Conservative Heritage Times

Here is the list of traitors. Give them a call and let them know what you think.

• Lindsey Graham (SC)  (202) 224-5972
• Lamar Alexander (TN)  (202) 224-4944
• Kelly Ayotte (NH)  (202) 224-3324
• Richard Burr (NC)  (202) 224-3154
• Saxby Chambliss (GA)  (202) 224-3521
• John McCain (AZ)  (202) 224-2235
• Tom Coburn (OK)  (202) 224-5754
• Susan Collins (ME)  (202) 224-2523
• Bob Corker (TN)  (202) 224-3344
• Jeff Flake (AZ)  (202) 224-4521
• John Hoeven (ND)  (202) 224-2551
• Johnny Isakson (GA)  (202) 224-3643
• Dean Heller (NV)  (202) 224-6244
• Mark Kirk (IL)  (202) 224-2854
• Pat Toomey (PA)  (202) 224-4254
• Roger Wicker (MS)  (202) 224-6253

Notice that Jeff Flake, who is often described as “libertarian leaning,” was amoung the traitors. So was Pat Toomey. Remember him? He is that raging right-winger everyone was supposed to be so excited about when he challenged Arlen Specter. The most surprising to me is Tom Coburn. He is generally one of the better Senators. Every one of these clowns needs a primary challenger.

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Recently, a school in the once great state of Maryland offered counseling to students “troubled” by a classmate eating pastry into the shape of a gun. You might think his offense was kind of silly, but the school considered the seven year old students triggering action a “Level 3” violation of the following code:

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Those cynics who claim the Department of Homeland Security is more concerned with expanding government power than with the safety of Americans need to read this handy advice about what to do if a madman attacks your workplace. Step one: Cower. Here’s how:

“To protect your hiding place, lock the door if you can. Block the door with heavy furniture,” recommends the male narrator, speaking in measured, authoritative tones.

Other survival strategies promoted in the video include hiding “behind large items such as cabinets or desks. Remain quiet. Silence your cellphone or pager. Even the vibration setting can give away a hiding position.”

That’s great advice. However, my new cell phone and I do not get along very well. Even when I’m not being fired at by a lunatic with a gun, I have difficulty figuring out how to set my phone to vibrate. No matter what I push, I get the message “You have selected AT&T’s Premium Text Messaging Service. A charge of $6,000.29 will appear on your next bill.” So I can just imagine myself fumbling with my cell phone while Omar Thornton is stalking the cubicles searching for co-workers to aerate.

The DHS video even provides this tip on how to take a stand against your murderer:

“If you are caught out in the open and cannot conceal yourself or take cover, you might consider trying to overpower the shooter with whatever means are available,” says the narrator in the video, which shows an office worker pulling scissors out of a desk drawer.

Because, obviously, no one would have something as icky and scary as a handgun at work. So behold the weapon of choice of Metrosexual America:

But then, it’s just a matter of time until liberals and Neocons start demanding scissor registration. Me, I’m stocking up on these babies. Let Diane Feinstein try and stop me. Molon labe!

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This is a Steve Stockman Facebook post. I am passing it along here for two reasons. Because it is interesting in its own right, and because it illustrates just how depraved some left-wingers are. The conservatives who wring their hands about the unthinking mindless right (with some justification) need to get out more. Go take a look at what passes for discussion at Daily Kos for example. I see this sort of viciousness a lot more from the left.

This is typical of the messages I have been receiving from anti-gun activists. (I have edited it to remove profanity.)

 

Message Body:
First:
Mary was a wh-re
Second:
Jesus was a hack
Third:
Guns are for guys who have small d–ks.
Fourth:
You are a c-ntWhile comments coming into my office are 25 to 1 in favor of gun rights, the minority of anti-gun comments are usually vulgar, explicit and many are often violent.

We have received numerous violent threats from anti-gun activists. They have threatened to kill me, kill my staff and shoot and blow up the Capitol — all in the name of gun control.

Their comments, and screen caps, are being forwarded to Capitol Police. My staff will be advised how to deal with the violent phone threats from anti-gun activists.

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I’m shocked! Professional neo”conservative” turned moderate David Frum supports gun control and for good measure makes sure he polishes his PC bona fides while doing it. The article takes issue with Rod Dreher. Rod replies here. Jordon Bloom replies here. Both say Frum took Dreher out of context, which he did, but it was all in the service of Frum making his PC point. Who has time for accuracy when you’re stumbling all over yourself to prove how PC you are? And to think that at one time most people considered this guy a conservative.

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LEAGUE OF THE SOUTH NEWS SERVICE

9 January 2013

For immediate release:

The Obama administration is threatening to use Executive Orders to further dismantle the Second Amendment. Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein (CA) is set to introduce a draconian bill to ban “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines, among other things, later this month. Between the two, they are intent on turning otherwise law-abiding gun owners in the South and elsewhere into outlaws with the stroke of a pen.

But won’t these law-abiding gun owners comply with the new “laws?” Won’t they dutifully register their “assault weapons” with the authorities and submit to other restrictions on buying, owning, and transferring firearms? Some will but many will not. They will instead become outlaws.

In the last month, millions of Americans have bought millions of weapons and over a billion rounds of ammunition. They are not buying these expensive things in order to register them or turn them in to the gun grabbers at some point in the future. They are buying them to defend themselves, their families, and their property from whomever might threaten them. And at present, the biggest threat is the U.S. government itself.

The League of the South, the premier Southern nationalist organization, will not comply with any diminution of our God-given right to keep and bear the sort of arms a free people need to remain free. This means “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines. Moreover, we will view any attempt to deprive the Southern people of these tools as a criminal act by a criminal regime.

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Gen. McChrystal is retired, so  he has a right to take whatever political position he wants, but it is, I believe, a bit presumptuous and tone deaf for someone who used to control huge arsenals of weapons to offer up an opinion on what weapons us proles ought to be allowed to own. Perhaps he should just keep his opinion to himself, lest people gets suspicious.  Hmmm … the military wants to disarm us. Good idea or bad idea?

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The way the list is organized here is a bit confusing, but it seems to include organizations, celebrities and then other influential people who aren’t celebrities. I haven’t had time to go through the whole thing since it is long, but it’s interesting (and discouraging) how many of the organizations are medically related. A while back there was an effort to make guns a “public health” issue. I wonder if this list reflects some of that activity. Also, I’m disappointed to see Sylvester Stallone’s name on the list. Not only does it demonstrate hypocrisy (Did anyone see Rambo IV [not actually called that] which Stallone co-wrote, directed and starred in?), but Stallone is often cited as one of the few Republicans in Hollywood.

Update: Here is the list straight from the NRA that makes the divisions in the list more clear. The list is also not new. It is from Aug 10. The attached article is new, and it popped up on my Facebook today.

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“This, then, remains a country in a Cold Civil War – not far off the geographical contours of the first, but with the inheritors of the Confederacy concentrated in the South and now also with serious pockets of absolutists in the more rural parts of the country as a whole.” Andrew Sullivan, pseudo-conservative

Sullivan’s right, but not for the reason he imagines. Yes, there IS a “Cold Civil War” roiling the political waters today – and just as in 1861, it’s being fought to determine if we are to preserve our traditional culture and liberties, or if an overgrown central government will again sponsor a revolution. If DC wins this time around, we can expect the criminalization of ALL firearms, the confiscation of private retirement accounts, and the Third-Worldization of America.

Alexander Stephens’ prediction that the cause of the South would become the cause of all has been vindicated.

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I never thought I’d live to see the day the gun-control issue could bring together persons such Sen. Barbra Boxer (D-Calf.) and the NRA but in this crazy world you never know what you can expect.  And if  takes a horrible crime such as the Sandy Hook massacre to bring such strange bedfellows together in agreement, then perhaps some good can come out of such tragedy.

But it’s not good when it comes to when to heart of freedom, which is what the Second Amendment is about (NRA bumperstickers after all say “Defend Freedom”), when the NRA decides to ally itself with authoritarianism which its “alliance” with Boxer is about. For the NRA, in its recent press conference on Sandy Hook, basically allied itself with Boxer’s  proposal to have armed National Guard troopers guarding elementary schools by calling for armed police officers, paid for by the Federal Government, to do the exact same thing.

The disappointing part of the NRA’s press conference which took no questions, was the fact its tone and language put the organization not on the side of freedom, which claims to be about, but authoritarianism. Its remedies, taken to their logical conclusion, is a garrison state with official lists of mentally ill people and with censorship.  Libertarians, who have been their most valuable allies in the gun control debate, could only be disappointed in their presentation. Ron Paul thinks they’ve gone mad.

Does the NRA really want a society where everyone must be armed (like the town of Kennesaw, Georgia) rather than just having the freedom to have firearms? Force the Amish to own guns? If so, then this only lends more evidence to support the charge the NRA is simply bedfellows to the gun industry and working more to enrich them (which in turns funds the NRA) than looking out for the Constitutional rights of its membership. People have the right to own a gun then they should also have the right not own a weapon or allow weapons in their home, place of business or school. Some schools and public buildings may decide to allow licensed teachers or administrators to have guns on school grounds (which they are trying to do in Texas) and that’s fine if they wish to do so or have retire policemen or police officers on school grounds too. Fine, they should pay for them themselves.

Some states and communities may try to tighten existing gun laws (which didn’t work in Connecticut) and others may do what I had mentioned above. Whatever happens, one hopes the hysteria caused by this evil act does wind up as a replay of the aftermath of 9-11, which gave us the Patriot Act. To prevent this, the NRA and other conservatives need to be critiqued and need keep their heads instead of losing them in the mad rush to “do something”. It’s doubtful Wayne LaPierre wrote the statement he made. In that case, as a lobbyist, it will be easier to walk back what he said when talking to politicians in the gun control debate. But if this is a new line of argument, then the NRA is doing a great disservice to its membership by making it more friendless and isolated than ever before (and there’s no Charlton Heston out there to restore its credibility) with a demographic group that isn’t exactly a growing part of the populace. They had better be a lot wiser than they’ve acted so far.

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Yesterday my daughter and I watched that whole gun control video frame by frame to identify all the participants. I think I did a good job identifying them based on my substantial fund of pop cultural knowledge, if I do say so myself. There were only a few that I didn’t know. My plan was to post the list here, but it turns out I wasted my time, because someone had already done it for me.

The heartfelt clip features Jon Hamm, Steve Carell, Jamie Foxx, Paul Rudd, Jason Bateman, Sarah Silverman, Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza, Amanda Peet, Busy Philipps, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Adam Scott, Cameron Diaz, Courteney Cox, Christina Applegate, Zooey Deschanel, John Slattery, Debra Messing, Elizabeth Banks, Max Greenfield, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage, Brooke Shields, Joel McHale, Conan O’Brien, Rashida Jones, Will Ferrell, Aziz Ansari, Olivia Munn, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, Selena Gomez, Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow.

As I said below, the two Mad Men actors sting a little. Who knew Roger Sterling was a gun control supporting wuss?

Addendum: This list appears to not be exhaustive. It doesn’t include Reese Witherspoon or Beyonce. Any other omissions anyone has identified?

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And in other news, the Sun rose in the East this morning. What is it about actors that makes the vast majority of them braindead liberals? Some of these really disappoint me, especially the Mad Men guys. Also, I find it a bit hypocritical that the new Bourne guy wants gun control. Has he watched his own movie? Also Jamie “kill all the white people” Foxx. Has he watched his movie? I also find it interesting that they disabled the comments. They knew good and well that they would get slammed if they didn’t.

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Maybe all the conservatives who see neocon FOX News as the be and and end all should reconsider.

An honest account of media misinformation after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy has to take into account Rupert Murdoch’s tweet about the need to ban “automatic weapons,” when none was used to kill any of the 26 people. Can the chairman of News Corporation, the parent of Fox News, be this ignorant about the nature of gun laws and guns in America?

He asked, “When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons?” He urged Obama to exercise “bold leadership” on the issue…

Cliff Kincaid, NewsWithViews

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Chris “Christie Endorses National Discussion on Gun Control” (NewsMax)

And Chris Christie endorses not winning the GOP nomination in 2016.

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This Huffington Post article has the story.

Mike Hammond, chief counsel for the powerful gun lobbying group Gun Owners of America said the National Rifle Association, the nation’s largest gun lobby, was hiding from the media like an opossum following the massacre on Friday of 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

The NRA “always does this, whenever there’s a tragedy, they go into ‘possum mode,” Hammond told The Huffington Post on Monday. “They think that if they don’t say anything that it will go away.”…

What is surprising is that Pratt is the only gun lobby representative willing to discuss his beliefs in public in the days after the Connecticut massacre. In the NRA’s absence, Gun Owners of America has emerged as one of the only sources for TV producers and reporters for the pro-gun position.

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In a post below I suggested that Sen. Manchin (D-WV) would regret his new openness to gun control. I think he already is. See him squirm here.

One problem with his statement is that it is so open ended, and it is so cliched. It sounds like the kind of thing any half-wit liberal commentator might say. It is not a statement that is easy to walk back from, as can be seen by the almost painful wiggling he is doing here.

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We could easily fill the pages of this blog with gun control related items in the wake of the Newtown shooting, but I’m personally going to resist that urge, partially because the shooting hasn’t changed the fundamentals of the debate, it has only changed the political climate, and partially because I hate the way both sides politicized such events, especially in the immediate aftermath.

What I will do is post individual outrages as I run across them, rather than rehash the whole gun control debate. That is why I posted about NRA A rated Senator Manchin waffling.

Here is another post worthy outrage.

A professor of history at the University of Rhode Island tweeted that he wanted the NRA president’s “head on a stick.” After people accused Professor Erik Loomis of wanting to assassinate LePierre, the head of the NRA, he clarified, saying that it was only a metaphor. He tweeted:  “Dear right-wing morons, saying you ‘want someone’s head on a stick’ is a metaphor. I know metaphor is hard for you to understand.— ?Erik Loomis.” In another tweet, he added, “Dear rightwingers, to be clear, I don’t want to see Wayne LaPierre dead. I want to see him in prison for the rest of his life.” He called upon the Obama administration to repeal the Second Amendment and labeled the NRA a terrorist organization

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First of all, those who said this was a call to assassinate Wayne Lapierre were grandstanding and such feigned outrage is unhelpful because it makes us look like a bunch of idiots and/or fearful little children. The hysteria of the Professor Loomises of the world should be met with calm resolve, not counter-hysteria. Let Loomis reveal himself as a fearful little child. Our side needs to be better than that. What is outrageous is that this clown makes clear that he wants LaPierre in prison for life in what was supposed to be a Tweet aimed at getting himself out of the hole he had dug himself into. Exactly what crime does History Professor Loomis think Lapierre should be tried for?

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I am speaking, of course, of the definition of “assault weapons.” From Wikipedia:

Assault weapon is a term which has been given many different meanings. One is that it is any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms using an intermediate cartridge. … A common usage is to interchange the term with assault rifle, but unlike that term, “assault weapon” has no consistent or specific definition and so is subject to varying definitions for varying purposes, including definitions that include common non-military-style firearms.

The protean, leftist term “racism” was coined to descredit conservatives and justify socialism. It’s still used to silence critics and advance the leftist agenda. It’s not a term to clarify and persuade, it’s a biased term designed to shame and silence.

Similarly, the current furor about “assault weapons” is also biased against gun owners. The term is designed to inspire fear in the minds of those who don’t know better. It conjures up the image of a homicidal maniac whose only purpose is to assault others – implying that’s the only kind of person who would want to own such a weapon.

The flexibility of the definition of assault weapons is what makes it useful to those who wish to see citizens unarmed and defenseless. It’s used to describe any gun that frightens the average metrosexual progressive, which means ANY gun other than an antique in a museum.

It’s all about the expansion of government power, not safety. So when Obama scolded those who refuse to surrender their gun rights, he was paving the way for boosting the power of the government and placing more restrictions on citizens – that’s exactly what he meant by “Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?”

Re-read that last line. That was a diabolically clever bit of rhetoric. But it’s based on a false assumption, one we need to expose, and we can best do that by arming ourselves with the facts. Here’s a good place to start.

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More proof that you can’t trust “conservative” Democrats. Not that you can trust “conservative” Republicans not named Ron Paul either, but at best a “conservative” Democrat is a RINO Republican who has to vote in the wrong caucus. Manchin will regret this.

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, an “A” rated member of the NRA, on Monday questioned the availability of assault weapons and suggested Friday’s shooting in Newtownm Conn. has opened up the issue for debate.

Manchin said past debates about assault weapons have been shut down over a fear of destroying Second Amendment rights. But the senator said last Friday’s shooting changed all that. “The massacre of so many innocent children has changed—has changed America. We’ve never seen this happen,” Manchin said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

Manchin issued criticism of assault weapons, saying, ”I don’t know anyone in the sporting or hunting arena that goes out with an assault rifle. I don’t know anybody that needs 30 rounds in a clip to go hunting. I mean, these are things that need to be talked about.”

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Do we really need or want liberal pontificating when we’re trying to watch football? Apparently not judging by the reaction to Bob Costas’ half-time gun control apologia.

Gun control is, of course, a controversial issue, with such rabid belief on both sides that even politicians tend to steer clear of it. And politics are so laden with potential conflict that most sports commentators give anything remotely political a wide berth, as well. So when you’ve got gun control and politics jammed right in the middle of your football game, well, you can see how that might get a few people a touch upset. Social media and comment sections across the Internet boiled over on Sunday night with vitriol both against Costas for his views, and against NBC for permitting any kind of political commentary on its broadcast.

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As The American Conservative recently observed, gun control is effectively off the table at the national level. (It’s still a problem at the state and local level in some areas.) And it’s a good thing it is.

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