It’s me, apparently.

I’m guessing this guy is another one who blames the object, not the owner.

**Update**

Hmmm… maybe he’s right about me being an idiot. I forgot a “who” up there before. It hopefully now makes more sense.

The latest column is up at Townhall.com.

The funny thing is that IANSA is linking to my columns, but I haven’t seen a single comment there or here from an anti-gunner. Nor have I received a single piece of anti-gun e-mail.

I guess when you have George Soros and his billions, you don’t actually need any supporters.

Another day, another column at Townhall. Once again the subject is the UN Small Arms summit.

Take a sample citizenship test over at MSNBC.

I scored 95%, missing the question about which amendment deals with voting rights. I guessed on the naturalization form, but guessed correctly.

New column detailing the U.S. opening statement at the UN Small Arms and Light Weapons conference is up at Townhall.com.

The bottom line? Robert Joseph did a fantastic impersonation of John Bolton’s 2001 speech yesterday. Every American should be thankful that we’ve got guys like him speaking for us.

Jeff Harrell has a great story for this Wednesday morning.

Peter Gammons, one of the brightest minds covering baseball, is in critical condition after he suffered an aneurysm.

Man, that sucks.

Or so J.K. Rowling suggests.

I’m going to have to bring in a grief counselor for my family if that happens.

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My latest column is up at Townhall, chock full of honest-to-goodness quotes from the UN diplomats running this conference. Don’t miss what Indonesia had to say.

Passionate, yes. But smart? Not so much.

Opponents of animal testing for cosmetics said there was “tremendous support” during a protest at the West Sussex headquarters of The Body Shop.
Naturewatch has objected to the £625m sale of the Littlehampton-based business to L’Oreal earlier this year.

It accused the French cosmetics giant of still carrying out animal testing.

L’Oreal said it had not done so since 1989, although it could not guarantee that all ingredients bought from other firms had not been tested on animals.

Even when the firm doesn’t test on animals, it’s not enough.

Bitter Bitch takes the Washington Post to task for their typically ignorant story of a Maryland gun show.

crossposted from On Tap.

I’m here at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington for a panel discussion on ‘’24′’ and the War on Terror. Rush Limbaugh moderating, Tony Almeda and Chloe O’Brien on the panel (as well as President Logan). Oh yeah, some guy named Michael Chertoff’s here too. :p

No sign of Jack Bauer. He probably doesn’t have time for things like this.

It’s just about to get started, so I’ll post impressions later today.

***Update***

It’s a who’s who of attendees. Clarence Thomas is down front, Maureen Dowd is floating around, and Laura Ingraham is here as well.

***Update***

This was a much more interesting discussion than what I’d anticipated.

To start, Michael Chertoff made a pretty astute observation: that Jack Bauer often has to make “the best choice from a series of bad options”. It’s a simple statement, but it applies in real life. All too often the Kos’s and Atrios’s of the world demand that we do things their way, not understanding that their way is either unrealistic or impossible given the options our enemy present to us.

Joel Surnow, the creator of “24″, brought down the house when he said that the show is a form of “wish fulfillment.” He went on to say it’s pretty clear on the show that “terrorists are the bad guys and we’re the good guys.” Yes, we hear that sentiment so infrequently from Hollywood that the audience cheered.

Also, interestingly enough, Surnow said the idea of a “real time” show came about before the idea of CTU. The original “real time” concept was going to be a wedding day, and it was going to be a romantic comedy.

Limbaugh was great and really had a fun time with the cast and crew of the show. He and Carlos Bernard (who played Tony Almeda) had some great moments of bantering back and forth.

Surnow was predictably close-lipped about what’s in store for Season 6, but he did offer a few clues. If you don’t want to read the spoilers, stop reading now.

The show will do stuff in D.C. next year. The president will be based in D.C., but most of the show will continue to be shot in Los Angeles.

Aaron Pierce will be back next year. Interestingly, Surnow said he was originally going to be killed off in Season 5, but the actor convinced the producers there had been too many main characters die.

President Logan will be back next year as well, or at least that was strongly suggested by Surnow.

And one spoiler for the “24″ movie, which is currently being written. It was described by Surnow as a big action flick that will not be tied to real time (but will take place over 24 hours). It will also be shot on location, and Surnow mentioned it would have a lot of overseas filming.

I’m off to the left coast for some fun in the sun with my family. Blogging from me will be extremely light, unless something super important happens. You know, like FBI arresting a terror cell in Miami or something big like that. I’m sure you’ll really miss me. But it’s ok, Cam will be here. (That’s sarcasm people. )

But before I go, I must spread the Bunny love. Enjoy!

Mississippi’s Attorney General’s opened a criminal investigation into the mayor of Jackson carrying concealed where he’s not supposed to.

And the reaction of Mayor Frank Melton (one of Mike Bloomberg’s anti-gun buddies) is priceless.

“I’m not another citizen. I am the mayor of Jackson,” Melton said. “It’s appropriate that I have a chance to protect myself.”

It’s good to be king, but almost as good is being mayor… at least in Melton’s world.

But even I could do without a reunion/reality show of the Coreys. You know, Haim and Feldman?

While “The Lost Boys” remains a classic of 80’s cinema, I think it’s best that we leave the Coreys as we remember them, not as they are now.

Just heard from Chris Muir, the creator of the incomparable Day by Day cartoon. Starting on June 29th the strip will be available for your local paper.

This is great news for Chris, conservatives, and newspapers. I’ll be encouraging the Washington Post to give DbD a slot. They can get rid of that idiotic “Zippy the Pinhead” and give the space to Chris.

If I wanted to, I could blog about the AP’s inaccuracies, and nothing else. Of course that would get boring after a while and I’d stop blogging. We dont want that, now do we?

Today’s AP smack down comes from my own backyard. It seems like this entire state is on fire right now. There’s a rather large fire burning north of Phoenix, in scenic Sedona. It’s such a shame too, Sedona is beautiful. The Husband and I got married there, right on the red rocks. It really is breathtaking. But I digress.

The fire is threatening millior dollar homes, multi million dollar resorts, and a whole lot of Arizona wildnerness. This AP story isn’t giving an accurate picture of the origins of the fire.

The fire started Sunday as a campfire and spread quickly, forcing the evacuation of about 400 homes and businesses in the canyon more than 90 miles north of Phoenix.

Makes it sound like some stupid hick campers didn’t put out their campfire properly, right? WRONG. As reported locally since Sunday, this fire was started by a ‘transient’ who was illegally camping in the wilderness.

Was this omission intentional? Who knows. But for me, omitting that information paints an entirely different picture than reality.

Or the latest in a series of embarrassing pictures of James. 

So I’m taking a break from the mind numbing task of calculating interest on a tax refund, and I click over to Drudge to see this as the headline story:

Southern San Andreas fault waiting to explode: report

Earthquakes are one of the few things in this world that truly scare me. I was a senior in high school when the Northridge quake happened in 1994. The neighbor’s house collapsed, and I remember searching through the rubble with my father hoping to find survivors. Thankfully they were out of town that weekend. I really don’t want to go through something like that ever again.

The Rahn family is taking its first family vaction (with baby) this week…to Santa Barbara, California. I sure hope the San Andreas fault waits until we are safely back in Arizona before it explodes. It would really ruin my vacation if it didn’t.

Oh, and in the off chance you were wondering what else truly scares me: clowns and nuclear war/emp lay downs.

I really want to try this hamburger.

At about 5½ inches across and 2½ inches thick, the mound of meat is comprised of beef from three continents - American prime beef, Japanese Kobe and Argentine cattle.

The bill for one burger, with garnishing that includes organic greens, exotic mushrooms and tomatoes, comes out to $124.50 with tax and an 18 percent tip included. The restaurant will donate $10 from each sale to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Yum! I wonder if I get a t-shirt with that. You know, something like “I spent $100 on a hamburger and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”.

Sounds like a new soft drink for moonbats, but it’s the painfully awkward phrase attached to allegations that Daily Kos creator Markos Moulitsas Zuniga’s engaging in some sort of pay-for-play scheme with his frequent collaborator Jerome Armstrong.

Jim has a comprehensive timeline here.

The most curious thing about all of this (in my mind anyway) is Kos’s support for Mark Warner, the former governor of Virginia. Warner’s a centrist Democrat, a far “Yeeaaaarrgghhh” from Howard Dean, who Kos pushed relentlessly in 2004. It could be that Kos is tired of the “oh fer” around his neck (not one of his preferred candidates has actually won anything), but Warner really doesn’t seem like the type of guy that Kos would typically push.

Then again, Kos was also big on Jim Webb, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia. In fact, Kos liked the fact that Webb is a former Republican, but didn’t like Webb’s primary opponent Harris Miller giving to Republicans. Presumably it’s okay to be a Republican, as long as you never give them any money.

My guess is we’ll never know for sure what’s going on with Kos, but it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that he’s starting to hitch his wagon to the horse most likely to win. He’s on top of a bubble right now, and if the media (and his cult-like followers) were to ever realize that he’s actually the kiss of death for candidates in general elections (0-for-20 or 1-for-19), people might not compare him to a mixture of Kurt Cobain and Che Guevara anymore.

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School is finally out here in Northern Virginia and tonight has turned into sleepover night. Four boys between 5 and 9 are wreaking havok in my living room as I write this.

If I don’t survive until morning, know that I’ve enjoyed my time here.

Rocky? How in the world is Rocky one of the top ten most-inspiring films? A movie about grown men dancing around in their underwear beating the crap out of eachother, is inspiring? Is it the workout scenes? Oh no, it’s gotta be Burgess Meredith.

I just don’t get it.