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Mike McDaniel
Guns And Liberty, 2023: Part 8
All the articles in this series may be found by entering “guns and liberty 2023” into the SMM homepage search bar.
A decision to carry a concealed handgun is only the beginning of a lifelong journey. Of equal, perhaps greater, importance is the knowledge about when to ethically, lawfully use one.
LEGAL ISSUES:
There are two bodies of law with which anyone carrying a concealed weapon must be intimately familiar: the specific laws of their state that regulate concealed carry and the laws regarding the use of deadly force–in general–and those specific to their state. Circa Feb 2023, 25 states allow Constitutional Carry; anyone of age not otherwise prohibited by law, does not need a permit to carry concealed, though several of those states reserve this for state residents only. Florida is poised to become the 26th state, and on 02-10-23, a constitutional carry bill passed out of committee and is due for a floor vote in Nebraska any day. If planning to travel to other states that share reciprocity with yours, even if they’re constitutional carry states, you’ll probably need a state-issued permit.
The New Neo
The Met jumps on the “even abolitionist anti-slavery artists were actually celebrating slavery” bandwagon
Heather Mac Donald describes the latest art-world insanity, this time at the Met. You may have to concentrate very very hard to follow it:
Why Born Enslaved! has been understood since its creation as an antislavery work. The Met, however, knows better, now that it has been reborn as an “antiracist” institution. Fictions of Emancipation argues that the Carpeaux bust furthers whites’ ongoing “domination over Black people’s bodies,” in the words of the exhibit’s curators. And Carpeaux was not the only artist to give an aesthetic gloss to racial oppression, while seeming to oppose it—Fictions of Emancipation portrays abolitionist art more widely as a fig leaf for Western colonialism and white supremacy.
Victory Girls
Greg Gutfeld “King of Late Night” And Certain Deplorable Type People
Greg Gutfeld has found success with his late night show Gutfeld! and is getting two Super Bowl ads tonight. Lizz Winstead, a Daily Show co-creator says Gutfeld viewers are a certain type of Deplorable. Mayhap Miss Winstead is a little jelly that Mr. Gutfeld and his show are actually funny. Let’s talk about this.
The Williams’ Family have been big fans of Greg Gutfeld since the Red Eye days. His wit is dry cynical and pulls no punches. He is definitely more Libertarian than Conservative. Plus, he loves and remembers the late Andrew Breitbart and we are forever grateful. The Gutfeld! cast members are hysterically funny: Kat Timpf, Tyrus, Tom Shillue, and Julie Banderas, among others. They will gore anyone’s ox for a laugh and there is no comparison to the legacy media’s politically correct late night shows.
Fox News Channel has declared Greg Gutfeld the new “King of Late Night” and has two ad buys (:10 and :15 second ads) in Super Bowl LVII tonight, which means the marketing people at Fox believe that some of the approximately 100 million viewers are potential Gutfeld! viewers. Depends on the ads. Although we don’t have a clean ad yet, we do have this from The Hollywood Reporter:
College Fix
Pagan alumni of Florida’s New College upset at Gov. DeSantis’s ‘disruption’ of the school
In the wake of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s overhaul of the under-enrolled New College of Florida, Pagan alumni of the school have expressed concern about the coming changes, calling them “dystopian.”
The New College’s new conservative board of trustees recently fired school president Patricia Okker and appointed Richard Corcoran, Gov. DeSantis’s former education commissioner, as interim president.
They also are reviewing the school’s Office of Outreach & Inclusive Excellence, which would align with DeSantis’s quest to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion measures at Florida’s public universities.
Daniel Greenfield
THE IRS CAME AFTER PRO-ISRAEL GROUPS, BUT PROTECTED HAMAS
David Boim was only 17 years old when he was shot and killed while waiting at a bus stop north of Jerusalem. The American teenager’s parents, Stanley and Joyce, have spent a quarter of a century since trying to bring Hamas, the Islamic terror group behind the attack, and its funders in the United States to justice. Their lawsuits have targeted, among others, the Holy Land Foundation which was found in federal court to have provided “material aid to Hamas” in what became the largest terrorism financing prosecution case in the United States.
The Justice Department stated that, “from its inception, HLF existed to support Hamas. Before HLF was designated as a Specially Designated Terrorist by the Treasury Department and shut down in December 2001, it was the largest U.S. Muslim charity.”
It was also a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The IRS had allowed money used to fund Islamic terrorists to be funneled through a tax-deductible organization. And that was not the first time or the last.
