Author: James Wesley Rawles

“Hillary Clinton did not hit a glass ceiling, she hit a ‘lead’ ceiling. America’s gun owners turned out to vote and made the Second Amendment great again.” – Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb

“The big Internet platforms, via their algorithms, have become an eye of a needle which diverse media must pass through to reach users.” – German Chancellor Angela Merkel

“The long metamorphosis of DC into a fascist criminal enterprise became irreversible in 1913 when the Constitution was changed to elect senators by popular ballot rather than be selected by state governments, concurrent with the establishment of the Federal Reserve, no accident. It was an unalloyed disaster for the republic. Not only was the Tenth Amendment effectively obviated, the states lost their presence in the central government they originally, and reluctantly, created and became mere administrative divisions of the federal machine. Senators make a show of looking out for the states they allegedly represent but their real loyalty is to …

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart (born 1897- disappeared in 1937), American aviation pioneer and author

“If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.” – Edward Abbey

“Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another–and keep doing that on a daily basis–and you’ll make the first guy p*ssed off, but you’ll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting …

“How bad do things have to get before you do something? Do they have to take away all your property? Do they have to license every activity that you want to engage in? Do they have to start throwing you on cattle cars before you say: ‘Now wait a minute, I don’t think this is a good idea.’ How long is it going to be before you finally resist and say: ‘No, I will not comply. Period!’ Ask yourself now because sooner or later you are going to come to that line, and when they cross it, you’re going to …

“Gun control by definition affects only honest people. When a politician tells you he wants to forbid you from owning a firearm or force you to get a license, he is telling you he doesn’t trust you. That’s an insult… Gun control is not about guns or crime. It is about an elite that fears and despises the common people.”? – Syndicated Columnist Charley Reese (1937-2013)