The NRA’s already having a pretty bad week, so how about everyone pile on and accuse it of anti-Semitism?

After Diane Cardwell of The Times wrote about a National Rifle Association magazine’s broadside aimed at Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his gun proposals, a reader raised an issue about the image on the cover (at right), showing the Jewish mayor as an octopus. MORE »

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NRA convention fills bill: Tops 60,000 [St. Louis Post Dispatch]

Mitt Romney, a rich liberal who lives in Massachusetts, has a problem: he wants to be the Republican nominee for President, but he’s barely ever killed anything. MORE »

Good news: Everyone gets a gun! MORE »

“The Second Amendment to the Constitution: Why it is important to our nation.”
by Wonkette
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Who knew the NRA could be a funny political topic? The boring lobbying group just keeps giving back to America with the crazy no-longer-so-secret graphic novel about the sinister Jews, Illegal-alien gang Negroes, the UN and animal-rights terrorists all conspiring with Rosie O’Donnell and George Soros and Katie Couric to steal our precious freedoms and cause various natural disasters.
The latest: That PDF final proof of the scary “FREEDOM IN PERIL” booklet contains all sorts of semi-hidden editing notes and instructions and comments between the paymasters and the artists: MORE »

While we were enjoying whatever people enjoy over the long War On Christmas weekend, that secret NRA graphic novel we discovered was causing all sorts of ruckus.

A bunch of dull morons over at the Daily Kos spent a lonesome day “proving” how we magically created all this beautifully frightening artwork because “Wonkette: Liar” (seriously, that was their headline). Smarter people over at a California concealed-weapon-permit site had more interesting things to say, but concluded the NRA comic was a hoax not by Wonkette but by a literary website we’ve never heard of — that theory lasted long enough to make it to Boing Boing, while CBS News producers desperately sought comment from Wonkette editors … in the comments.

More crap, after the jump.

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Pro-gun Democrats did better in the midterms than probably any other class of politician, but the National Rifle Association is not in the business of reflecting moderate political reality. The NRA lives off memberships, and the standard card-carrying member has two enemies: Democrats and … deer, most likely.

But even loyalists go soft, as the GOP learned last month, and you need some Grade A propaganda to get people riled up again. Let no one accuse the NRA of shirking its duty. Freedom In Peril: Guarding the 2nd Amendment in the 21st Century, is a spectacularly beautiful graphic novel. Here, for example, is one of the biggest threats to the white suburban hunter: dirty hippies and their evil sidekicks: the dynamite-carrying owl, sinister pig, angry Wall Street bull, dire wolf, terror chicken and Land Lobster:

We’ve got a lot more from this super-secret advance copy of the NRA’s hot new comic, after the jump.

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• During his hour-long press conference yesterday, Bush announced a change in Iraq policy from “stay the course” to “don’t do what you’re doing if it’s not working.” North Korea policy to “keep on keepin’ on.” [WP, NYT]

• US commanders report that violence in Baghdad has reached an “all time high.” [USAT]
• Kirk Fordham will testify before the ethics committee, possibly prolonging Dennis Hastert’s agony for another week or two. [WP]
• Bush opens up and gives Hastert “full-throat” support. [NYT]
• The NRA, which doesn’t particularly care which party isn’t treading on them, is supporting 60 Democrats in the midterms. [WSJ]
• Justice Department charges US citizen with treason for first time since WWII. [LAT]
• Foley friend and Ohio candidate Deborah Pryce calls her Democratic challenger a homophobe. Also calls Foley a “fruit,” saying, “We have to work hard to turn this back into lemonade.” [NYT]
• Last night’s plane crash in Manhattan killed Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle. [NYT, NYT, NYT, NYT]
• In life, as in sports, Tom Boswell makes the roiled sea plain. [WP]

The New York Times sent its anthropologists deep into the South and Midwest to determine just what sort of things go on in these godforsaken places and report back to the entrenched liberal elite. Their findings: Gunplay! MORE »