The Right Lane update 2.20013

The pursuit of Constitutionally grounded governance, free markets and individual liberty

"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington

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43% Support Hagel Confirmation, 37% Oppose

Support for Senator Charles “Chuck” Hagel, President Obama’s nominee to be secretary of Defense, is down slightly, although most voters still feel he is likely to be confirmed for the high-level Cabinet position.  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 28% of Likely U.S. Voters now hold a favorable opinion of Hagel while 38% view him unfavorably. Still, 35% of voters don’t know enough about Hagel to venture any kind of opinion, and that’s unchanged from earlier this month. 

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John McCain Snaps at David Gregory Over Benghazi: ‘Do You Care Whether Or Not Four Americans Died?’

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) asked an armor piercing question in the midst of some contentious crosstalk on today’s edition of “Meet the Press.” After being asked by host David Gregory what the scandal in Benghazi would be “if the worst thing were true,” McCain said he didn’t know the answer to that question, but wanted answers to other open inquiries anyway. “We have had a massive cover-up on the part of the administration…” McCain began, before Gregory started pushing back in response. “A massive cover up of what?” Gregory asked. “Susan Rice said there was a lot of confusion…”

Before Gregory could finish his question, McCain snapped, “Do you care, David? Do you care, David? I’m asking you, do you care whether four Americans died? The reasons for that? And shouldn’t people be held accountable for the fact that four Americans died, including a very dear man?” “A cover-up of what?” Gregory persisted. “Of the information concerning the deaths of four brave Americans,” McCain said.

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“It’s the Culture, Stupid!” –What the War on Guns Is Really About By Nick Taxia

Okay, I give up!  I can’t find the politically correct way of saying it.   I cannot find the fluffy adjectives and velvet phrases.  I have thought over and over of a way to say the following without sounding like some paranoid, racist, knuckle-dragging “Ruby Ridge” nutcase, yet find myself at a loss, for there are very few ways of saying it: this current “war on guns” is really a war on anything that smacks of “White, male, rugged ruralism”… and the more Christian the better.  This is what the Left is ultimately after; what it ultimately detests.  It is its mortal enemy.  And this is what this war on guns is about, point-blank (no pun intended).  Shwoo!  There. I said it.  And no, my liberal friends, I have dated and loved/love people of every color of the rainbow, so don’t even think of accusing me of being some Randy Weaver nutcase — but that’s the point: the Left has construed this “conversation” about guns to such a degree that stating what it is really about leaves any honest, critically thinking person with no other choice but to sound like some nutty White separatist type.   And I hate it.  I hate saying there is a cultural war from mainly urban-dwelling, over-educated, secular, conceited and oh-so “hip” liberal elites against their perceived polar opposites (the presumably less educated, rural-dwelling, conservative, more masculine, more pious, and predominately Caucasian areas —“fly-over country” as it’s called).  I hate saying that the emaciated, androgynous yuppie next to me in the Starbucks in downtown Washington is “at war” with the 50-year-old husband and father 30 miles to the south of us who owns guns, obeys the law, has distinct notions of “right and wrong,” comes home from work with muddy boots, attends church and speaks with a rural accent … I hate saying all of this. Also, and let’s be honest, I have inadvertently and unfortunately spoken to the likes of the filth and human debris of White supremacist websites and organizations. But this is not some Randy Weaver-ish tirade about “all them Jews and coloreds” that are out to get me.  It’s really the White, 30-something hipster in my local Starbucks that’s out to get me.  This is about a culture, and a “culture” needn’t be restricted by race or creed.   Realize what this “war on guns” is really a war on.   To twist the famous phrase from the great political strategist, James Carville: “It’s the culture, stupid!”   Too bad that culture sprang from predominantly European, male, rural, heterosexual Christians.   Maybe we should take a page from the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre and convert to Islam… 

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Colorado Democrat: Women Don’t Need Guns If They ‘Feel Like They’re Going To Be Raped’ *UPDATED By: Dana Loesch

Chill, women, says Colorado Democrat Rep. Joe Salazar. While arguing for the disarmament of college students, Salazar says that even if women feel like they’re going to be raped, they may not, so who needs a firearm for protection? Said Salazar:

“It’s why we have call boxes, it’s why we have safe zones, it’s why we have the whistles. Because you just don’t know who you’re gonna be shooting at. And you don’t know if you feel like you’re gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone’s been following you around or if you feel like you’re in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop … pop a round at somebody.”

This is the real “war on women” I’ve talked about: the progressive insistence that women disarm. Women, according to Rep. Salazar, are hysterical things which shoot indiscriminately at any and everything.

Some statistics, My emphasis:

In the vast majority of those self-defense cases, the citizen will only brandish the gun or fire a warning shot. In less than 8% of those self-defense cases will the citizen will even wound his attacker.
Over 1.9 million of those self-defense cases involve handguns. As many as 500,000 of those self-defense cases occur away from home. Almost 10% of those self-defense cases are women defending themselves against sexual assault or abuse.

This “feel like you’re going to be raped” nonsense is as poorly-worded as the “shut that whole thing down” drama from last fall. If Democrats don’t swiftly condemn this, I see this used as a tactic to showcase the vast lack of respect Democrats have for a woman’s right to self defense.  If Salazar was truly sensitive to the dangers we face then he would understand how statistics do not work in our favor — unless we level the playing field by exercising our Second Amendment right. Salazar also doesn’t explain his insinuation that women basically ditzes who are incapable of proper reasoning and capable of handling firearms, in fact, he backhandedly defends it by saying it was a justifiable example for his prejudice against women’s defense.  Salazar claims to have a record of defending women’s rights but his actions to disenfranchise them of their Second Amendment rights are completely contradictory to that claim. One in four collegiate women report rape and one in five are raped. Salazar wants to deprive women of their right to defense with these odds? Just blow your rape whistles and pray that an attacker represents the “safe zone” boundaries? The best apology is a reversal of his war on women.

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Man Stuff: Boys, Guns and Sissified Windbags by Pete Parker

The Left is laboring assiduously to indoctrinate an entire generation of young boys to believe the following: Guns are evil. And fruits of this treacherous tutoring will be evident 15 to 20 years from now when the US Marine Corps can’t find a single male recruit.  If such nefarious trends continue — our most potent military weapon in the future will be a platoon of women armed with contraceptives.

Can anyone say Semper Fem?  Sadly — the national debate over guns is mired in the dogmatic swamps of leftist BS by those who believe a rifle is not only the lapdog of the devil — but also a lethal proxy p----. It is due time to take back the debate from these insidiously warped and sissified windbags who are clearly suffering from unhinged gun-o-phobia. Lest we forget — guns in the hands of responsible and honorable men have produced much good fruit. From the Minuteman to the Navy SEAL to the husband/father protecting his castle — firearms have been used to defeat tyrants, despots and invaders.

"Just a thought about giving up your guns - Participating in a gun buy-back program because you believe that the criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you believe that the neighbors have too many kids!"

And without these God given instruments of self-preservation — America would not be “the land of the free” — but rather the subjugated colony of a vast European power, or perhaps a desolate outpost in a global Islamic hegemony. 

George Washington realized the explicit relevance of guns when he stated:

They [guns] are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence … The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good. When firearms go, all goes; we need them every hour.”

So — when it comes to the issue of guns — we must let it be known on every polemical level that the Left’s views are antithetical to traditional American values, thought and history. So — when it comes to the issue of guns — we must let it be known on every polemical level that the Left’s views are antithetical to traditional American values, thought and history. In doing so — we unshackle an entire generation of young boys from the throes of perverted left-wing ethos and allow them to once again point their fingers on the playground and shout: BANG!

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What to Make of “If Newtown Shooter Killed Black Kids We Probably Wouldn’t Be Talking About Guns” byGary DeMar

MSNBCs Toure Neblett, who is black, made the following racially charged and ignorant claim last week:

“If Adam Lanza had walked into a black public school in this mythical South Brooklyn or in the Southside of Chicago, we would probably not be having a sustained national conversation about guns.”

Most mass shootings in the United States have been committed against white people by white people. If America is so racist, why don’t we see mass shootings of black children? We just went through the ordeal of a black former policeman from Los Angeles who went on a vindictive killing spree. Then there was John Allen Muhammad who was the 2002 Beltway sniper. He murdered at least 10 people. Blacks have been killing other blacks and few black leaders and black spokesmen like Toure Neblett say much about it. More blacks are murdered by other blacks than whites kill blacks. Black-on-black crime is pandemic in America’s big cities with large black populations. “A 2007 special report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, reveals that approximately 8,000 — and, in certain years, as many as 9,000 African Americans are murdered annually in the United States. This chilling figure is accompanied by another equally sobering fact, that 93% of these murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks. The analysis, supported by FBI records, finds that in 2005 alone, for example, African Americans accounted for 49% of all homicide victims in the US — again, almost exclusively at the hands of other African Americans.” Why are these statistics ignored? Why don’t we hear anything from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the former slave Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on this issue? It’s because the numbers don’t fit the liberal race-baiting narrative that demands more government money be spent on the very people who are harmed by these government programs. Without these disenfranchised, welfare-trapped voters, liberals could not get elected.

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Disgusting Leftist Marc Lamont Hill Compares Cop Killer to a ‘Super Hero’ By Doug Giles

Nothing really stuns me anymore about the Left and their lunacy. That was until this week when soulless Columbia professor Marc Lamont Hill appeared on CNN and got giddy about cop killer Chris Dorner. Hill said Dorner’s murderous revenge spree was “exciting,” and was like Jamie Foxx’s character in Tarantino’s latest flick, D’jango Unchained. Hill doubled down on his stupidity during the same interview by stating Chris’ homicidal orgy was akin to the exploits of a “super hero.” I was speechless when I heard such vomit roll off that quack’s tongue.  In contrast, Dorner’s mother, Nancy Dorner, expressed condolences for the victims in a statement given to Robin Sax at Fox 11 Los Angeles. “It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we express our deepest sympathies and condolences to anyone that suffered losses or injuries resulting from Christopher’s actions. We do not condone Christopher’s actions.” Note, those closest to Chris didn’t commiserate with/for him but rather for those who were ruthlessly killed. Marc Lamont, eh … not so much. His capital lay with Chris. In my book, Hill jumped the shark with those comments and I hope that all of what’s left of legitimate talent bookers on the various networks treat him like the plague. Like a Rottweiler with rabies. Hill is unbelievably disgusting. Can you imagine someone of a conservative stripe stating that James Holmes’ melee in Aurora was titillating, understandable and smacked of a heroism? Huh? Holmes had a manifesto, is he cool too, Marc? And what about Cho Seung-Hui, Mr. Hill? Is he like Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan? I mean, he also drafted docs explaining why he “had” to frickin’ destroy three dozen college students’ lives at Virginia Tech.  Oh, and I almost forgot: what about Adam Lanza? Is he a super hero? Is he “Kick Ass”? I mean … he might have been an offended twenty-something of divorced parents, daddy didn’t love him, the color yellow made him sad or his friends made fun of him on Facebook for his Three Stooges haircut. Should we give Lanza faint praise and cut him some slack for his senseless massacre of six year olds at Sandy Hook because of possible and plausible offenses, huh, Marc?

Here’s my prediction: as long as Hollywood celebrates revenge murders and the likes of CNN keep putting clowns like Hill on TV, we will continue to see whiners shoot up innocent civilians in hopes that jerks like Lamont will sympathize on TV for their murderous plight and make ‘em posthumous heroes.

However, if our culture and our commentators uniformly condemn such actions, the clowns who praise them and the pathetic losers that carry them out, I’m a-guessin’ we could see a reduction in the senseless slaughter of innocent people. We could call it a High Capacity Idiot Ban. Finally, I hope to God that families of those murdered by Dorner didn’t hear that BS roll off Hill’s tongue. I cannot imagine the grief they’re going through now accentuated by such callous and calamitous comments

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Ohio State Professor Praises Soviet Union & Murder for Gender Equality

OSU Professor: God bless the USSR’s low murder rates, absence of violence Randolph Roth, a History professor at Ohio State University, recently gave a controversial talk. He was supposed to discuss his new book, but decided to preach his hate for gun owners and Republicans, while advocating for higher taxes and bigger government. Our reporter caught the professor on video stating his belief that gun owners are “afraid” and “motivated by anger.” Roth stated that AR-15s “facilitate mass murder” and are used to “blow things up.” There is video of Roth comparing Republicans to Confederates and apes. The professor also praised liberal media indoctrination, Soviet-style big government and gun control, and directly stated his belief that “if [women] want to get rid of this gender business, you’ve got to start killing  Watch here...

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