Right Wing Nation

Walking for world peace and social justice!
A man who planned to walk from Bristol to India without any money has quit, after getting as far as Calais, France.
Mark Boyle, 28, who set out four weeks ago with only T-shirts, a bandage and sandals, hoped to rely on the kindness of strangers for food and lodging.
But, […]

Okay, this isnt funny — but really, it is.
Apologies to Aussies. It really isnt funny. Well, it is, but you know what I mean.

I’ve got a craving, specifically, Cuban arroz con pollo. Thing is, I don’t have everything I need here, and there is no way in hell I’m going back out. Normally, I’d make something else, but like I said, it’s a craving.
So I’m going to throw something together with what I can find. I’ll tell you […]

I could excerpt it, but it’s short, and well worth reading. It also brings to mind this Derbyshire phrase from 2000:
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy. Won’t they […]

The Blogfather asks:
Would they have opened a whites-only engineering school in the old South Africa?
I was seeing dhimmitude at universities twenty years ago. Saudi students who were taking a field trip, but would only accept male drivers. Picnics with small numbers of Arabs that left pork out of baked beans — as opposed to offering […]

and neither is the fact that it’s not getting any MSM coverage:
Good news from the presidential campaign trail this afternoon, via Rob Bluey at RedState — Sen. John McCain has wholeheartedly endorsed an amendment sponsored by Sen. Jim DeMint that would impose a one-year moratorium on all pork-barrel earmarks:
“I absolutely would support such an amendment […]

Angie Harmon is backing McCain. It’s not surprising that she’s backing McCain, but she gets points for going public.

McCain wins among Democrats in Tennessee.

Ahab reports that background checks increased 5.3% in January. This happened before, in 1993.
US Firearms Production, 1985-2004 (PDF source). Note the bolded years:

Year

Handguns

Rifles

Shotguns

Total

1985
1,550,071
1,140,669
769,505
3,460,245

1986
1,427,627
970,541
641,482
3,039,650

1987
1,658,832
1,006,100
857,949
3,522,881

1988
1,745,722
1,144,707
928,070
3,818,499

1989
2,031,425
1,407,317
935,541
4,374,283

1990
1,838,895
1,156,213
848,948
3,844,056

1991
1,838,266
883,482
828,426
3,550,174

1992
1,525,218
676,808
805,761
3,007,787

1993
2,655,478
1,171,872
1,148,939
4,976,289

1994
2,581,961
1,324,240
1,254,926
5,161,127

1995
1,722,930
1,440,699
1,176,958
4,340,587

1996
1,484,477
1,424,319
926,732
3,835,528

1997
1,406,505
1,281,162
918,759
3,606,426

1998
1,284,755
1,345,899
1,036,520
3,667,174

1999
1,331,230
1,569,685
1,106,995
4,007,910

2000
1,281,861
1,583,042
898,442
3,763,345

2001
943,213
1,284,554
679,813
2,907,580

2002
1,088,584
1,515,286
741,325
3,345,195

2003
1,121,024
1,430,324
726,078
3,277,426

2004
1,022,610
1,325,138
731,769
3,079,517

Here’s a line chart of the above data, excluding totals, to emphasize the spike in sales:

So why the spike in sales in 1993? What happened in 1993?
The Brady Bill.
So here’s a cold, hard […]

Jerry Pournelle:
Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.
Hat tip to GR.

From the Hot Air comment thread:
Having the middle name Hussein doesn’t make Obama any more a Muslim than having the middle name Jefferson made Clinton a strict constructionist.
Welcome, Instapudit readers! Interested in gun control and the Second Amendment? It’s 1993 all over again. Speaking of guns, if anybody owns one of these, I’d like to […]

The obligatory NR obituary, at the top, of course.
The Wall Street Journal obituary.
The NYT obituary.
Publisher’s Statement, from NR, 12/19/55.
Goldwater, the John Birch Society and Me, WSJ.
William F. Buckley, Jr. archive on NR.
Buckley Online, from Hillsdale College.

Bring us change, Obama!
Both Democratic presidential candidates, who promise to curb the influence of corporate lobbyists in Washington, helped enact narrowly tailored tax breaks sought by major campaign contributors.
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has accepted $54,350 from members of a law firm that in 2006 lobbied him to introduce a tax provision for a Japanese […]

You expect Dennis “I Was Abducted by Aliens and Anally Probed” Kucinich to have common sense?

William F. Buckley passed away.

Your tax dollars at work:
Under criticism that its ads are misleading, Pfizer said Monday that it would cancel a long-running advertising campaign using the artificial heart pioneer Robert Jarvik as a spokesman for its cholesterol drug Lipitor.
Pfizer has spent more than $258 million advertising Lipitor since January 2006, most of it on the Jarvik campaign, […]

The Borg Queen appears on TV — on the 700 Club! Details (and video) at Hot Air.
Attention, Photoshop geeks! We’re going to need one of these for Michelle Obama.

No virus. Gone.

Hobbits endorse the Borg Queen (video link)!

Liberals need to wrap duct tape around their heads:
February 25, 2008
Wal-Mart Announces Grants to Help First-Generation College Students
Wal-Mart’s philanthropic arm announced today that it made $67-million in grants to educational programs during 2007, with much of it going to higher education.
The Wal-Mart Foundation, one of the nation’s leading corporate givers, announced a $2.27-million grant to […]

You’ll recall I did a year of interferon/ribavarin therapy. Six months after you finish, you get your blood tested again, to find out if you have cleared the virus (~80%) or relapsed (~20%), fairly important information.
Six months after I finished was sometime last November. When November rolled around, I couldn’t remember exactly what day or […]

They’re polls, and I don’t take polls that seriously, but they’re interesting. First, McCain is neck and neck with either the Obamamessiah or the Borg Queen (no offense to Ms. Obama, who is trying to make herself the Borg Queen), hat tip to Donald Douglas:
Democratic front-runner Barack Obama and likely Republican nominee John McCain are […]

Why didn’t I think of that? The obvious solution to global warming: ET!
The truth is that the way the ET spaceships are powered with almost unlimited cheap power can be used to drive our civilization with little environmental effects. The oil industry relies on scarcity to control the price of oil and make trillions […]

at 8 am, an appointment at which I will get no information because . . . well, I’ll rant about it when I get back. Idiots.

High school honors fallen war hero.
Led by Jay Schools Superintendent, Dr. Timothy Long, the Portland schools joined with the community in honoring the heroic accomplishments of the late Sgt. Major Jeffery A. McLochlin. McLochlin was killed July 5, 2006, while serving in the war in Afghanistan.
A Portland native, McLochlin’s widow, Nicole, traveled to the ceremony […]

There is no program I despise as much as I do Photoshop, not even Acrobat, but I figured I’d grit my teeth and put up with the most bloated, over-featured, over-rated piece of shit program in the world to help out the Barackskyites. Here’s the original poster:

Here’s my improvement (it’s subtle — look closely):

That should […]

The National Enquirer NYT comes out against their pathetic smear job.

I’m not much of a wheelgun kinda guy, but then I saw one of these:

It’s a Redhawk with a 4-inch barrel, .44 Magnum, carry size. Specs:

Sturm Ruger Redhawk Revolver
Action: Single/Double
Caliber: 44 Magnum
Barrel Length: 4 Inch Barrel
Capacity: 6 Rounds
Safety: Transfer Bar
Grips: Rosewood
Sights: Adjustable
Weight: 46 ounces
Finish: Stainless

46 ounces is a little on the heavy side to carry […]

The Encyclopedia Baracktannica. Now with more words and definitions! Hat tip to Geoff Pullum at Language Log.

I’m starving. Off to the Waffle Shop, then the pilgrimage to the Club of St. Sam of Walton. And Meyer Dairy.

I suppose it’s a generational thing, but those of us from the duck-and-cover era had certain things drilled so deeply into us that despite the fall of the USSR, still elicit violently negative gut reactions. National ID cards. The government encouraging children to turn their parents in to the authorities. You know, things that were […]

What’d I say? O was right.

You decide. When backing Barack feels like joining a cult.
I’m an Obama girl and my man throttled Hillary Clinton, again, Tuesday night.
Suddenly, the impossible is real.
Suddenly, I’m nervous. Very nervous, actually.
I’m nervous because an otherwise normal grownup told me yesterday she’s watched the will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas) “Yes We Can” Obama video about 100 times […]

We really, really, really needed more snow, and ice on top of it.
Really, we did.

Darren’s not the only one enjoying the show. Uncle’s having a blast (stupid colored glasses, now that’s a classic).
Actually, I have mixed feelings about all this, but the entertainment is too good right now. Pass the popcorn!

Christopher Buckley: The Manchurian Conservative

Bill Bennett is now blogging at the Corner.

South Park had the Tunnel of Prejudice (”Death Camp of Tolerance”). Bowling Green University has the Tunnel of Oppression, starting with the Room of Ableism, and ending with the Reflection Room where visitors can talk about the feewings! Van Helsing is having fun with this (check out the picture).
I guess that South Park episode went […]

I almost feel sorry for the NYT. A non-scandalous non-story that alleges nothing, based on “anonymous” sources? Jim Geraghty is right: Can’t they come up with anything substantial? Even TalkLeft thinks it’s sleazy — and they’re not the only liberals who aren’t impressed.
This “rumor” has been around for eight years, and if nobody has been […]

Technorati: mumia, mumia abu-jamal, cop killer, murderer, death penalty, party, rockview prison, pennsylvania
Best news all day, thanks to Sebastian and Wyatt. Mumia Wesley Cook lost his appeal in a unanimous decision.
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a unanimous ruling saying the former Black Panther and radio reporter […]