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Red Wave at Border, Black Guns Matter, Imaginary ‘Whipping’ Punished

June 15, 2022 by GregC

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Rob Long is in for Jim. Join Rob & Greg as they cheer a Republican victory in a very unlikely place. They are also encouraged to see the skyrocketing number of African-Americans purchasing firearms. They then go on to criticize the Biden administration for punishing border patrol agents for a “whipping” allegation that never actually happened.

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Filed Under: congress, Economy, Elections, History, Humor, Immigration, Inflation, Journalism, News & Politics Tagged With: 3MartiniLunch, Biden, black people, border, border patrol, congress, guns, media, midterm elections, Second Amendment, Texas

The Absurd Obstruction Charge, Media’s Blatant Anti-Gun Bias, NYT’s Double Endorsement

January 20, 2020 by GregC

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Back to the usual format day with good, bad, and crazy martinis. Join Jim and Greg as they applaud Sen. Perdue for pointing out how stunningly weak the Democrats’ charge of obstruction of Congress against President Trump truly is. They also hammer the media for horribly biased coverage of Monday’s pro-second amendment rally in Virginia, including CNN’s assertion that gun rallies are fertile ground for white supremacists to recruit new members. And they have fun with the New York Times ending its insanely hyped endorsement process by backing two different candidates before Jim explains why they probably did it.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, guns, impeachment, media, National Review, New York Times, obstruction, Perdue, President Trump, Second Amendment, Three Martini Lunch, Virginia

Virginia Gun Battle Begins

July 8, 2019 by GregC

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On July 9, the Virginia General Assembly will enter into a special session ordered by Gov. Ralph Northam to address gun violence.

Northam is specifically asking the Republican-led legislature to enact universal background checks, a ban on “assault weapons,” reinstating Virginia’s one gun per month law and more.

But Republicans are planning a much different approach. Del. Nick Freitas is a member of the Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee, which will review every piece of legislation in this special session.

Listen to the podcast to hear Freitas explain why he believes public safety and civil liberties ought to be the top priorities for lawmakers, why he thinks Northam’s proposals are more about politics than saving lives, why he expects the narrow GOP majorities to hold together on the Second Amendment, and what he makes of poll numbers showing strong support for some of the Northam agenda.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: guns, news, Northam, Second Amendment, Virginia

‘The Mask Is Coming Off’ in Gun Control Push

March 29, 2018 by GregC

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After years of gun control advocates insisting they didn’t want to take away anyone’s guns, the March for Our Lives and a string of opinion columns headlined by former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens are making it clear that the movement is aimed at repealing the second amendment, and the head of one leading gun rights group welcomes the honesty.

“Obviously the mask is coming off.  There is a radical agenda that we are fighting against.  The anti-gun left wants to confiscate guns from law abiding Americans, but they’re not going to succeed,” said Gun Owners of America Executive Director Erich Pratt.

None of this comes as a surprise to Pratt.  He says opponents of the second amendment have been wanting this for a long time, even pointing to a ’60 Minutes’ interview with Sen. Dianne Feinstein from decades ago.

“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America turn them all in, I would have done it,” Pratt recounted Feinstein as saying.

He notes Gov. Andrew Cuomo openly talked about gun confiscation in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary massacre.

Pratt went to the March For Our Lives on March 24.  He says the overarching goal of the protesters was clear.

“It was all about, ‘Yes, we want to ban guns,’ or if they wanted to give us the privilege of keeping our guns, they would want to have the government go door-to-door and put trackers on the guns.  This is the type of thing we’re actually seeing in the movement,”said Pratt.

In his op-ed for the New York Times, Stevens asserted that the second amendment does not grant the right to keep and bear arms unless it is in the context of a militia.  Pratt begs to differ.

“That view lost at the Supreme Court,” he said, referring to a 2008 decision that affirmed an individual’s right to keep and bear arms.  The decision was 5-4.  Stevens wrote the dissent.

In addition to vigorously disagreeing with the effort to repeal the second amendment, Pratt says the logic of the protesters makes no sense.

“It’s almost like they don’t see the contradiction.  They want to take away our guns so therefore they want the Trump administration to have all the guns?  Wait, I thought they feared the Trump administration.  It simply doesn’t make sense,” said Pratt.

Stevens also claims a rich legal history of the courts severely restricting gun rights and he quotes former Chief Justice Warren Burger as saying the National Rifle Association committed “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime,” by claiming the right to keep and bear arms could not be tampered with.

While Pratt admits the courts did clamp down on gun rights over the years, the second amendment was vital in the wake of the Civil War and during the tensions of the civil rights movement.

He says one of the purposes of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment was to make it possible for blacks in the South to be able to purchase weapons when southern states refused to allow it.

In the 1950’s and 60’s, when police in the South were looking the other way while the KKK targeted black neighborhoods, black citizens restored order by patrolling their neighborhoods with guns.

“This idea that we can now trust the government, that we only needed (the amendment) in the 1700’s or 1800’s but we don’t need it today, that’s just simply crazy,” said Pratt.

Pratt does not believe the second amendment is going anywhere anytime soon, given 70 percent support for the right to keep and bear arms and the major difficulty of amending the Constitution.  He says the greater threat is the step by step erosion of gun rights that gun control proponents keep pushing.

For gun rights to survive long term, Pratt says parents need to educate their kids before the world gets to them.

“Use your sphere of influence.  If you’re a parent, I would ask you this.  Are you training your kids in your values and beliefs.  Sadly, too often the kids from conservative households have been lost to the current culture,” said Pratt.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: gun control, John Paul Stevens, news, repeal, Second Amendment

Dems Tied to Hillary, Stevens vs. Constitution, NYT Discovers Pro-Life Goal

March 27, 2018 by GregC


Alexandra DeSanctis of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America enjoy watching new Republican ads tying incumbent Senate Democrats to Hillary Clinton’s trashing of Trump voters.  They also respond to former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who says individual gun rights should have vanished at the same time as state militias and that the second amendment ought to be repealed.  And they get a kick out of the New York Times breathlessly revealing that state laws designed to limit abortion are all part of an effort by pro-life activists to reverse Roe v. Wade.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2018 midterms, abortion, Bill Nelson, Constitution, Hillary Clinton, John Paul Stevens, National Review, New York Times, pro-life, repeal, Second Amendment, Senate Democrats, Three Martini Lunch

Corker Stays Out, Dems Push Gun Ban, Celebs Run for Congress, Honoring Buckley

February 27, 2018 by GregC


Jim Geraghty of Radio America and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome the news that Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker will not become “the Brett Favre of politics” as the senator confirms he will honor his initial decision not to run for re-election this year.  They also discuss efforts by House Democrats to ban every semi-automatic firearm that has a detachable magazine and every one that can hold more than ten rounds, with Jim detailing the random, uninformed approach Democrats appear to be taking on this issue.  They have some fun with the news actress Stacey Dash and former MSNBC hothead Dylan Ratigan are running for Congress.  And they pay tribute to National Review Founder William F. Buckley, Jr. ten years after his death.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Bob Corker, democrats, Dylan Ratigan, guns, Jr., magazine, Marsha Blackburn, midterm elections, National Review, Second Amendment, semi-automatic weapons, Senate, Stacey Dash, Tennessee, Three Martini Lunch, William F. Buckley

Will Left Push Full Repeal? Cabinet ‘Suicide Pact,’ Michelle’s Identity Politics

October 5, 2017 by GregC


Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America actually welcome the increasing chatter from the left and from the op-ed pages for Democrats to embrace full repeal of the Second Amendment as a way of drawing clear lines in the gun debate.  They also wince as three top Trump cabinet officials reportedly agree to a so-called “suicide pact,” meaning all three will leave office if President Trump fires one of them.  And they slam Michelle Obama for another round of horrible statements, this time claiming people don’t trust politics because Republicans are supposedly all men and all white.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: guns, indentity politics, James Mattis, Martini, Michelle Obama, National Review, Presient Trump, repeal, Rex Tillerson, Second Amendment, Steven Mnuchin, suicide pact

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