(Alex) Jones has credibility because Drudge links to his stories regularly. In this age of disgustingly sycophantic media, Drudge is the standard bearer for journalistic fairness. Meanwhile, publications like National Review keep beating the same drums and getting nowhere. They rely on their few thousand readers believing that they're making a difference. And NR supports ridiculous conspiracy theories, like when they argue explicitly and implicitly that a small series of office fires on one side of a 47-story steel frame building can cause _all the steel in the building _to crumble into dust as the building collapses at free-fall speed into its own footprint. Start there. If you have the courage to admit that this defies both logic and the laws of nature, then you've taken your first step to waking up to the fact that things are not as they seem. The government lies to us brazenly about unemployment and consumer prices, but they're honest about the events the have led us onto the road to a police state and 30,000 drones in our skies? Gullible.
As for the ammunition purchases, it sounds like NR should inform Inhofe, the GAO, and all the rest who are investigating this non-story. Tell them that the data they have assembled is wrong, that 'big sis' isn't a scary control freak, and that they really need to worry more about scary Muslims. By the way, the NRO story on Islamic extremism is that they hate America because of our freedoms. If that's true, they should love us more and more with every passing day. If removing our freedoms is their goal, the Islamists are winning.
