Penny Dean and Your Rights

Express yourself, so long as it doesn't have anything to do with one of your hobbies that involves hunting. According to NRA-ILA, Capital One has joined the credit card companies that allow customized credit cards, including the ability to use your own photo... unless the picture happens to be of <b>you hunting</b> or something they do not approve of.

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You can’t use a hunting photo. Capital One considers them unacceptable.

There was a time when people said they didn't mind having their second amendment rights taken away, since they didn't own guns. Now they are wondering if their rights are being taken away because they have a cell phone.
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<img src="http://www.texarkanagazette.com/content/uploads/pictures/2011/04/041911_... align="right"><blockquote> Tucker Strickland, 21, of Wake Village, Texas, is loaded into a patrol car Monday after he allegedly overpowered and fatally shot Bowie County Deputy Sherri Jones. The incident occurred in the basement of the Bowie County Courthouse in New Boston, Texas, during a prisoner...</blockquote>

<img src="http://www.humanevents.com//img/2_smallpersonimage_419860.gif" align="right">According to a story by John Stossel at <a href="http://www.humanevents.com">Human Events</a>, the Associated Press has requested the names of gun owners in the state of Illinois.

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In the <i>National Review</i>, Michelle Malkin quotes the NRA's Chris Cox, regarding the possible appointment of Andrew Traver, President Obama’s nominee to head the ATF.

<blockquote>Traver has spent two decades in the Chicago ATF office bureaucracy. The White House touts his record as a Navy vet and crime-fighter. But it’s his anti-gun advocacy that won him Chicago-crony backing in the Beltway. Liberal Republican Sen. Mark Kirk and rabid leftist Sen. Dick Durbin both support their home-state bureaucrat. </blockquote>

Often we hear politicians tell us that the "public has a short memory." Thanks to the internet and video sites such as <a href="http://youtube.com">YouTube</a> our memory has gotten better in the last decade or so. More precisely, we are using computer memory to supplement our human memory. So if you were to grade our memory, we would get an "A" now that we are allowed to use computers in the test.

Tuesday, March 27, 2011

Senate Bill 88, http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/default.aspx introduced by Senator Boutin (R-SD16) http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/members/senate16.asp would, <b>in theory</b>, remove the duty to retreat and allow law-abiding citizens to use force, including deadly force, against an attacker in their home, to defend themselves, and other persons and to defend themselves any place outside of their home.

The <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262834/ct-considers-confiscating-la... Review</a> discusses a law being considered in Connecticut which would make you a felon if you don't turn in your "high-capacity" magazine.

This appears to be illegal, unconstitutional, and simply ignorant... yet it's being discussed as if it could happen.

"If a little is good, then a lot must be really great." -- said in jest at a cooking school.

The above quote is commonly heard by master chefs when teaching new students about how much spice to use in a recipe. In reality, the right amount of any spice is "not too much" and "not too little" at the same time. This is also called "in moderation."

<img src="http://cmsimg.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=DP&Date... align="right">At PNJ.COM we read about a homeowner who opened the door to strangers and was met with a metal baseball bat over the head.