“Why Do We Keep And Bear Arms?, Part 1″

Tomorrow, July 4th, we celebrate Independence Day, the day we signed the Declaration of Independence to set us free from the rule of England. We actually made that declaration on July 2nd but signed the actual document on the Fourth.

Many, particularly our young people, don’t know what Independence Day means. They simply state it as our birthday. Independence Day was the beginning of our freedom and set forth over the course of many years a series of battles, in many venues, to keep and preserve that freedom - some of those events costing the lives of brave Americans. For this, understanding patriots are grateful. Read the story »

Reactions To D.C. Vs. Heller - What They’re Saying And Doing

Within hours of the ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court over District of Columbia vs. Heller, the presses and the Internet were a buzz with opinions, talk, spin, conjecture and defensive strategies knowing challenges await cities like San Francisco, Chicago and New York.

I’ve been reading and gathering reactions and comments and thought I would share those with you. What better way is there to get all the information you want without spending hours trying to find it?

Let’s start first with the trouble Barack Obama may be in over his stance on gun control. We know from his past he is staunchly opposed to handguns, gun manufacturers and has a basic dislike for any weapon and considers the Second Amendment useless. He has tap danced around District of Columbia vs. Heller since forever. Read the story »

District Of Columbia Vs. Heller, At Last An Interpretation of Second Amendment

We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding “interest-balancing” approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government—even the Third Branch of Government—the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all. Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the people adopted them, whether or not future legislatures or (yes) even future judges think that scope too broad.
Justice Antonin Scalia in District of Columbia vs. Heller.

I actually seems quite ridiculous that is has taken over two hundred years to get a definition of this great Amendment, the Second. So has been the case with District of Columbia vs. Heller, more commonly known as the D.C. Hand Gun Ban. Read the story »

DTV Conversion A Fraud Bought By Congress

Have you noticed all the hype of late about getting your coupon to offset the cost of the purchase of a converter box so you will still be able to watch television on your old analog TV? The thing is Congress approved this move a long time ago, yet they sat quietly by while television manufacturers unloaded millions of analog television sets at reduced prices to the masses of Americans who were for the most part unaware of the changes that lay ahead.

But that is only one aspect of the scam dumped on an ignorant, lazy and inept Congress. The television broadcasting companies weren’t really sure what to do because they wanted to convert to digital broadcasting but knew that just under 50% of Americans who watch TV do so by means other than cable or satellite - in other words by use of the old roof antenna or rabbit ears. Read the story »