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The Illinois State Police proposed rulemaking announcement that medical marijuana card users would have to surrender their 2nd Amendment rights to use marijuana as a drug is probably not going to stand constitutional muster in the courts. The Oregon Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that police have no grounds to…
Bruce Rauner: The guy running a ton of commercials on TV in his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor has ginned up a lot of support. That's despite the fact his campaign manager Ron Gidwitz gave $5,000 to an anti gun group in Chicago. Really. Read all about it.…
Illinois' new medical marijuana law is pretty strict (not unlike the new concealed carry law). One little bugaboo: Those seeking a medical marijuana card would lose their rights to own or possess firearms in IL. It's all in the Chicago Tribune today: Patients who want to qualify for medical marijuana…
[caption id="attachment_10559" align="alignnone" width="640"] Little Miss Barbie Doll Wendy Davis.[/caption] PANDER: pan·der [pan-der] Show IPA noun Also, pan·der·er. 1. a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp. 2. a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of…
Illinois State Representative Laura Fine was planning on holding a virulently anti-gun town hall meeting Wednesday evening in her district to lambast the new Illinois carry bill. On deck to support her was the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and the Cook County State's Attorney's office. The plan: frighten her…
Andy over at Ace of Spades has a fabulous review of Lone Survivor. There's spoilers there, and here's the deal: It's like Titanic. The boat sinks. Spoiler in this movie: They all die except Marcus. And they kill a whole lot of Taliban riff-raff along the way. Anyway, Andy does…
[caption id="attachment_10545" align="alignnone" width="600"] JOIN US! Join Tom Shafer, Don Gwinn, Brent Harney and all the other regulars on Monday, February 3rd for a fun evening of gun rights and good fellowship at the Sangamon County Rifle Association meeting. We’re at the Supreme Buffet on S. MacArthur Blvd. in Springfield.…
[caption id="attachment_10538" align="alignnone" width="594"] Harvey Weinstein at some Hollywood fete. Weinstein is far outside mainstream America in the make-believe world of Hollywood. He doesn't associate with real Americans (see above), so it's not surprising his beliefs would be so far out-of-touch with America.[/caption] A fabulous commentary piece by Jonathon Tobin…
How quickly can things go sideways? This body camera recording a police encounter shows how quickly things can go from an uncooperative driver who just had a car crash threatening to cut himself to a deadly force encounter. The cop makes contact with the guy about 1:40. The guy advances…
We're going to need a LOT more snow than we've been recently having to cover up the senseless violence plaguing Chicago for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his police superintendent Garry "Streetlight Assassin" McCarthy. [caption id="attachment_10528" align="alignnone" width="600"] As a light snow falls, Chicago police officer video records a dead…