Wayne LaPierre's Mental Health
Snopes says the nervous disorder referenced above is "Undetermined"http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/lapierre.asp***"Was NRA Leader Wayne LaPierre Deferred from Vietnam Due to a Nervous...
View Article"I do not believe in the promiscuous toting of guns." NRA President, Karl...
"The Lost History Of The NRA"by David Frum, conservative columnist and Bush speechwriter who coined the phrase Axis of Evilhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/15/the-lost-history-of-the-nra.html
View Article"The Lost History of the NRA," David Frum
by David Frum Jan 15, 2013 Salon reminds us:In the 1920s and 1930s, the NRA’s leaders helped write and lobby for the first federal gun control laws—the very kinds of laws that the modern NRA labels as...
View ArticleMark Kelly: We'll Try To Oust Gabby's Friend If He Opposes Gun Bill
Mark Kelly, shooting wife Gabby Gifford's Glock. Video at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/mark-kelly-jeff-flake_n_3092004.html04/16/2013 Jen BenderyWASHINGTON -- Mark Kelly said Tuesday that...
View ArticleNew York Requirement For Concealed Weapons Left Intact By U.S. Supreme Court
The kind o' dame who made America great!A Norman Rockwell homebody - just itchin' to pull the trigger.(Get lucky and maybe she'll pull yours...)Happiness is a warm gun.***Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence...
View ArticleUS torture of prisoners is 'indisputable', independent report finds
The report found that dissidents were transferred to Libya in 2004 not to combat terrorism, but to buy favour with the Gaddafi regime. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex FeaturesReport on US rendition...
View ArticleH.L. Mencken: If all individuals were capable of original thought
Alan: All things in moderation, including excess.
View ArticleH.L. Mencken: "The one permanent emotion of the inferior man..."
Alan: Fascism is the alluring attempt to make reality safer than possible.
View ArticleH.L. Mencken: On Prohibition
The modern theocratic urge to abolish Liberalism arises from the same impulse that would impose prohibition.***"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put...
View ArticleH.L. Mencken: "The most dangerous man..."
Mencken supposes that - always and everywhere - we live "under" a government.This is often, but not always, true.
View ArticleH.L. Mencken: On Religion
Alan: Mencken's simplistic understanding of "doing right" exhibits a utilitarian's pathognomonic ignorance of epistemology and heuristics. Such thinking affects all Mencken's thought on religion. Even...
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