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There are about 300 million privately held firearms owned by Americans. That’s nothing to sneeze at. And notice that the people who support gun control are the very people who want to control and dictate our lives. Walter Williams

If what we care about is saving the lives of innocent human beings by reducing the number of mass public shootings and the deaths they cause, only one policy has ever been shown to work: concealed-carry laws. On the other hand, if what we care about is self-indulgent grandstanding, and to hell with dozens of innocent children being murdered in cold blood, try the other policies.
Ann Coulter

Americans, according to criminologist Gary Kleck, use guns 2.5 million times each year for self-defense, usually just brandishing the weapon. (The attacker is wounded in less than 8 percent of self-defense cases.) Of the 2.5 million, 400,000 claim that but for their gun they would have been dead. If we’re serious about “doing something,” we might consider shifting the odds in favor of the good guys. Larry Elder

There may be no greater expression of evil than the murder of children in their classrooms. In calling for prayers, officials have taken an important first step in combating evil, but a larger question should be asked. Perhaps theologians, pastors, priests and rabbis are the ones to ask it, but permit me a suggestion.

If there is a source of evil, is there also a source of good? And if there is, has that source for good been offended by all of the accumulated evil we are piling up, affording it an upper hand?

As a friend of mine says, “Not a sermon, just a thought.” Cal Thomas

In the Brokest Nation in History, it would be unreasonable to expect the president to pretend to have a regular all-American family Christmas for less than five million bucks.

As Ben Franklin famously said: “A republic, if you can keep it in the style to which it’s become accustomed.”
Mark Steyn

Obi Wan has a solution: when our heroes are confronted by emissaries of the Empire, he simply waves his hand. “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” The weak-minded Stormtrooper promptly waves the group through. Obi Wan was using an old Jedi mind trick.

Welcome to America, 2012.

The Democratic Party has apparently been endowed with the ability to use the old Jedi mind trick. That’s their entire tactic throughout the fiscal cliff debacle.

The American people may want to look away from that incipient disaster, trusting the happy talk of Democrats. They may want to believe that these aren’t the droids they’re looking for.

But one thing’s for certain: the Democrats have certainly found the droids they’re looking for.
Ben Shapiro

I was going to write about Moslems and Mormons and why patriots didn’t turn out in the last election and lots of other stuff. I was going to write about liberty lost forever etc. But I asked myself “Why?”

Today I got an e-mail from a member (not subscriber, a member!) Who obviously doesn’t visit the site. The message was Paul Harvey-1965, which was on this site in March. This got me fuming again about the real reason O’Obama is president.

If you still don’t know, go back to the March archives and read Paul Harvey and Brainwashing. Or search for schools or education.

Americans are a dying breed and America is a dying country.

A serious and sustained pushback is long overdue. Conservatives should get on with it, and never lose sight of their ultimate advantage over Democrats: the progressive agenda is unsustainable, absent the eventual imposition of a totalitarian state. The left may yearn for equality. It is up to conservatives to pound home the historical reality that equality has only been achieved when everyone has been made equally miserable — and that even then, such equality necessitates an all-powerful elite to enforce it. Arnold Ahlert

Keep America American.
Ken Blackwell

Was David Petraeus as great a general as the write-ups of his downfall routinely claim?

Today, Iraq is more an ally of Iran than the United States (while dollars keep flowing to Baghdad). This failure is one of imagination as much as strategy. But having blocked rational analysis of Islam from entering into military plans for the Islamic world, the Bush administration effectively blinded itself and undermined its own war-making capacity. In this knowledge vacuum, David Petraeus’ see-no-Islam counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine would fill but not satisfy the void.

There is more at work here than a foundationally flawed strategy. In its drive to win Islamic hearts and minds, COIN doctrine has become an engine of Islamization inside the U.S. military. To win a Muslim population’s “trust,” U.S. troops are taught deference to Islam — to revere the Quran; not to spit toward Mecca (thousands of miles away); and to condone such un- or anti-Western practices as religious supremacism, misogyny, polygamy, pederasty and cruelty to dogs. Our military has even permitted Islamic law to trump the First Amendment to further COIN goals, as when ISAF commander Petraeus publicly condemned an American citizen for exercising his lawful right to freedom of speech to burn a Quran.

If there is a lesson here, it is simple: A leader who will betray the First Amendment will betray anything. Diana West