I’m taking advantage of the nice soapbox provided here by AnalogKid to spread the word about the Blog Challenge for Project Valour-IT!!
Project Valour-IT is one of the many good things organized by the Soldiers’ Angels group. These folks do some awesome work in support of not just Soldiers, but all of the amazing men and women in every service – Marines, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard.
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On C-SPAN 3 (which we don’t get on our cable system, more’s the pity) at 2:40 am EST, they’re running a 2001 Congressional hearing on presidential pardons. Headline testify-er? I. Lewis Libby.
Ah well, he’s pleading not guilty, so presumably he won’t need one anyway!
Earlier, I posted about Don Bower and his one-man crusade to extend long-range handgun accuracy to unheard-of distances.
Well, the guru has his disciples! And they’re still out there, teaching novices to split bullets on angle irons at 660 yards!
Here’s what they do it with.
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Rivrdog has an analysis of the Feds’ anti-pandemic plan announced recently, and points out its fatal flaw….
The Proper functions of a government fall into three broad categories, all of them involving the issues of physical force and the protection of man’s rights: The Police, to protect men from criminals – The Armed Services, to protect men from foreign invaders – The Law Courts, to settle disputes among men according to objective laws.
These three categories involve many corollary and derivative issues – and their implementation in practice, in the form of specific legislation, is enormously complex. It belongs to the field of a special science: the philosophy of law. Many errors and many disagreements are possible in the field of implementation, but what is essential here is the principle to be implemented: the principle that the purpose of law and of government is the protection of individual rights.
Today, this principle is forgotten, ignored and evaded. The result is the present state of the world, with mankind’s retrogression to the lawlessness of absolutist tyranny, to the primitive savagery of rule by brute force.
â€â€From Ayn Rand: The Nature of Government (1963)
First The Gun Guy got his new toy, and now Benjamin of Reasonablenut (who I’m happy to say I met briefly at this year’s Boomershoot) has a shiny new Springfield National Match M1A! I’d call that the Queen of semiauto rifles, but then what do I know. It’s a shooter, too! Congrats, Benjamin — very kewl!
And I’m happy to say I’m just a couple weeks away (California waiting period, grr, grr) from being able to hold in mine own hands this fine piece of wood & metal sculpture that I intend to make next year’s Boomershoot rifle:
(Warning: Gun Pr0n below the fold)
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Under a proper social system, a private individual is legally free to take any social action he pleases (so long as he does not violate the rights of others), while a government official is bound by law in his every official act. A private individual may do anything except that which is legally forbidden; a government official may do nothing except that which is legally permitted.
This is the means of subordinating ‘might’ to ‘right’. This is the American concept of “A government of laws and not of men�.
â€â€From Ayn Rand: The Nature of Government (1963)
Hello all – I am tickled at the chance to do a little guest-blogging here while AnalogKid takes some quality time off.
If you don’t already have Michael Yon’s Gates of Fire post tattooed onto your consciousness, then hie yourself over to his blog and catch up to the rest of us. You’ll understand the image below better after reading…
(cross-posted at Righty in a Left State)
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Today, when a concerned effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals – that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individual, only the conduct of the government – that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens protection against the government.
–From Ayn Rand: The Nature of Government (1963)
Question: am I doing a happy dance because
a) Samuel Alito is being castigated by the frothy left as a threat to gun control?
b) The Gun Guy got a new gun (and deservedly so)?
c) The AnalogKid’s away, and Barb & I get to play around with his blog?
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