Author: BooMan

The National Review and Guns

The editors at the National Review are largely sympathetic to the president’s proposals, however they are opposed to the three most important items. While they support confirming a permanent head of the ATF, strengthening...

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What Bugged Me About the Coin

I really shouldn’t post about this casually, without going back and providing citations and kind of reconstructing the whole debate over the trillion dollar coin and how it unfolded and what kinds of arguments people were...

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Wanker of the Day: Jeff Denham

Most congresspeople welcome (fight for, even) federal appropriations for their states and districts. If the federal government is trying to throw tens of billions of dollars at you, you normally take it. But this is not the case...

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If People Saw the Sandy Hook Classrooms…

It can’t be done. But one thing that would settle this gun controversy for good would be if the police published the real images from those classrooms at Sandy Hook. The crime scene photos or, even worse, panoramic video....

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Guns and Mental Health

Here’s a .pdf of the twenty-three executive orders and actions that the president initiated just after noon today. The second item allows mental health professionals to report patients who they think are a risk to the...

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