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AWR Hawkins, Breitbart • Tue 2016 Apr 19, 9:40pm

Senator Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has introduced legislation to stop President Barack Obama from imposing a stealthy gun ban on an estimated 75,000 Social Security beneficiaries.…

Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D., Breitbart • Tue 2016 Apr 19, 2:27pm

Father Yang Jianwei is the fifth priest from the underground Catholic Church in China to mysteriously go missing in the last month, in what appears to be a concentrated round-up of so-called dissidents by China’s communist party.…

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Tenth Amendment Center • Fri 2016 Apr 15, 8:12pm

Today, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill into law that not only allows unlicensed, “constitutional carry,” but also sets the foundation to reject and end new federal gun control regulations and executive orders. …

Dapandico, Weasel Zippers • Fri 2016 Apr 15, 9:25am

In a major blow to gun companies, a judge in Connecticut on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 10 families affected by the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School against the maker of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the shooting.…

Quoting Newsweek
Blazing Cat Fur • Thu 2016 Apr 14, 9:40am
Check the picture of "defense ministers" accompanying this article on "Is NATO Worth Preserving" for a clue to a serious problem.
War News Updates • Mon 2016 Apr 11, 5:33pm

A colonel belonging to North Korea’s spy agency recently defected to South Korea, the South announced on Monday. He is one of the highest-ranking North Korean military officers known to have defected to South Korea in recent decades.… arrived in South Korea last year. …North Korean diplomat stationed in an African country defected to the South last May.…

Links to many articles about this.
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Brian Lilley, Truth Revolt • Tue 2016 Mar 29, 10:23pm

The Secret Service says that it doesn't matter how many people sign on to a petition that calls for guns to be allowed at the Republican National Convention, they will not allow it. A petition at Change.org has received more than 49,000 signatures calling for open carry to be allowed at the RNC convention in Cleveland this July.…

An unarmed convention is not as peaceful a convention.
AWR Hawkins, Breitbart • Fri 2016 Mar 25, 8:27pm

An Indianapolis mother shot a man “multiple times” after he allegedly broke into the home through the window in the baby’s room.… “heard the window get busted…” grabbed her pistol… confronted by the alleged intruder who shot at her, but missed. …mother then opened fire and struck the suspect “multiple times.” He was transported to a hospital for treatment. …suspect was “carrying zip ties and a walkie-talkie.”…infant was not harmed…

Lightning
Sarah Rumpf, Legal Insurrection • Tue 2016 Mar 22, 12:16am

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled today that Second Amendment does include stun guns, in a ruling issued on Monday.

In the short per curiam (“by the Court”) opinion in Caetano v. Massachusetts, the Court set aside a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, rejecting the arguments offered for allowing the state to ban possession or use of stun guns as in conflict with the Second Amendment.…

AWR Hawkins, Breitbart • Mon 2016 Mar 21, 8:00pm

On March 18 the Idaho House concurred with the Senate by passing legislation that abolishes the requirement for a permit to carry a concealed handgun in the state.

The legislation–Senate Bill 1389–now goes to Governor Butch Otter’s (R) desk.…

NRA, YouTube • Fri 2016 Mar 18, 10:42pm

In this News Minute from the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, Jennifer Zahrn reports that the NRA strongly opposes the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

Video: 2:48
Adam Kredo, Wash Free Beacon • Fri 2016 Mar 18, 7:45pm

Congress has cancelled funding for an advanced missile defense system that has been deployed across the D.C. area during the last few years to prevent against a rising threat from cruise missile strikes.…

Well, it's only the nation's capital, after all.
Huniewicz, Whyke, Stanton, Mail (UK) • Sat 2016 Mar 12, 10:07pm

Michal Huniewicz risked detention by taking photos of everyday life in North Korea and smuggling them out
Photographer visited the secretive state and managed to evade the watchful eye of his official tour guide…

Not as horrible as much of the country surely is, but a study in contrasts - like broad roads with few cars.
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KOCO • Fri 2016 Mar 11, 5:50pm

The Oklahoma House Thursday overwhelmingly adopted legislation that would permit gun owners to carry their weapons openly without a state-issued license.

House members voted 73-15 for the so-called "constitutional open carry" measure and sent it to the state Senate for debate and a vote.…

AWR Hawkins, Breitbart • Thu 2016 Mar 10, 7:47pm

Police confiscated firearms from 74-year-old Ralph Gilbertsen, although he is not a felon or domestic abuser, and he has never been ruled dangerous to others because of mental illness.… lives in Richfield, Minnesota, believes in Bigfoot and UFOs. …does receive treatment for a “mild” mental health disorder… psychologist sent a letter to the judge in the case, stating that “Gilbertsen is compliant with his medications and poses no danger to himself or others.” … former Marine… concealed carry permit holder… proud owner of three handguns, until the police knocked on his door.… Hennepin Community Outreach for Psychiatric Emergencies (COPE) called police about Gilbertsen after his apartment managers expressed concern about a series of letters he had written on CIA spying. … Joseph Olson, emeritus professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Minnesota, simply sees a man who is “eccentric.” Olson observes, “That’s not a crime in America.”

Gilbertsen is suing to get his guns back.

He's not all that paranoid - they were out to get him, in the end.
Raoul Wootliff, Times of Israel • Tue 2016 Mar 8, 9:58pm

Israeli man who was stabbed multiple times Tuesday afternoon in a terror attack in Petah Tikva managed to remove the knife from his neck and use it to stab and neutralize his attacker, aided by the store owner, police said.…

AWR Hawkins, Breitbart • Sun 2016 Mar 6, 11:08pm

On March 4, the West Virginia House voted to override Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s (D) veto of permitless carry legislation and on Saturday, March 5, the West Virginia Senate followed suit.… The override means persons 21-year-old or older who are not barred from gun possession will be able to carry a gun without permit and persons 18-20 years of age will be able to get a concealed carry permit to carry a gun.…

Yes, West Virginia, there is a 2nd Amendment!
LifeSite News • Fri 2016 Feb 26, 12:31pm

OTTAWA… All publicly funded institutions – which includes Christian hospitals and nursing homes – must be forced to provide assisted suicide and euthanasia, according to recommendations of the federal parliamentary committee in its report released today. …

I see the prolbem: "publicly funded."
Jennifer Cruz, Guns.com • Wed 2016 Feb 24, 9:43am

Two suspects were fatally shot less than 24 hours apart last week while breaking into two separate homes in Tulsa.…

Frances Martel, Breitbart • Fri 2016 Feb 12, 11:43pm

Venezuela’s opposition legislature has declared a “nutritional emergency,” proclaiming that the country simply does not have enough food to feed its population. The move comes after years of socialist rationing and shortages that forced millions to wait on lines lasting as long as six hours for a pint of milk, a bag of flour, or carton of cooking oil.…

Tenth Amendment Center • Wed 2016 Jan 27, 9:34pm

… A second bill prefiled in the Oklahoma House for the 2016 legislative session would prohibit state cooperation with the enforcement all future federal gun control measures, effectively nullifying them in practice within the state.…

KOCO • Sat 2016 Jan 23, 11:25am

An Oklahoma state senator is proposing changes to the controversial "stand-your-ground" law.… Sen. Kevin Matthews is making a push for residents to have to retreat first, if possible, before using deadly force.

“This law almost gives an excuse for killing somebody when another option is available,” Matthews said.…

Or dying. Dying is another option.
Catherine Thorbecke, ABC • Fri 2016 Jan 22, 5:44am

…Hialeah, Florida…mother pumping gas when an armed carjacker jumped into the driver's seat of her convertible and another banged on the windows with his gun. The mother, who had two children in the backseat, flung into action by pulling the masked man out of the vehicle and pushing him away from the car. The other carjacker can be seen fleeing the scene.… Three suspects - two male and one female - were stopped by police after a short chase. No one was injured and three handguns were taken…

Video
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Eugene Volokh, Washington Post • Sat 2016 Jan 16, 6:07pm

Foster parents can’t lawfully carry guns in Oklahoma around their foster children…

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Kyle Schwab, NewsOK • Mon 2016 Jan 11, 8:32pm

Two foster parents are suing the state Department of Human Services in Oklahoma City federal court over an agency rule they claim is unconstitutional because it prohibits foster and adoptive parents from legally possessing firearms for self-defense. …

Lily4Liberty, Facebook • Fri 2016 Jan 8, 9:49am

…Where I came from, China had killed thousands of the students by its own government during the massacre of Tian An Men square in 1989. I surely wish my fellow Chinese citizens back then had guns like this one I am holding in the picture.

I am a Chinese immigrant and an American citizen by choice. I once was a slave before and I will never be one again.…

AWR Hawkins, Breitbart • Thu 2016 Jan 7, 10:58pm

On January 4, a 65-year-old grandmother in Manchester, New Hampshire, shot a man who followed her home from the gas station.… Grandma said, “Trying to literally take our guns away? It’ll never happen. He’s not going to take our guns away.”…

Kitty Werthmann c/o Ross Clark, Facebook • Thu 2016 Jan 7, 10:29pm

“Then we lost religious education for kids

“Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school.. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang ‘Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,’ and had physical education.…

How gradualism works to take over a population
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Dr. Tar, IOTW Report • Thu 2016 Jan 7, 10:09pm

They aired a nice little docudrama on why Communism sucks on PBS this week. It depicts how a group of Romanian entrepreneurs snuck Western movies into Ceausescu’s repressive nation and allowed the slaves of the state to see how well the rest of the world was living. …

Red Star Hammer & Sickle
Aleister, Progressives Today • Thu 2016 Jan 7, 9:59pm

Millennial supporters of Bernie Sanders are too young to remember what life looked like in the Soviet Union before the fall of communism there. If you know any young Sanders backers, share this video with them.…

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