You probably remember the Westroads Mall Shooting from last year, which prompted the Mall to declare itself a gun free zone. Joe in Nebraska has an update on how that’s working out for them.
Toasting the PLO
Bruce links to a piece by Newsbusters that suggests the LA Times is sitting on a video of Barack Obama toasting Palistine Liberation Organization operative Rashid Khalidi at an Israel-bashing party with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. One wonders whether Khalidi is just another guy in Mr. Obama’s Neighborhood.
Cooper Arms
Dan Cooper of Cooper Arms is backing Obama.
Cooper said he voted for George W. Bush in 2000, having voted in past elections for every Republican presidential nominee back to Richard Nixon. In October 1992, he presented a specially made rifle to the first President. Bush during a Billings campaign event.
This year, Cooper has given $3,300 to the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama. That’s on top of the $1,000 check he wrote to Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign in 2004, after he was dazzled by Obama’s speech at that year’s Democratic National Convention.
This needs to get around. Gun owners need to know which companies sell their interests down the river. Here’s contact info for Cooper Firearms. I would talk to them, and be sure they know Obama’s record, why you’re not voting for him, and why you’ll never buy one of their products.
Hat tip to Blog O’ Stuff, who passed this along to me.
UPDATE: Cooper Arms has updated their home page with a statement. It does not hold water, in my opinion.
UPDATE: The Board of Directors and Employees Cooper Firearms of Montana has asked Dan Cooper to step down as CEO. This was the correct move for Cooper Arms to undertake. I’m satisfied with it, provided there is follow through.
Must Be Nice …
… to have a Governor who doesn’t hate gun owners. Congrats to the TSRA Service Rifle top 20.
What Obama is Looking Into
SayUncle points out Jim Shepherd’s warning that Obama’s transition team is looking into government record keeping of gun sales. Even more scary is the first comment. We’re going to be in for some dark days folks, if this guy wins.
Wrong on National Security …
All You Need to Hear
From an interview with Larry Grathwohl, who infiltrated the Weather Underground as an FBI informant:
The instructions I received from Billy Ayers was that the bombs to be used in Detroit must have shrapnel (fence staples, specifically) and fire potential (propane bottles). The intention was to kill police officers.
I agree with those who say that the extent of Barack Obama’s relationship with Ayers is not quite as important as the fact that Obama has supported Ayers’ legitimacy in Chicago high society, and legitimized him in Chicago political circles. Now Obama wants us to know that Bill Ayers is a “Professor of Education.” Someone needs to ask Obama straight up whether he thinks Bill Ayers should be respected, or be a pariah. Anyone who thinks the former isn’t only not fit to occupy the White House, I’m not even sure they are fit to be Americans.
What’s This World Coming To?
Skinheads who look like girls? As Jules Crittenden says “Damn. That sure is one pretty Nazi. He’ll be popular where he’s going!”
Via Instapundit
Quote of the Day
We have, in our storied history, elected Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives and moderates. We have fought, and will continue to fight, pitched battles about how best to govern this nation. But we have never, ever in our 232 year history, elected a President who so completely and openly opposed the idea of limited government, the absolute cornerstone of makes the United States of America unique and exceptional.
Read the whole thing. Then contact your local GOP to help stop this terrible thing.
It’s Election Fraud You Can Believe In
The New York Post details how false campaign contributions can be made to the Obama campaign:
He went to the Obama campaign Web site and made a donation under the name “John Galt” (the hero of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged”). He provided the equally fictitious address “1957 Ayn Rand Lane, Galts Gulch, CO 99999.”
He checked the box next to $15 and entered his actual credit-card number and expiration date. He was then taken to the next page and notified that his donation had been processed.
He then tried the same experiment on the McCain site, which rejected the transaction. He returned to the Obama site and made three more donations using the names Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Bill Ayers, all with different addresses but the same credit card. The transactions all went through.
I’m told by people who understand e-commerce software that insecurity is not the default setting. In order to not match up names and addresses to credit cards, settings have to be manually disabled. The FEC needs to investigate this.
Hat Tip to Instapundit