Son Of Notorious Abortionist Meets The 2nd Amendment

Via The Daily Caller:

Barron Alexander, son of recently convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell, tried to burglarize a row house in the Philadelphia suburb of Mantua.  In the process, he woke two of the residents, one of whom had a gun.  To make a long story short, Alexander, who had changed his last name from Gosnell, is now in critical but stable condition.

Read the full story at CBS Philly.

More Movin Pictures From OAS

My friend who is calls himself Movin Forward took some more pictures of Operation American Spring, mostly from this past weekend.  It looks like some signs were again mounted onto frames made of PVC pipes.

Movin himself again poses in front of a sign.

This patriotic pooch had to take a break.

The Great American Revolt brought their bus, which included an "anonymous" mask symbol.

This woman, perhaps representing Lady Liberty, stood on top of the Great American Revolt bus.

This man came from Prince George County, Maryland.

Movin stands with another patriot.

A group of participants gets ready to move out.  The young man on the left looks on with curiosity.

This group looks like they're returning from a march, as they walk eastward back to Camp Liberty.

Thus ends the photographic contribution from my patriotic friend Movin Forward.

Ann B. Davis 1926-2014

Ann B. Davis, known to the world as the housekeeper Alice on the TV sitcom The Brady Bunch, died this morning after hitting her head in a fall, in a bathroom in her home in Texas.  She reportedly suffered a subdural hematoma, and did not regain consciousness.  According to Page Six:

Davis lived with another couple and was described by one of her roommates as “pretty healthy for an 88-year old woman.”

Davis was born in Schenectady, New York and graduated from the University of Michigan.  Before becoming the Brady family's housekeeper, she had risen to fame in 1955 for her role as Charmaine “Schultzy” Schultz on The Bob Cummings Show, which ran until 1959.  She later played the roll of gym teacher Miss Wilson on The John Forsythe Show, which lasted only a year starting in 1965.  Besides playing the role of Alice from 1969-1974, when The Brady Bunch was originally broadcast, Davis reprised the role for later TV movies and spin-offs.

Read the story at TMZ, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap and the above-mentioned Page Six.

Reports: Meriam Ibrahim To Be Freed

Several British news outlets are reporting that Meriam Ibrahim, who has been sentenced to death under Sudanese law for "apostasy" against Islam and 100 lashes for "adultery", will be set free within a few days.  Ms. Ibrahim is married to an American citizen and recently gave birth to their second child while in prison.  Although raised as an Orthodox Christian by her mother, she was ruled by a Sudanese court to be a Muslim because her father was Muslim, and was thus considered an apostate from Islam because she has practiced Christianity.  Her marriage was considered invalid under Islamic law, which generally forbids Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men.  Islamic scripture recounts a command by Mohammed, in the Hadith entitled Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, No. 260 to kill anyone (understood as applying to Muslims) who discards his religion, thus showing the roots of the death penalty for apostasy.

Read the story at The Guardian, BBC News and Metro News.

UPDATE:  via Breitbart's The Conversation and from CNN, don't hold your breath.

Friday Links

A few stories in the news:

From NBC News, Jay Carney steps down from his position as White House Press Secretary.  Does he have something new in mind, or did he get tired of shoveling his boss's solid male bovine waste?

From Gateway Pundit, Carney blows a farewell kiss to the media.

From Fox News, David Attias, who was ruled not guilty for reason of insanity after plowing his car into group of young adults, killing four of them, back in 2001, has been released.  This attack occurred in Isla Vista, California, the same community as the stabbing and shooting rampage by Elliot Rodger.

From the New York Post, a survivor of Rodger's rampage tells her story.

From Breitbart's Big Government, illegal aliens under 18 have been estimated to cost American taxpayers 2 billion dollars next year.

From LifeNews, the practices of Texas abortionist Douglas Karpen have been described as similar to those of Kermit Gosnell.

From Reuters, the city of Los Angeles sues JP Morgan for discriminatory lending.

From The Right Scoop, a pastor in Northern Ireland is under investigation for a hate crime for what he said about Islam.

From Thomas More Society, a trespassing charge against a pro-lifer in Iowa has been dismissed.  (via Lisa Graas)

From CNET, NASA's IRIS satellite has spotted a solar flare seven times the size of the earth.

From Yahoo News, an American narco-corridos singer has been fatally shot.

From Newsbusters, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell calls the VA scandal "far more serious" than other Obama-era "so-called scandals".

From Canada Free Press, the myth of the "97%" climate change consensus.

And from Polar Bear Science, the Polar Bear Specialist Group admits that its reported polar bear numbers is a "qualified guess".  (via The Daily Caller News Foundation)

Movin Pictures From OAS

These are not moving (with a "g") pictures, but pictures from Movin, as in Movin Forward, one of my fellow listeners on BlogTalkRadio and fellow participants in Operation American Spring.  In this first photo, with the Capitol building in the background, a group of OAS patriots gets ready to march.

Movin himself crouches down in front of one of our signs.  As I explained in an earlier post, we later changed "democrats" to "rats".

These people showed their support for both the United States and Israel.

Colonel Harry Riley poses after riding with Rolling Thunder.

Here are Movin and Col. Riley, at the Washington Monument after praying.

Chaplain Wiley Drake, on the right, speaks into his iPhone.

For whatever reason, this man, who is a Vietnam veteran, found himself dealing with a Park Police officer.

Notice the man at the left pointing his iPhone (and presumably its camera) in their general direction.

Some Commendable Legislation

In the last few days, two notably blue parts of the United States have done some things that will earn kudos even from a red American like myself.

The first comes via The Daily Caller, who say that "hell freezes over", because the D.C. council has passed tax reform that would affect lower and middle income residents, as well as businesses.  It would involve the biggest tax cut in D.C. for 15 years.  Read the full story in The Washington Post.

Meanwhile, in a story coming via Hot Air and from America's northern plains, the state legislature of Minnesota, in what what Governor Mark Dayton (DFL) called his "unsession", got rid of "1,175 obsolete, unnecessary and incomprehensible laws" and "made taxes simpler, cut bureaucratic red tape, speeded up business permits and required state agencies to communicate in plain language."  Read the full story at TwinCities(dot)com.

What Is And What Is Not Law?

Michael Anthony Peroutka, writing in Political Outcast, gives his view on this matter.

Last year, the legislature in my state of Maryland, enacted something called Senate Bill 281.  This "enactment" (notice, please, that I am not calling it a "law") blatantly violates the God-given right for Marylanders to keep and bear arms for their individual and common defense, and its purpose and intent run contrary to the clear language of the Second Amendment.

Read the full story at the link above.  I would point out that the Maryland Constitution includes a Declaration of Rights, which in Article 28 thereof mentions a "well regulated Militia", but which does not mention any right to bear arms.

A Few Random Musings

This post is what you might call a sincere attempt at flattery.  Every once in a while, the conservative writer Thomas Sowell posts a column entitled Random Thoughts, the most recent being today's, in which he briefly discusses a bunch of different topics.  This is the same type of post, except that I will call it Musings, to be consistent with this blog's subtitle.  Since this is my first post of this type, some of the following items are things that I've been thinking about for a while.  In any event, with apologies to Dr. Sowell, but with no further ado:
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According to an old saying, there are three types of people who spend other people's money - children, politicians and thieves.  One thing I have realized is that these three groups are not mutually exclusive.

According to another old saying, fascism will come to the United States under the guise of national security.  I would add that if this ever happens, whoever brings fascism to America will accuse (or his supporters will accuse) those who oppose him of being fascist.  I also realize that there are some out there who believe fascism is already here, but whether that's true is a topic for another day.

The recent revelation that the Obama administration "accidentally" revealed the name of the CIA chief in Afghanistan has caused some people to recall the Valerie Plame affair.  One thing I remember is that the left was hopping mad about the leaking of Plame's name, but directed just about none of their anger at the actual leaker, Richard Armitage.

Civil War Veterans Returned To Gettysburg

This is another video Tweeted to my attention by Sue from NM.

In 1913, the surviving veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg returned for the 50th anniversary of the battle.  In 1938, the few veterans who were still alive returned to Gettysburg for the 75th anniversary.  These are some of the people we honor on Memorial Day.