I hadn't read much about it, but from what I have read, Couric apparently thought she could get away with pressing an agenda by twisting the presented facts, and no one would notice.
The Internet has changed things in the last 10 years. Dumb stunts like Couric's not only are noticed, but also the word of such malfeasance will be spread far and wide.
The proprietor of the Western Rifle Shooters Association (WRSA) has sage advice for dealing with the press: Don't talk to them. But I think that if you also record the interview yourself, you could safely talk to them as long as you have an outlet for releasing the raw footage.
WRSA has a point, though. No matter how clearly something gets stated on television, those with an agenda, on both sides, will find a way to twist your words.
Continuing the discussion from last week about ARs vs. AKs, the pro Russian military news website Southfront.org had an article camparing the two. Knowledgeably written, but written for a crowd that wouldn't know a fire control group from a box of matches.
Prices for pistol ammunition were steady across the board. Prices for rifle ammunition were mostly lower.
Prices for both used pistols were mixed on the low side, while prices for used rifles were higher across the board.
The nationwide average price of used AKs spiked to an all time high average of $637, with prices in California and Virginia spiking to all time highs.
New Lows:
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Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (10 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Mart, Store Brand, RN, Brass Cased, Reloads, .22 per round (From Last week: -.02 Each)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Mart, Store Brand, RSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .19 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .16 per round
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.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .24 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (4Q, 2015))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, steel casing, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .35 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, steel casing, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (10 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: TrueCaliber.com, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Ammomen, Aguila, RNL, .07 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds (2 Cases Max): Cabela's, Remington, RNL, .07 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
Helpful information, however...'concealed' carries different connotations in different states.
If you become LEO approached because a UA civilian caught a glimpse and felt threatened the situation can quite easily move to yourself and weapon being controlled until such time as higher powers can sort it out.
You may walk but you also may lose your weapon and certainly some time.
Situational awareness, be vigilant, have a good holiday.
Michael Totten
[WorldAffairsJournal] Venezuela and Colombia have swapped places.
When the Cold War ended, Colombia was a crime-infested war zone while Venezuela, its neighbor to the east, was an island of sanity and stability. Colombia is now one of the world's hottest new tourist destinations while Venezuela is on the brink of collapse.
For more than a half-century, Colombia suffered a bewildering multisided conflict that killed more than 200,000 people - the vast majority of them civilians - and displaced roughly five million. It was a no-go zone fractured by a communist insurgency that kidnapped and murdered tens of thousands, right-wing death squads that butchered people with chainsaws, and murderous drug cartels that often wielded more power than the government.
Meanwhile, during most of that period, Venezuela held democratic elections and experienced considerable, if uneven, economic growth. Throughout Latin America, Soviet-backed insurgencies battled it out with military regimes sponsored by the United States, but Cuba's attempt to foment communist revolution in Venezuela fizzled.
After the Berlin Wall fell, pro-Soviet forces all but evaporated everywhere except in Colombia where the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) swapped Moscow's largesse with drug money.
If one had to choose where to invest at the time, the smart money would have been on Venezuela. It had a small middle class and a great deal of poverty, but that was hardly unique in South and Central America. What set it apart was its vast oil reserves‐more than any other country on earth‐and its relative political stability.
The current United Socialist Party government led by Nicolas Maduro, and formerly Hugo Chavez, could have done amazing things for the country with that vast oil wealth. Instead, the party has done its damndest to import Fidel Castro's Cuban model of socialism‐ Chavez called Castro his mentor‐and turn Venezuela into a totalitarian anthill.
They never quite pulled it off, never quite managed to create a state powerful enough to smother every human being under its weight. Rather than molding Venezuelan society into a Stalinist Borg-hive, both‐but Maduro especially‐presided over a near-total collapse into anarchy, squalor and crime.
Last week the Washington Post called Venezuela a failed state. "The government has tried to control the economy to the point of killing it ‐ all, of course, in the name of 'socialism'...Venezuela has gotten something worse than death. It has gotten hell. Its stores are empty, its hospitals don't have essential medicines, and it can't afford to keep the lights on."
The inflation rate is almost 500 percent this year and is expected to exceed 1,500 percent next year. A hamburger costs 170 dollars. Everything is in short supply. "Venezuela reaches the final stages of socialism," David Boaz writes. "No toilet paper." Even hotels are asking guests to bring their own, which is almost impossible unless they're coming in from abroad.
Violent crime has spread throughout the country, even to rural areas. Police officers don't even attempt to suppress or solve crime, partly because they're too busy protecting the crooked and oppressive government from its furious subjects, but also because crime is as ubiquitous in Venezuela right now as the heat and humidity. Last week, a fed up mob doused a man with gasoline and burned him alive for mugging another man and stealing the equivalent of five dollars.
Hellish Colombia, meanwhile, has improved so dramatically over the same period of time that it's hardly even recognizable anymore.
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Colombia is now one of the world's hottest new tourist destinations while Venezuela is on the brink of collapse.
h/t Gates of Vienna
At a press conference at the G-7 summit in Japan on May 26, President Barack Obama declared that world leaders are "rattled" by Donald Trump, "and for good reason. Because a lot of the proposals that he’s made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what is required to keep America safe."
This statement is remarkable not only for its eccentric syntax and convoluted logic. Obama assumes that 226 million Americans eligible to vote this year should take note of the fact that his G-7 colleagues--Messrs. Hollande, Trudeau, Abe et al--are unnerved, shocked, or put off by the Republican candidate, and that this should influence their decision next November. It should not: the election is an American affair, and it is offensive to suggest otherwise. Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1980 could have made the same argument, yet for all their faults they sensed how impertinent it would have been to do so . . . but those were different times.
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...Pity most of his audience is too young - or simply does not care to - remember that the same words were spoken of Ronald Reagan.
"Cowboy."
"Dangerous."
"Simplistic"
"Fascistic."
Of course, Reagan won The War in spite of our allies, but they dare not speak that. I am however starting to get the impression that our allies fear Donald Trump will end the next war, once and for all.
Mike
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You fear what you cant control. Obama was a bought man, "their" Manchurian candidate. They knew he would do what was in their best interest, not in the best interest of the USA. Things are changing and in the words of a little girl named Wednesday, "Be afraid, be very afraid"!
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h/t Instapundit
...Donald Trump and Milo Yiannopoulos are provocateurs, no question. But they are proving something important about the militant left: that it is often racist against whites, and has no intention of allowing any opinions other than its own to be voiced in the public square. And whether in the streets or in a university lecture hall, it will use violence to impose its will.
...The center is not holding. The militant left is going to drive a lot of people towards the militant right. In the fall campaign, Trump is going to go full "Amnesty, Acid, and Abortion" -- and the emotional reaction that seeing video of violent Black Lives Matter activists and other Social Justice Warrior militants in action (which we will see, all throughout the fall, because they cannot help themselves, and not even media spin will be able to hide it) will frighten a lot of law-and-order people into voting for Trump.
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Bad news: It's hard to see how we're going to get past the two conventions and the election without some fairly serious street violence (above the ordinary, that it.)
Worse news: This could be the last presidential election conducted while the Second Amendment is more or less intact.
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Let them riot. Let them wave their Mexican flags. We had violence in the 1960s and the loonies lost. The Great Silent Majority saw the rioters and responded by electing Richard Nixon. Ah, those were the days...
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Trump should wave an American flag at his next campaign event.
#5
"We Donks do not truck with no mixin'
With Trunks on the stump! Git yer kicks in!
Run wild like a jackass!
We'll crack heads, and backsass...
And lose, like our grands did to Nixon."
[The News (Pak)] What followed was the ’OBL’ exhibit found on Pak soil and displayed to the entire world leaving us guessing if it was something to be embarrassed about. It pains one particularly because wherever the public diplomacy circuit has taken us we have vehemently contrived rationales to explain such deviations, hoping that some rationality may also somehow seep through the official brain trust ‐ forget the abiding pain that such cavalier approach to national security has caused to the nation itself. Seemingly, all has been in vain.
Because, what followed OBL was Mullah Mansour, taken out in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ‐ not in any god-forsaken corner of the contiguous Fata belt where the writ of the state is only sporadic. That would have at least given us face-saving argument. No, here he was in Balochistan, blazing the holy trail to the ’Quetta Shura ...Mullah Omar's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... ’. There is another story doing the rounds that he was actually travelling from Iran into Afghanistan and was betrayed by the Iranian intelligence. This story goes that the Iranians did that as a favour because of the Modi visit, appeasing Indian sensitivities on the Kalbhushan Yadav episode. Whatever may be the case, he was found in broad daylight on Pak soil and became an exhibit.
I don’t even want to recount the car rental company of Quetta who somehow knew he was crossing Taftan and were ready to motor him into Afghanistan. What facilitation ‐ despite there being an equally accessible border between Iran and Afghanistan. Or is Iran far better at controlling its borders?
Just a while back our ’old man’ at national security revealed that the Quetta Shura was indeed our baby and that was how we exercised control and influence over them. The Mansour episode just proved that contention except that the element of influence was a thing of the past. This was a typical case of one becoming a victim of his rhetoric. Influence exercised through familial extensions is at best fluid and unworthy of strategic consideration. That is why the peace talks have failed; because Mansour always had his own agenda. As will the next man. And that will complete the cycle beyond which the broadly termed entity, the Taliban, will fragment further.
This will fail everyone lost on the road to discovering peace, including the US. The more the Taliban fragment, the more will others ‐ including the IS ‐ gain. The more Al-Qaeda and the IS gain, the more will the US lose. Forget the region; it is in a perpetual mess and will remain so for a long time to come. Back at home, Pakistain is a mess ‐ a royal mess; gains by Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... brought to naught.
The esteemed foreign secretary, a man of great motivation, recently desired that Afghanistan rather than Pakistain would do better to do something about their Taliban problem. It must be said that the FS got what he desired. A few more and Afghanistan may well be on the road to doing something about it.
Wait a while, we will soon have Messrs Haqqani and Zwahiri too paraded dead or alive on the Pak soil. What bloody embarrassment.
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[RUDAW.NET] The United States has once again turned down a Russian suggestion to coordinate counter-Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) operations. Washington declined to coordinate with Moscow before, too, due to its indiscriminate bombing across Syria, which has killed hundreds of civilians, as well as its continued support for the Syrian regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... As part of Russia’s latest proposal for military cooperation the country’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that American and Russian air power synchronize their support of the Syrian Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is currently mounting an offensive against the ISIS-occupied province of Raqqa.
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The United States has once again turned down a Russian suggestion to coordinate counter-Islamic State
Which would indicate we now have U.S. advisors embedded in Russian targeting teams, probably also provided Search & Rescue.
[National Review] Hot on the heels of revelations that he fathered a love child with his mistress, the Reverend Jesse Jackson has tumbled further from the moral high ground. Jackson has added former Chicago Democratic congressman Mel Reynolds to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree.
Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud, and lies to the Federal Election Commission. He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer. This is a first in American politics. An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate.
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The talk: "It's a bitch to be black, sons.
We're ruled by these cruel Anglo-Saxons
Who'll force folks to shoot you,
Take checks to be cuckoo,
And swoon for Obamas and Jacksons."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[National Review] Hot on the heels of revelations that he fathered a love child with his mistress, the Reverend Jesse Jackson has tumbled further from the moral high ground. Jackson has added former Chicago Democratic congressman Mel Reynolds to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree. 
