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On the Second Amendment, Don’t Believe Obama! On the campaign trail, Senator Obama hides behind carefully chosen words and vague statements of support for sportsmen and gun rights to sidestep and camouflage the truth. But even he can’t hide from the truth forever… his voting record, political associations, and long standing positions make it clear that, if elected, Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history. The facts speak for themselves. This election day, vote to defend freedom…because if Obama wins, you lose.

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. It seems that every election cycle since the media coined ‘assault weapon ban’ was first enacted has been ‘the most important election in the history of mankind’ according to us second amendment proponents. Rhetoric simply can’t be kept up so high before people become numb to it. The Supreme Court just declared the second amendment to be applicable to individuals, not states, so you may be asking yourself, “why are these guys still...

People may have expected this, but my understanding is that the NRA's endorsement of John McCain wasn't a guaranteed outcome, because of the NRA's past disagreements with McCain about campaign finance reform and his support for a gun show restriction bill he cosponsored with Joe Lieberman.... click on link

BEAVER — An Industry man arrested after openly carrying a handgun to an August presidential rally in Beaver wore an empty holster to court on Monday and defended his right to bear arms, but the judge wasn’t buying his argument. District Judge Douglas Loughner ruled in Beaver County Court Monday that John Noble, 50, of 1063 Willowbrook Drive should stand trial on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and disrupting a public meeting, stemming from the Sept. 29 rally for Democratic presidential running mates Barack Obama and Joe Biden. According to hearing testimony, the incident was at least partially triggered by...

Freudenschade, baby! This is a special edition of the DUmmie FUnnies. Instead of DUmmies or KOmmies or HUffies, we are focusing on Slate senior writer, Timothy Noah, who is so confident of Obama's "victory" in November that he jumped the gun and posted the not so hidden liberal agenda out in the open. You can read his Slate ARTICLE titled, "The New Complacency," as well as an ANALYSIS of that article over at NewsBusters. So let us now join honorary DUmmie Timothy Noah in mid-gloat as he is about to reveal WAY too much in Bolshevik Red while the...

CHICO — A West Lindo Avenue resident said a second attempt in as many days was made Wednesday morning to steal marijuana from a garden in his backyard. The alleged victim told police he fired several rounds at suspects as they fled in a vehicle on West Lindo at about 4 a.m. Some of the man's neighbors said they heard at least six shots, but didn't see a vehicle. ... [REST OF ARTICLE AT LINK]

Jones, Obama dare Pate to bring gun bill to floor With the next election not too far away and given the current anti-violence climate, Senate Democratic Leader Emil Jones and Senator Barack Obama (D-16th) have dared Senate President James "Pate" Philip to release a "sensible" Gun Reform Bill. The reform package calls for gun registration and calls for owners to list all weapons they have in their homes. But Jones said if Philip allows the bill out of committee he believes the votes are there and that if the speaker continues to drag his feet on this legislation he'll feel...

Actress Anjelica Huston has become the latest star to take aim at US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, stating the fact the Alaskan Governor is even in the race for the White House is "depressing". The Witches star admits she's "terrified by the politics of Mrs. Palin" and disturbed by her love of hunting. Huston states: "This is a woman who is shooting caribou from the air, from helicopters. It's like going back in time to some kind of fantasy of the 1950s, and I find it very depressing. "I think people are looking at the election as a reality show....

ADRIAN, Mich. - A television advertisement by the National Rifle Association featuring Scott Siefert of Ogden Township is scheduled to begin airing Wednesday in Michigan. In the ad Seifert outlines his support for the right to keep and bear arms, and criticizes Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, for his gun-control positions. In one part of the ad, Seifert states: “Because I believe in traditional American values, go to church, exercise my right to own a firearm, Barack Obama says I’m bitter. Well, I’m not bitter; I’m blessed.” The ad, “Way of Life,” already has aired in several other...

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Here's the first look at the final version of the deadly XM25. We learnt this morning about the weapon's destructive power, but now we have all the details, starting with the key for its destruction power, a built-in fire-control system that can program each of the weapon's 25 millimeter rounds wirelessly, in real time, so soldiers can take down enemies around obstacles:As you can see in the schematics, the fire-control system uses thermal optic, day-sight, laser range finder, compass and IR light to exactly measure the distance to the target, programming each of the rounds' fuses so it explodes next...

The trial of a man accused of executing a teen who broke into his home with friends looking for snacks has many in this border city outraged. Not because of the crime, but because the man is facing a murder charge. ... Gonzalez, a wiry, graying 63-year-old, had endured several break-ins at his trailer in a hard-scrabble community east of town when four boys, ranging in age from 11 to 15, broke into his trailer to rummage for chips and soda in July 2007. Gonzalez was in a nearby building at the time. Gonzalez went into the trailer and confronted...

MORE THUGGISHNESS: Obama threatening the licenses of TV stations that run NRA ads. Haven't we had about enough of this? Related item here. They told me that if George W. Bush were re-elected there would be brazen efforts to suppress free speech on political grounds -- and they were right! UPDATE: Still more on the ad-silencing effort here. ANOTHER UPDATE: "I fear that under the Obama administration, the lawyers sending these letters will be government employees." Plus, from Jacob Sullum at Reason, Why Obama is Vulnerable On the Second Amendment. MORE: Prosecutors and sheriffs threatening to prosecute Obama critics?...

From a man who’s no stranger to abject disgrace comes one of the purest examples of racial demagoguery we’ve seen from either side during this very long campaign, duly laughed at and applauded by the same group that worked so hard last week to get Palin disinvited from the anti-Iran rally. His party will love him for it, I assure you. Rep. Alcee Hastings told an audience of Jewish Democrats Wednesday that they should be wary of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin because “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and...

Guns have become an important issue for Barack Obama’s campaign. Starting around the Pennsylvania primary, Obama and his campaign surrogates began strenuously assuring gun owners that he supports gun ownership, and it appears to be paying off. A poll in August showed that John McCain led Obama among hunters by only 14 percentage points, just about half the 27-point lead that President Bush held over John Kerry in 2004. If McCain had a similar lead, he would be ahead in most polls, particularly in many battleground states.This past weekend, Joe Biden, campaigning in southwest Virginia, called any notion that...

Once again, Megyn Kelly shows her hotness in the way she tears apart this Obama Spokesman! Go Megyn! http://www.palinplanet.com/2008/09/24/foxs-megyn-kelly-vs-obama-spokesman-on-nra-ads/

Xrlq points us to this ridiculous FactCheck.org piece on Obama and gun rights. I am by now completely disenchanted with FactCheck.org and virtually every other “fact checking” site out there, and this piece does nothing to dispel my depression. The summary version: FactCheck ridicules the NRA in this piece. But the NRA is careful to say: look at Obama’s record and not his rhetoric. And at least two of the NRA claims are backed up by references to Obama’s record. Yet FactCheck.org goes on to minimize or completely ignore Obama’s record on these points, choosing instead to concentrate on citations...

CLEVELAND -- A man was shot in the chest and killed about 2:45 this morning by a homeowner who said the man had broken into his house. Police said it happened in the 13400 block of St. Clair Avenue. The 65-year-old homeowner was awakened by the sound of someone breaking into the house, said police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho. When the homeowner went downstairs to investigate, he saw signs that his house was being burglarized. He went back upstairs, got dressed and grabbed his gun. He went downstairs and confronted the burglar who ran into the fenced-in yard. The homeowner...

The National Rifle Association has released four ads against Barack Obama and Joe Biden. "Way of Life" features a Michigan voter reminding viewers about Obama's "bitter" comments that he made in San Francisco. "Veteran" has an Iraq veteran talking about his freedoms. "Hunter" features a Virginia voter talking about Obama's record on ammunition taxes and shotguns. "Pennsylvania Values" tells voters about Joe Biden's record on gun issues.

BALTIMORE, Md. -- Biden accepted the endorsement of the National Association of Police Organizations this morning on behalf of the Democratic ticket, pledging to again provide a seat at the table for local law enforcement. Biden, speaking on a conference call with NAPO President Tom Nee, made a plug for the “Biden Crime Bill,” which he said was contributed to a 30 percent drop in violent crime in the 1990s. “Then, for some reason, because this administration and my good friend John don’t think it’s a role of the federal government to be involved in local law enforcement … they...

They're blinding them with science. U.S. Marines fighting in Iraq have been issued low-power laser weapons designed to temporarily blind enemy forces, the Washington Post reported Monday. "Dazzlers," as they're called, shoot green beams designed to "warn or temporarily incapacitate individuals," according to a Defense Science Board report extensively quoted in the Post's story. The Geneva Conventions ban weapons meant to cause permanent blindness, but a Pentagon spokesman explained two years ago that "Dazzlers" didn't fall into that category. "They don't blind people," Army Lt. Col. Barry Venable told reporters. "It's like shining a big light in your eyes." The...

OAKLAND -- A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent opened fire today on an armed man who grabbed her purse in Oakland's Chinatown, police said. The off-duty agent was walking near Ninth and Franklin streets in downtown Oakland when she was accosted shortly after 6 a.m. A man with a gun demanded her purse, but the agent pulled out her own weapon and opened fire, police said.

His record isn't likely to win back the rural "pro-gun" voters who've fled to the Republicans in recent years, likely costing Gore the election in 2000. From the Chicago Defender, Dec. 13, 1999: "Sweeping federal gun control legislation proposed by Sen. Barack Obama (D-13th) would increase the penalties on gun runners who are flooding Chicago's streets with illegal weapons. At an anti-gun rally held at the Park Manor Christian Church, 600 E. 73rd St., headed by the Rev. James Demus, Obama also said he's backing a resolution being introduced into the City Council by Alds. Toni Preckwinkle (4th), Ted Thomas...

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- A man shot and killed a 24-year-old intruder who apparently tried to rob a Vero Beach home Thursday morning, sheriff’s deputies said. Indian River County Sheriff’s Office detectives said Thomas Thompson was armed with a knife when he broke into the home on 47th Avenue and woke up Francis Hornsby. She screamed, alerting sons Robert, also known as Paris, 20, and Austin, 19. “Someone came through our window, had a knife -- they’re in my mom’s room standing over her bed,” Austin Hornsby told WPBF News 25’s Terri Parker. “I chased him out, tackled him midway...

---snip--- On one side was Joseph McNair, 38, a big-time convicted Philadelphia drug dealer with a long rap sheet who made Schwenksville, a bucolic Montgomery County suburb, his hideaway. On the other were his neighbors wanting peace, saying that McNair terrorized them with threats to kill their families and to sic his three Rottweilers on their children. The feud came to a head about 7:30 Wednesday night and ended with one neighbor, a seasoned off-duty SEPTA police sergeant, pumping several bullets into McNair, killing him, after McNair allegedly made one final threat.

VERO BEACH — Last week Thomas Thompson II, 24, was charged with taking copper from a Home Depot store.....

A Salinas jury has convicted an elderly neighbor of the first-degree killings of a Carmel Valley couple. John Kenney shot and killed Mel and Elizabeth Grimes in 2006 after years of bitter feuding, including restraining orders, assaults and killing of pets.

(09-17) 18:57 PDT LAS VEGAS, (AP) -- Barack Obama sharpened his attacks on John McCain and mocked the Republican's recent calls for reform in two stops in Nevada on Wednesday after days of listening to nervous supporters fret about the Democrat's chances of taking the White House. "Sen. McCain bragged about how as chairman of the Commerce Committee in the Senate, he had oversight of every part of the economy. Well, all I can say to Sen. McCain is, 'Nice job. Nice job,'" Obama said at a rally at a baseball stadium in Las Vegas. "Where is he getting these...

(KTVI - myFOXstl.com) -- A would-be robber picked the wrong bar to rob overnight and ended up in the hospital with a gunshot wound. It happened around midnight at the Pooh’s Corner Bar at Virginia and I-55. Police say two men walked in to rob the place but several off-duty police officers were inside. Sometime during the robbery attempt, shots were fired and one of the suspects was hit in the buttocks. He was caught at the scene, but the other man ran away. Police caught him a short time later. One of the neighbors who called police says she...

Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois today exhorted his supporters to get extremely aggressive in their communities to persuade their neighbors to vote for Obama in November.Speaking to a crowd in Elko, Nevada, Obama was quoted by the AP as urging the people to be his 'ambassadors':"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face. "And if they tell you that, 'Well, we're...

SAN PABLO -- Amariae Sanders was a 16-year-old boy who may have thought a San Pablo gift shop would be an easy mark. But when he vaulted the counter while armed with a sawed-off shotgun, he had no way of knowing that the store owner would fight back, police say.Brian Wogsland, the owner of A&L Posters on San Pablo Ave., had been robbed twice before and was ready when Sanders and another young man entered about 5 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. He pulled a handgun and fired numerous shots, striking Sanders in the head and chest. In an instant, Sanders...

Police this morning shot and killed a man holding a gun to an 11-year-old child's head in near northeast Houston, a department spokesman said. Capt. Bruce Williams said two officers were patrolling a near northeast neighborhood just before 10 a.m. when they heard the child screaming at a small, two-story apartment complex in *** Williams could not say whether the child was a boy or a girl. The officers went to investigate and spotted the gunman,dragging the child. One of the officers, Christopher Sellers, an 11-year veteran, shot the man when he refused orders to disarm, Williams said. It was...

7 victims are shot in 5 incidents, all within a 12-hour period By CHRISTINE OLLEY Philadelphia Daily News olleyc@phillynews.com 215-854-5184 A total of seven people were shot in five incidents within about a 12-hour span from Monday into yesterday, police reported yesterday. _ About 8:15 p.m. Monday, a 20-year-old man was shot three times in the back on Germantown Avenue near Cambria Street in North Philadelphia. He was admitted to Temple University Hospital. _ At 10:45 Monday night, police were called to Temple University Hospital after a 36-year-old male stated that he had been shot on Percy Street near Luzerne...

Barack Obama's dismissive remark about embittered Americans clinging to their God and guns sounded like a good description of congregants in his own church: the Malcolm-X-style black separatists who were doing cartweels as Jeremiah Wright inveighed against America. The same media that yawned at those YouTube videos find Sarah Palin's talk at her church riveting and revealing of extremism. The YouTube clips of it look positively innocuous next to the rantings of Wright, or for that matter the open radicalism of Obama. Even Palin's comment about American soldiers doing the will of God is hardly over-the-top. What should she have...

DENVER, Colo. -- Colorado is home to more than 100,000 dues-paying members of the National Rifle Association, all of whom should have received THIS MAILER sometime in the last week, which says he would be "the most anti-gun president in American history," and refers gun rights enthusiasts to the website GunBanObama.com. Obama is aware of this of course, and he's on the radio airwaves out here -- as well as, according to readers of Ben Smith at Politico -- Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland. Virginia, Ohio, and New Hampshire. The ad features former Washington Redskin Ray Schoenke, who helms the American...

Farmington Police are searching for a burglary suspect after a family found the man in their house. Police said a man and his young daughter came home at about 3:30 p.m., on Monday and found a man in his late teens or early twenties in their house. The man pointed a gun at the homeowners, took their cash from a dresser and ran out the door. The man and his daughter were not hurt. "After the man provided him with whatever cash he had on him, he left out the front door," said Farmington Police Chief Bryan Lindquist. The home...

AUGUSTA, Ga. --- Investigators tell News 12 an 18-year-old with a butcher knife was trying to get into a house on the 14 hundred block of Wrightsboro Road. Deputies say the homeowner shot the intruder in the left leg with a 12gauge shotgun. The teen is recovering at MCG. At this time no charges have been filed.

Breaking up is so hard to do. Judging from the Democratic Party platform, remarks from presidential nominee Barack Obama and his selection of anti-gun Sen. Joseph Biden as a running mate, the long, transparent courtship of gun owners by Democrats is over and instead of a goodbye kiss, there was a slap in the face; the political approximation of a domestic assault...... The party platform tries to patronize gun owners by claiming to “recognize that the right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition, and we will preserve Americans’ continued Second Amendment right to own and...

SEYMOUR, Tenn. — A woman who lives near the Smoky Mountains used a musical instrument to scare away two men who broke into her home. The Knoxville News Sentinel quoted a Sevier County Sheriff's Office report that stated the victim awoke to find two men in her home in Seymour on Saturday morning. Her child was asleep in the home. Deputies said the woman used part of a brass musical instrument to hit one of the men and both intruders fled. It couldn't immediately be determined what kind of instrument she used. She got a license number, though, and police...

UPDATED AT 4:37 P.M.: Lexington police have made an arrest in a burglary that turned fatal Wednesday morning at an apartment complex near Hamburg Pavilion. Reginald Laron Jones, 24, of Lexington has been charged with first-degree burglary. Police say he was one of three people, including a man who was killed by a male resident in the apartment and a female, who charged into the apartment Wednesday morning. Officers are conferring with the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office as they explore whether the shooting was self-defense, said Officer Ann Gutierrez, a Lexington police spokeswoman. The shooting was being treated as a homicide...

JENSEN BEACH — A would-be thief got an unexpected surprise early this morning when one of his victims greeted him with a gun and held him on a patio until deputies arrived. Deputies say Timothy Kendal Vanhohenstein, 21, of Jensen Beach, was trying to break into a house on Fiesta Court just after 1 a.m. when the couple sleeping inside was startled by the sound of him trying to open the door.

Four times Italian women's champion Lara Liotta, 29, was on a street in broad daylight in central Rome when the man, a Romanian immigrant of no fixed abode, approached her and asked her for a cigarette. When she told him she did not smoke he allegedly lunged for her and grabbed her around the neck. Miss Liotta, who works as prison officer, immediately put her black belt training to good use, delivering two swift jabs to the man's face which sent him crashing to the ground. The karate champion was fortunate she could rely on her skills to fight off...

When is "innocent until proven guilty" a controversial concept? When is an Ohio law designed to protect a homeowner protecting themselves from an intruder interpreted a license for drug dealers to murder one another? And when are self-defense advocates and rank-and-file cops described as saying it's ok to shoot first and ask questions later? When you are a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer or a bureaucrat with the Ohio Prosecutors' Association or Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Reginald Fields story entitled "Innocent before guilty, new self-defense law sides with homeowners protecting their 'castles'": "A homeowner...

A North Sacramento man shot and killed an armed intruder early Tuesday as his pregnant wife and children awoke in terror from the attack. The man, whom police did not identify, told police that two men had tried to break into his home just after midnight in the 800 block of Carmelita Avenue off Rio Linda Boulevard. The resident, who had no telephone, pleaded with neighbors to alert police after the shooting, neighbors said. A neighbor who provided refuge for the resident and his family after the attack recounted what the man told him. The resident heard scuffling and banging...

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JESSICA YELLIN: Here's something you might not know about Sarah Palin. She held her baby shower for her fourth child at a shooting range. Even some of her friends laugh about that. They say that she's been able to juggle motherhood and politics because she needs very little sleep.

A would be burglar gets more than he bargains for while breaking into a West Jackson home. The homeowner sent the burglar to the hospital. It happened in the 600 block of Hillsdale Drive off Clinton Boulevard. A homeowner on Hillsdale Drive was still in bed around 9:00 a.m. when a burglar woke him from his sleep. "Once he heard Mr. Moore attempt to break into the home he retrieved a weapon and fired a shot striking Mr. Moore," said Jackson Police Lt. Jeffery Scott. Eighteen year old Lorenzo Moore was shot once in the arm. He fled the home...

A 19-year-old Sacramento man was shot and killed early this morning as he tried to break into a North Sacramento home, police said. The resident inside fired a shotgun through a door, striking the invader, police said. Sacramento Police Lt. James Beezley said the resident called 911 at 12:18 a.m. to report that two men were trying to break into his house in the 800 block of Carmelita Avenue off Rio Linda Boulevard. One of the men was carrying a rifle and trying to jam it through the door, which was slightly ajar, the resident reported to authorities. Beezley said...

OLDSMAR FL- After he was forced into the back seat of a car at gunpoint, kidnapping victim Gregory Longley saw his opportunity. When one of the kidnappers - sitting next to Longley - put his gun on his lap to text-message someone, Longley grabbed the gun and killed him, according to the Pinellas sheriff's office. Longley also shot and wounded another kidnapper sitting in the front passenger seat, the sheriff's office said, and told the driver to stop the car. A clearer picture of the Sunday night kidnapping and shooting – along with the names of those involved – was...

Charges are expected to be filed today against four people arrested in connection with a residential burglary over the weekend in Chisago County, said Capt. Keith Hoppe of the Chisago County Sheriff's Office. Authorities are still looking for a fifth suspect, a 22-year-old man from Rush City, who also is expected to be charged, Hoppe said. According to Hoppe, four men kicked in the front and back doors to gain entry to a house on the 52000 block of Government Road in Rushseba Township. The homeowner was sleeping when the burglars came calling at 2 a.m. Friday. She grabbed a...