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And what happens when it's the police who "demonstrate a disregard to peace and the sanctity of human life"? Who is going to remove them "from the street"? Or should we just let them go because they break the law while wearing badges?

When the rule of law applies only to "civilians" it is known as tyranny.

I'm not saying the cops did anything wrong in Waco or in Ferguson or in Baltimore. I don't know. However, I think it is foolish to trust government workers simply because they are in positions of authority.

They brought Gruber in.

Yes, this is the same governor who mocked the suggestion that his administration was sharing MO concealed carry permit holder data with the IRS. He called it a crazy conspiracy theory. Except the person he appointed director of Revenue and the man he appointed to head the Highway Patrol admitted that they were sending that data.

I agree about being pro-life, and marriage has long been a state issue. For example, some states allow cousins to marry, some don’t. The federal government should accept the state definition just as it should for voting requirements.

Abortion is always wrong, in my opinion, but Roe v. Wade was a bad decision because it overstepped the limitations of the Constitution and took away the right of the local community/state to decide how to handle abortion.

If Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, as I pray that it will be some day, abortion would not automatically become illegal across the nation. New York, California, Oregon, Washington, and Illinois and other states with death-worshiping politicians in control would legalize it. Then it would be up to the citizens of those states to decide if they were for the slaughter of innocents.

To some extent. My local county cops are great guys, and I think, generally, I can trust them to be on the right side. But I live in a rural area in the Republican heart of Missouri, where we used to vote for Durward G. Hall when he was the only Republican in the Missouri Congressional delegation. However, I know what is happening elsewhere and the direction law enforcement is taking. I find the militarization of law enforcement disturbing.

So you say. I am against government intrusion in the free market and in individual liberties as much as it possible. That’s why the Constitution is all about telling the government what it cannot do. In that sense, the Founders were libertarians and many of them were devout Christians.

If you embrace a big government, big brother kind of imposed adherence to biblical standards as a social conservative then, yes, you and I will have to disagree and even be at odds.

However, if you are willing to reduce the role of the FEDERAL government to Constitutional boundaries, and you want to make laws at the local level to restrict vice and encourage virtue in a given community, I have no problem with that. And it is none of the federal government’s business.

I am a Christian libertarian. I am not unicorn.

I consider myself a Christian libertarian. I think government, especially the federal government should be severely limited in its scope and power. That would mean not advancing the liberal agenda as well as not advancing the so-called social conservative agenda. The federal government has no business regulating marriage, nor does it have any business telling a private businessman he has to bake a cake for a couple of perverts.

Cops and schools and many other things should be locally funded and controlled.

I must respectfully differ with anyone, including the esteemed Mr. Robinson, who thinks most cops, especially in larger urban areas, will not enforce unconstitutional laws at this point. And, by the way, in my sadly misspent youth, thirty years ago, I worked in law enforcement.

There are some Big L Libertarians who do fit your “liberaltarian” label. But I think social conservatives need to stop focusing on using the power of the federal government and federal legislation to enforce a “Christian” agenda. My copy of the Great Commission calls us to go into all the world and make disciples (of individuals) of all nations, teaching them to observe the commandments of Christ. If you want a Christian nation, as I do, you have to have Christian individuals.

As far as Ferguson goes, forgive me if I withhold judgment until the facts come out. After all, I think of the cops who shot up the wrong pickup in the Dorner case, of the cop who gunned down 13-year-old Andy Lopez because he was walking along the road with a toy gun and didn’t drop it fast enough, of the cops who shot a woman holding a cordless drill they mistook for an Uzi, of the dogs shot at the wrong house, of the no-knock warrants for non-violent criminals, of a baby burned and scarred by a flash-bang grenade thrown in its crib.

I think if this country is ever going to return to righteousness and freedom, small ‘l’ libertarians are going to have to be part of the conservative coalition. Right now, “conservatives” have nothing to conserve. The country I grew up in is gone, baby. Now it’s rollback and restoration, or you are merely “conserving” fascism and a budding police state.

No, she beat Jim Talent because Jim Talent was never a very good statewide candidate. You are thinking of the Mel Carnahan/John Ashcroft race in 2000, when Ashcroft was beaten by a dead man.

That same year Talent lost the governor’s race to possibly the worst governor in the history of Missouri, Bob Holden.

Talent did manage to beat the Widder Carnahan in a special election in 2002 for the Senate seat Ashcroft lost. He then lost to McCaskill in 2006 by running one of worst campaigns in history. One of his spots attacked McCaskill for not paying property taxes when it turned out that her brother (I think) was supposed to pay the taxes on one of her properties where he was staying. Talent looked like a fool.

McCaskill lost a bid for governor to Republican Matt Blunt in 2004 after beating incumbent, cuckolded, gamma-male PeeWee Holden in the Democrat primary.

Amen, andyk. You have hit on the main reason I rarely bother to post on FR any more. I’m a conservative Christian, yet every time I support a libertarian principle or policy, I get accused of being a drunk, dope-smoking, homosexual child-molester.

I hate Democrat policies because they are big government. I hate Republican policies that support and encourage big government. How does being against unnecessary, intrusive government make me an anarchist?

Bump to Joan. She has lots of good stuff on her blog, by the way.

I have no problem with this man or any other man being judged for his crimes. If I were on a jury, I would vote to hang him for molesting a child.

My point was not really about him. You can read the words yourself.

Right. It is hard to feel sorry for a lowlife sinner.

Thank You, Lord, that I am not a lowlife like Tom White.

Luke 18:9-14

It used to be some states wouldn’t allow the various .22 centerfires on deer because of insufficient bullet weight and the light construction of bullets designed to blow up on small varmints.

Improved bullets give good terminal results on Missouri whitetails at modest ranges and the Conservation Department okayed .223’s and other .22 centerfires many years ago.

But the key is shot placement and range. I would never shoot a deer beyond about 150 yards with a .223 and would really rather not shoot one over 50 yards. The longer the range, the less velocity.

All the “power” of a small caliber, low weight bullet comes from velocity. All that shock stuff is gunwriter/ad copy BS. A bullet has to disrupt a creature’s central nervous system and/or cause a rapid drop in blood pressure via massive blood loss to kill quickly and humanely. Penetration is critical, and penetration is a more a function of velocity for lighter bullets than for heavier bullets.

Sure enough, the .223 is practically a cannon — if you are a prairie dog.

The willful ignorance of the press once again manages to exceed my expectations.

Oh, yeah, that's brilliant legal reasoning, because the FEDERAL money wasn't taken from the people in the STATES at gunpoint in the first place, was it, Yer Ho'ner? Kagan makes the same mistake as the rest of the left in thinking that the "government" has money it hasn't stolen from my pocket.

I'm in a foul mood this evening. I hope Kagan, Obama and all the rest split hell wide open before morning.

Bullet resistant, huh? Neat. I wonder if it’s fireproof.

Ford looks like he’s getting ready to throw a football.

Reagan looks a little stiff.

Ike looks a little dorky.

I would go with W. as the best since he did play a lot of baseball.

Clinton just played with his balls a lot.

Obama has no balls.

Centrally planned economies are mismanaged. It has always happened, and it always will.

Additionally, the Chinese government is getting resistance from the old-line commie workers. There are worker groups in China who do not like and rebel against private managers. They want a return to the “good old days” of full government control of factories where they did not have to produce but got paid the same as everyone else — kind of like the UAW with pensions and insurance.

It is not wise to believe any numbers coming out of China. Shoot, it isn’t wise to believe any numbers coming out of the U.S. government. Obama appears to be pulling the stats out of his BL-@ss. :)