re: "Another (Almost Completely) InstaPundit-Driven Assortment"

Francis W. Porretto at Liberty's Torch ("For Americans who still understand and love freedom") relied heavily on Prof. Glenn Reynolds' Instapundit, as should we all.

Money quote(s):

"It's difficult to imagine the blogging world without Professor Glenn Reynolds, a.k.a. InstaPundit. For my part, on those days when I find myself without inspiration, he's a reliable source of things about which to vent my spleen that I might have overlooked in the national news. And on those days when I have an inspiration, the way the rest of the DextroSphere employs him as an aggregator makes him a handy source for material to supplement whatever has already become the focus of my ire."

CAA often finds that Instapundit has wittily summarized blog posts and news items he's already read in the original, but far more often than not Prof. Reynolds has gotten there first.

"I shared the widespread fears that an arms trade treaty would be used as a tool by the Obama Administration to cut deeply into Americans' rights to keep and bear arms. It appears that, for the moment, those fears can be put to rest... But for the moment, only.

All governments, no matter how constituted, are implacably hostile to their subjects' possession of the means of resistance. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is words on a page. It is not self-enforcing...no more so than any of the other rights Americans cherish. The one and only way to keep our rights alive is to exercise them vigorously...and to stand ready at all times to punish the arrogance of men in positions of authority who presume to infringe upon them.

In other words, keep your powder dry."

Sometimes, despite the earnest efforts of American diplomats to negotiate a consensus agreement on one or another of many international issues, the best actual outcome for America and for Americans is no agreement at all.

"DaTechGuy notes a relationship many of us would be slow to recognize:

I have heard a lot of people on the left self righteously complain that conservatives are unwilling to agree to "common sense gun control" that we are unreasonable fanatics who would oppose restrictions on the ownership of Sherman tanks.

Most of all, we are totally wrong to believe that the left is after our guns just because of the proposed assault weapon ban.

Why would we have such a belief, how can the folks on the right even think we on the left are after their guns, all their guns?

The answer: Chick-Fil-A.

We in the Right know perfectly well about the Left's tactic of gradualism. DaTechGuy cites a number of interesting examples as reminders, and for the edification of those who might disbelieve in it. Please read the whole thing."

Read the whole thing. The DaTechGuy makes a lot of sense, he's speaking from where a lot of conservatives and even moderates are living these days. It's a realworld example of something you should have learned from watching Star Trek.

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