ONLY TOO TRUE: "Those of us who would prefer to live under a vastly more limited federal government have our work cut out for us in convincing the average American that bigger isn’t always better."

OUTLAW GUNSMITHING: Build your own AR-15 with a little help from friends.

AN AIRSHIP: the ultimate mobile home?

HOUSE GOP LEADERS: We Can Pass Gun Control, Immigration, Without Republican Support. Not if you want to remain a national party, you can't.

WHACK JOBS: The new Hope of Gun Control Advocates.

WHACK JOBS: The new Hope of Gun Control Advocates.

WHACK JOBS: The new Hope of Gun Control Advocates.

WHAT HAPPENS when a nation gets too civilized: Saudi Arabia may stop beheadings over shortage of swordsmen.

JUST THINK: If the Obama administration and Federal employees paid their back taxes, the White House visitor center could be kept open forever.

GUN NUTS VS ANTI-GUN NUTS. In an otherwise unremarkable column, Bruce Bialosky makes one key error with respect to the 'gun show loophole', and that is this: the vast majority of sales at gun shows are by federally-licensed dealers, and they routinely (if perhaps not cheerfully) perform the requisite background checks at the show. You don't pass the check, you don't get the gun. Period.

If you're a private seller with one or two (or ten) weapons for sale, are you going to pay the fee required to set up a table at a show? Or are you going to offer them to a dealer (who will perform the background check) for consignment sale? If you're a criminal looking to buy an unregistered gun, would you pay the admission fee to seek out the 1 or 2 private sellers who may or may not have what you're looking for? (Remember that at the Fredricksburg gun show I attended last Saturday, I saw only one private sale -- and it was probably a consignment sale.) Or would you buy on the street from another crook?

JUST A THOUGHT: Maybe, just maybe, the chip you carry on your shoulder makes you see racism where none exists.

Instapundit has more thoughts.

BILL KRISTOL has a hissy fit.

COMMENT OF THE DAY: "Grass guzzlers caused the Sahara. Got it."

HEARD ON THE RADIO TODAY: As a result of the sequester, the bears at Yellowstone National Park have been told to continue hibernating.

“WHAT DO YOU THINK about Obama’s decision to pardon the sequester and send it to Portugal?”

SEPARATION OF SCHOOL AND STATE:

The problem with public schools ... is government compulsion. Soviet citizens learned the hard way what to expect when government runs the farms and operates the grocery stores: long lines, poor quality, empty shelves. Why should we expect anything different from public education? Government runs the schools, hires the teachers, sets the curriculum – and assigns the students. Of course the result is dysfunction and controversy.

Perhaps a constitutional amendment, formally separating the government from any authority over education is the answer. Harvard grads can retain their right to remain ignorant and run the government, but education is too important to be left in their hands.

NUMBER OF U.S. GUN MAKERS refusing sales to government in 'Firearms Equality Movement' triples in two weeks. More guns for me....

WELCOME TO NEW YORK. Now get out while you still can.

KRUGMAN: Choosing waterboarding over drone killings ‘a very odd notion’.

It's been estimated that over 4,000 people had been killed by drone strikes, many of them innocents. By contrast, three detainees have been waterboarded. None of them were killed; and none of them were innocent.

But waterboarding requires Gitmo (or some similar detention facility). Got it.

STOP PLAYING GAMES. "The problem is people, not guns. Our society suffers from a deficiency of personal responsibility -- not from an excess of personal freedom."

HOUSE CONSERVATIVES: GOP leadership killed measure to defund Obamacare. It's time to think of replacing the Republican leadership, House and Senate, with people who, you know, will actually lead.

EUROCRATS propose to ban pornography. Why don't they just ban climate change? It'd be easier, cheaper, and more likely to succeed.

HEALTH NUTS.

BACK IN THE NEWS AGAIN: the "Chicago Way". From here on, I don't think people are going to be so easy to roll....

OBAMA CREATES SIX JOBS; one woman has them all.

WHERE LIBERALS think electricity comes from:



Much more here.

BLOOMBERG: Government ‘probably’ shouldn’t force people to exercise. How kind of His Royal Idiocy.

SHOULDN'T IT BE mowing while intoxicated?

JOHN RANSOM: "A government that controls your mortgage, your student loan, your car loan, your retirement savings, your healthcare, your right to own property and to defend your liberties -- with a gun if necessary -- is a government that owns your liberty and just rents it back to you for a while at election time."

Read it all.

THE REAL REASON McCain-Graham attacked Ted Cruz. It's time for the old bulls to go.

HMM. Did Mark Kelly commit a felony? The comment about the ATF Form 4473 is on the mark. I know; I've filled out three.

I guess he could argue 'buyers remorse' and that rather than reselling it, he's turning it in to the police for destruction....

My earlier post is here.

MICHELLE OBAMA: Economy to blame for kiddy obesity. First, that's a really dumb statement, but assuming it's so, why doesn't Michelle speak to her husband about doing something to improve the economy?

BYRON YORK: Bid to defund Obamacare gains momentum in Senate GOP. Republicans in the House and Senate should back this wholeheartedly.

RAPE SURVIVOR: "Don't Disarm Me With Your Vote."