The best guide to future behavior is past behavior

Monthly Archives: November 2013 Eddie Hoffens, from Facebook. Meet David Hoffens, and Edgar “Eddie” Hoffens, the way the Manchester, NH, police and courts did: David Hoffens pleaded guilty last month to threatening to kill his brother, Edgar, then pulling out the telephone lines so his brother could not call police. The younger Hoffens was given …

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The Legal side of David Guth’s threats

Monthly Archives: September 2013 If you read this blog (boy howdy, is that a dumb-ass opening or what? Of course you read this blog, or, well, you wouldn’t have read that) then you are aware that we’re not fans of David Guth, the KU professor currently enjoying an unscheduled, but paid, vacation for calling for the …

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The Original Source of Militia Law?

Monthly Archives: July 2013 In an online publication of the Denver University Law Review, Dave Kopel argues that Ancient Hebrew Militia Law, as described in the Book of Deuteronomy (a book considered canonical by Jews and Christians alike), is the forerunner of American militia concepts. He may be on to something. The Bible is the one …

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Bradley Manning Trial Transcripts

We’ve suggested the Firedoglake live-blogging of the Ickle Bradley trial. But if what you want is just the raw trial transcript with no external spin, you can get a reasonable facsimile of that from the Freedom of the Press Association, which is helpfully making unofficial transcripts as they go. Despite very limited cooperation from the …

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Cabela’s benefits from gun sales; Dick’s suffers

Monthly Archives: April 2013 Here’s an industry story that ought to warm the cockles of your heart: outdoor-sports chain Cabela’s has benefited from the run on guns and ammo, but they’ve also instilled great loyalty in their customers. Result? Confounded industry analysts and soaring stock values. According to a newspaper based near their captive credit-card …

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The right way to do a “buyback”

Monthly Archives: February 2013 It starts off looking like another banster wet dream, the stale old gun turn-in/buyback. (And, how can they buy it back if they didn’t sell it in the first place? But the biggest problem with these is never the grammar). Newsradio 560 WGAN: Three Maine communities have a few more guns …

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Dempsey: Standards will drop to meet women

Monthly Archives: January 2013 Plump Air Force chicks, the future of ground combat (l.); GEN Martin Dempsey (r.) . DOD photo At a press conference introducing his opening of all combat positions to women, legislation be damned, lame-duck SecDef Leon Panetta also insisted, “[L]et me be clear, we’re not talking about reducing the qualifications for …

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A flamethrower on whaaat? An airplane?

A Heinkel 111 tests the defensive flamethrower. February 9, 1940 at Tarnewitz. LuftArchiv.de picture. Somebody actually did do this, and imagine our lack of surprise that it was the Germans in World War II, those same whacky guys who never let mere impracticality stand in the way of weapons development. These are the same guys …

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