Via Reuters, Arms cache was actually scrap metal:

The supposed cache was discovered during a raid Sunday on an unfinished building in a town on the main road to Ivory Coast, fuelling [sic] speculation it was linked to an alleged scheme to smuggle weapons into the country.

Liberian police and soldiers from the U.N. peacekeeping force carried out the raid, which police officials said at the time had unearthed mostly new AK-47 machinegun [sic] ammunition.

"The fact of the matter is those items were just empty shells," Liberia's presidential press secretary Cyrus Badio told Reuters. "The person in question is a scrap dealer."

Also the photo accompanying the article has nothing whatsoever to do with the article.

All the big guns are already all over this one, but I have to link to it, too.


This alleged elderly Iraqi woman--because as far as I know, she could be Mildred McGillicutty from Queens, claims that these are two bullets "which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City."

What she is holding are two unfired, pristine and unused cartridges.  The bullet is the pointy part sticking out of the top end.

Yet another example of the media being so interested in propaganda and scare tactics that they publish something like this as "news."  This is not news.  This is a lie, and it's an obvious lie.

More at The Autonomist.

Via The War On Guns.

UPDATE:  Media Mythbusters reports that these cartridges have all the appearance of civilian ammunition, and not any type of ammo issued to the U.S. military.

I am always surprised--although I suppose I shouldn't be--at the simple, stupid mistakes made by the S.A. Express-News:

After realizing that his home had an intruder, a homeowner chased down a 19-year-old man and shot him to death on the Northwest Side early Saturday, according to a police report.

Raymond Lemes, 48, said he was asleep when he heard a scream.

Lemes grabbed his gun and realized an intruder, later identified as Tracy Glass, was in his home in the 9800 block of Autumn Star.

Glass took off and Lemes chased him down the street. When he caught up to the suspect, Lemes said Glass took a swing at him so he shot the man.

When police arrived at 2:35 a.m., they found Glass facedown, dead with gunshot wounds to the chest, neck and arm.

The homeowner had a license for his .40 caliber Glock pistol, a police report said.

He told police Glass probably had gained access to his home through a sliding door that had been broken for some time.

No, he did not have a license for his pistol, because there is no such thing.  He may have a CHL, but it is not a license to own a gun, and it is irrelevant in any case because this incident occurred (or started) in his own home.

The Express-News is worthless.  And their comics pages suck, too.

Via Civilian Gun Self Defense Blog.

David Freddoso writes on the recent claims that "Ron Paul warns of staged terror attack":

My first reaction to the Politico headline — most people’s reaction, I’m sure — was that Paul should not be elected or defeated, but institutionalized. Then I read what is actually posted there, and I saw no quote from Paul about a “staged terrorist attack.” I did see a summary by Politico blogger Dan Reilly that says Paul “clearly insinuated that the administration would not be above staging an incident to revive flagging support.”

So I listened to the interview, trying to find what Reilly describes. And I listened to it again. And again. And I heard nothing of the sort.

Look, Paul doesn't have a chance of winning.  But he has a lot of important things to say.  And, since he is not an obvious "mainstream candidate" he must be silenced by those who have better chances of winning.  Many  bloggers who really should know better (no links, think for yourself) are dismissing Paul out of hand and even sometimes looking for reasons to call him a crackpot because he is actually a libertarian who only called himself a Republican.  And why did he do that in the first place?  Because the two-party system has become such a hallowed institution that anyone who doesn't want to play that game is automatically shunned and outcast.

Libertarians:  the political lepers of America.

Read both articles linked above.  I'll leave you with Freddoso's conclusion:

Paul is a barely relevant figure who has no chance in the election anyway, but you don’t need to like him to see the danger of this kind of sloppy headline-writing and summarizing. Careless reporters caused riots in the Middle East when they did a similar number on Pope Benedict XVI and his citation of Emperor Paleologus. The pope had actually given a very thoughtful and academic speech about Islamic-Christian relations, but thanks to the journalists, all hell broke loose. Other examples of this dangerous silliness abound.

The media has other problems besides its liberal bias, such as the need for quick sound-bites, inaccurate summaries, and headlines that often come at the expense of getting things right.

Via John Lott.

John Lott asks:  Is the New York Times a serious newspaper?

Obviously not.

What's the matter, NYT?  P*r*s H*l*t*n didn't pick her nose today, or something?

You'll have to scroll down for it.  It happened in Wilmington:

At 10:30 p.m., officers were called to the 700 block of E. Sixth St., where they discovered a fight had broken out and 18-year-old Brian Miles -- an alleged participant in the fight -- was seen walking away. Police stopped him and found he had a loaded .380-caliber Magnum handgun, [Master Sgt. Mark] Lemon said.

A 380 Magnum! Who'd a thunk it?  Is it a case of a journalist throwing in "magnum" to make it sound scarier, or a case of a Master Sergeant who didn't know what he was talking about?  Hard to tell.

Read today's Shooting Wire.  It's a good one.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to find stories bashing Guiliani.  They just keep falling into my lap.  I have a feeling that if I actively tried to avoid them, they would sneak up and whack me in the butt to get my attention.  I don't know how anyone with conservative or libertarian leanings could even think about supporting him.  He is neither conservative nor libertarian, and like most members of America's elite ruling class, he's a crook.

Rudy Giuliani's much-publicized but misleading put-down of Ron Paul during Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate should have been tempered by a report that Saudi Arabia, the country that spawned most of the 9/11 hijackers, has been one of Giuliani's lucrative foreign clients. However, Fox News questioners Chris Wallace and Wendell Goler did not bring it up.

Perhaps this can be explained by the fact that the same Associated Press story that named Saudi Arabia as a Giuliani client listed News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, as another Giuliani client. This AP story, which was not disputed by Giuliani or News Corporation, was carried on the Fox News website.

This writer had raised questions about Fox News' co-sponsorship of the debate, based on the fact that the company had a relationship with Giuliani when he was mayor of New York City. But now we know that the relationship has continued into the period of time that Giuliani has been planning a presidential run. It is an obvious conflict of interest.

[...]

The exchange with Paul over 9/11 might have been seen in a different light if Hannity had asked Giuliani about why, according to the AP report, his firm represented Saudi Arabia. But that was a taboo topic.

Equally important, it turns out that Paul's point-that the 9/11 attacks were linked to U.S. involvement in Iraq and the Middle East-was factually correct. Osama bin Laden's 1996 "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places" specifically mentioned the situation in Iraq, blaming the U.S. for the impact of economic sanctions on the Saddam Hussein regime. Bin Laden accused the U.S. of "aggression" against Iraq and the record shows that his anti-Americanism was motivated, at least in part, by the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia.

Yet, Giuliani claimed "I don't think I've heard that before," in reference to Paul's citation of some of these facts. One would think that "America's Mayor" and "Mr. 9/11" would understand the genesis of the attacks that took almost 3,000 American lives.

But since he is one of the Chosen as anointed by the holy media nothing he says or does can be wrong.

Via The Agitator.

ADDENDUM:  Ah, Michelle!  Remember the old days, before you became part of the MSM?

ADDENDA #2:  Welcome to Blogonomicon, your friendly neighborhood libertarian fever swamp!  So Paul is some kind of looney because:  "...I never automatically trust anything the government does when they do an investigation because too often I think there's an area that the government covered up, whether it's the Kennedy assassination or whatever."  I suppose this means we must automatically trust everything the government does or we'll be lumped in with 9/11 Truthers.  Such a masterful "I was incorrect, but he was incorrecter" worthy of the NYT or WaPo.  Oh well, Michelle, it was fun while it lasted.

Yuri Orlov has discovered another extremely rare mirror image Beretta Tomcat!

Northwest Arkansas Morning News reports: 

The defense tried to make the case an issue of the Constitution versus federal gun laws. The government tried to make the case as simple as possible for jurors — Fincher had the machine guns and they weren’t registered as required by federal law.

Wrong, actually.  The defense was not allowed to make such a case, because the "judge" decided that the Second Amendment of the Constitution had no place in a court of "law."

David Codrea makes the same point about a different article from AP.