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Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day. I am not a New York gun control liberal, either. I support a shotgun for home defense, a handgun for limited conceal/carry, and an assortment of hunting rifles to balance West Virginia's exploding deer population (as evidenced by hourly collisions with cars). So, I am hardly out of the mainstream. But, the gun safety debate is B.S. This foaming at the mouth, Obamar is coming for the guns, Nanny Bloomberg is a bad billionaire, and most despicable of all,...

In a bizarre op-ed in The Charleston Gazette last week, journalism professor Christopher Swindell argued that the National Rifle Association “advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America.” Stirring words, to be sure, but Swindell was hardly done — not even close. He also said that the NRA is guilty of “treason” “worthy of the firing squad.” “To support the new NRA president’s agenda of arming the populace for confrontation with the government is bloody treason,” Swindell charged in his wacky essay. After briefly playing the race card and alluding to the Civil War,...

June 09, 2003 Oil war Wolfowitz admits it WE'VE been saying all along that the Bush administration would never have attacked Iraq, except for its huge oil reserves.Now, a senior Bush administration official has confirmed it.According to recent reports in the Guardian, a British newspaper, and two major German papers, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said as much during an address to an Asian security summit in Singapore. He was asked why North Korea, with its nuclear weapons, was being treated differently from Iraq, which had no nukes. According to the newspapers, he said:"Let's look at it simply....