Some years or decades ago I researched and reported on the Sullivan Act, one of America's first gun control laws. New York state senator Timothy Sullivan, a corrupt Tammany Hall politician, represent...

On his recent trip to Central America, President Barack Obama did more than cozy up to Marxist dictators; he also signed onto an international treaty that could, in effect, be used as backdoor gun co...

First, the town's name is spelled Binghamton, after its founder, an old-style American named Bingham. I  spelled it wrong, a couple of  times below. Second, you can expect this to be spun as a gun-cont...

Instapundit has a couple of posts on what he calls the "Mexican gun canard"—the idea that Mexican drug gangs are getting their weapons from America, and it's all the fault of America for being such a f...

Paul Krugman, writing from Berlin, blames America's fuel crisis on the suburbs, and what he call "issues of race and class." To see what I’m talking about, consider where I am at the moment: in a pleas...

Barack Obama's remarks to San Francisco supporters on all the various things that are the opiates of the masses in Pennsylvania reminded me that when I was about nine, just like the kid in the movie cl...

NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. 04/19/07 - A Reader Posts The Mexican Invasion PowerPoint On YouTube From: An Anonymous Supporter I...

Via Clayton Cramer, I see that Eugene Volokh is asking for examples of "Unreliable Assurances" in which it was confidently stated that A would not lead to B, examples where (1) the opponents of some p...

Martin Amis has a piece in the London Times about the horrors of violence in the Colombian streets, in which he pauses to hit at Ronald Reagan's attitude towards gun control, which doesn't have much re...

New York City Mayor Michael "Nanny" Bloomberg, he of the smooth hands and Nurse Ratched smirk, made international headlines with his selective war on smokers. Now, Bloomberg and the city's ruling cla...