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  • 11/19/2024 11:15 AM | Anonymous

    Post Election News

    In 2016, Hollywood elites who vowed they would flee the country if former President Donald Trump won the election and returned to the White House included Bruce Springsteen, Cher, Samuel L. Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, George Lopez, Miley Cyrus, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Amy Schumer, and Lena Dunham. Even Barbra Streisand vowed to move to Australia or Canada.

    None of them made good on their promises.

    They are getting a second chance.

    A man who is apparently unhappy about President-elect Donald Trump’s victory said he is leaving America and relocating to Hawaii. 

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    First they came for my AR15
    Then they came for my gas powered car
    Then they came for my kitchen appliances
    When they came for my pet squirrel, there was no one left to help.
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    Some leftist women are shaving their heads in protest of Donald Trump’s victory.  These women claim to be shaving their heads in protest of the “patriarchy.”  In one video, a woman said: “F*** coloring our hair. F*** having my hair be long and luxurious. F*** all that s***. F*** being skinny. F*** being hot. F*** being all the things that the patriarchy wants us to be.” She concluded by informing men that she will not be speaking to them.

    This is believed to be that ‘‘woman”:

    I feel bad for parents nowadays. You have to be able to explain the birds & the bees …The bees & the bees … The birds & the birds … The birds that used to be bees … The bees that used to be birds … The birds that look like bees … Plus bees that look like birds but still got a stinger!!! …”
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    Joe Biden makes post-election comments after being forced to withdraw from the race in Favor of Kamala Harris..

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    Washington State is on the left coast, yet Washington State voters 
    just passed a voter initiative effectively banning natural gas bans.  (They okayed banning bans.)
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    In June, Governor Hochul paused Manhattan’s “congestion pricing tolls”, citing high inflation and vacancy rates in Manhattan office buildings.  Less gullible believed this issue would hurt the Democrats’ chances in November’s election.  (Congestion pricing is unpopular with voters who dislike taxes.  Duh!)

    The toll, in June, was $15. After the election, Hochul announced the initiative will now go into effect on January 5th. Drivers entering south of 60th Street will be forced to pay $9.

    Hochul is portraying this as a 40% tax cut. A toll going from $0 to $9 is a tax cut.

    But there is also an ‘oops’ moment.  This initiative requires approval from the federal government.  Biden is okay with it but Trump has vowed to end the tolls when he takes office.
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    The Pennsylvania Senate race was called for Republican Dave McCormick, who currently holds a 26,000 votes lead.  Being within one percentage point triggered an automatic recount under Pennsylvania law. Incumbent Democratic Senator Bob Casey has insisted that ‘’every vote” be counted.

    And he wasn’t joking about ‘every vote.’

    Before the election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mail ballots lacking formally required signatures or dates should not be included in official results. Democratic officials in Philadelphia and surrounding Bucks, Centre and Montgomery counties are ignoring that court order to disqualify these ballots. 

    Democrat Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia said, "I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,"

     She is admitting to committing voter fraud by citing (‘without evidence’ - as leftist media likes to say) that court orders are no longer mandatory, if you don’t like them.
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    Washington Redskins’ owner Edward Bennett Williams said about his head coach George Allen: “I gave him an unlimited budget and he overspent it.”

    Kamal Harris’ campaign raised an historic $1 billion…and she overspent it!
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    Colorado voters rejected Proposition 127, which sought to ban hunting mountain lions and bobcats.

    The measure ignored the fact that populations of lions and bobcats are thriving, and hunting is carefully managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.  The sweeping language used in this initiative could have been expanded in the future to ban the hunting of other game animals like deer, elk, and sheep.

    This is the first time since 1992 that Colorado voters have rejected a wildlife ballot proposal.

    Fortunately, pro-hunting forces were well organized and able to effectively message about Proposition 127 to the Colorado Electorate.

    This explains one reason why SCOPE and other 2A defense organizations exist.


  • 11/16/2024 8:10 AM | Anonymous

    The 1st Amendment Is Back In Style!

    The 1st and 2ndAmendments are tied together and the elite on the left need to destroy both to achieve their goals.  Without free speech, you might not know that your 2nd Amendment rights are being threatened.  And the 2nd Amendment protects all the other rights.

    Donald Trump made a speech about our 1st Amendment rights and how he would be defending them, but you may not have heard about it. Thanks to our friend Tom Shepstone at Energy Security and Freedom we were alerted about it.

    In trying to get a date when the speech was made, I searched “Trump speech on the 1st Amendment” on line and the first 6 pages of results never mentioned it and, further, all but one of the links had Trump as anti-free speech or abusing the 1st Amendment.  (I stopped searching after 6 pages.)  This further demonstrates why Trump’s actions to defend free speech are necessary.  Censorship is alive and well – for now.

    However, I did find that on November 11th, the Washington Times started an article about the speech by writing: President-elect Donald Trump isn’t messing around. His first major policy statement since his landslide victory outlines his plan to restore free speech.

    We can hope that Trump takes as aggressive a line on defending the 2nd Amendment as he is on defending the 1st Amendment.

    Below are highlights of the speech and a link to the actual speech is at the end.

    “If we don’t have Free Speech, then we just don’t have a Free Country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple just like dominos one by one. They’ll go down.”

    “FIRST, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person, to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as “mis-” or “dis-information”.

    “And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.”

    “SECOND, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime…”

    “These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law, and anti-trust laws, the Hatch Act and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory, and constitutional offenses.”

    “THIRD, from now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness, and non-discrimination.”

    “FOURTH, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called “mis-” and “dis-information.” The federal government should immediately stop funding all non-profits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any U.S. university is discovered to have engaged in censorship activities or election interferences in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal and blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years, and maybe more.”

    “There will be criminal penalties for any federal bureaucrat found to interfere with elections by depriving Americans of information:”

    “We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end-run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights. In other words, deprive them of their vote. And once you lose those elections and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country.”

    “Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former Deep Staters and intelligence officials, there should be a 7-year cooling-off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data.”

    “FIFTH, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital Bill of Rights. This should include a right to digital due process, in other words, government officials should need a COURT ORDER to take down online content, not send information requests such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow-banned, or otherwise restricted no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt-out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose.”

    “The fight for Free Speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western Civilization itself. When I am President, this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left. By restoring free speech, we will begin to reclaim our democracy, and save our nation.”


  • 11/14/2024 7:49 PM | Anonymous

    New York State Congressional Results

    SCOPE published its rating for Congressional candidates (including ratings by Gunowners of America, National Shooting Sports Foundation and the NRA.)  Below are those ratings for the winning candidates.

    R=Republican          C=Conservative       L=Libertarian           D=Democrat           

    WF=Working Families       CS=Common Sense

    *  Incumbent                                    District Descriptions per Ballotopedia

    Blank or ?  =  Insufficient information to rate

                                                                SCOPE  GOA  NSSF  NRA

    District 1  (Likely / Lean Republican)                                                         

    Nicholas Lalota* (R C)                   A            B+       A-        A

     

    District 2  (Solid / Safe Republican)

    Andrew Garbarino* (R C)              B            B            B           B+


    District 3    (Likely Democrat)

    Tom Suozzi*            (D CS)             F            F           F             F

     

    District 4  (Toss Up)

    Laura Gillen                 (D CS)          F                                          F

     

    District 5 (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Gregory Meeks* (D)                       F            F            F            F

     

    District 6  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)                                     

    Grace Meng*      (D  )                      F            F            F           F

     

    District 7 (Solid / Safe  Democrat)                                      

    Nydia Velazquez* (D WF)             F            F            F            F

     

    District 8  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Hakeem Jeffries* ( D )                   F            F            F            F

     

    District 9   (Solid / Safe  Democrat) 

    Yvette Clarke*             (D   )            F            F            F            F

     

    District 10  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Daniel Goldman*            (D)           F            F            F            F

     

    District 11 (Solid / Safe Republican)

    Nicole Malliotakis* (R C)              B-         D           C+         B

     

    District 12  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Jerrold Nadler*       (D WF)            F            F            F            F

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

    District 13  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Adriano Espaillat*  (D   )                F         F              F            F

     

    District 14  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Alex’a Ocasio-Cortez* (D WF)     F            F            F            F

     

    District 15 (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Ritchie Torres*  (D  )                      F            F          F            F

                                                               

    District 16  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    George Latimer  (D)                       F                                          F

     

    District 17 (Toss Up)

    Michael Lawler*  (R C)                   B                          B            B

     

    District 18  (lean Democrat)

    Patrick Ryan*      (D WF)                F            F            F            F

     

    District 19    (Toss Up / Tilt Republican)                                                    

    Josh Riley                 (D WF)            F                                          F

     

    District 20  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)                                              

    Paul Tonko*   (D WF)                      F              F                         F           

     

    District 21 (Solid / Safe Republican)

    Elise Stefanik*  (R C)                     A              B+      A+         A+

     

    District 22   (Lean / Tilt Democrat)

    John Mannion        (D WF)            F                                        F

     

    District 23 (Solid / Safe Republican)

    Nick Langworthy*  (R C)               B           A-        A+        A

     

    District 24  (Solid / Safe Republican)

    Claudia Tenney          (R C)              A        A-        A+          A+

     

    District 25  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)                                              

    Joseph Morelle* (D WF)                   F           F            F         F

     

    District 26   (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Timothy Kennedy*   (D WF)            F                                         F  


  • 11/13/2024 1:45 PM | Anonymous

    The Last Best Hope

    Ronald Reagen spoke of the USA as the “last best hope of mankind” and most of us agree.  But in retrospect, that is a bit egotistical of us.  Great nations have come and gone throughout history and been replaced by other great nations.

    But what if we are correct that we are the “last best hope of mankind?”  That’s a big responsibility!

    If so, don’t we have a duty to fulfill that God given responsibility?

    The ‘elite’ left want to lord over us and force their radical agenda on us – an agenda that would destroy the ‘last best hope of mankind.’  They spent billions and we nullified it all by voting!  ($2 billion was raised by Kamala Harris’ campaign and they still went in debt.)  We fulfilled one aspect of our duty to preserve the USA when we voted.

    On election day, we dodged a bullet.  And because of that, we will be able to buy bullets for the next four years - and gas-powered cars and have electricity on a regular basis.

    Some may view our work as done but, in fact, it is only beginning.

    If you believe the left is going to reconsider their radical positions in light of their loss at the ballot box – think again.  The left is not blaming their extreme positions for their loss.  They are still tossing around words like; Hitler; fascism; end of democracy; patriarchy, racist, sexist, etc.

    And they have added new divisions to our country.

    We knew that we were considered racist misogynist, sexist, white supremacists out to end democracy, etc.  But who knew that we are now joined by black men who are now also sexists and latino men are now both racists and sexists when they voted for Trump?  (Luckily for those on the left, if you voted for Harris because she is either a woman or black, that is not considered racism or sexism by the Democrats.)

    Democrat elites believe that it was racism and sexism that led to their defeat and not their failed policies on immigration, national debt, crime, the economy, gender and the 2nd Amendment (to name just a few).

    Because they know this, several Democrat state governors, including the ‘beloved’ Kathy Hochul, have pledged to interfere with the efforts of Trump and the new Congress, even though 75 million Americans voted for Trump, including   3 ½ million New Yorkers.  Expect that these governors of deep blue states will double down on their policies on guns and the environment in order to protect us from our voting habits.

    And in the first bid to be the Democrats’ 2028 candidate for President, California Governor Newsome posted on ‘X’: “I just called an emergency special session to help bolster our legal resources and protect our state against any unlawful actions by the incoming Trump Administration…Whether it be our fundamental civil rights, reproductive freedom, or climate action — we refuse to turn back the clock and allow our values and laws to be attacked.”

    No lessons learned from the election about dividing the country leading to losses in elections.  Nope.  Like a losing gambler, they are doubling down on dividing the country!

    And in a race to the bottom, Kathy Hochul announced her administration was creating an "Empire State Freedom Initiative" to resist any “threats” from Washington to abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, gun safety, immigration and other areas. (But in typical fashion, Hochul also said she welcomed all federal funding.)

    Note the change in labeling her efforts against 2A as ‘gun safety’ and not ‘gun control.’  A Rose by any other name…Or in this case a Poison Ivy by any other name...

    "New York will remain a bastion for freedom and rule of law," Hochul said at a press conference in Manhattan. 

    New York is a bastion for freedom and the rule of law” and a Big Mac is health food!

    Hochul has strange ideas about the meaning of freedom when it comes to our Second Amendment rights.  Her reaction to the rule-of-law Bruen decision was not compliance but defiance.

    We now have a new mandate to change the direction.  So, buckle up and work with SCOPE because the leadership on the left will be overtly and covertly resisting in every way they can - and the rule-of-law is no impediment to them.

  • 11/13/2024 1:43 PM | Anonymous

    Quick & Dirty

    Here are some ‘quick & dirty’ suggestions on priorities for President Trump and the new Congress as to our 2nd Amendment protections.  Just priorities.  If everything is a priority then nothing is a priority.

    For President Trump:

    Remove ATF Director Dettelbach from office as well as every political appointee in the ATF.

    Appoint an ATF Director who respects the rights of law-abiding citizens and uses resources to target actual criminals instead of honest business owners.

    Rescind the more than 50 executive orders Biden issued related to firearms.

    Remove FBI Director Wray from office as well as every political appointee in the FBI.

    Appoint an FBI Director who respects the rights of law-abiding citizens and uses resources to target actual criminals instead of honest gun owners (and stop weaponizing the government against political opponents.)

    Close the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.

    Stop every ‘Red Flag’ law attempt that does not strictly adhere to ‘due process of law’ protections.  Protections such as: considered innocent until proven guilty; instituting punishment for frivolous charges. 

    Stop the NICS system from being used for ammo background checks, to be in accordance with existing law that does not allow it.

    For Congress:

    Pass National Reciprocity for gun licenses.

    Pass a redefined Safer Communities Act by: reversing the ‘engaged in business’ rule to reinclude ‘livelihood;’ redefining the “willful violation” for firearm retailers that could cost them their license; outlawing the “zero-tolerance” policy being used to cost FFL’s their license.  We need to end the war on FFL’s.

    If the ATF is too far gone to correct it, disband the entire department which will allow Trump to start over without the holdovers.

    Pass a law specifically restricting those illegally in the United States from gun possession.

    Resist the multitude of proposed laws that will infringe on our right to keep and bear arms.

  • 11/11/2024 3:41 PM | Anonymous

    Veterans Day

    A little history to show why learning from history is important.

    In June 1914, a Bosnian Serb assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

    Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Russia came to Serbia's defense. Germany, France, Britain and the Ottoman Empire soon joined the war. Then, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Italy and others joined. In the Pacific, New Zealand occupied German Samoa and Australian Forces landed on Germany’s island of New Britain. A German cruiser sank a Russian cruiser. Japan declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary in what was a land grab. German forces attacked South Africa. India supplied large quantities of food, money, ammunition and soldiers to the British.

    In early 1917, the United States entered the war on the side of the Allies.

    It was truly a World War.

    Later in 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power in the Russian October Revolution and the Soviet Union was born.

    Millions died. It led directly to geocide and a pandemic. A worthless worldwide political body was established in the aftermath.

    On November 11, 1918, an armistice was signed and on the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918 hostilities ceased on the Western Front of World War I. (On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed which formally ended the war.)

    November 11th was declared as “Armistice Day” to celebrate the end of the “Great War.” (It wasn’t yet known as World War 1 since World War 2 was still 21 years in the future.)

    Commemorations of November 11th were initially focused on honoring the military dead of the First World War and the return to peace. Later, many countries changed the name to include all veterans of their armed services and a few honored their war dead both uniformed and civilian. Most member states of the Commonwealth of Nations adopted the name Remembrance Day.

    In 1954, the United States changed the name to ‘All Veterans Day’, later shortened to 'Veterans Day'. (The United States has a separate holiday, “Memorial Day’, to honor and mourn the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.)

    Monday is the 106th anniversary of the armistice. Have we learned anything from history?

    WW1 started because one person was assassinated and it rapidly grew from there.

    Currently, Hamas invaded Israel and performed barbaric acts. Israel responded. Hezbollah in Lebanon, on Israel’s northern border, attacked Israel and threatened an invasion. Iran, which has dreams of recreating the Persian Empire, threatens the United States for helping Israel defend itself and an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump was uncovered. American troops were attacked by drones and rocket barrages in Iraq and Syria and U S forces face ramped up attacks by Iranian-backed groups. Syria has been in a decades long civil war where poison gas has been used.

    Russia’s Putin is determined to restore the past ‘glories’ – and atrocities – of the Soviet Union Empire.

    China is determined to take over global leadership and practices genocide directed against its own people. It also threatens America’s ally, Taiwan.

    Africa lags behind the rest of the world in almost every important category and is a hotbed of atrocities and civil wars.

    Today’s situation sounds a lot more explosive than just one royal being assassinated.

    One of the major aspects of World War 1 was the incompetence of the military and political leadership. Countless men on both sides were butchered as the generals fought the wrong war – the ‘last war’. (Unknown officers Eisenhower and Patton were reprimanded for espousing tank tactics that differed from what was then accepted army doctrine.)

    Today, our military leaders (both generals and politicians) have been fighting the wrong war as they prepare to fight the next war on Woke battlefields where climate change and Diversity Inclusion and Equity are the biggest enemy. These generals were securing their own political support by focusing on Woke and DIE propaganda instead of planning and implementing a successful withdrawal from Afghanistan and keeping our armed forces prepared to fight real world enemies.

    When the U S A entered WW1, it was not prepared; soldiers trained using broom handles instead of rifles.

    At a time of heightened tensions, our current readiness is threatened as all military branches are missing their recruitment goals. Are our generals and admirals fully engaged in finding the root cause of the enlistment crisis? By raising the maximum enlistment age to 42, they are trying to offset the problem rather than solve the problem.

    For instance, the Coast Guard has major national security missions to accomplish, including interdicting drug smuggling and illegal immigrants on the high seas, maritime search and rescue, and other important missions. Forbes reported that the Coast Guard will have a 10% shortage in enlisted ranks forcing the Coast Guard to take ten cutters out of service. Is anyone in D.C. aware that the U S A has a fentanyl drug smuggling crisis which is killing tens of thousands of Americans and that the Coast Guard is a major player in protecting our borders?

    During WW1, Congress passed and President Woodrow Wilson signed and enforced a Sedition Act which covered a broader range of offenses. Those offenses included speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light.

    Anyone noticed any assaults on our 1st Amendment protected right of free speech by the Swamp in Washington? Anyone noticed the current government in Washington D.C. using its power against its political enemies?

    A history lesson on what brought this holiday about and its parallels with today’s worsening global situation should give all of us a reason to pause, remember and take action. We don’t need another holiday to celebrate the end of another war.

    We need to honor veterans on this Monday and the best way to honor these veterans is to be sure that history does not repeat itself. They sacrificed too much for it to be in vain.

  • 11/04/2024 1:48 PM | Anonymous

    Last Minute Events

    Kathy Hochul says that if you vote Republican you are ”anti-woman” and “anti-American.”  Well, what else would she expect from people the Democrats call “garbage,” “Hitler”, “racist,” “fascist”, “deplorables,” who only cling to their “guns and bibles.” 

    Kamala Harris and the Democrats have been walking back positions they took over the last 4 years. 

    It’s difficult to tell where Harris stands on the 2nd Amendment, based on her contradictory statements.  I joke.  Actually, it’s not.  She will do everything possible to neuter the 2nd Amendment.

    Amongst the Democrat walk back positions is the border wall.  Politico, (of all places), reports:  “Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) once described the border wall as “a racist monument” and called for it to be torn down. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) called it “stupid” and “useless.” Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) said a wall across the entire border would be “a gross waste of money.” Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.) called it “a silly idea.”

    But all four Democrats — and several others who once opposed it —tout their commitment to border security and willingness to crack down on illegal immigration.”

    Could it be they are all in very contested elections and they are reading polls that indicate the vast majority of Americans disagree with these politicians’ stances on border security?  To be sure, you can count on their strong support for border security - until after the election.

    Harris maintains she will not ban fracking but her campaign committee says she will not approve permits – which are necessary to frack.   

    Proposition 1 on your ballot would add gender identity to the New York State Constitution.  Radical, left-wing activists are actively working to redefine what male and female mean.

    In July, H.R. 9218, the Defining Male and Female Act was introduced by Republicans in Congress. This bill would formally add the definition of “male” and “female” to the U.S. code, defining both by one’s biological sex

    HR 9218 would be in direct opposition to Proposition 1, if they both should pass.

    Democrats want to pass Proposition 1 while opposing HR9218.  Republicans oppose Proposition 1 and want to pass HR9218.  The Tuesday vote will determine where the country is going on the issue of boys becoming girls and using girls’ bathrooms and playing girls’ sports.

    Today, the NY State Regents is scheduled to lay out their plan for revised graduation requirements.  Students could qualify for diplomas by passing traditional Regents’ exams, or they could earn an occupational certificate or by volunteering for public service. 

    Currently, the state requires students to pass at least four exams — in English, math, history and the sciences, in order to graduate. It has been this way since 1865.  Under the new plan, passing exams would become optional.

    What better way to hide the failure of many government public schools, especially inner city public schools, than to do away with the measurement that demonstrates their failure.

    Illegal voting an issue? 

    In July, Congressional Republicans passed the SAVE Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. However, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not brought it to the floor for a vote.

    Last week, Republicans introduced the JAIL for Alien Voters Act, which would make it a felony for illegal aliens to vote.

    The Biden / Harris administration is responsible for distributing absentee ballots to military service members.  Military service members are complaining that they have not received enough absentee ballots to vote before Election Day. 

    Representative Brian Mast (R-FL) wrote, “Other service members also stated that when a request for a federal write-in absentee ballot was made, they were told the base’s stockpile of such ballots was depleted and had not been replenished."

    Democrats rabidly protect the right to vote, by destroying protections against illegal voting.  But they are considerably less rabid about military service members voting.

    Hey, priorities are priorities!

    And gun owners in NY will love this:

    The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic submitted a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, recommending that former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo be charged with making criminally false statements to Congress.

    Governor Cuomo made three criminally false statements under oath:

    That he was not involved in reviewing or drafting the New York State Department of Health Report, which was used to counter criticisms of his administration's nursing home policies during the pandemic.

    That he had no discussions about a peer review of the New York State Department of Health Report.

    That he had no knowledge of any external individuals outside the New York State Department of Health reviewing the Report.

    Attorney General Merrick Garland has aggressively gone after anyone associated with Donald Trump who could be accused of making false statements or even the most minor infraction.  Will he pursue Cuomo?

    The mainstream media is ardently anti-Trump.  But they are no longer as meaningful as they would wish.  Joe Rogan’s interview with Donald Trump has been viewed at least 42 million times on YouTube. That number does not include people watching/listening on Spotify or X, where the interview is also available.

  • 10/31/2024 2:42 PM | Anonymous

    New York State Congressional Candidate Ratings

    Firing Lines contained the NY Congressional rating by SCOPE and Gun Owners of America (GOA).  The following are the updated ratings to include the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the NRA

                 R=Republican          C=Conservative       L=Libertarian           D=Democrat           

                WF=Working Families       CS=Common Sense

    *  Incumbent                                   


    District Descriptions per Ballotopedia
        

    Blank or ?  =  Insufficient information to rate

                                                                SCOPE    GOA    NSSF    NRA

    District 1  (Likely / Lean Republican)                                                         

    Nicholas Lalota* (R C)                   A              B+         A-          A

    John Avlon            (D   )                   F                                          F

    District 2  (Solid / Safe Republican)

    Andrew Garbarino* (R C)              B            B         B           B+

    Rob Lubin                   (D WF)          F                                           F       

    District 3    (Likely Democrat)

    Michael LiPetri jr.   (R C)               A                                              ?

    Tom Suozzi*            (D CS)             F            F           F             F

    District 4  (Toss Up)

    Anthony D’Esposito (R C)             B            B          A             B

    Laura Gillen                 (D CS)          F                                              F

    District 5 (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

     Paul King             (R C CS)              B-                                            ?

    Gregory Meeks* (D)                       F            F            F            F

    District 6  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)                                     

    Thomas Zmich (R C)                      ?                                              ?

    Grace Meng*      (D  )                      F             F            F                F

    District 7 (Solid / Safe  Democrat)                                      

    William Kregler     (R C)                  ?                                           ?         

    Nydia Velazquez* (D WF)             F            F            F            F

    District 8  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    John Delaney        (R C)                  ?                                               ?            

    Hakeem Jeffries* ( D )                   F            F            F            F

    District 9   (Solid / Safe  Democrat) 

    Menachem Raitport (R C)             A                                          ?

    Yvette Clarke*             (D   )            F            F            F            F

    District 10  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Alexander Dodenhoff  (R)            ?                                             ?

    Daniel Goldman*            (D)           F            F            F            F

    District 11 (Solid / Safe Republican)

    Nicole Malliotakis* (R C)              B-           D           C+         B

    Andrea Morse            (D   )              F                                              F

    District 12  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Mike Zumbluskas  (R )                  C                                               ?

    Jerrold Nadler*       (D WF)            F            F            F            F                 

    District 13  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Ruben Vargas          (R C)               ?                                              ?

    Adriano Espaillat*  (D   )                F              F         F            F

    District 14  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Tina Forte     (R C)                            ?                                                ?

    Alex’a Ocasio-Cortez* (D WF)     F            F            F            F

    District 15 (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Gonzalo Duran   (R C)                    ?                                           ?

    Ritchie Torres*  (D  )                      F            F             F             F

    District 16  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Miriam Flisser     (R)                       ?                                           ?

    George Latimer  (D)                       F                                          F

    District 17 (Toss Up)

    Michael Lawler*  (R C)                   B                  B            B

    Mondaire Jones    (D  )                   F                                          F

    District 18  (lean Democrat)

    Alison Esposito  (R C)                    A-          A                             A

    Patrick Ryan*      (D WF)                F            F            F            F

    District 19    (Toss Up / Tilt Republican)                                                    

    Marcus Molinaro*  (R C)                A-          B+        B            A

    Josh Riley                 (D WF)            F                                             F

    District 20  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)                                              

    Kevin Waltz   (R C)                          A              A                             ?

    Paul Tonko*   (D WF)                      F              F                    F 

    District 21 (Solid / Safe Republican)

    Elise Stefanik*  (R C)                     A            B+        A+         A+

    Paula Collins      (D WF)                 ?                                           F

    District 22   (Lean / Tilt Democrat)

    Brandon Williams* (R C L)            B              B        B+         A

    John Mannion            (D WF)            F                                       F

    District 23 (Solid / Safe Republican)

    Nick Langworthy*  (R C)               B           A-        A+        A

    Thomas Carle          (D   )               F                                           F

    District 24  (Solid / Safe Republican)

    Claudia Tenney          (R C)              A        A-        A+          A+

    David Wagenhauser (D   )              F                                           F

    District 25  (Solid / Safe  Democrat)                                              

    Gregg Sadwick   (R )                          ?                                          ?            

    Joseph Morelle* (D WF)                   F           F            F         F

    District 26   (Solid / Safe  Democrat)

    Anthony Marecki    (R C)                    ?                                          ?

    Timothy Kennedy*   (D WF)              F                            F 

  • 10/30/2024 5:32 PM | Anonymous

    Not Coming After Hunting Rifles - Yet

    Hunters, notoriously, don’t vote.  One study said that, nationwide, only between 30% and 50% of hunters vote.

    Why don’t they get involved since Democrats have been coming after 2nd Amendment gun rights in increasingly radical fashion? 

    One answer is that hunters feel the Democrats are not coming after their guns.  That now needs to be amended to say the Democrats are not coming after their guns, YET.

    Connecticut State attorneys are arguing before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that hunting rifles, especially semi-automatic ones, are not protected by the Constitution.

    Background

    The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) and a co-plaintiff, Toni Theresa Spera filed a lawsuit challenging Connecticut’s restrictive gun control law passed after the Sandy Hook tragedy; the law bans the sale of firearms classified as “assault weapons.”  (NAGR v Lamont)  NAGR is suing the state of Connecticut to overturn their assault weapon and magazine ban as these laws infringe on their Second Amendment rights.

    NAGR sought a preliminary injunction to stop enforcement of these laws.  On August 3rd, 2023, a United States District Judge ruled against NAGR and the judge would not install a preliminary injunction stopping enforcement of these laws.

    The decision was appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  The hearing on the preliminary injunction was held on October 16th.

    At the hearing, the Connecticut Attorney General’s office raised the stakes by contending that the Second Amendment protects guns commonly used for self-defense, but not hunting rifles.  Connecticut’s AG contends that Connecticut has the authority to regulate firearms that are not typically used for self-defense, suggesting that hunting rifles do not fall under this category.

    Connecticut referenced a previous Supreme Court ruling (Columbia v. Heller), which stated that the Constitution guarantees the right to self-defense but does not offer blanket protection for all weapons.

    NAGR argued that the AR-15 is the most popular rifle in the U.S. and is neither dangerous nor unusual and should be protected. NAGR pointed out that, despite political rhetoric, AR-15s are rarely used in mass shootings, with over 75% of such incidents involving handguns. He criticized Connecticut’s laws as politically motivated rather than based on crime reduction.

    The current court action only involves the preliminary injunction to stop enforcement of the law while the actual suit over the law is being heard.  Since Connecticut has raised the threat that the 2nd Amendment does not protect hunting rifles, it is likely that this will be a big issue when the actual suit against the laws is heard and Connecticut continues to defend its strict gun regulations. 

    A circuit-level victory here will establish legal precedent throughout the entire 2nd Circuit which includes New York and Vermont.

    For now, hunting rifles remain legal in Connecticut but their constitutional protection is now in question.

    Democrat leaders are always looking for any opportunity to further extend their war on guns, no matter how slight.  Hunters might want to reconsider not voting because Democrats aren’t coming for their guns.  As seen in Connecticut, it’s not IF but WHEN they are coming.


  • 10/29/2024 7:05 PM | Anonymous

    Hitler, Fascists and NAZIs

    Lately, the terms Hitler, Nazi and Fascist have been thrown around – a lot – by Kamala Harris and the Democrats when referring to Donald Trump or the MAGA movement. 

    The NAZI’s were Fascists and Adolf Hitler was their leader.  Along with Italy’s Fascists and Japan, they plunged the world into a war where most estimates place the total number of deaths at around 70-85 million people. Approximately 17 million of these deaths were due to crimes against humanity carried out by the Nazi regime in Europe. 

    The Nazis, Fascists and Hitler were evil people.  Being politically associated with Hitler, NAZI’s and Fascism is a genuine negative.

    Since Democrats are known for accusing others of doing things the Democrats are already doing, let’s examine this a little closer.

    Nazi is actually an acronym.  It stands for National Socialist German Workers Party.  The NAZI’s self-identified as Socialists and evolved into Fascists. 

    Who is associated with Socialism: Harris and the Democrats or Trump and the Republicans?  (Hint: Bernie Sanders ran for the Democrat nomination for President by self-identifying as a “Democrat -Socialist.”)

    How about Gun Control?

    Under a 1928, law (prior to Hitler’s rise to power), Germany had a strict firearm-licensing scheme. Under Hitler, in 1938, the NAZI’s relaxed certain gun registration laws for the benefit of "law-abiding German citizens" – i.e. NAZI Party members.  Laws were also passed banning gun ownership by "unreliable persons” such as enemies of the “National Socialist State”, Jews, Communists, etc.

    Hitler and the NAZI’s believed in gun ownership for the politically connected but not for those they disfavored. 

    Who is currently protected by security armed with guns but does not want the non-politically connected citizen to have a gun:  Harris and the Democrats or Trump and the Republicans?

    Hint: Trump speaks at NRA conventions. 

    Hint: In 2008, Harris signed on to a District Attorneys' friend-of-the-court brief in District of Columbia v. Heller.  The brief urged the Court to reinstate D.C.'s handgun ban, endorsing the view that a total handgun ban does not violate the Second Amendment.  Additionally, Harris argued that the Second Amendment does not protect your individual right to own a firearm.

    In early 1933, at Chancellor Hitler's urging, the Reichstag Fire Decree was signed into law; it suspended basic rights and allowed detention without trial. It was classed as an emergency measure to protect public safety and order.  

    A month later, the Enabling Act gave Hitler's cabinet the power to enact laws without the consent of the Reichstag (Parliament). With certain exceptions, these laws could deviate from the German constitution.

    Hitler's government had become a de facto legal dictatorship.

    Within three months the NAZI’s main opposition party had been declared illegal and other parties had been intimidated into disbanding. In July, the Nazi Party was declared the only legal political party in Germany.

    Hitler and the NAZI’s weaponized the government against their political foes. 

    Trump was president for four years and did not use the power of the government against his political enemies, such as Hillary Clinton and others who participated in the Russia Hoax.  He even respected the law and submitted to some dubious legal proceedings against him.

    The Harris / Biden administration has weaponized the government against Trump and anyone who supports him.  In addition, they have illegally let 10 million aliens into the country with the goal of making them American citizens and, thus, give the Democrats a huge voting advantage.  And don’t forget Chuck Schumer threatening the Supreme Court for ruling in a way he did not like and    Harris / Biden’s plan to pack the Supreme Court.

    So, who is weaponizing the government like Hitler did?

    Hitler and the NAZI’s hate for the Jewish people was demonstrated by the infamous Holocaust in which 6 million Jews were murdered.  Huge numbers of Jewish victims died in Concentration Camps and were executed by killing squads that followed the German army.

    As president, Trump fulfilled the longstanding promise of Democrat and Republican presidential candidates to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He recognized Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights. He launched a strike killing the Iranian Quds Force terrorist commander Qassem Soleimani. He pulled out of the flawed Obama-administration nuclear deal with Iran and re-imposed strict economic sanctions. He helped negotiate the unprecedented Abraham Accords, bringing peace between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors: Bahrain, the UAE, Morocco, and Sudan.

    Trump’s daughter Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism before marrying Jared Kushner, and he’s spoken fondly about having Jewish grandchildren.

    As for Harris - Benjamin Netanyahu received a bipartisan invitation to give a speech before Congress. As Vice President, Harris should have officiated over the speech but, instead, went to a sorority event.  Harris chose to side with the fifty-plus Democrats who boycotted Netanyahu or called him vile names like a “war criminal.” 

    Harris eventually met with Netanyahu.  She went on with a rant of sympathy for the Palestinian people about their “suffering,” but ignored Israel’s suffering under ceaseless and indiscriminate terror attacks from Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, and Iran, and never mentioned the Israeli civilians killed on October 7th.

    Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish. 

    Her step daughter, Ella, has been publicly raising money for UNRWA.  Members of UNRWA have been linked to Hamas and the October 7th attacks.  Benjamin Netanyahu said about UNRWA: it is "perforated with Hamas…In UNRWA schools they've been teaching the doctrines of extermination for Israel - the doctrines of terrorism, glorifying terrorism, lauding terrorism."

    If Trump is Hitler, he has a very strange way of going about it.

    Harris, on the other hand…

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