HOTAIR.COM 9 Hours Ago Biden: The assault-weapons ban is “just the beginning” of our gun-control plans posted at 11:21 am on March 29, 2013 by Allahpundit I missed this on Wednesday but Breitbart didn’t. Why would Crazy Joe confirm the worst suspicions of gun-rights supporters by admitting that Democrats won’t stop at the AWB? It’s much harder to use an incrementalist strategy towards aggressive regulation when you’re calling attention to your incrementalism. The way to play this, as Mike Bloomberg could tell you, is to reassure the public that you’re only trying to tweak their behavior at the margins with minor infringements on freedom. If you tell the frog you’re trying to boil him, he’ll jump out of the pot. This is, I take it, actually an admission of defeat by Biden. He knows the AWB won’t pass this year; with the GOP likely to hold the House and pick up seats in the Senate in 2014, it won’t pass before O leaves office either. If you know you’re beat, you might as well comf...

BREITBART.COM 5 Hours Ago Obama Using Executive Orders to Bypass Congress on Gun Control by AWR Hawkins29 Mar 2013, 11:46 AM PDTpost a commentView Discussion The background check expansions contained in the orders will give "law enforcement officials more information about guns" and gun owners, as well as more information on criminals and the mentally ill. These efforts have been done quietly and are viewed as part of a larger effort to pressure Congress to go the President's way on gun control. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has praised Obama's gun control push but says the executive orders fall well short of what Congress could accomplish through legislation.

 TOWNHALL.COM 4 Hours Ago Sen. Rand Paul Blasts Celebrities Over Gun Control Hypocrisy by  Leah Barkoukis Click if you like this post! Tweet Sign-Up Whether it's NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, President Obama or Hollywood elite, they've all demonstrated an incredible amount of hypocrisy on the issue of gun control. Many politicians and actors have armed protection yet push gun control measures that would take away this right from the average citizen. On Thursday Sen. Rand Paul said on Fox News' "Hannity" that he doesn't "begrudge" famous people for this protection because "there's certainly enough crazy people out there that would attack on the right or the left." The problem arises, however, when a "for me and not thee" attitude is taken on the issue. "I think we you are being protected by people who have weapons by responsible people, I can't see why you would be opposed to that for other people," he said. He con...

EXAMINER.COM 4 Hours Ago While you weren't looking, Obama moves forward on guns by Anthony Martin During the 1990s former President Bill Clinton developed the practice of creating multiple distractions while engaging in other activity behind the scenes, under the table, or in this case, in a White House closet. Known as "wagging the dog," Clinton used the practice to cover his Oval Office affair with Monica Lewinsky, plus a number of other more important issues that he considered to be unpalatable to the public. Obama is not only masterful at the use of the distraction tactic, but he has taken it to a new level of perfection, utilizing the Alinksy philosophy of bombarding the public with so much jaw-dropping news at once so as to insure they are not paying attention to the real tyranny going on behind the scenes. While the American electorate was distracted and therefore not looking, Obama has been busy moving forward on his anti-gun agenda in various ways. The...

North Korea: 'outbreak of war hours away' as Kim Jong-un plans US strike North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has ordered missile units to prepare to strike US mainland as a British tour operator was warned that the "outbreak of war probably only hours away". Mr Kim directed his rocket units on standby at an overnight emergency meeting with top army commanders   Photo: Reuters By  Barney Henderson , and agencies 3:50PM GMT 29 Mar 2013 972 Comments The order came after US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Washington would not be cowed by Pyongyang's bellicose threats and stood ready to respond to "any eventuality". Mr Kim directed his rocket units on standby at an overnight emergency meeting with top army commanders, hours after nuclear-capable US B-2 stealth bombers were deployed in ongoing US joint military drills with South Korea. In the event of any "reckless" US provocation,  North Korean  forces should "mercilessly strike the US main...

Friday, March 29th   A Balanced Budget in 10 Years “There is a big debate that is happening on government spending and my plan the last two years hasn’t worked that well,” was the exact quote that Speaker Boehner told me on my show earlier this month, “We’re going to go broke if we don’t do something.” What we’re not remembering is that our deficit is expanding at record paces and it seems that we need to make bold moves to get Washington’s attention, we need bold action by the House. Congressman Boehner told me that he was as committed as ever to cutt...

Friday, March 29, 2013 "I simply proclaim the inevitability of gay marriage and you would think that God has spoken on this. Honestly, on the left, you would think God has spoken on this." - Rush   Transcripts, Rush 24/7 Audio Now at RushLimbaugh.com: You'd Think God Had Spoken... How Did This Happen? The Left Corrupted the Language, Undermined Morality -- and  No Pushback New Castrati at Buffalo Wild Wings Rush: A Celebrity Who Makes News "I Want to be an Obama" "The Republican Party is not really fighting muc...

THEHILL.COM 2 Hours Ago Rand Paul: 'Hypocrisy' in Obama, under protection, calling for gun control - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room by Justin Sink By Justin Sink - 03/29/13 08:45 AM ET Tweet Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Thursday that there was a "certain amount of hypocrisy" in politicians like President Obama and Mayor Michael Bloomberg calling for gun controls while under armed protection. The Kentucky lawmaker said that while he didn't "begrudge" the lawmakers their security details, saying there are "enough crazy people out there" that such precautions are necessary. Still, Paul said there was irony in those politicians calling for gun control. “I think when you are being protected by people who have weapons by responsible people, I can’t see why you would be opposed to that for other people,” Paul told Fox News. Many rich Hollywood celebrities have armed guards with them at all times and many regular people who live in a poo...

Republicans Still Not Ready for Gun Control, Plotting Filibuster Instead By Joe Coscarelli Cold, dead hands. Despite an emotional (if not entirely rational) appeal from President Obama yesterday, the prospects of a Senate bill pushing stricter gun-control laws continues to appear bleak. With the assault-weapons ban all but dead, even the push for better background checks, approved by 90 percent of Americans, "have so far drawn the support of only one Republican, Mark Kirk of Illinois," the New York Times notes today. Many more are promising to filibuster anything that resembles the dismantling of our freedom to own the deadliest of weapons. The list of senators promising to block any and all restrictions now includes James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Marco Rubio of Florida, who said yesterday he will bravely stand in front of any restrictions on "responsible, law-abiding gun owners." Whereas that view may have always been calcified on the right, it's now be...

Good Friday In observance of Good Friday and in celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we take leave from the rigors of analyzing the week's news, policy and opinion in order to focus on an eternal message. We will return with Monday's Brief. To our readers of faiths other than Christianity, we welcome you to read Resurrection Day 2013 , which we hope serves to deepen your understanding of our faith -- the faith of so many of our Founders. To all of our readers, we...

 YID WITH LID 3 Hours Ago Obama "I Won't Stop Fighting For Gun Control"-GOP "We Wont Stop Fighting FOR CONSTITUTION!" Surrounded by human props President Obama warned Congress yesterday that he would not stop fighting for gun control, Republicans answered firmly that they would not stop protecting the constitution. Standing in front of a background of gun violence victim's relatives (and remembering what his friend Rahm Emanuel said about never letting a crisis go to waste) Obama suggested that America was forgetting the Newtown tragedy: "The notion that two months or three months after something as horrific as what happened in Newtown happens and we've moved on to other things?" Mr. Obama said in remarks at the White House, surrounded by relatives and friends of victims of gun violence, including some from Newtown. "That's not who we are. That's not who we are. And I want to make sure every American is listening today." On th...

MEDIAITE 3 Hours Ago Fox & Friends Tears Into Obama’s Gun Control ‘Guilt Trip’: ‘Shame On Us…For What?’ by Meenal Vamburkar The Fox & Friends crew was not pleased with President Obama‘s remarks on gun control yesterday. Deeming it a “guilt trip,” the hosts questioned the president’s approach to fighting gun violence. Shame on us? “Shame on us, though, for what?” Steve Doocy asked. Many Republicans are opposed to the president’s gun control measures, the hosts noted, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) who said last night that he would filibuster any gun bill. This staunch opposition obviously poses a hurdle for the legislation, but Eric Bolling wondered how it will go over with members of the president’s own party. “It is very interesting, though, to see who votes for these amendments because a lot of these senators, Democratic senators, are highly rated with the NRA, and they’re risking that rating, and they don’t want to risk it,” he argued. Doocy returned to Obama’s em...

 NEWS BUSTERS 13 Hours Ago Des Moines Register Publishes, Pulls Map of Guarded and Unguarded Schools by  Tom Blumer Apparently the journalistic disease known as obsessive-compulsive interactive map publishing is spreading. Late last year, Gannett's Journal News in White Plains, New York created a firestorm when it  published an interactive map of gun permit holders  in two counties north of New York City, obviously giving criminals, depending on how they target victims, the identity of places to rob to get guns or, by inference, people they could be comfortable wouldn't be carrying concealed weapons. On Wednesday evening, the Des Moines Register published an item  still present on its site  discussing the general degree of presence or absence of resource officers at Iowa schools. It also published a "handy" interactive map, since taken down, of which schools have resource officers, which ones don't, and which ones didn't respond to a survey on the topic. Ex...

 NEWS BUSTERS 12 Hours Ago CNN Correspondent Touts AR-15s for Wild Hog Hunting Then Wonders Why Hunters 'Need' Them by  P.J. Gladnick One of the big talking points of liberal dogma is that hunters don't "need" to use AR-15 rifles for hunting. So what happens when a television correspondent praises the qualities of AR-15s for hunting wild hogs? He has to perform a bizarre sort of mea culpa by sidetracking the story a bit and asking a hog hunter if he really "needs" to use an AR-15. Such was the case with CNN correspondent Victor Blackwell in his story about wild hog hunting on Anderson Cooper 360. First Blackwell reports on the damage caused by wild hogs to farms in Georgia as you can see in this  video . VICTOR BLACKWELL: The USDA estimates there are about four to five million wild hogs in America and they cause about $1.5 billion worth of crop damage a year. Pritchard is frustrated. He's tried everything to nurture his crops. Get it done. You need a...

PAT DOLLARD YOUNG AMERICANS 12 Hours Ago Hey Foreign Nutbag Piers Morgan, Adam Lanza Was Not A NRA Member.. Nice Try by Jake Hammer Mar 28, 2013Jake Hammer Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: The terrible murderer of children and teachers in Newtown, Conn., Adam Lanza, was not a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) despite the media reports. In the search warrants of the Lanza’s mother’s house, it showed a receipt for a shooting range along with NRA certificates for both Adam and Nancy Lanza. These are given out when a person takes a course in gun safety or training by an NRA-certified instructor. The police also list in evidence a handbook published by the NRA. The book covers topics such as using a pistol safely, shooting fundamentals, cleaning, storage and transportation. CNN host Piers Morgan who is rabidly anti-gun, took these harmless pieces of evidence to insinuate the NRA is somehow complicit in the horrific crime. The British host of “Piers Morgan Tonigh...