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The Post's Sept. 24 "Fact Checker" on NRA advertisements about Sen. Barack Obama's gun record itself disregarded the facts ["NRA Ads Are Off Target About Obama and Guns"]. The Post claimed that Mr. Obama only wanted to tax "certain types" of guns in 1999. But the sentence in the 1999 article cited in the ad said, "Obama is also seeking to increase the federal taxes by 500 percent on the sale of . . . ammunition . . . ."

THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES: Obama voted to ban hundreds of rifles and shotguns commonly used for hunting and sport shooting Illinois Senate, SB 1195, 3/13/03 Obama endorsed a ban on all handguns Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization general candidate questionnaire, 9/9/96 Politico, 03/31/08. Obama voted to allow the prosecution of people who use a firearm for self-defense in their homes Illinois Senate, S.B. 2165, vote 20, 3/25/04 Obama supported increasing taxes on firearms and ammunition by 500 percent Chicago Defender, 12/13/99 Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting United States...

The National Rifle Assn. is about to turn up the volume on its campaign against Barack Obama, airing more ads taking him to task over his gun record. Starting as early as Sunday, the NRA will be airing a new batch of spots in more battleground states, such as Ohio, Virginia and Florida. As colleague Noam Levey reported back in June, some say the NRA is losing sway. But Democrats, who generally favor restrictions on guns, still shy away from the issue, particularly in must-win swing states. The NRA already is up with spots in Colorado, New Mexico and Pennsylvania....

The NRA is going up with its second wave of advertising against Obama, focused in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota and Michigan. One television ad, which will also air in Spanish, features a former Texas police officer tying gun issues to illegal immigration, saying: “Families should be able to defend themselves against rapists, drug dealers and other criminals illegally crossing our border.” It’s unclear how widely this spot will air, but it’s supposed to go up on TV and radio today. The NRA claims that it will spend "8 figures" on broadcast advertising this cycle.

When Republicans attacked Sen. Barack Obama's lack of executive experience, the Democratic presidential nominee, who as a onetime community organizer had only run a few voter drives and job training programs in Chicago, countered that overseeing his presidential campaign, an operation with a singular focus getting him elected a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars and almost too many employees to count, qualified as executive experience. Voters should take notice. If how candidate Obama runs his campaign is an indicator as to how a President Obama would run the government, then look out. Last week, in the all-important swing...

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...

Video from NRA by a US Soldier. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hvhZgUhpCE

Rome wasn’t built in a day; it didn’t it collapse that suddenly, either. War, famine, and disease all played their roles, but poisoning of the governing elite also contributed. Unsuspecting Romans were killed not by hemlock or cyanide, but by chronic exposure to elemental lead. This heavy metal, used for its malleability and resistance to corrosion, is a toxin, not beneficial in any amount. Lead poisons by mimicking other biologically important metals, binding to enzymes and interfering with key body functions. A single high dose of lead can be lethal; sub-lethal quantities affect neurological, gastrointestinal and renal functioning.

A local television station's coverage of a Missouri campaign "truth squad" working on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has touched off a national Internet frenzy. < snip > What has prompted all the furor is that several members of Obama's "truth squad" in Missouri are prosecutors or members of law enforcement. They include St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer and St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch. All are Democrats. Joyce and McCulloch are featured in a KMOV report by John Mills, in which both say their aim was to refute any false...

Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen to rally for Sen. Barack Obama in Philly on Saturday -- for a last minute push to register rockers, young and old to vote. The concert takes place this Saturday and voter registration deadline is the following Monday.

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Obama Pressures Stations to Drop NRA Spot Tuesday, September 30, 2008 By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) - The Obama campaign’s effort to pressure TV stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio to stop airing a National Rifle Association ad is “frightening” and “dangerous,” a campaign finance expert said. “When a candidate threatens a broadcaster with government sanction over the content of an ad, it is very worrisome to the First Amendment and the guarantee of free political debate,” said Sean Parnell, president of the Center for Competitive Campaigns, an organization that focuses on money in politics. The controversy began last week...

If pro is the opposite of con, then progress is definitely the opposite of congress. Yesterday the number 777 -- not exactly the sign of the devil more like the sign of the discontent of the American people -- became the headlines in most major newspapers across the country as the market plummeted. And the markets fell thanks to the vote against the Paulsen Bail Out Plan. Many lawmakers voted not their party -- much to the chagrin of Nancy Pelosi and Roy Blunt who both thought they had the deliverables to pass the bill –- instead they voted the...

In this letter sent this week to TV station managers from Obama campaign general counsel Bob Bauer, obtained by ABC News, the Obama campaign argues that a TV ad by the National Rifle Association should not air. "Unlike federal candidates, independent political organizations do not have a 'right to command the use of broadcast facilities,'" Bauer writes. "Moreover, you have a duty 'to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising.'" The Obama campaign takes issue with an ad called "Hunter," pointing out that claims in the ad were called "false" by Factcheck.org, and was given three Pinocchios by...

Predicting that Barack Obama “would be the most anti-gun president in American history,” the National Rifle Association has announced plans to spend $15 million to help defeat the Democratic presidential hopeful. Obama has said he has “no intention of taking away folks’ guns” and that he believes strongly in the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms. But his apparent support for strict handgun bans in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere worries gun advocacy groups such as the NRA. Obama’s mixed messages on the issue surfaced in June, when he expressed qualified agreement with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling...

Last spring, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to arms, Democrats hoped the decision would neutralize the gun issue. Instead the ruling, by inviting debate over which kinds of gun control are constitutional, has made the issue more salient.That's bad news for Barack Obama, who the National Rifle Association says "would be the most anti-gun president in American history." The Democratic nominee pays lip service to Second Amendment rights while calling for "commonsense," "reasonable" restrictions. But Obama's sense of what's reasonable, while common among the left-liberal politicians and activists inside his comfort...

Obama Campaign Threaten Legal Action Over NRA Ads MORE NEWS 9/25/2008 - Fairfax, VA-Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has sent threatening letters to news agencies in Pennsylvania and Ohio to stop airing ads exposing his anti-gun record sponsored by the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF). The kicker? NRA-PVF's Ohio’s ads have not yet begun running. “Barack Obama and his campaign are terrified of the truth,” declared Chris W. Cox, Chairman of NRA-PVF. “Sen. Obama's statements and support for restricting access to firearms, raising taxes on guns and ammunition and voting against the use of firearms for self-defense in...

Last Tuesday, CBS affiliate Channel 4 TV News in St. Louis reported that some Missouri sheriffs and prosecutors have formed a truth squad to target anyone who engages in misleading ad or statements about Senator Obama. Here's the transcript of the lede on the CBS story: "Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad during the presidential campaign." The implied threat in the Channel 4 report is that prosecutors and sheriffs across Missouri will enforce "Missouri ethics laws" and conduct criminal investigations of "anyone who lies or runs...

Obama campaign spokesman Damien Thorn warned broadcasters that they will be held accountable for any “lies” they air running up to the election and after, once the Obama Administration takes office on November 5. The threat was sparked by a series of anti-Obama ads produced by the National Rifle Association. The ads warn voters that if Senator Obama’s past record is any guide, his election should be expected to lead to further abridgements of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. While not challenging the historical accuracy of the ads, Thorn contended that “they misrepresent Senator Obama’s current positions on...

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...

Missouri's Governor and Hillary Clinton's campaign both allege what are arguably civil rights violations We reported recently that Missouri's Governor, Matt Blunt, accused the Obama campaign of conspiracy to misuse his state's law enforcement resources to "threaten and intimidate his critics." The text of Governor Blunt's statement appears below. When we add the Clinton campaign's allegations of "voter intimidation," we get a very disturbing picture of which all voters need to be aware. We encourage our readers to copy and circulate the following material in its entirety.

Last spring, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to arms, Democrats hoped the decision would neutralize the gun issue. Instead the ruling, by inviting debate over which kinds of gun control are constitutional, has made the issue more salient. That's bad news for Barack Obama, whom the National Rifle Association says "would be the most anti-gun president in American history." The Democratic nominee pays lip service to Second Amendment rights while calling for "commonsense," "reasonable" restrictions. But Mr. Obama's sense of what is reasonable, while common among the left-liberal politicians and activists...

This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television,...

Obama Wants NRA Ads Banned Saturday, September 27, 2008 8:10 PM By: Newsmax staff The Obama camp has been threatening television and radio stations to keep them from airing anti-Obama ads. The latest target is the NRA and stations in Pennsylvania. Earlier this week, the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund released a series of radio and television spots to educate gun owners and sportsmen about Barack Obama's longstanding anti-gun record. In response to the NRA-PVF ads, a clearly panicked Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are doing everything they can to hide Obama's real record by mounting...

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I’m surprised. Usually in cases like this, Obama has his cult followers inundate the offending station with irate, semi-coherent phone calls, like they did recently to try to knock hatemongering smear merchant David Freddoso off the air for the crime of committing journalism critical of The One. For whatever reason they’ve decided that won’t work here, so they’re opting for Plan B. Straight out of the Democratic handbook Harry Reid used to threaten ABC’s broadcast license for showing the “Path to 9/11,” here’s Obama lawyer Robert Bauer warning station managers not to air the NRA’s new anti-Obama “Hunter” ad if...

Fred -- The NRA is currently attacking Barack Obama with TV ads that are so deceptive they are not fit for broadcast. The ads purposefully misrepresent Barack's position on illegal guns to scare and mislead voters -- the non-partisan Factcheck.org concluded that claims in the ads are simply "false." TV stations airing them have the legal authority to prevent the broadcast of false and misleading advertising, and they will respond if their viewers apply enough pressure. You're receiving this message because these ads are running on TV stations in your community. Send an email to TV advertising representatives in...

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?...

September 25, 2008 Categories: Barack Obama Obama seeks to take down NRA ad The Obama campaign has written radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association. "This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama's position on the Second Amendment," says the letter from Obama general counsel Bob Bauer. "For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement." The ad, "Hunter," conflates Obama's anti-gun stances of the 1990s with his current, more pro-gun, stand, and...

FOX ticker: NRA release a barrage anti-Obama ads in swing states. An Obama spokesman, Bill Burton, says the claims on the NRA ads are ALL false stating that "These ads are complete crap". Burton: The Washington Post this morning did a long fact check that pointed out by point-by-point that these ads are false.... Kelly: Has he ever supported a ban on handguns?

The Obama campaign has written radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association."This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama's position on the Second Amendment," says the letter from Obama general counsel Bob Bauer. "For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement." The ad, "Hunter," conflates Obama's anti-gun stances of the 1990s with his current, more pro-gun, stand, and was chided for inaccuracy in The Washington Post, an item to which Bauer's letter refers.NRA spokesman...

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...

But the point is clear: If you're a hunter, Barack Obama is not anything like you. And if he doesn't understand your concerns, he sure doesn't deserve your vote. Obama has been fighting the notion that he opposes gun rights, stressing on the stump that he backs Second Amendment protections. His campaign has released a radio ad featuring American Hunters and Shooters Association head Ray Schoenke telling hunters the Democratic nominee won't come for their guns. "The bottom line is this. If you’ve got a rifle, you’ve got a shotgun, you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking...

The National Rifle Association is likely to spend "in the eight figure range" on radio and television advertisements in the next 42 days as part of its efforts to deter undecided voters from voting for Barack Obama, according to an NRA spokesman. The group will air a series of ads starring group members that openly question Obama's commitment to protecting gun rights. Ads will air on radio stations and during local cable television ad breaks in Colorado and New Mexico through Oct. 5 and in Pennsylvania through Sept. 28, with plans to expand to other battleground states in the coming...

A few weeks back, I wrote: "...Some things are about to take place in this campaign that I'll keep to myself for now. In short, it's about to catch fire. I'll let you know if - when - these things happen..."

FactCheck.org doesn't think much of the NRA's ads criticizing Obama. They are, sadly, way off base. This is, presumably,one of the reasons why Stuart Taylor Jr. of the National Journal declared he "no longer trust the major newspapers or television networks to provide consistently accurate and fair reporting and analysis of all the charges and countercharges." He's got good reason. For starters, FactCheck.org takes Obama at his word that he "believes the Second Amendment creates an individual right, and he respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms." Many gun owners are not so willing to give the benefit...

The number of Floridians with permission to pack heat has jumped nearly 50 percent in three years. In 2005, one year before the state Legislature's decision to provide anonymity to people holding concealed weapons licenses, there were 347,350 active permits statewide. Now, that number has swelled to about 520,000. Some states ask applicants why they want a concealed weapons license. Florida isn't one of them. That makes it almost impossible to say who is getting licensed and why. But recent changes to the state's gun laws by the Republican-led Legislature suggest Florida is an attractive place to own a gun...

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...

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.

Holy crap, these are great ads. Talk about shoving the “bitter clingers” comment down his throat. He’s gonna need a surgeon to get those out. All four are great.

Here are the videos:

"Defend freedom," urges the National Rifle Association's new TV and radio ad campaign. "Defeat Obama." -snip- The ad called "Hunter" features a Virginia hunter named Karl Rusch asking about Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., "Where is this guy from? He's probably never been hunting a day in his life." "Hunter" claims Obama supports a "huge" new tax on guns and ammo, a claim based on a 1999 story in the Chicago Defender. It says Obama "voted to ban virtually all deer hunting ammunition" (a charge based on a 2005 Senate vote for a failed amendment from Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., which...

Currently airing in Pennsylvania and coming soon to a swing state near you. They’re all worth watching but here’s the one that should get the most attention. I eagerly await the media’s decoding of these very conservative, very anti-Obama, and therefore per se very racist spots.

Sen. Barack Obama better not mess with his running mate Joe Biden's guns...or else. In an out-of-nowhere attempt to re-assure a southwestern Virginia labor crowd about gun owners' rights, Biden -- who regularly scores "F" ratings from the National Rifle Association -- warned Obama that if "he tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem."

In an appearance in Nevada, anti-gun presidential candidate Barack Obama told his followers: "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," he said. "And if they tell you that, 'Well, we're not sure where he stands on guns.' I want you to say, 'He believes in the Second Amendment.' Barack Obama has gone beyond lying about his long anti-gun record. Now he is inciting...

Today's green movement uses certain buzzwords -- organic, locavore, renewable -- to the wry amusement of 15 million to 20 million of us who've actually lived the eco-friendly lifestyle that these words describe. We are hunters. As a subset of America, we're admittedly somewhat smaller than we used to be. Our numbers have been steadily pressed beneath a culture growing ever faster, more complex and distant from its rural ancestry. Now, like growing vegetables, gathering fresh eggs and raising farm animals for the table, the proclivity and skill to harvest Earth's bounty of wild game -- and to pass on...

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683 D.C. Second Amendment Enforcement Act Passes House, Moves to Senate Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Fairfax, VA - The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to approve the National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed “Second Amendment Enforcement Act” in an overwhelming bi-partisan vote of 266-152. The Act, passed as an amendment to H.R. 6842, will overturn the District of Columbia’s gun control restrictions that defy the recent Supreme Court ruling by continuing to limit D.C. residents’ right to self-defense. This bill is necessary to enforce the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v....

A House committee approved a bill yesterday that would allow D.C. officials to write their own gun laws, as D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and others tried to forestall more drastic congressional intervention. But Norton (D) acknowledged that the real showdown on the District's gun laws will come on the House floor, probably next week. There, a tougher bill that would eliminate most D.C. gun regulations probably will be offered as a substitute for Norton's measure. The full House will probably approve the tougher measure, according to congressional sources. "I wish I could tell you this is the end of...

I Remember hurricane Alicia Aug 18th 1983! Kemah, TX, USA Because Hurricane Ike seems to be on a similar course to Alicia I will tell you this story. Alicia, the little cat 3 storm with 115mph winds killed 21 people and did 1.2 billion dollars in damage, with a 14 ft storm surge. 90% of Dwellings on Jamaica beach were destroyed the Seabrook and Kemah flats looked like ground zero. Houston high-rise glass buildings sustained heavy damage. I was in my 20’s and thought I was bullet proof so I road this one out on board our 56 ft boat...

B01 Congress plans to take up a bill this week that would repeal the District's gun-registration requirements and make it easier for residents to legally buy semiautomatic weapons, raising alarm among city officials that the measure would effectively end local gun control. Chiefs of the D.C. police, the Capitol Police, the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies are expected to testify against the bill during a House hearing today. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) plans to introduce a substitute bill that would simply mandate that D.C.'s gun laws conform to a recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down the...