Charlottesville City Council Strikes 127 Year Tradition in Latest Assault on Confederate History

 

Since the January announcement that Charlottesville City Councilman Kristen Szacos had proposed an ordinance change that would eliminate the Lee-Jackson City Holiday in Charlottesville, we have shared information about the rich Confederate history of the city.  One of my favorite topics is the presentation of a battle flag to the men of Stuart's Horse Artillery, hand sewn by the ladies of Charlottesville by the Mayor and City Council of Charlottesville, after they managed to turn back the Yankee army, against 5 to 1 odds, and save the city from destruction during the Battle of Rio Hill on February 29, 1864.  There is a good summary here:

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Proposed M855 ammo ban is not legal

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Texas town sees crime drop by almost two thirds after firing police, hiring private security

Via Joe

Sharpstown, Texas, a mid-size city near Houston, decided not to renew its contract with the local police department back in 2012. To replace them, the town hired a private security firm, SEAL Security Solutions, to keep the area safe.

The results have been remarkable. “Since we’ve been in there, an independent crime study that they’ve had done [indicates] we’ve reduced the crime by 61% in just 20 months,” said James Alexander of SEAL. He attributes the success to a larger force of officers and more time spent on patrol.

The new contract also saves local taxpayers some $200,000 per year, as SEAL’s services are cheaper than the costs of maintaining the old constabulary. Another benefit, as The Free Thought Project points out, is that private security firms do not have government officers’ near immunity from legal consequences of misconduct and abuse, meaning they’re more likely to be respectful of people’s rights and property.

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Airplane-Dropped LaRue PredatOBR Rifle Shoots Down DJI Inspire Drone.

Via Cousin John

To shoot down a drone, LaRue Tactical packaged a pre-sighted and disassembled PredatOBR rifle kit…then dropped it not once, but twice, from an aircraft. The first attempt bounced out of camera range, so the package was dropped a second time. Impact was onto a rocky central Texas terrain bouncing high into the air.

Acting as a friendly ground-asset in a hostile area, Todd Hodnett then retrieved and reassembled the 16" 7.62 LaRue PredatOBR with NightForce 5-25 ATACR riflescope (mounted in a LaRue LT111 QD scope mount). Todd then moved into hasty position and with the first pull of the trigger, shot down a DJI Inspire drone hovering at 203 yards. Todd then continued to engage several steel targets out to 437 yards until all simulated threats were eliminated.

LaRue Tactical is well known for delivering hyper-accurate, highly-reliable AR-based rifles. To see more about LaRue Rifles, and their other fine products, visit: www.LaRue.com.

Sweet Briar with a $94 million endowment is shutting its doors, and people in higher ed should be scared

Via Cousin Joel

 

Unbelievable. Visited here many times when I was young and I know the sickening feeling they must be experiencing as I did when Greenbrier went under.

A women's liberal arts college in Virginia announced Tuesday that the spring 2015 semester would be its last — even though the school still has a $94 million endowment.

Sweet Briar College — located near Lynchberg, Virginia — will close "as a result of insurmountable financial challenges," the school said in a statement.

Sweet Briar administrators cited several trends that informed the decision to close, including the declining number of female students interested in all-women colleges and the dwindling number of students overall interested in small, rural liberal arts colleges.

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V.O. Vapen Custom: The Most Expensive Rifle in the World

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VO Falcon Rifle

It's Open Season on the Tech Elite

 

Battles between the corporate allies of hollow nation-states and the gangs and tribes of black globalization are at the center of this century's epochal war.  That war will eventually put the senior executives of US tech and financial companies in the crosshairs.  Here's a good example.  Over the weekend, ISIS threatened the life of Jack Dorsey, a co-founder and Chairman of Twitter.  Why?

Twitter, at the urging of the US government, has been shutting down the accounts of ISIS supporters for months.  So, ISIS supporters responded by making a threat with a nifty graphic:

We told you from the beginning it’s not your war, but you didn't get it and kept closing our accounts on Twitter, but we always come back. But when our lions come and take your breath, you will never come back to life.

The CEO as an Objective of War

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Safe and secure

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NC: Proposed ammunition ban has local gun enthusiasts upset

 

The Obama administration last week proposed a ban on bullets used in AR-15 semi-automatic rifles.

The AR-15 is the most popular rifle in America, and often a focus of controversy over gun rights.

This time, the controversy it not the gun, but one of the types of ammunition used in it.

The ATF is asking to classify the so-called "green tip" bullets now considered for sport shooting as armor piercing rounds, posing a threat to law enforcement. This would make them illegal to buy, make or sell.

Justin Jones with the Pitt County Sheriff's Office said often times the AR-15 isn't the type of weapon they encounter or worry about.    

"We're always concerned about something we can't see. As far as the rifle goes, it's pretty big, we can see it," Jones said.

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Obama Unveils National ObamaLaw Plan

Via avordvet

 

President Barack Obama today introduced his plan for a progressive takeover of state and local policing.

“We have a great opportunity… to really transform how we think about community law enforcement relations,” he said Monday.

“We need to seize that opportunity… this is something that I’m going to stay very focused on in the months to come,” Obama said, as he touted a new interim report from his Task Force on 21st Century Policing.

Obama also instructed his media allies to help federalize policing, and to sideline the critics of centralized policing rules. “I expect our friends in the media to really focus on what’s in this report and pay attention to it,” he instructed.

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