Yearly Archives: 2020
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/21/20
We’ll focus on what went on this week of note in the US later. Of far more import is what’s going on in Chicom China.
Google these words – coronavirus collapse communist china – and as of this morning (2/21) you’ll get 539,000 hits. There are predictions galore of the COVID-19 virus precipitating the end of Communist rule in China, along with every conspiracy theory human imagination can devise.
Then there are voices of reasoned caution, like Princeton Professor Rory Truax, observing on Monday (2/17) in The Atlantic that China’s Chernobyl Never Seems to Arise.
At this point, it looks to be increasingly likely that there will be no worldwide pandemic. The world is not in danger here. China, on the other hand, is screwed, and in more ways than one.
THE SIX UNAPPEALING DWARFS LAST NIGHT
Wednesday night's (2/19) Democrat debate in Nevada allowed for a sharp focus on the candidates' personalities. It wasn't pretty.
They were the six unappealing dwarfs — Supercilious, Shrill, Angry, Confused, Smug...and that unpleasant nameless something that is Klobuchar.
This was Elizabeth Warren's debate, for she aggressively dominated the available airtime. As the debate progressed, the other candidates fell silent when she spoke out of instinctive deference. With her hoarse voice and scolding manner, she was every mean old lady that children learn to fear.
RIC GRENNELL AND THE EYE OF SAURON
President Trump appointed Richard “Ric” Grenell to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the surprise appointment begins immediately. Within minutes the media intelligence apparatus displayed apoplexy at the announcement.
All of the right administrative state interests are visibly triggered by the appointment; and it appears this could be a key turning point in President Trump’s push-back against the permanent intelligence apparatus that has targeted his administration for three years.
However, this appointee will now have the full and focused attention of the SSCI and Intelligence Community, the Eye of Sauron.
DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME THE PARTY OF CRUELTY AND SADISM
"Cruelty is the expression of hate and of the will to power. ... The sadistic traits, the tendency to barbarousness, the impulse to destroy, manifest themselves in a manner that is senseless, brutal, scornful of every cultural achievement. ...As everyone knows by now, the Left is outraged that A.G. Barr has intervened with regard to the prosecutors' absurd sentence recommendation for Roger Stone. Dennis Prager, on his radio program last Friday (2/14), observed that the Left is truly sadistic and cruel. Leftists enjoy destroying those whose views they find unacceptable.
The sadist revels in the fear, the anger, the humiliation of his victim. ... The sadist pictures to himself what is happening in the mind of his object, whose resistance he calls forth and breaks. Only this feeling of himself into the affective life of the object brings him the expected pleasure."
—Wilhelm Stekel, Sadism and Masochism: the Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty (1929)
The Deep State run by Democrats is worse than a swamp; it devours those who presume to buck its system of skullduggery in search of wealth and power.
ORWELLIAN CHINA IS A THREAT TO THE ENTIRE WORLD
The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large.
China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And why not, when a premodern authoritarian society leaps wildly into the brave new world of high-tech science in a single generation?
The Chinese technological revolution is overseen by an Orwellian dictatorship.
Which is why, predictably, the Chinese Communist Party has not developed the social, political or cultural infrastructure to ensure that its sophisticated industrial and biological research does not go rogue and become destructive to itself and to the billions of people who are on the importing end of Chinese products and protocols.
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY AND THE BATTLE FOR HISTORY
Washington meeting Alexander Hamilton
Yesterday (2/17) was not Presidents Day. If you enter “Presidents Day” into Wikipedia, you will be redirected to the entry for “Washington’s Birthday” – because by federal law, the third Monday is a national holiday in honor of the First President – the “Father of his country” – George Washington.
Not every president, including Millard Fillmore, Woodrow Wilson, or Bill Clinton.
George Washington’s birthday was celebrated yesterday. So consider this thought experiment:
It is 2020 and Washington and close military advisers like Alexander Hamilton return for a 235th-anniversary ride on the eight decisive battlefields where American independence was won, finally at Yorktown in 1781. They would be shocked and disgusted. Here’s why.
JEWISH HUMOR AS THE WAY TO UNDERSTAND DONALD TRUMP
For four years, polling has documented that the president’s strongest support demographic is America’s Orthodox Jews.
The support runs between 70 percent in radical Los Angeles to 90 percent most everywhere else. This has been documented here and here and here and here and here.
Although much of that support stems from a deep affinity with his stands on the whole gamut of traditional American cultural and social issues, an underestimated factor is that community’s natural acquaintance with Borscht Belt humor. Those who “get” that humor know precisely how to understand Trump, what to take seriously, what to brush off, and what deeper messages to take away from his speeches and tweets.
Those who do not get the style and nuance end up completely misunderstanding him and then attacking him for communicating thoughts he never contemplated. Like the Corrupt Journalist Corps.
SHIP OF FOOLS
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/14/20
Welcome to the Valentine’s Day HFR!
Today is for celebrating the love and friendship that bless our lives. A day for feeling an infinite gratitude for having love in our hearts and being fortunate enough to have it returned.
Let’s hope that on this day, Democrats and their media poodles will take a break from their TDS, and have moments of happy fulfillment with friends and those they love. It’s a tragedy – for them as much as for the rest of us – that they will quickly return to their world of hate and rage tomorrow.
You’d think that after the most humiliatingly disastrous week of recent years – last week – they might engage in soul-searching, asking themselves what lessons they need to learn. But of course they didn’t, doubling down on their TDS instead.
THE DANGEROUS DENIAL OF SEX
Transgender ideology can take on a comical character, yet it’s one thing to claim that a man can “identify” as a woman or vice versa. Increasingly we see a dangerous and antiscientific trend toward the outright denial of biological sex.
The argument is that because some people are intersex—they have developmental conditions resulting in ambiguous sex characteristics—the categories male and female exist on a “spectrum,” and are therefore no more than “social constructs.”
If male and female are merely arbitrary groupings, it follows that everyone, regardless of genetics or anatomy should be free to choose to identify as male or female, or to reject sex entirely in favor of a new bespoke “gender identity.”
To characterize this line of reasoning as having no basis in reality would be an egregious understatement. It is false at every conceivable scale of resolution.
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A DEMOCRAT WENT TO A TRUMP RALLY
I think those of us on the left need to take a long look in the mirror and have an honest conversation about what’s going on.
If you had told me three years ago that I would ever attend a Donald Trump rally, I would have laughed and assured you that was never going to happen. Heck, if you had told me I would do it three months ago, I probably would have done the same thing.
So, how did I find myself among 11,000-plus Trump supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire? Believe it or not, it all started with knitting. Yes, knitting. I kid you not. Here’s my story.
THE INCOMPETENCE PARTY
Now that Bernie Sanders—once an obscure socialist senator from Vermont—is officially the front-runner for the Democrat presidential nomination, it is time to confront what that means.
It does not mean the U.S. is flirting with socialism. That’s not going to happen. The meaning of Bernie’s ascent is that the Democrat Party, older even than he is, has simply run out of gas.
The Democrats’ floundering to find a candidate is deeper than the split between moderates and the left. It looks to me like the accumulated costs of its long history as the self-declared party of government are finally coming due.
THE COUP PLOTTERS FEAR THE QUICKENING
The mood on the set of MSNBC was grim.
Rachel Maddow fought back tears of rage. Brian Williams struggled to make sense of it all. A former U.S. senator flailed her arms in frustration and indignation.
Their collective panic attack, however, was not caused by the results of the Democrat presidential primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday night (2/11). The electoral tie between an aged socialist and a sinister small-town mayor did not alarm the panelists assembled around the colorful set, shoulders stooped in despair, eyes ablaze.
What triggered them instead is proof it is too late to calm the unhinged: the Left and NeverTrump Right is in full meltdown mode.
THE DEM ESTABLISHMENT IS OUT OF TIME
Unlike Gaul, the Democrat primary electorate is divided into only two parts.
Bernie Sanders's victory in Tuesday's (2/11) New Hampshire primary reminded observers of what we have known for a long time, namely that the smaller of these two parts remains united in favor of his candidacy for the Democrat presidential nomination.
The larger moderate one remains split, not quite evenly, between Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden.
We know which side the Democrat National Committee, the party's leadership in Congress, wealthy mega-donors, and luminaries like the Obamas and the Clintons are on. We also know that they are willing to do pretty much anything to prevent Sanders from winning the nomination in 2020.
The question is whether they will be able to. It is increasingly doubtful the answer is yes.
DEMS ACHIEVE TOTAL BUZZKILL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
MANCHESTER, N.H. – Democrats running for president here in the snow-blanketed hills, valleys, towns and villages of this legendary New England political bellwether need to lighten up a bit.
We all know that politics is a serious business, but not so serious that we can’t share a joke or a quip once in a while. However, humor among this batch of Democrat contenders appears to be in short supply.
If any of the Dem candidate crowd were saying crazy angry things to be funny, that would be one thing. But these Democrats are all serious, all of the time. They are on a mission for change that doesn’t allow for the light touch. They are all Total Buzzkill.
Just as an aside, it’s pretty funny that Bernie Sanders’ initials are BS. Why aren’t there bumperstickers saying “BERNIE SANDERS IS BS”?
THE WORST WOKEST OSCARS IN HISTORY
The Joke is on the Oscars
It took all of ten seconds for the first winner at last night’s Oscars to unleash an angry political statement against President Trump.
Frankly, I’m only surprised it took that long.
Hollywood despises Trump with a volcanic passion despite many of its own leading lights representing exactly the same kind of ruthless, venal, self-aggrandizing, duplicitous, charlatan, narcissistic and hypocritical character traits they claim to see and hate in him.
But shameless hypocrisy and chronic lack of self-awareness seem to go hand in hand with being a movie star these days.
THE ONCE AND FUTURE SCANDAL
Now that the four-and-a-half-month-long Ukraine impeachment bookend to the 22-month Mueller charade is over, it clearly accomplished nothing other than substantially raising the polls of both Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
The public was reminded that Representative Gerald Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are every bit as childish, peevish, and absurd as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
Eventually, someone will sort out whether that post-election effort on the part of federal officials to abort the Trump presidency, abetted by the media and #TheResistance, was a simple follow-up to the Clinton-DNC-Perkins Coe-Fusion GPS collusion against candidate Trump.
Or a sick preemptive attempt of the administrative state to smear Trump as a “Russian asset” because of their worries about the exposure of their own prior criminality and Trump’s iconoclastic agenda.
But for now, the following statements are irrefutable.
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/07/20
Last Sunday, the palindromic 02-02-2020, was not only the Super Bowl but Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney PA . A record crowd of 40,000 was in attendance to see if Punxsutawney Phil, the world’s most famous groundhog, would see his shadow or not upon emerging from his burrow.
His shadow portends six more weeks of winter, no shadow an early spring – so goes the legend which is now just plain fun. And all of us have been having just plain fun all week long, with Punxsutawney Trump portending an early spring for America all the way to January 2025.
We have TTPer Apache Jim to thank for letting us know on the Forum about the great Varvel ‘toon above.
As we all know and enjoy, the Democrat Party went Total FUBAR in Iowa. The GOP by glaring contrast went smooth as silk. The Dems have set such a new standard of Fubarness that every wag in the country has a joke about how the Dems want to micromanage everyone’s life in America and can’t run a caucus in Iowa.
THE TRUMP ACQUITTAL VICTORY DANCE
This like Sour Cream and Onion Pringles or grandma’s chocolate chip cookies, no way to eat just one. There’s no way you can watch this just once. So much fun you can stop watching.
THREE GLORIOUS DAYS OF DEMOCRAT AGONY
So, February 3, 4, and 5, 2020 were pretty much the most miserable three days in the history of the Democrat Party.
I’m not laughing, really I’m not! You know how sometimes you have a bad day when nothing goes right? Well, these super-achievers managed to triple that streak. They are achievers in the same sense Hoover Snort Biden is an achiever.
Let’s start with Monday, February 3rd and the Iowa Caucuses. If you think that was a goat orgy, it gets much worse – or better – from there.
BIDEN’S IOWA COLLAPSE
Joe Biden, Iowa, February 3, 2020
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Of all the Democrat caucusgoers I spoke with in Iowa last week, not one told me his or her first choice was Joe Biden. Now I know why: there were never that many Biden supporters in Iowa to begin with.
All of the caucus results might not be in yet, but we know enough to say with confidence that Biden’s campaign in Iowa collapsed.
The big story out of Iowa, then, isn’t necessarily the broken app or the utter incompetence of the Iowa State Democrat Party and the Democrat National Committee (although those are important stories that will likely take on more significance as the cycle goes on).
The big story is that Biden, the presumptive h frontrunner right up until Monday night, might not survive past South Carolina, which has now become his firewall.
THE STATE OF THE UNION 2020
[This is the full White House video and transcript of the President’s magnificent State of the Union Address to Congress, delivered last night, February 4, 2020. You owe it to yourself to watch and read it entire. It is unquestionably the greatest SOTU address ever delivered by any president.]
Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States — (applause) — and my fellow citizens:
Three years ago, we launched the great American comeback. Tonight, I stand before you to share the incredible results. Jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again. (Applause.) America’s enemies are on the run, America’s fortunes are on the rise, and America’s future is blazing bright.
NANCY PELOSI IS WHITE TRASH
President Trump's SOTU speech Tuesday night (2/04) was spectacular on every level.
It was unabashedly pro-American, pro-law-enforcement, pro-border security, pro-religious freedom, pro-life, pro-school choice and pro-the American job and economic comeback, and then some; there was so much more, all of it positive, optimistic. This president has indeed begun to make America great again.
Despite the Democrats' fervent attempts to see him removed from office, President Trump has succeeded beyond all expectations for the good of the nation. This is what so enrages the Left; the man has done in three years what they have promised their voters for sixty-plus years but never accomplished -- on purpose.
And they are also as ungracious as any group of people who have ever held office in America.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yet again embarrassed herself. This is a woman without an iota of grace or class. She is White Trash.
THE IOWA CAUCUS TRAIN WRECK – ACCIDENTAL OR PLANNED?
This year's Iowa caucus ought to have gone more smoothly than any caucus ever before in Iowa history. Then a gremlin threw the whole caucus into utter chaos. Or was it just a gremlin?
At this point, inquiring minds are getting paranoid about whether the DNC is desperately trying to run away from Bernie's apparent momentum. And to hide Biden’s collapse of it.
So was it really an accidental glitch in a software app that caused this, or was it on purpose by a nefarious Democrat Elite?
UP SCHIFF CREEK
“This is all your fault, Adam”
Adam Schiff may be the darling of leftwing cable news. But like a moth to a candle, the California congressman is sucked into the camera lights, without realizing how he is scorched and consumed.
He hijacked the Democrat House impeachment effort and then did the same in the Senate. As the inspiration for the entire farce, he is the man most responsible for the ensuing damage to the country and his party.
What will be the status of a post-impeachment Schiff, once the impeachment farce has lost its luster? Let us count the ways he has put all Democrats up Schiff Creek.
THE SPEECH OF THE CENTURY
[This is the White House transcript, followed by the video, of President Trump’s remarks in a joint press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu in the East Room on Tuesday, January 28. The Jerusalem Post hails it as “President Trump’s Game-Changing Speech of the Century.” When you watch and read it, you will understand why.]
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you.
Today, Israel takes a big step towards peace. (Applause.) Young people across the Middle East are ready for a more hopeful future, and governments throughout the region are realizing that terrorism and Islamic extremism are everyone’s common enemy.
Forging peace between Israelis and Palestinians may be the most difficult challenge of all. All prior administrations, from President Lyndon Johnson, have tried and bitterly failed. But I was not elected to do small things or shy away from big problems. (Applause.)
It’s been a long and very arduous process to arrive at this moment. On Sunday (1/26), I delivered to Prime Minister Netanyahu my vision for peace, prosperity, and a brighter future for the Israelis and Palestinians. This vision for peace is fundamentally different from past proposals.
“WHAT’S YOUR IQ?”
The following took place last Tuesday, January 21, 2020.
A guy goes into the Artificial Intelligence Bar in Sunnyvale, California where there is a robot bartender.
The robot asks, “What will you have?”
The guy replies, “Whiskey.”
The robot brings back his drink and asks, “What’s your IQ?
The guy says, “168.”
The robot continues to talk about physics, space exploration, and medical technology.
After the guy leaves, the more he thinks about it the more curious he gets, so he decides to go back.
The robot asks, “What’s your drink?”
The guy answers, “Whiskey.”
The robot returns with his drink and asks, “What’s your IQ?”
The man replies,“100.”
The robot talks about Nascar, Budweiser, and the 49ers in the Super Bowl this Sunday.
The man finishes his drink, leaves, but is so interested in his “experiment” that he decides to try again.
He enters the bar and, as usual, the robot asks him what he wants to drink.
The man replies, “Whiskey.”
The robot brings the drink and asks, “What’s your IQ?”
The man answers, "70.”
The robot leans in real close and asks, “So . . . Do you folks really think you’re going to impeach Donald Trump?”
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/31/20
“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” -- Albert Einstein, 1940
No day is more appropriate than today – January 31, 2020 – to reflect on these words of transcendent wisdom of Einstein’s. For what words could more presciently apply to President Donald Trump and those mediocre minds so suffused with deranged hate for him?
Today, their attempt to impeach and remove him from the presidency ends – but their derangement will not. It will continue unabated, and it will be their Living Hell. They will go to their political graves with it and because of it this November Third.
We are living in very strange times. We are entering the fourth year of one of America’s most successful presidencies in history regarding our economy, national security, and foreign policy – and one of our two major political parties is engaged in a masochistic spasm of self-destruction over it.
COULD IMPEACHMENT BE OVER TOMORROW?
There’s a reason Mitch McConnell has been Senate Majority Leader for the past 13 years: He gets the job done.
And the biggest part of that job is keeping the GOP caucus, however necessary. At this point, he appears to have pulled off the feat once again.
Yesterday (1/29), McConnell and Sen. Lisa Murkowski — always a wavering and unreliable GOP vote — met in the morning. After that meeting, The Hill reported, it was clear “that the question of having additional witnesses is settled, and the Senate will vote Friday to wrap up the impeachment trial of President Trump.”
No wonder Mitch has that grin you see above. Here’s what’s going on.
CNN MAKES A CAMPAIGN AD FOR TRUMP
Andrea Widburg points out the clip would make a dream ad for the Trump campaign, and, sure enough the GOP just released it. That’s it above.
Don Lemon is actually the stupidest man on television as Mark Levin often remarks, so no one expects anything other than rank infantile behavior from him. He is a child in an adult body and fortunately has no children.
THE LEOPARD’S EYES
Have you ever looked into a leopard’s eyes as she stares right back at you?
Or watch her as she gives her cub a loving tongue bath?
THE SOPORIFIC SHAMPEACHMENT
Proof that in a little less than two hours Saturday (1/25) the president’s lawyers utterly demolished the Democrats’ case for impeachment is that afterward the only complaint CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin could make is that they are all white men.
There are two audiences for the impeachment charade: the American people, and the Senators who will vote on the president’s guilt or innocence. Both were bored to tears by the rambling, repetitive, disingenuous presentations of the House managers.
DEMOCRATS GO FULL KAVANAUGH AS WE KNEW THEY WOULD
We have seen this show before, it’s all designed to pressure a small number of weak Republican Senators to allow Democrats to turn the Senate into a circus in which the process becomes the punishment.
It has been clear for weeks that the Democrats were seeking to ‘Kavanaugh’ the Senate impeachment trial — to roll out with media help a well-timed series of supposed “bombshell: accusations whose main purpose was to create a media hysteria to pressure Republican Senators to extend the process.
Once it because clear that Kavanaugh would be confirmed and the hearings were closed, a series of accusers absurd claims — Christine Blasey Ford, Julie Swetnick, Deborah Ramirez, plus anonymous accusers — were rolled out to reopen the hearings and prolong the process.
The same precise strategy is being employed just as the GOP is poised to acquit the President.
JUSTICE GORSUCH’S SMACKDOWN OF ACTIVIST JUDGES
Justice Neil Gorsuch
On Monday (1/27), the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration's public charge rule to go into effect, striking down a nationwide injunction from a New York judge.
The rule allows the government to deny green cards to immigrants who receive public assistance and are therefore considered a "public charge."
In addition to the 5-4 decision allowing the rule to go into effect, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a concurring opinion rebuking activist judges and their rush to apply "nationwide injunctions" against Trump administration policies:
NANCY AND DONALD EXCHANGE AFFECTIONATE HOLIDAY SEASON NOTES
Dear Donald,
Wishing you a joyful holiday season and I'm looking forward to kicking
your ass next year!
Love, Nancy
Donald's response:
My Dearest Nancy,
I see you have started your Holiday celebrations much too soon!
You're drunk and you misspelled kissing.
Your pal, Donald
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/24/20
AMERICA’S BLUE COLLAR BOOM
[This is the full video and White House transcript of President Trump’s magnificent speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, January 21, 2020]
It’s an honor to address the distinguished members of this organization for the second time as President. When I spoke at this forum two years ago, I told you that we had launched the great American comeback. Today, I’m proud to declare that the United States is in the midst of an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen before.
We’ve regained our stride, we discovered our spirit and reawakened the powerful machinery of American enterprise. America is thriving, America is flourishing, and yes, America is winning again like never before.
EUROPE’S CRAZY ENERGY PARADOXES
“To protect our security and our economy, we are also boldly embracing American energy independence. The United States is now, by far, the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world, by far. It’s not even close. We’ve been so successful that the United States no longer needs to import energy from hostile nations. With an abundance of American natural gas now available, our European allies no longer have to be vulnerable to unfriendly energy suppliers either. We urge our friends in Europe to use America’s vast supply and achieve true energy security.” --President Trump at Davos, January 21Despite its chic Green parties and ambitious wind and solar agendas, Europe remains by far the world’s largest importer of oil and natural gas.
Europe itself is naturally rich in fossil fuels. Yet in most European countries, horizontal drilling and fracking to extract gas and oil are either illegal or face so many court challenges and popular protests that they are neither culturally nor economically feasible.
In other words, Europe refuses to develop its own gas and oil reserves, and won’t fund the necessary military power to ensure that it can safely import energy from problematic or even hostile sources.
It’s no wonder that Europe’s traditional foreign policy reflects these crazy paradoxes.
IS ADAM SCHIFF CLINICALLY INSANE?
It is doubtful that very many people watched hours and hours of the impeachment proceedings in the Senate Tuesday. A little bit went a long way. But this much was abundantly clear:
Adam Schiff is maniacally obsessed with removing President Trump from office. We have known for years that he is a pathological liar; he lies even when he surely knows his lies will be exposed in due time.
[A pathological liar is someone who lies compulsively, who lies as a way of life, whose estrangement from reality makes them prefer lies to truth. As such, they suffer from genuine mental illness.]
Schiff appears to have some serious mental problems. Watching him, even in small doses, throughout the first day of the "trial" yesterday and into early this morning (1/21-22) -- in yet another of the Democrats' sure-to-fail attempts to see President Trump removed from office -- one cannot help but realize we are watching a disturbed man melt down before our eyes.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY MOVEMENT IS HERE TO STAY
Gun rights rally in Richmond, January 20
Troy Carter, 49 from Middleton Va, says that, other than voting, he’d never been involved in politics. That changed late last year, when he heard that a county board of supervisors in Virginia voted to become a gun sanctuary.
On Monday (1/20), he was one of an estimated 22,000 people who gathered peacefully at the Capitol Square in Richmond, Va., to support gun rights. Many of those attending were visibly armed.
Ninety-one of Virginia’s 96 counties have passed sanctuary measures to resist proposed Democrat state gun regulations.
For Virginians like Mr. Carter, the effort has brought about a political awakening. He learned to shoot when he was six years old. Guns are a normal part of his life, like fishing or going to church every Sunday, and something he considers vital to protecting and providing for his family.