San Angelo Standard Times – Texas officials announced plans to pursue a permanent, $60 million a year surge for border security, on the heels of a three-week crime focus in the Rio Grande Valley. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst joined Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw Wednesday at the Capitol, saying that they intended to […]
Allen West Accuses Obama, EPA Of Back Door Gun Control
Huffington Post – Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) accused President Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency of advancing “back door gun control… while we are all distracted with Obamacare and Iran nuclear negotiations”. Citing this month’s closure of the nation’s last primary lead smelter in Herculaneum, Mo., West argues that in an effort to […]
How the Nazis Used Gun Control as a Tool for Evil
National Review – The perennial gun-control debate in America did not begin here. The same arguments for and against were made in the 1920s in the chaos of Germany’s Weimar Republic, which opted for gun registration. Law-abiding persons complied with the law, but the Communists and Nazis committing acts of political violence did not. In […]
More Cities Are Welcoming Illegal Aliens
Christian Science Monitor – Cities, towns and counties – including formerly inhospitable places toward immigrants – increasingly embrace and protect the undocumented through community initiatives, policies and ordinances, effectively rendering federal law moot. [Read More]