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Re: “UPDATE: FBI confirms State Treasurer Martha Shoffner's arrest, apparently for official misconduct”
"And the "low-info" voters are those who tune into Faux News, Rush, Glenn, etc., dumbass."
HHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: “UPDATE: IRS harassment not limited to Tea Party”
If the Fourth Estate would do its job and "harass" Democrat administrations and politicians with the same fervor it employs against conservatives, a lot of this stuff would be caught early on. How many people knew about the IRS mess or the Benghazi spinning or the government's fishing expedition at the AP, and did tell a reporter about it, but it went no where because it didn't fit the liberal media template? How many more didn't come forward because they knew no one outside of Fox News and the Washington Times would care?
Re: “Has Arkansas deregulated guns or not?”
Way to continue marginalizing yourselves and the Arkansas Times by continually referring to anyone as a "gun nut" who enjoys owning and shooting firearms; who believes in his or her Second Amendment right to have a firearm to defend themselves and family members against the thugs who are praying on this city with impunity; and who would never dream of intentionally harming anyone with their guns. The millions of law-abiding "gun nuts" are not the cause of Sandy Hook or Jonesboro or Columbine. Legally owned firearms by themselves aren't anymore the cause of such events than the fertilizer spread in a farmer's field is the cause for the Oklahoma City bombing.
You could encourage and facilitate common sense debate about such issues as this, but of course that has never been the tack for liberals. When you can't support your positions with reasoned arguments supported by facts, all you have left is calling people names and exploiting tragedies.
If I happen to notice that a business I support, supports this stuff with their advertising dollars, I'll politely inform them that I, too, have a choice of where to spend my money.
The Arkansas Times should just come out with an advertising campaign, announcing that all law-abiding gun owners who believe that a law abiding citizen, and not the government, should be the decider of whether he or she owns a gun, of how many guns to own, of what kind of gun and what size magazine--that people who continue to support such radical, outdated notions as these, are no longer welcome to read the Arkansas Times. The death of your business and your jobs would then be more swift that the slow slicing you're doing to yourselves now. But good luck with it. Let's see what happens.
Re: “Must a GOP candidate be from Northwest Arkansas?”
I thought Hutchinson was a terrible Under Secretary for Border &Transportation when DHS was first created. I believe it was his idea to abolish the U.S. Customs Service, a very well run agency, and combine its functions with INS, a poorly managed agency whose failures famously helped lead to 9/11. Eleven years later, ICE and CBP are still struggling to rise out of the ashes and find their way thanks to him.
For anyone here who likes the idea of Hutchinson being your governor, just listen to this interview of him having ass handed to him back on July 8, 2004, on KFI-AM's John & Ken Show:
http://americanpatrol.com/WMV/AsaHutchison…
Is this the best Republicans have to offer Arkansas?
Re: “Pryor stands up to the American people”
Gun enthusiasts are not against common sense legislation to enhance the safety of firearms and to keep them out of the hands of criminals and persons of mental defect. But when liberals start in with calling anyone who enjoys owning and shooting firearms, "gun nuts" or "gun crazies," or they speak about the NRA as if it is an unbelievably evil empire of evil doers who sit around thinking up cruel ways to hurt people with their guns, when the truth is it represents millions of peaceful, law-abiding citizens who simply love their guns, love shooting them, and love teaching their children about the safe usage of guns and who look forward to passing along collectible and enjoyable family heirlooms to them, and Gabby Giffords invokes "mothers and their children" as if they are universally in favor of abolishing firearms, while failing to recognize that there are millions of law abiding families who enjoy going to the range with their children and with other families, just as much as she might enjoy going to a park with hers, and that these families would never think of hurting anyone with a firearm, then it should be no surprise at all that such gun owners and enthusiasts are going to be immediately suspect of any gun legislation liberals put forward, and they are going to contact their Congressmen and Senators and urge them to vote against it. And the media intentionally ignore the fact that there are many laws on the books now pertaining to illegal firearm usage and possession, but those laws are not enforced nearly as often as they could. So who, in the end, are affected the most by this "well-intentioned" legislation. It's certainly not the kind of people who murder school children or shoot up movie theaters. We have a long, long way to go.
Re: “Will Mayflower ever be the same after the Exxon spill?”
A story here that the media seems to be ignoring is ExxonMobile's use of local law enforcement to intimidate and threaten them and law-abiding citizens and property owners into staying away from the area in an effort to hide as much as they can about what this pipeline breach has caused. If ExxonMobile had not hired these officers and given them instructions to keep people away from the area, to include threatening them with arrest, do you think any of those officers would have cared whether a journalist walked the neighborhood or accompanied a land owner onto his or her property for the purpose of seeing the effects of the pipeline break? Hell no! I personally think this is outrageous, and this is a perfect situation for journalists to exercise their right to cover important news from a safe distance and for the average citizen to exercise civil disobedience. As long as a person is not trespassing or interfering with workers' cleanup or repair of the pipeline, he or she has the right to walk a public street or sidewalk, or enter land at the invitation of a property owner. I'd like to start taking busloads of people out there and force these co-opted police officers to shit or get off the pot.
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Re: “Martha Shoffner's day in court”
For a case like this, I'm sure the U.S. Attorneys office and the FBI "invited" Ms. Shoffner to come in with her attorney and discuss the evidence against her. If I had to guess, she, in so many words, told them to F-off. That's every bit her right, but then don't be surprised or get all offended if they come arrest you on Saturday and lock your carcass up until a magistrate can arraign you on Monday. Just sayin.