Posts by Aaron Spuler
December 7, 1941
Seventy years ago today Pearl Harbor was attacked, causing us to formally join the fight in World War II. Take a moment today to thank a member of the US Armed Forces.
Read MoreNY Post Writer Pens Scathing Op-Ed on Friday‘s ’Fast and Furious’ Document Dump
It was all a lie. The angry denials, the high dudgeon, the how-dare-you accuse-us bleating emanating from Eric Holder’s Justice Department these last nine months. […] Friday night’s nearly 1,400-page document dump […] gives us a glimpse into the inner workings of the Justice Department as it struggled earlier this year to come up with…
Read MoreToo Many Parasites
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Ludlow September 6, 1824
Read MoreWe Should Have Fine Times
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the…
Read MoreBlack Friday Records
NICS Firearm Background Checks — Friday, November 25, 2011 This was the highest day ever for background checks. By the numbers (courtesy of the NSSF): Total NICS Checks: 129,166 Federal Checks: 81,609 NICS Contracted Call Centers: 69,497 NICS E-Check: 11,953 Source: http://www.nssfblog.com/black-friday-sees-record-background-checks-for-firearm-purchases/
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