- In the most recent issue of America’s 1st Freedom NRA-ILA executive director Chris Cox says
Voting to ban guns and gun shows puts a lawmaker firmly on the anti-gun bandwagon, by any definition.
And yet the NRA supports George W. Bush who wants to renew the Clinton Gun Ban. When the NRA doesn’t use this opportunity to put some heat on GWB for his anti-gun stance, it hurts the cause they claim to espouse. Then again, I’ve thought for quite a while that the NRA’s primary goal is to raise money, and in order to do that, they need visible enemies. They can’t be successful in their stated mission, as that would mean an end to the money. Time to send extra money to the Gun Owners of America again, I guess. - It appears there’s a connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda after all, in the form of Oil-for-Food & Terrorism. Here’s a financial link that looks pretty solid to me. And yet it’s not getting much press. There’s much more over at the Instapundit. [lileks]
- The TV Blackout could hurt Twins [stadium] bill. As well it ought. If Carl Pohlad doesn’t want to make it possible to see the games on TV, I don’t see why there should be any government help on the stadium issue for the team. But then for me, the Twins are just a distraction during the parts of the season when the Saints aren’t playing, and their training camp starts two weeks from today. And in other baseball news, the Northern League is going to expand to Calgary and Edmonton in 2005. That's going to make for some brutally long road-trips, I think. [press-patch]
- Some people don’t like the idea of commuter rail in their quiet communities, and the ’No Northstar’ folks [are] trying to gain steam. The people cited in the article moved to Big Lake to get away from the big city, and are upset now that it’s coming to them by way of commuter rail. My take is that they need to decide whether they prefer to have Highway 10 be six lanes of cars, or have trains going past. Development is going to come one way or another. [strib]
Sorry there’s not more today, but I’m still trying to catch up from Monday, and there’s not a lot in the news that’s grabbing my attention. What there is just riles me up, as you can see.
There is one additional thing. I’ve got a new bird in my backyard that I don’t know what it is. It looks kinda like a woodpecker (beak and body-shape), is about the size of the common grackles, though a bit thicker in the body, and is mostly grey with a red band across the back of its head, a black throat, and a white patch near its tail that’s hidden by its wings unless it’s flying. Any ideas what it might be? Send ’em in, please.