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Sub shop customer, retired Marine, renders armed robbers "toes up"

UPDATE (7:12 A.M. EST): I don’t know how I missed it, but the customer who gave a couple of armed punks their celestial dirt nap is a retired Marine. In the span of two days, we’ve had two elderly Marines teach lawbreaking vermin a lesson (see pickpocket story yesterday).

Chalk one up for the Second Amendment here. Piggybacking on yesterday’s story about law-abiding citizens not putting up with criminals is this one from south Florida (via Hot Air):

This is what licensed carry is all about.
According to investigators, two armed men entered the restaurant, pointing guns and demanding money. One customer turned around and saw a gun pointed at his face. Plantation police said that’s when the customer took the law into his own hands.

“As the customer was being forced into the restroom at gunpoint, the customer, who was in fear for his life and legally armed, shot the robbery suspects,” said Plantation Police Dept. Spokesman Robert Rittig.
Police said one of the suspects was fatally shot in the head. The other man was shot in the chest and was able to run nearly 300 yards into a nearby Bank Atlantic parking lot while trying to escape, police said.

Click to watch a video report. It may be the only time you hear a reporter describe someone who shoots and kills in legitimate self-defense as “legally armed and well within his rights.”

Had that customer been in D.C., he’d probably be dead by now. Instead, the world is one thug lighter than it was before the incident (with the other thug presumably heading to prison).

June 28, 2007 Posted by | gun rights | Leave a Comment

Specter: All the rich people I know support amnesty, and they’re the majority

You abso-freakin’-lutely must see the video on Hot Air of Arlen Sphincter droning on about the “silent majority”. You know, those verbal 14% who supported the now-defunct shamnesty bill? Yeah, that “majority”. Anywho, from Hot Air:

Video: The people at my gym told me they liked the bill, says Specter

Never mind those polls. What about the “silent majority” comprised of his gardener, the voices in his head, and the guy he works out next to on the elliptical machine at the local Bally’s in Philly?

This is why I scoff at threats that we’re going to bounce those who voted for amnesty with primary challenges. If we had any power to get rid of incumbents, don’t you think we would have sent this tool packing decades ago?

Sphincter may be somewhat immune from being deposed (though Toomey gave him a good run in the GOP primary a couple of years ago), and alas, likely so is Lott, but I firmly believe that others like Grahamnesty, Martinez, and Gregg are ripe for a challenge. Sam Brownback (now being referred to as “Switchback“) “Kerry-ed” his vote, voting “Yes” for cloture then reversing course and changing it to “No” afterwards.

By the way, if you wanna see Ted Kennedrunk blow a gasket on the Senate floor, here’s a link (scroll down to the video to play it).

June 28, 2007 Posted by | illegal immigration, Kennedrunk | Leave a Comment

AMNESTY DEAD

You may already know this, but if not, here it is: Amnesty is dead. To use the AP’s language, we “drove a stake through” its black heart.

Opposition was bipartisan, but so was unity. McCain can kiss his GOP primary aspirations goodbye, and Lindsey Grahamnesty and Mel Martinez are likely to get a primary opponent in SC and FL, respectively, in 2010.

Speaking of ol’ Mel, I sent this to his office a couple of days ago:

You can kiss my future vote goodbye. No hablo “Mel Martinez”, Sénor Turncoat!

I never vote Democrat, but I’ll be d#mned before I vote for you again. You and Jorgé W. Bush conned me in 2004 for voting for you, and now I need a shower to get that feeling of disgust off of me. Just leave the pesos on the dresser, Sénor Martinez.

Neither you nor your party can expect a friggin’ dime from me in the future, you sell-out!

Not that I figured it would make a difference, but I sent it anyway. My other Senator, Bill Nelson, was a pro-amnesty guy, too, but since he just got elected over the inept Katherine Harris last November, he’s safe for another 5.5 years.

Anyway, congrats on the work, folks. Some politicians don’t like us peons questioning them, but fortunately, others listen. Remember that when you vote next time.

June 28, 2007 Posted by | illegal immigration | Leave a Comment

SCOTUS shoots down racial preferences, upholds WA voters’ wishes

From Michelle Malkin:

If any of you followed my work at the Seattle Times, you know how closely I covered the battle against government racial preferences in Washington state. You may remember that Washington passed Initiative 200 to ban government racial preferences in public hiring and education. Despite massive establishment opposition (led by my then-publisher), the measure was approved overwhelmingly–even in liberal enclaves like Seattle and other parts of western Washington. As in California and Michigan, the Left fought bitterly to undermine the letter and spirit of the law. One of the areas where inequality in the name of “diversity” reigned was the Seattle public school system. Several parents rose to challenge the racial bean-counting and have fought in court since 1998. Their case reached the Supreme Court, which will issue a decision this morning.
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10:34am Eastern update breaking:
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected public school assignment plans that take account of students’ race.

The decision in cases affecting schools in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle could imperil similar plans in hundreds of districts nationwide, and it leaves public school systems with a limited arsenal to maintain racial diversity.

The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court’s judgment. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a dissent that was joined by the court’s other three liberals.

Chalk one more up for the good guys! With today’s shamnesty vote failing, today is turning out to be a darned good day! :-)

June 28, 2007 Posted by | bigotry, Supreme Court | Leave a Comment

Voinovich humiliates himself, then Sessions piles on

Sen. George Voinovich (RINO-OH), known for sobbing when his constituents bellyached at his objections to confirming John Bolton, embarrassed himself yesterday on Sean Hannity’s radio show. The link to the audio is here, but in a nutshell, he didn’t know what the Fairness Doctrine was and he was shamed into admitting that he didn’t know what was in the amnesty bill (including various amendments). He wound up getting rude to Hannity and, shall we say, “prematurely ending the call”?

Afterwards, on the floor of the Senate, amnesty opponent Sen. Jeff Sessions (true R-AL) piled on the schmuck even further. Money quote:

“Radio talk show hosts know more about this bill than most Senators, if you want to know the truth.”

Not naming names, of course! :-D

Sessions is right, though. So many Senators have been bought off by business interests that they don’t need to know what’s in the bill…they just need to vote for it.

June 28, 2007 Posted by | humor, illegal immigration | Leave a Comment

   

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