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NEW YORK - A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients — a radical Egyptian sheik — to his terrorist disciples on the outside. The jury deliberated 13 days over the past month before convicting Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene. Stewart slumped in her chair as the verdict was read, shaking her head and later wiping tears from her eyes. Her supporters gasped upon hearing the conviction,...

Since the passage of AB-50 in California we've all had to sit down and re-examine our position regarding our sport of .50 caliber shooting. Whether you are a competitive shooter, a plinker, a collector or even just a gun owner you've got to be wondering what's going to happen next to our 2nd Amendment rights. I wish I could tell everyone that the anti-gunners are going to be happy with just stealing our rights in CA, but unfortunately that just isn't the case. We've already been involved in discussions with Bob McBride, President of the Rocky Mountain Fifty Caliber Shooters...

These are pictures of a blow-out in West Texas last week.

As many of you know, I'm in the process of building a retreat for disadvantaged children at Rock Island, Texas. Don't let the word, "disadvantaged" throw you. I'm not one that believes that it takes a "village" to raise a child, but I do know that there a lot of single parents out there with children who don't have the time or the money to provide their children with the pleasures which children used to take for granted. There are many children's retreats across this country, but there are very few to which any child can go without paying a...

”The Marine’s Hymn” (click) The Marine Corps Experience by General Carl E. Mundy, Jr. USMC (Ret) Thirtieth Commandant of the Marine Corps “The world over, the word Marine defines something more than a soldier. It arouses the image of a warrior on the boundlessness of the oceans, coming from the mystique of the sea onto the land – an amphibian, a soldier of the sea. The aura is one who is different and of whom more is expected.To be a United States Marine requires more than a mastery of the skills and techniques of soldiering or seamanship – the practical...

This is what happens to an offshore rig during a storm like Hurricane Ivan:

"There is apparently no limit to the insanity in California. For the umpteenth time in the long and sordid tale of AB-50, the California Assembly voted on the bill and the bill lost by a 35-36 margin. That was voting by the rules. But the rules seem to matter very little in Sacramento. Shortly after voting to send the fifty caliber ban to a well-deserved grave, California Democrats called for a "re-vote" and we watched as a handful of Democrats pressed the vote button at their own desk, then calmly walked to the empty desk of another member of the...

All hands were evacuated safely.

Urgent FCI Alert:,"As you know, we've been fighting a 50 ban in California every year. FCI and other gun rights groups, including the National Rifle Association, have been successful so far, but a ban is slowly working its way through the legislature. The California Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to have a hearing on AB-50 on Wednesday, August 4th. This committee is responsible for funding California government operations. And despite the massive debt facing California, despite the broken budgets of California's public safety agencies, the legislature is still considering ordering California's public safety agencies to waste even more money on...

"Recently there have been some posts regarding information on gun shows, and how they are run and what to expect. Gun shows are an old and honored American tradition. The basic idea; putting sellers, buyers, and stock in the same room and letting the Free Market Forces go to work is as old as commerce, but the American form of gun shows has evolved it's own manners, vocabulary, and etiquette. Gun shows are run by, and for, dreamers. Every dealer who sets up a table seems to think that the people who attend are half-wits who will happily pay 25%...

Allah's Butchers By Ralph Peters FrontPageMagazine.com | June 21, 2004 "Perhaps the greatest blasphemers in any religion are those who appoint themselves as God’s executioners. When an entire civilization embraces such butchers, both the civilization and the religion are in trouble. The ritual slaughter of Paul Johnson Jr. in Saudi Arabia wasn’t simply the act of a cluster of terrorists, but a reflection of the failure of the entire Arab world. Religions are what men make of them. In the Arab heartlands of Islam, Muslims are making a gory mess of their faith. It’s time to end the politically correct...

"It is mind boggling, the billions of dollars that are squandered annually in the name of "protecting the environment". Nor are these millions, and billions, devoted to just the U.S. environment. They are just as often given away to foreign nations, many of which have a track record of corruption. I was thinking about this as I read a speech given in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 2, by John F. Turner, an Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environment and Scientific Affairs. If Turner were any more Green, he'd glow in the dark. He represents a vast Fifth Column of...

The Houston Area Texans are having our semi-annual, quarterly, or whenever we get around to it, shoot out this Saturday at the Bullet Hole Rifle Range in San Antonio! The shooting will start at noon and dinner will be served about six or whenever I get the steaks done.THE GUEST OF HONOR WILL BE NONE OTHER THAN THE TEXAS TERMITE! Logan will be there about six to eat his steak so all of you who have wished they could see this little dynamo, here's your chance! Go out of San Antonio on Highway 90 West until you see the "San...

"My Liver Doctor is wonderful. I've had the same specialist for over 10 years. We do an Ultra Sound and a Cat Scan once a year. It works out to be one every six months. Last week was the Cat Scan. This morning my Liver Doctor called to say there was a Lesion on my Liver. Thankfully Art was home with me, because to be honest, this really knocked the wind out of me. I guess I had gotten used to them always being negative. My biggest fear has been the big "CA" of the Liver. That is why we...

A fellow freeper mom has asked me to post this. She has some symtoms of colon cancer, and has occult blood in her stool. A ct scan has been done, and she is awaiting a colonoscopy. Please pray that she can have the colonscopy ASAP. Please pray that the colonoscopy will show NO CANCER, and IF she has cancer, it is stage one. Please also don't post any "horror stories." She's already heard a few, and desparately needs to be uplifted and supported by her fellow freepers. Hug your kids extra tight today.