Snowflakes in Hell

• Getting Ahead of Ourselves

  Cemetery reports that some Garden State Gunnies are getting all excited about the prospects of CCW since the election of Chris Christie. Three words, "ain't gonna happen." The fact of the matter is, no matter what Steve Lonegan told New Jersey gun owners in the primary, there is no support' [...]
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  Fetched: November 05, 2009, 11:42pm EST
  

• Massachusetts Trigger Lock Provision Oral Arguments

  Looks like oral arguments happened today in the case which challenges the constitutionality of Massachusetts safe storage provisions. "They went out of their way to say that the … decision was not invalidating laws that were enacted to prevent accidents and that such regulations were presumptively lawful," Lillios told the state [...]
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  Fetched: November 05, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  

• Government Healthcare

  Just remember when the government wants to control your healthcare what hoops we now have to jump through to treat a freakin' cold. As recently as my college years, I was able to go buy a few pills to pop to ease congestion without dealing with people - except for the' [...]
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  Fetched: November 05, 2009, 3:17pm EST
  

• A Coalition I Can Believe In

  Megan McArdle talks about how Republicans need to keep its coalition together: As long as social issues dominate the Republican Party, they will continue losing their north--I had a lot of relatives who at least considered voting for Obama.  Ironically, I wonder if the tea parties won't help bring the two' [...]
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  Fetched: November 05, 2009, 12:14pm EST
  

• Shameless Revenue Generating

  Baltimore is creating school zones out of thin air in order to install traffic cameras to raise revenue for the cash strapped city: The city’s plan is to take a number of roads that are within the legally required distance to a school but are in areas where children do not [...]
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• Bear Spray Requirement

  Teton County Wyoming is considering requiring those entering the backcountry to carry bear spray. Not a bad idea, but does this count? Related posts:More on Carrying Pepper SprayMore on the Pepper Spray IssueMore on National Parks [...]
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• Playing the Odds

  MikeB wonders why people who carry guns don't also take protective measures against being killed by falling meteors. An interesting question, but probably the wrong analogy. The odds of a person being killed by a falling meteorite are astronomically small. Best estimates of lifetime risk of being killed by meteorite' [...]
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• Means and Ends

  In regards to my post from earlier thinking about a novel tactic to use on businesses that post, it brings up the issue of means and ends. Saul Alinsky, the great leftist organizer of the 20th century, had so much to say on means and ends that he wrote a [...]
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  Fetched: November 05, 2009, 1:43am EST