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Gun Owners’ Guide to the 2012 Election.

This week, the picture is finally complete.

First, the Obama White House decided to leap headfirst into the gun control debate.

Then came the response from Congress, which is far more interested in investigating the “Fast and Furious” scandal, in which federal agents allowed thousands of guns to be “walked” into Mexico and furnished to drug cartels.

And now the final piece: President Barack Obama has filed his papers to run for re-election.

That in a nutshell is all gun owners need to know about the 2012 presidential election. After two years of avoiding the gun control debate (and violating his own campaign promises to push for additional restrictions), Obama finally is showing his true colors on this important issue. Let’s not forget that this is the same candidate who once espoused a total ban on handguns and more recently supported a nationwide ban on right-to-carry laws. And if he couldn’t get that done, he said he would support increasing the taxes on guns and ammunition by 500 percent. Now he is trying to be measured about his gun control objectives, using vague and gauzy rhetoric that his handlers hope will be difficult to hang around his neck.

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John Boehner has just given away the Republican victory of 2010 at the bargaining table. Like the proverbial Uncle Sam who always wins the war but loses the peace, he has unilaterally disarmed the Republican Party by showing that he will not shut down the government and will, instead, willingly give way on even the most modest of cuts in order to avoid it. He now has no arrows left in his quiver.
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Constitutions do not impress the co-author of the McCain-Feingold assault on the First Amendment (his law restricts political speech). But the institute’s job — actually, it is every Arizonan’s job — is to protect the public interest. A virtuoso of indignation, McCain is scandalized that the institute, “a non-elected organization,” is going to cause the loss of “a thousand jobs.” McCain’s jobs number is preposterous, as is his intimation — he has been in elective office for 28 years — that non-elected people should not intervene in civic life.
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“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom. When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre. Beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
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By Peg Luksik
The teen passed his driving test. Finally, he could go somewhere without his parents giving him a ride. He went to see each of his friends so they could celebrate his being behind the wheel, then he went to the movies, and then he went out to eat. It was a wonderful day!

The next morning, Mom got in the car and turned it on. Within minutes, she was back in the house and sitting in front of her new driver.

“You forgot something yesterday,” she said.

He couldn’t imagine what it was, so she had him walk out to the car with her and turn the ignition. Everything still looked fine to him.

“Look at the gas gauge,” she said.

He did. The indicator was right above empty. He still didn’t see a problem. Mom, however, did.

“When you use the car, you are using the gas. Gas costs money. I pay for the car, but you will have to pay for your own gas,” she said.

He was astounded.

“If I have to pay for the gas, I couldn’t afford the movie and the meal,” he explained, obviously feeling that Mom just wasn’t able to understand the situation.

“The cost of the gas is just as much a part of your outing as the cost of the movie or the price of the meal. You have to pay for the gas you use. That means you will have to decide between the movie and the meal if you can’t afford both after you pay for the gas. It’s called budgeting,” Mom said.

“That’s not fair. I WANT to do both. You’re being mean,” he complained.

“No, I’m being real. If I pay for your gas, I have to cut something else out of my budget. Either way the gas has to be paid for. That’s reality. Reality isn’t mean – it’s just reality. And in real budgeting, you have to make real decisions, even if you don’t particularly like them,” she answered.

Every single one of us has had this conversation – as the adult, the teen, or both. The item being paid for was probably different for each of us. But each of us stood before our own economic reality and realized that we couldn’t have everything we wanted because we couldn’t afford everything we wanted. And each of us learned that we had to make decisions about spending based on the reality of what was in our wallets.

Don’t you wonder what happened to the folks in Washington?

They are all trying to continue to drive the government “car” without paying for the gasoline. They are all looking for another parent (translate taxpayer) to provide them with free fuel so they can continue to go to the movies AND go out to eat. They are all complaining that the idea that they have to make decisions on what they can spend based on the reality of what is in their wallets is unfair and mean.

Perhaps the mothers of America need to have a conversation with each of them. Maybe this time they will listen.
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Wesley Pruden.

The “negotiations,” such as they are, continue as Mr. Obama and his “adults” refuse to talk seriously about what they know they should be talking about. The president, who scolds and evades responsibility with an unmatched skill, tells the Republicans that the budget should have “gotten done” three months ago. His chutzpah is unmatched, too. Six months ago the Democrats were in charge of making the budget, with margins in both the House and Senate large enough to enact anything Mr. Obama had put in front of them. So the dance continues, one step forward and two steps backward and three steps to the side. This is the three-step that would have stumped Fred and Ginger.

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Diana WestThis “incident” brings the total of U.S. troops murdered by our Afghan allies since December by my unofficial and possibly incomplete count to 17. If I add two Italian troops killed in January by an Afghan soldier firing an M-16 at close range while the Italians were cleaning their guns, and three German troops killed in February by an Afghan soldier firing a submachine gun at close range while the Germans were working on a vehicle, the total is 22 NATO soldiers killed by Afghan security forces in four months. That means every month, five Westerners have been sacrificed specifically for being “infidels” ordered by their dhimmi leaders to curry favor (win “hearts and minds”) in the umma through an unprecedented campaign of payola and public works. This is an outrage, a national scandal. Every elected representative of these fallen soldiers and their bereaved families is AWOL, and isn’t that a crime?

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The Almighty is not doing very well these days.

Here are four reasons:
Dennis Prager
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Kathleen Parker.

Whether the topic is Libya’s rebels or Afghanistan’s “reconciliation” with the Taliban, the pivotal question is, or should be: What about the women?

As an anonymous senior White House official recently told The Washington Post:

“Gender issues are going to have to take a back seat to other priorities. There’s no way we can be successful if we maintain every special interest and pet project. All those pet rocks in our rucksack were taking us down.”

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Arnold Ahlert.

I have always defended the public whenever I hear someone, more often from the left side of the aisle than the right, opine that most Americans are hopelessly stupid. Almost no one is hopeless. ;-).

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