Two posts at Confederate Yankee

I'm linking to two Confederate Yankee posts and have a few things to say about each.

The first is Crow. The Other White Meat.

In it Confederate Yankee Bob shreds the claims made by journalist Peter Popham in the left-wing British paper, The Independent, that the US military used white phosphorous as a chemical weapon against civilians during the battle of Fallujah.

Relying on expert information, Bob provides a step-by-step refutation of Popham false claims. Along the way, Bob acknowledges an error he'd made in a previous post that an expert called to his attention.

The error didn't change the fact that Popham was delivering a package of falsehoods but Bob wanted his readers to know about his mistake (Too bad most of MSM isn't that way.).

By the time Bob finishes with him, Popham's in the same shape Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, and CBS were when we learned the anonymous document source they said was "unimpeachable," was really long-time Bush-hater and Democratic Party activist Bill Burkett.

Bob's second post, Lawyers, Guns, and Money, concerns a civil suit the family of Wake County Sheriff's Investigator Mark Tucker, killed in the line of duty in February, 2004, has brought against the shop that sold the gun used to kill Tucker. The man who bought the gun later turned it over to Tucker's killer.

The anti-gun Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence has filed the suit on the family's behalf.

Bob is very sympathetic toward the family. But he has major concerns with some of the statements the Brady Center has made concerning the circumstances in which the gun was sold. He makes a case that some of what the Brady Center is saying is false.

I don't have a problem with reasonable gun purchase laws. They must be vigorously enforced and shop owners who violate them should be subject to both criminal and civil penalties.

But a well-funded lobbying group like the Brady Center also has a responsibility to follow the law. That means in court suits, they can't say things that aren't true.

Take a look at Bob's Lawyers, Guns, and Money post. See if you think the Brady Center is following the law.