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Jessica Lynne Carpenter was 14 years old on Aug. 23, 2000, the morning 27-year-old Jonathan David Bruce came calling at the Carpenter house in Merced, California.

Jessica Lynne knew how to shoot -- her father had taught her. And there were adequ

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Let’s start a union.

Oh, I have my differences with modern organized labor. They’ve long since abandoned George Meany’s sensible advice to remain non-partisan, instead aligning themselves with the freakiest, most far-left “progressive” social ag

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In popular literature, the chubby loser who eagerly pays the stern dominatrix in the black corset to whip, denigrate and otherwise abuse him is an object both of humor and of pathos.

In Washington, he’s called the Environmental Protection Agency

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A couple of loyal readers asked me, in response to my recent evisceration of the discredited “militia clause” argument, “But Vin, do you think the Founders would have written the Second Amendment that way if they’d known we’d have Uzis”?

Leaving

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Americans make a big hubbub over the Fourth of July.

True, the victory of 1781 was an amazing triumph, and the vision of those gathered in Philadelphia five years before -- that men may rightfully form or disband governments at will, for the h

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And so, as our modern gladiators chase a pigskin down the field in Dallas or Detroit, we settle into our living rooms, loosen our belts, and remind the little ones this is the day we echo the thanks of the Pilgrims, who gathered in the autumn of 1621

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It’s human nature. The doctor tells us our symptoms are more serious than we thought, that the repercussions could be catastrophic if we don’t make drastic changes in our diet, lifestyle, and exercise regimen immediately.

But we find some pills

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It’s human nature. The doctor tells us our symptoms are more serious than we thought, that the repercussions could be catastrophic if we don’t make drastic changes in our diet, lifestyle, and exercise regimen immediately.

But we find some pills

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Billboards and magazine covers now display teasing images of feminine pulchritude that our grandparents would have considered shocking. Not to mention the far more hardcore material now available to any schoolchild with a few clicks of the mouse. <

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Probably the California emigres should have to pass a brief economics test before being welcomed as Nevada voters. Something along the lines of: “Do you understand the role state government played in driving you from the Golden State? Do you agree no

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Vin Suprynowicz

Sure enough. I predicted, when the videos started streaming back to America, showing our troops disarming civilians in Bosnia, Somalia, and more recently Iraq, that these brave lads and lasses were merely being trained for the new official version of

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