Dan and his Mossberg Model 88, Bushmaster AR-15, Rock Island Armory / Sendra M16, Remington 700 PSS, Springfield XD, FN Five-seveN, H&K USP, Sig Sauer P226, Colt Commander 1911, and Glock 22 by KYLE CASSIDY Kyle Cassidy has been a freelance writer and photographer since 1999. His photographs have been published in the New York Times, Barron’s Financial, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He writes frequently about technology and has been an outspoken voice in the area of practical modern photographic theory. Largely known for his fashion and portrait photography, he became interested in photographing gun owners during the 2004 Presidential […]
BOSS OF ENGLAND: Merry Xmas! War Is Over!
It must be true, that’s what the Prime Minister of England told the troops in Basra, like, yesterday: [British Prime Minister] GORDON Brown yesterday delivered a stirring festive message to Our Boys in Iraq: “Happy Christmas – war is over.” The PM was cheered as he praised UK troops and revealed combat operations in Basra will end “within two weeks”. Iraqi forces will take over as the 4,500-strong British force switches from front-line duties to a training role. By early next year, our contingent in Southern Iraq will be cut to 2,500 – and may be withdrawn completely in March. […]
FREE BILAL: AP Photog Gets Day In Kangaroo Court
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi investigating magistrate on Sunday convened the first criminal hearing in the case of Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by the U.S. military without charges for nearly 20 months. Hussein was present for most of the nearly seven-hour, closed-door proceeding in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq before magistrate Dhia al-Kinani. It was the first time Hussein or his lawyers have seen any of the materials gathered by the U.S. military against him since his arrest in Ramadi on April 12, 2006. Al-Kinani, however, issued an order that the proceedings and details of […]
WORTH REPEATING: The Rape Of Arkansas
FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST: Wayne Dumond raped Ashley Stevens, Clinton’s distant cousin, in 1984 when she was a 17-year-old high school student in Forest City, Arkansas. He was convicted in 1985 and sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. In 1992, Jim Guy Tucker, who became governor of Arkansas after Clinton left office, reduced Dumond’s sentence to 39.5 years.Shortly after taking office in 1996, Huckabee announced his intention to commute Dumond’s sentence to time served. A public outcry ensued. Twenty women members of the state House of Representatives protested the commutation proposal. The editorial pages of some Arkansas newspapers […]
WORTH REPEATING: Why Nothing Will Ever Come Of The CIA Torture Tape Scandal…Nothing At All…Zilch
From THINK PROGRESS: Sen. Whitehouse Reveals Secret DoJ Legal Memos: Bush Determines What Is Constitutional [Friday] morning, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivered an impassioned floor speech to help frame the debate over FISA reform. Using his privilege as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Whitehouse said he has “spent hours poring over” secret opinions issued by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) — and he took notes. Whitehouse is a lawyer, a former U.S. Attorney, a former legal counsel to Rhode Island’s Governor, and a former State Attorney General. He said he sought and received permission […]
HOT DOCUMENT: I Heart(less) Huckabee
In 1992, Mike Huckabee ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. During the campaign, the Associated Press submitted a detailed questionnaire to candidate Huckabee. The following are his responses to questions about AIDS treatment and research: “It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.” When […]
TAO OF MITT: Boxers, Briefs & Magic Underpants
[“Plural Marriage?” by JESSICA HAGY for McClatchy Newspapers] So Mitt — while you’re all in a sharing mood, which is it? Boxers, briefs, or Magic Mormon Underpants? Yes, it’s Mormon week out there in primary land, and on Thursday, Romney took The Pledge, declaring Jesus Christ his Lord and Savior and saying that freedom and religion can be, like, friends with benefits but can’t actually be a couple-couple … or something like that. Actually, what he said was that while the government can’t, and he wouldn’t, pre- or proscribe a specific denomination, everybody should get religion. The quote was that […]
Tom Ridge & The Selling Out Of Homeland Security
In its report, Homeland Security for Sale – DHS: Five Years of Mismanagement, CREW details billions of dollars in waste and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, for example: —$24 billion has been spent, and at least $178 million wasted, on the failed Coast Guard Deepwater program; –over $600 million has been allocated for unworkable radiation border scanners; —$1.3 billion has been lost on the US-VISIT program, which was never fully implemented and –projected $2 billion loss on the SBInet “virtual fence” border program. MORE
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
GET REAL ESTATE: Subprime Crisis Spurs Home Loan Interest Rate Freeze WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has hammered out an agreement to freeze interest rates on certain subprime mortgages for five years to combat an escalating number of home foreclosures, congressional aides said Wednesday. A person familiar with the matter said the rate freeze would apply to borrowers with loans made from Jan. 1, 2005, through July 30 of this year with rates that are scheduled to rise between Jan. 1, 2008, and July 31, 2010; likewise, the program would only be available for owner-occupied homes — to ensure the […]
THE TAO OF MITT: The Book Of Mormon
VIA WIKIPEDIA: The Book of Mormon[1] is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint movement, regarded by Latter Day Saints as divinely revealed, and named after the prophet?historian Mormon who, according to the text, compiled most of the book. It was published by the founder of the movement, Joseph Smith Jr., in March 1830 in Palmyra, New York, USA. Its purpose, as stated on its title page, “is to show the remnant of the House of Israel what great things the Lord has done for their fathers” and to convince “Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the […]
WORTH REPEATING: The Devil’s Playthings
NEWSWEEK: After years of humiliating sexual-abuse scandals, Roman Catholic Church officials are trying harder than ever to convince parishioners that they’re doing everything they can to prevent such tragedies from happening again. That means public education, training programs and — in the New York Archdiocese — a surprisingly direct, abuse-themed coloring book for kids that’s being sent to parishioners across the area. At first glance, “Being Friends, Being Safe, Being Catholic” is what you’d expect from a Christian handout: lessons in loving thy neighbor and knowing we’re all special in God’s eyes, plus a fun word search with names of […]
Teacher Arrested For Pro-Columbine Blog Comment
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Bloggers and free speech advocates are calling on prosecutors not to file charges against a teacher arrested for allegedly posting an anonymous comment online praising the Columbine shooters. Some were disturbed by the post police say James Buss left on a conservative blog, but other observers said it was a sarcastic attempt to discredit critics of education spending. The suburban Milwaukee high school chemistry teacher was arrested last week for the Nov. 16 comment left on http://www.bootsandsabers.com, a blog on Wisconsin politics. The comment, left under the name “Observer,” came during a discussion over teacher salaries […]