Guns made black civil rights possible

As this new book demonstrates, including notice of “the arsenal” the great author of non-violence Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. kept for self-defense.

“In This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb, Jr. reveals how nonviolent activists and their allies kept the civil rights movement alive by bearing—and, when necessary, using—firearms. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these men and women were crucial to the movement’s success, as were the weapons they carried.”

It’s ironic the first black (well, half-black) president is such a demon for disarming Americans. But the world’s greatest gun salesman didn’t grow up in the mainland U.S., nor experience Southern segregation and the KKK is only a story to him. Would reading this book change his mind? Has anything else in almost eight years? He is a man of conviction. Not to mention stupidity.

Via Instapundit.

Guy Clark, 1941-2016

Nine years ago on Texas Scribbler

Texas as desert

May 27, 2007

Mouth of the Brazos makes a good point in reviewing the famous John Wayne movie “The Searchers.” Good as the story is, the landscape pretending to be Texas is Utah or Arizona, somewhere flat, dry and dusty.

I still run across Yankees who are amazed to discover we have trees and grass and rolling hills. All because of movies like that one. Good as it is. (But, not being a movie lover, I think Alan Lemay’s book was better.)

Another reason not to live in California

The California state senate has now banned the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazines. Adios AR-15s, the most popular hunting and sporting rifle in the U.S.

“Lawmakers approved 11 bills including measures mandating background checks for Californians buying ammunition and outlawing the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazines.”

If the state assembly concurs and the governor signs off, then it looks like banning ownership of such rifles could be next. Then California can expect the departure of thousands more of its citizens.

Not that the libs will care. Not until they realize their taxes will have to go up to take up the slack from all the departures. Worse, we’ll get more of these flakes. We’re already up to our eyeballs in Californicators fleeing their tarnished “golden” state.

How and why the warmists are wrong

From JD at Mouth of the Brazos:

“All the climate change (global warming) freaks are basing their doom predictions on are COMPUTER MODELS. If there is one algorithm in their model that’s wrong, or one regulatory factor omitted, the model isn’t worth a fart in a whirlwind. I’ve seen the same thing in doing science at Dow. It’s why predictive behaviors in any system have to be taken with a humongous grain of salt.”

The very idea that science could accurately model the climate is pure bullshit only impressive to suckers.

The Hildabeast: I have concluded

How grand. Crooked Hillary, as Trump bluntly calls her, pronounces grandly from her magpie perch “I have concluded that he is not qualified to be President of the United States.”

She tells this to Certainly Not News, which makes her the centerpiece of the story of their clash over the crash of Egyptair. Of course. Certainly Not News has long been a Democrat mouthpiece.

Trump hit back twice as hard, including our little Barry Hussein in his swipe: “She and our totally ignorant President won’t even use the term Radical Islamic Terrorism,” he said. “She has bad judgment and is unfit to serve as President at this delicate and difficult time in our country’s history.”

Can’t argue with that. Gonna be a very amusing presidential election this year, unless the RINOs succeed in handing the baton to Mittens, the oh-so-polite Mormon who loves to lose.

Democrat assault on Trump begins

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Actually this inevitable support for the Hildabeast began earlier with a NYTimes attack on Trump, quoting a former girlfriend who subsequently disavowed the story, saying she was misquoted. Surprise, surprise. The NYTimes remains the leader of Democrat attacks on Republicans with the WaPo merely an also-ran.

UPDATE: Camile Paglia at link above: “Meanwhile, the New York Times remains mute about Bill Clinton’s long record of crude groping and grosser assaults—-not one example of which could be found to taint Trump.” Despicable journalism.