A California state Senator wants to require a permit to buy ammunition. His reasoning?:

“If you get out of Men’s Central Jail, or let’s say Pelican Bay or San Quentin prison, you can walk into any gun store in California and you can load up a U-Haul truck, fill it up with ammunition, you can drive to South Central Los Angeles… and sell all the ammunition you want on the black market.”

1) Buy legal products at retail and price them at a huge mark-up.
2) ???
3) Huge black market profits!

By the way, since a “black market” involves “trading goods or services illegally” and bullets aren’t illegal to buy, sell, or own, is “black market” some kind of racist dog-whistle code-word here?

[High Praise! to Freedom Is Just Another Word]

The American’s Creed was developed by William Ty ler Page, clerk of the United States House of Representatives in 1917, in answer to a national contest for such a creed. He incorporated in a brief, clear statement the basic American traditions and ideals, as expressed by the founders of our country and by its leading statesmen and writers.

Footnotes & commentary on the Creed can be found here (PDF file).

Some liberals are trying to make a big deal about how the NRA is good at making a database of who has guns for its mailing list like it’s hypocritical about gun registries. Of course, it’s a big difference when some private entity knows information about you versus the government which likes to think it can wield power over you. I don’t want the government to know what guns I have or even if I have any (well, of course I have guns; I’m an American), because who knows what it will do with that information. Actually, in a more perfect world, I’d want the government to have pretty no information on me. I fund the government — not the other way around — so while I should know every detail of its budget, there’s no reason it should even know my income. Or where I live. Or even my last name. A government completely in the dark about its fellow citizens is one that will have a lot of trouble oppressing them.

A little late now, though. Maybe a good principle to write into the next Constitution.

My man in State is reporting to me again.  John Kerry has been reporting for duty on the Syrian chemical weapons situation.  He has concluded that he trusts the Syrian government and agrees that chemical weapons were not used there.  He is leaning toward some of the following facts in his reasoning.

• They weren’t chemical, duh, they were biological.
• Oh, they aren’t dead.  They just swooned because there was an internet rumor that Beiber would be touring here.
• It wasn’t Syria who used the weapons.  It was the Jews and their new biological weapon the Flatulence of Doom.  They smuggled it in as innocuous sticks of sugar-free gum which were distributed to unwitting school children to release to the world.
• It’s just another Pallywood, ‘wag the dog’ production.  They are all just actors pretending to be injured and dead.
• It was just the aftermath of a Rosie O’Donnell speech.  Oh the humanity! And this is exactly why we want the broads in burkas.
• What do you expect? Syria just ended its ‘Stop and Frisk’ policy.
• Baghdad Bob says there are no chemical weapons in Syria.
• This happens every year at Falafel Fest.  They will be fine once the cloud of methane dissipates.
• This is just what happens when communities aren’t properly organized.
• It is impossible that there were chemical weapons used.  Syria is a chemical-weapon-free zone.

Cross posted at nukingpolitics.com

In my new column for PJ Media, I argue we should stop victimizing Filner and Weiner with our unreasonable standards.

Guessing about politicians’ personal lives based on their work performance, I’ve always just assumed there are three or four serial killers in Congress. You don’t get to $16 trillion in debt unless you have a few people involved who think it’s okay to butcher people for pleasure — that just seems like common sense. And I thought we were okay with this. But looking at the public’s recent reactions to these two politicians, I now get the sense that if a murdered prostitute were found in a senator’s car, people would be all upset by that. And Harry Reid would probably be just as confused as Filner and Weiner are now as to why we’d then want him out of office.

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