By Dan Gifford October 2018 There’s simply no other way to say what must be said about the National Rifle Association’s current predicament. In sum, the NRA’s financial and public relations (PR) ailments are so glaringly plain it’s difficult to understand how they could have been allowed to happen or continue sans something akin to […]

By Dan Gifford May 2010 It exists as certainly as political correctness and passive aggressiveness in Hollywood exist, and you know that it abounds and destroys the talented who take umbrage at George Bush jokes from the subtext of the parting audition “thank you for coming in” to the silence of the phone that follows. […]

  By Dan Gifford According to those who have studied mass murders, we have talked ourselves into two anecdotal false belief camps about their cause and the way to end them. One is that military style firearms are the culprit and that banning them will do the trick. The other is that the killers are […]

By Dan Gifford Originally published  in Firing Line   “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” – Second Amendment Refreshers are often a good thing to keep our heads straight. That is especially true of […]

By Dan Gifford Every so often, I find myself lapsing into my native dialect or patois. Most find it somewhat curious, some even charming, but this week it got me accused of cultural appropriation. That’s a dire crime in my politically correct Los Angeles world. The crime in this case, I was told, was speakin’ […]

By Dan Gifford That title question topped a Scientific American (SA) article earlier this year. The Root magazine agreed with the SA article and wrote the subtitle answer above in its published review. That Root review of the SA article then did all a favor by cutting through SA’s socio psychobable to bluntly state its […]

Hotel Mumbai forces viewers to face a contemporary reality way too many still want to believe could never happen to them. Most any theater, any sports event, any trade show, any place of worship, any school or any other place where people gather has been shown to be an attractive terrorist target. That is a […]

No. It’s an absurd concept. But even if it wasn’t, payment has been
made in full and then some.

Two Russians and two Englishmen did that and to them, we owe our lives.

Yes. And it always has been.

Despite the threats Andrew Breitbart told me he received, his death was probably due to a known heart condition. However …

Hollywood’s version is not what those at the time say happened

When public high schools had rifle teams and students carried their guns in public, why didn’t we have school shootings?

f selected, can I believe prosecution evidence when suspect framing and perjury have been shown to be highly prevalent?

No. Laws against gun carry in Dodge City and Tombstone were really about disarming political and crime rivals, not public safety

It’s the reason Congress banned CDC gun research

General Dwight Eisenhower had two prepared press statements. One announced a successful allied invasion of Normandy. The other, its failure

Nonsense. Laws against carrying weapons protected gangs that ran towns from rival gangs.

f ABC’s “Truth and Lies: Waco” documentary trailer is any indication, it will simply fortify the Waco lies.

f ABC’s “Truth and Lies: Waco” documentary trailer is any indication, it will simply fortify the Waco lies.

The House Minority Leader is known for iron fisted party discipline and intimidation. Where did she learn to do that so effectively?

Like Sir Thomas More, the emeritus Harvard law professor places conscience, principle and higher law above partisan politics.

It ain’t loners blogging in their underwear. It’s “real reporters,” “real academics” and real “Deep State” paid troll operatives.

How many in prison were put there by police and prosecutorial perjury and false evidence?

Eventual confiscation of privately owned firearms via a series of “reasonable” laws is the stated goal of gun control activists.

The recent Armenian genocide remembrance forgot something: Armenians who kept their guns and fought back largely survived

Captain William Gifford of the Third New Jersey Regiment to his best friend, Colonel Benjamin Holme of the New Jersey Militia.