Daily Archives: April 17, 2008

Interview with Kyle Cassidy

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April 17, 2008

Murdoc at Gunpundit.com did an interview with Kyle Cassidy, the author of Armed America, which if you don’t recall was the photobook which painted an excellent portrait of the diversity of American gun owners. Here’s a short excerpt from the interview: 4. Did you run into many situations where other members of the gun-owner’s...
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Gun control takes a hit in IL

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April 17, 2008

My neighboring state of Illinois has some of the most oppressive gun laws in the nation, however it seems that lately that grassroots activism has been doing an excellent job at keeping Mayor Daley of Chicago and his anti-gun cronies at bay. The high-profile proposal, aimed at closing what Daley sees as a loophole...
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Brady Campaign Protest

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April 17, 2008

I agree with Bitter than people need to know how classless the Brady Campaign’s protest was yesterday. She reprinted three letters to the editor that ran in the Roanoke Times, and I want to run them here as well. Gun protest on Tech campus is a disgusting idea So this gun-control group is going...
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Stay Classy, Brady Campaign

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April 17, 2008
Stay Classy, Brady Campaign

As you know, yesterday was the one year memorial for the VA Tech shootings. If you don’t remember from a year back on the very day of the shootings, the Brady Campaign posted a “donate now” button on their website, in what I can only construe as a crass attempt to drive membership in...
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Obama endorsed by AHSA

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April 17, 2008

The American Hunters and Shooter’s Association has released their official endorsement of Barack Obama, offering the final nail in their coffin as a “pro-gun rights” group. The link to the ABC political blog is almost funny, because it’s kind of backwards. They think that AHSA is a pro-gun group, and that their timing in...
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Hate mail

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April 17, 2008

Yesterday, I wrote a brief post about how Obama was leading Hillary in a recent Indiana poll. That post linked to the CNN Political Ticker blog, and for about 3 or 4 hours there was a trackback link to Call me Ahab on the PT blog. Those hours resulted in me getting more nastygrams...
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New ad box

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April 17, 2008

Over in the sidebar, there’s a new skyscraper ad for a webcomic that’s written and drawn by a friend of mine, Josh Graham. If you enjoy a good fantasy story, check it out. The story is still developing, so there’s no telling where it’s going to go from here. The comic is called Heritage,...
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