Kevin Bryant

We had a great time at the first class in November, even if the bridge was out on the way to the range. Our new web site is up and running now www.e-cityshooting.com. It has a blog and calander, so check in often. I’m really excited about this project and look forward to updating the site on a regular basis. See the attached flyer for details regarding the next class.

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Working to achieving energy security for our country and holding our elected officials more accountable in shaping energy policies. Join the team sign our Petition Today!

Dear Friends,

The House of Representatives approved the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009—or Waxman-Markey bill— aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and the similarly damaging Kerry-Boxer climate bill was recently introduced in the U.S. Senate. Like the House bill, the Senate’s Kerry-Boxer bill will have a profound impact on Americans’ everyday lives. Simply stated, the legislation will raise energy costs on families, farmers, and businesses, putting South Carolina companies at a competitive disadvantage and killing jobs.

Given the economic challenges we face, the last thing we need is to create a climate for sky-high energy costs. Jobs and the health of the American economy depend on a more balanced approach. Take action and let your voice be heard. Tell Congress to produce a bill that does not harm the economy and includes a more balanced approach to transportation fuels and natural gas.

Sign our Petition by clicking and let our Senators know that we do not want any legislation passed that will be harmful to the residents of South Carolina and our Country.

Who are we? We are SC farmers who know what increased fuel costs mean to the price of food and we are veterans who understand that American energy independence begins with a balanced energy plan that promotes economic growth and small business owners who understand what billions in new energy taxes will do to job creation. Our coalition of concerned SC citizen leaders from all walks of life is ready for a reality check on cap and trade. To be sure, we fully support the unleashing of American ingenuity to develop alternative energy, new nuclear capacity and renewable energy, but we won’t stand for harsh mandates that eliminate jobs and leave us shivering in the cold.

It is critical that your Senators hear from you in opposition to the Waxman-Markey like legislation.

The bills could saddle drivers with dramatically higher fuel costs. The EIA forecasts that the Waxman-Markey climate bill could increase gasoline prices to over $5 a gallon by 2030.

And a new a report shows that the Waxman-Markey climate bill amounts to a $3.6 trillion energy tax on transportation fuels. The study shows that from 2010 to 2050 motorists, workers and businesses would pay $2.0 trillion more for gasoline; truckers, farmers and businesses would pay $1.3 trillion more for diesel fuel; and airline passengers would be charged $330 billion more to pay for jet fuel.

At a time when we can least afford it, this legislation can have the effect of driving up energy costs, creating a competitive disadvantage for American businesses, and imperiling thousands—if not millions—of jobs.

Thank you for your support and please continue to help us defeat any legislation that will cost South Carolina jobs or impact our ability to bring new jobs to the State. You can learn more information about the South Carolina Energy Forum by visiting www.SCEnergyForum.com

Sincerely,

Tom Marchant
South Carolina State Chairman

S. 970: TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING ARTICLE 50 TO CHAPTER 5, TITLE 56, TO PROVIDE THAT IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR DRIVERS TO SEND OR READ TEXT MESSAGES OR E-MAILS, TO PROVIDE THAT A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT BE THE SOLE OR PRIMARY BASIS FOR A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER TO STOP A VEHICLE, TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS, TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE PENALTIES AND DEFINITIONS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR AN EDUCATION PROGRAM.

Michael Bellesiles published in 2000 Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. Bellesiles, a tenured professor at Emory University, argued that the American culture of gun ownership grew not from the fight by American pioneers for individual liberty but an early-American Congressional mandate necessitated by the actual absence both of firearms and Americans’ proficiency with them.

Bellesiles soon declared the Second Amendment a “an individual right collectively defined.” Other very prominent historians gleefully joined the anti-gun chorus armed, so they thought, with the facts to make their political case. One hailed Bellesiles as “the NRA’s worst nightmare.”

Bellesiles became the prince of the gun-control statists, many of them ensconced in universities. He won the Columbia University Bancroft Prize for the best work of American history published in 2000. He proclaimed in 2001 that, “’As for the NRA [National Rifle Association], when anyone talks about the history of guns in America, they’re going to have to give me evidence — facts, not folktales.’”

The problem for Bellesiles arose when people presented facts that not only contradicted his “facts” but indeed revealed that his “facts” were simply fiction. He made it up.

Bellesiles completely misstated hard data such as probate and census records, grossly misrepresented political events such as legislative acts both in England and America and simply ignored evidence contradictory to his claims. He even cited records destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

When people asked for his notes and raw data Bellesiles replied that they were “lost in a flood.” By the end of 2002, his erstwhile supporters abandoned him, Columbia took back their prize and Emory asked him to leave.

I tell you that story to tell you this story. The anti-liberty statists began some years ago screaming that the earth was heating up because of humans. They swore that the “science” and the “data” were irrefutable.

They told us that unless we stopped driving cars and eating beef and using ice cubes then we would either bake or drown or get blown away in a hurricane.

Those who oppose individual freedom and favor government usurpation of your rights worshipped at the global warming altar. Global warming mythology also conveniently served the cause of global governance because, after all, how can you stop a global problem if you have independent nations?

Predictably, when anyone questioned the global warming religion or produced contradictory evidence they met the scorn of the statists who labeled the dissenters either morons or Luddites.

The statists refuse now even to discuss the issue. Al Gore said recently that, “We have long since passed the time when we should pretend this is a ‘on the one hand, on the other hand’ issue. It’s not a matter of theory or conjecture….”

We now know why Al demurs. Global warming, it turns out, is the biggest hoax since the Community Reinvestment Act. They made it up. They not only made it up but also bragged about it to each other in hundreds of email recently made public.

Phil Jones, head of the East Anglia University climate research unit that produces the gospel of global warming data, said in a 1999 email that, “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd (sic) from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”

Jones and his colleagues also corresponded about blacklisting dissenters from reputable journals and even boycotting other journals in an effort to “redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

Skeptics demanded upon the revelation of these deceptions to see their raw data sets. Guess what. They are gone. Jones and crew dumped them to save space when they moved into a new building.

I wonder if the Manhattan Project dumped its data when it moved from the University of Chicago to Los Alamos and simply started all over on the atomic bomb—seems to be what “scientists” do.

President Obama and his statist cronies, nonetheless, still want us to give away our money and our rights for a cause now proven slightly less credible than the Easter Bunny.

Obama is on his way to Copenhagen to trade your birthright for his version of global warming—the adulation of foreign journalists and academics.

The global warming agenda has never been about science or health or human life. The global warming agenda is about government stripping you of your freedom and redistributing your wealth to the residents of the nation of victimhood—and the data prove it.