Having just spent a little time looking over the new Andrew Cuomo approved New York legislative gun controls, one can only come to the conclusion that New York Progressives are stuck on stupid. Seriously.

They rushed through a non-debated, middle of the night, vote before you can read it – bill, that is fraught with serious nonsense the likes of which could only stem from a closed-door progressive, drooling, throw everything on the paper session of supernova gun fearing stupid.

If this bill were not so serious it would be comical. It is so ridiculous, so far past ridiculous, the light from where ridiculous lives would not be able to reach this bill for a year, or more. Even the New York Times thinks it’s a little, well, wrong-minded: (more…)

(AFP) – Islamist forces based in northern Mali vowed Monday to avenge France’s fierce military offensive against them on French soil.

“France has attacked Islam. We will strike at the heart of France,” said a leader of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an offshoot of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). (more…)

A Politico report (below) says that Vice-President Biden will outline nineteen possible Executive Actions that President Obama could take.    I Had an interesting conversation earlier today about this.   On one hand you have people saying that President Obama cannot use his executive power to “change” gun laws;  Call those people Traditional Reference Thinkers. 

On the other hand you have people who recognize President Obama has previously ignored his own Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) regarding the use of Executive Orders and bypassing congress;  Call those people Non-Traditional Reference Thinkers.

Example Here……. and HERE……  and the most staggering example HERE, when he became the first president in history to override his own Office of Legal Counsel and found new lawyers willing to agree with him.

“Presidents have the legal authority to override the legal conclusions of the Office of Legal Counsel and to act in a manner that is contrary to its advice, but it is extraordinarily rare for that to happen. Under normal circumstances, the office’s interpretation of the law is legally binding on the executive branch”.

(*Note, how rare is it for the President to ignore the Top Legal Advice of the OLC?  It’s never happened before….EVER.  That’s how rare !…. ) (more…)

Happily I’ll admit there is a remarkable and growing furor toward the Obama administration about their absolute entrenched position on pending gun ownership restrictions.    Maybe a line in the sand is visible to the Fabian Socialists, maybe.…

Rand Paul emphasizes:  “President Obama is not a king… usurpation will not be tolerated”

Mark Levin weighs in too: “The imperial presidency” (more…)

We know political whores when we see them.   But combine a “Rat Fink” with  a political whore and you get a Chuck Schumer:

Fink – (n):  A contemptible person.  An unpleasant, disappointing, or contemptible person.  To withhold promised support or participation: They said they’d help us, but then finked out.

I knew something about the multiple reports of Chuck Schumer asking retailers not to sell “assault style” rifles was not passing the sniff test.     Like a typical prog-snake in the grass aka “fink”,  and despite the numerous outlets running that story (including Associated Press), it is not on his official “Press Releases”. (more…)

WASHINGTON DC – The White House has informed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that it will miss the legal deadline for sending a budget to Congress. […] “Late Friday evening, Deputy Director Zients confirmed that for the fourth time in five years, the president’s budget will not be submitted in compliance with the law,” the aide said.  (article)

Yet today President Obama presents his administration as concerned about the fiscal state of the union, and declares “we are not a deadbeat nation”.

The last federal budget was signed into law Sept of 2007 by President Bush.   Since then not a single day of President Obama’s term(s) in office have any accompanying budget. (more…)

Via GWP
(Washington Examiner)  Maryland’s largest teachers union wants school employees who aren’t members of a union to pay union fees.

Del. Sheila Hixson, D-Montgomery County, will introduce a bill on behalf of the Maryland State Education Association to require nonunion educators to pay a so-called fair share fee to unions equivalent to about 68 percent of the local dues. (more…)

fyi, I keep seeing this report linked in numerous articles and media statements.  However, the Chuck Schumer site which lists ALL his press releases does not show one.

NEW YORK (AP) – Senator Charles Schumer says retailers that sell assault weapons should stop offering them for purchase while Congress discusses gun regulation legislation.

Schumer on Sunday released a letter he sent to major retailers asking for a voluntary moratorium.   The New York Democrat says consumer demand for guns has gone up in the weeks since the December mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.  Schumer says Congress is debating the issue, and if measures get passed that limit these type of weapons, it won’t help if more of them have recently been sold. (more…)

Progressive and intolerant Colin Powell has the whole gun debate figured out:  “why can’t we just test everybody” before they are allowed to own a firearm?

There’s those pesky “Bill of Rights” thingy’s again.   Maybe we could test before allowing voting rights.  Or, well,  maybe a stability test before free speech expression, or religious affiliation.

What’s that, those other rights can’t kill people?  Really?  Think about that.

And NO, driving is not a “right”, so testing is not an appropriate comparison.   And if you cannot see the slippery slope to ownership of ice-cream purchasing based in physical exam and BMI (Body Mass Index) then you really don’t connect dots that well. (more…)

WASHINGTON — Just two days before Vice President Joe Biden delivers a comprehensive set of recommendations on gun policy, National Rifle Association President David Keene rejected the reported outline of suggestions Sunday and dismissed any ban on assault weapons or high-capacity magazines as a non-starter.

“We don’t think any of those things work,” he said in appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “You should absolutely be able to compromise on things that accomplish the purpose. Our objection to those things is that they interfere with people’s rights without doing anything to solve the problem.” (more…)