and the number of renewed licenses is currently just above 26,450.
Pennsylvania: Economy doesn’t scare off hunters
The Ghost of Lysenko
The imaginary science of manmade global warning can now be entered into the infamous history of politicized science
The Mathematics of Global Warming
Why the mathematics of global warming don’t work.
Terrorist Criminal Trials and the Coming Jihad
Look what happened the last time Al Qaeda terrorists and their attorneys go ahold of the discovery process.
It’s that silly politically correct holiday season
People who look toward December as an opportune time for the celebration of politically correct multi-culturalism have to stop! I understand that people are trying to be fair, but it just doesn’t make sense.
How do you measure integrity?
Even after corrupt politicians gets arrested and indicted there’s a suspicious silence among those who have worked with, and probably partied with, the crooks.