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Second Life Blogs - Blogs about the Second Life virtual world. Usually I list these by avatar name.

• The Lexx's Second Life - Alexzandria Aeon ("Lexx") is my "SL daughter" and a businesswoman.
• Jacek Antonelli - An artist and commentator on various aspects of the world.
• Hamlet Au - New World Notes - The "big dog" in Second Life blogging. Hamlet Au used to work for Linden Lab, and wrote a book, The Making of Second Life.
• life|cubed - One of my friends, "Padre" Triste Bertrand, who is also a minister in RL.
• Cala - Transgender in Second Life - She writes about some interesting topics.
• Evans Avenue Exit - I write this one. :-) I post about current events, scripting, and whatever else suits my fancy.
• Vint Falken - One of the premier European SL bloggers (she's from Belgium).
• Grand Unified Linden Blog - Official news and information from Linden Lab.
• Torley Lives - Everybody in Second Life should know Torley Linden. Torley is unique, helpful, and watermelon-flavored.
• An Engine Fit For My Proceeding - Ordinal Malaprop is SL's own version of Ada Lovelace...a fine Victorian lady and a top-flight scripter.
• Massively (Second Life) - The latest news and information about Second Life. (Massively.com also covers other virtual worlds and MMOs.)
• Second Thoughts - Prokofy Neva is perhaps the most-hated person in SL, and is sort of the "official gadfly." He's well worth reading for an alternate perspective, though.
• Dwell On It - Tateru Nino is one of the smartest people I know. Her writing is part of what got me into SL in the first place.
• MeraTalk - Mera Pixel is insightful, witty, and very purple.
• Second Life Grid Status Reports - When there are problems with SL--an all-too-often occurrence these days, alas--Linden Lab posts here.

Political Blogs - This is stuff with a right-wing bent, and is the section that will probably be most responsible for this post being modded down. :-/

• The Smallest Minority - Kevin Baker is partly a gunblogger, partly an excellent commentator. He's had good posts recently about education.
• La Shawn Barber's Corner - A Christian blogger who only dabbles in politics these days, spending more time writing about music and digital technology.
• Leslie Carbone - A Virginia political blogger who I found via Twitter.
• Personal Effects - Connie du Toit is one of the clearest-minded writers you'll find on many subjects.
• Geopoliticus - Kim du Toit (yes, he and Connie are married) is the L33t Master of Firearms, and an insightfu

While it's a poorly thrown together website, it has a lot of information: http://www.savetheguns.com/ is a good starting point for general firearm debate.

Also, you can go to the CDC website and find statistical information on gun violence; I think they also have facility for trending information.

I'm a member of a forum at http://www.kimdutoit.com./ You might be able to ask specific questions there (on the forums - don't bother Kim with stuff directly), and surely someone knows the specific information's reference point. (These guys are incredibly knowledgeable about many different things, not just law, firearms, and things related. :P)

Finally, there's always google, as I'm sure I found the information by following a link from there.

Sorry if it took me a long time to reply.

Don't try reading any pro-gun blogs while you're at Panera.

Right Wing News Allah Is In The House Little Green Footballs Cavalier's Guardian WatchBlog Iraq The Model Instapundit Power Line Michelle Malkin Ace Of Spades HQ A Small Victory The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler Israpundit Jihad Watch IMAO Moxie Niel Boortz Lonewacko Wizbang Dumb Celebs Fear And Loathing In Iraq Kim du Toit PABAAH Ann Coulter La Shawn Barber Mark Steyn David Limbaugh

A lot of my favorites have been posted already, but here's a few more: Kim Du Toit

The motto: Turning america back into a riflemen, one person at a time. Blogs about guns, WoT, liberal failings, etc.

He also keeps a count of media stories of home invaders or other criminals lawfully and rightfully shot in self defense. Also known as "Dead Goblin Count", which is above 80 right now. Not sure when he started the count.

His readers sponsor two snipers headed to Iraq, and so far we've outfitted them with first class scopes for their rifles, rangefinders, and a few other toys that are significantly better than what Uncle Sam provided them.

Comments are allowed with registration.

Anti-Idiotorian Rottweiler

Typically home to many, many rants about liberals. Fun to read at times. Also loaded with fiskings of various news articles.

Comments also allowed.

Both Kim and Misha are immigrants, now citizens, who I'm proud to call my fellow countrymen.

Google for the AR-15 and the Ruger Mini 14

Read these two links:

ruger mini 14 vs ar 15

Marlin Camp 9. Scroll past the comments to the bottom till you see the pictures.

HTH HAND.

Individualists also feel that, in general, people can be trusted to do the right thing. Yes, to use but one example, some people (about half of one percent of a society's population) will always resort to crime rather than work to improve their lot in life -- and that constant 0.5% requires a standing police force to address the issue. But even then, the percentage of police officers to the total population need not be that great, if that's all they're charged with.

To the individualists, who generally trust others, the commission of a crime is not just an offense against society, it's also a betrayal of the common trust -- which is why, for instance, the individualists are in favor of a few laws, but that those few be sternly enforced....

The concept of individualism, it should be noted, finds its greatest expression in areas outside the city. The further away one sits from one's neighbors, the greater the need (and desire) for self-reliance. ...

Just as individualism seems to flourish most in the country, or even in the outer suburban areas, it's no surprise that collectivism flourishes most in urban areas -- where there is collective housing, where private property is tiny in size, and where it's easy to fall prey to gangs of predators (which form more easily because of the close proximity of other predators).

Finally, the feeling of insecurity is cemented by the constant feeling of helplessness -- of being confronted by forces much larger than the individual. Hence the bogeymen of "capitalists, landlords, and militarists" (as described by James Cannon above), or "the rich" (as espoused by Democrats) and the constant reinforcement of "us vs. them", are all tools used by the collectivists to maintain their "class warfare".

Now, just so you all know, the author (&myself) are members of the VWRC.

Living in mostly rural areas, I have found that I need very little from the local, state, or federal government to live my life. Maybe some roads, perhaps schools if they're any good, emergency services, parks, national defense and maybe one or two other things.

I don't need any government holding my hand or wiping my ass, and charity is best left to churches and private organizations.

Which makes things such as the Total Information Awareness program extremly scary.

It's really very simple.

They want to paint the current administration, the US in general, and the basic principles of independance, freedom, liberty, and respect for humanity, that the US was founded on, with as black a brush as possible, so that they can get their traitorous party into power and surrender our sovereignty to the likes of France and Libya.

Click here for more excellent reading on the topic, or here.

You do not need to be aware of any information sources not sanctioned by Big Media

Proving, as always, that when arms are outlawed, only outlaws will have arms.

In the US, of course, the outcomes tend to be very very different

It is seriously sad to see the people of a great nation like England reduced to being prey for goblins.

There was an interesting article in Yahoo News that talks about how NH is one of the few states left that still uses paper ballots. I also find it interesting that New Hampshire passed a law requiring a paper record of every ballot cast, effectively banning touch-screen election computers that don't produce such receipts.

As great as technology is, some things are just easier to do the old fashioned way. I understand that geeks always want to improve something that isn't broken, but sometimes we need to better evaluate benefits vs. consequences; especially when its the government in charge. If this were a private company enforcing a computerized only voting system - fine, nobody gets hurt if it screws up except the company itself. When the government puts something like this in place, ultimately the citizens using the system are hurt.

To quote Kim du Toit:
The difference is that when private sector fucks up, they get hurt. When government fucks up, people get hurt.

For things like No Child Left Behind and AIDS help for Africa, he gives a "What can I do?" shrug and nothing else.

Yeah, cause Helping Africa is never a waste of money.

And the power given to the federal government to stick their noses in elementary education is listed in the United States Constitution.

(For those who can't catch my sarcasm, the power to have a hand in education, at any level, is nowhere to be found in the constitution. Yeah, yeah, the constitution poses no threat to our current form of government, but I can hope, can't I?)