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Rhode v Becerra

Rhode v Becerra Regardless of the rubes on the 9th Circuit, St. Benitez is my spirt animal. Most of you are well aware by now of his order in Rhode v Becerra.  You are also probably aware that the State was not about to tolerate a judge telling it to obey the Constitution.  It immediately filed an...

Lead Ammo Illegal?

AB 3071

I have been a member of Safari Club International for years.  We are a hunting club… and, as such, a political organization.  A ways back, the California government was toying with the idea of restricting hunting… I know… shocking, huh?!? Its methodology was interesting though, and to its credit it had employed a Machiavellian scheme to...

Rhode v Becerra, Supplemental Brief

The Supplemental Brief

Rhode v. Becerra:  The Supplemental Brief This last week, Sean Brady, an attorney with Michele and Associates, filed a supplemental brief with the court in the case of Rhode v. Becerra.  For those of you who have not been playing along at home, this is the challenge to Prop 63’s ammo law, more specifically, the methodology...

Parents’ Weekend at West Point

George S. Patton once referred to The United States Military Academy at West Point as “Hell on the Hudson”.  He was writing home during BEAST barracks, an event that takes place in July when the average temperature in New York is 197 degrees with 200% humidity. When Chaney wrote home during her BEAST barracks, she channeled...

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The First Monday in October

The First Monday in October The beginning of the Supreme Court term is always the first Monday in October.  I have always thought that the judiciary was the most important part of our government.  It is one of the few examples in the history of social organizations where a true check exists against unreasonable legislative and...

Secretly Recorded Transcript Written as a Parody

The Meeting…a Parody

This is a parody... the story is written to prove a point. Classified:  The following transcript was recorded from a secret recording device in the U.S. Senate chambers by Russian operatives.  The transcript was then leaked to Wikileaks by a Russian whistleblower.  Wikileaks did not want to publish the document so an internal mole from the...

Bring back dueling

A Casual Proposal

MAJ Cosmo Taormina and I were having a bit of a philosophical conversation the other day.  I was upset… deeply upset (Actually, that is not true.  I was, frankly, somewhat amused.) at a poor Yelp review we had received.   The author, “Mr. B,” had emailed me last week after the blog email went out demanding that...

“I have in my hand proof that the Department of State is infested with Communists!” So began the meteoric rise and Icarian fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Funny thing is that he was correct up to a point.  The Soviets we now know were actively involved as recruiting agents to infiltrate our government.  Some of this infiltration...