"The shootout is the latest and perhaps goriest chapter in a long history of violence involving motorcycle gangs in America...."

"The Bandidos began almost 20 years after the Hell�s Angels, but the two gangs soon became bitter rivals."

According to the motorcycle club�s legend, founder Donald Chambers was bored with other bike clubs. �Chambers started the Bandidos in March 1966, when he was 36 years old and working on the ship docks in Houston,� Skip Hollandsworth wrote in a 2007 profile of the gang. �He told his friends that he was naming his club the Bandidos, in honor of the Mexican bandits who refused to live by anyone�s rules but their own...

�Don wasn�t looking for people who fit into what he called �polite society,'� one of the group�s first members told Hollandsworth. �He wanted the badass bikers who cared about nothing except riding full time on their Harley-Davidsons. He wanted bikers who lived only for the open road. No rules, no bullshit, just the open road.�...

�These guys are organized crime but they are also domestic terrorists,� [said undercover cop Steve Cook]. �These guys are heavily involved in methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, motorcycle theft. Those are all primary businesses for them. The thing is, these guys want to put on this appearance, �Oh we�re just motorcycle enthusiasts and we just like to ride bikes.� The evidence is quite to the contrary.�

Beware, Duke.

Beware, Duke. #Wisconsin pic.twitter.com/jRfDuyPclK

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 5, 2015

Drudge pushes Walker.

The link under the picture goes to WKOW's "Walker gets standing ovation in NH, but most in attendance still undecided."

Other links at the top of Drudge:

1. "THRONGS OF SUPPORTERS GREET GOV..." goes to the Weekly Standard: "Throngs of Supporters, Media Greet Walker in New Hampshire/Presidential candidate talks of riding his Harley in N.H.." That comes with a 6-minute video:




2. "TESTS MESSAGE IN $1 SWEATER..." goes to The Hill's "Walker tests his message in New Hampshire":

In his first trip to the second-in-the-nation presidential nominating state since 2012, Walker donned a sweater he said he bought for a buck from Kohl's, a big retailer founded in his home state, and cast himself as an executive willing to roll up his sleeves to streamline government and protect the homeland.

3. "JEB JABS 'FRONTRUNNER'..." goes to The Boston Herald's "Jeb Bush takes jab at Scott Walker as both continue N.H. tour""

�I�m not a candidate. I don�t think � maybe he is � I don�t know. You can�t be a front-runner until you start running,� Bush said after touring Integra Biosciences here yesterday.

Bush�s remarks were in response to Walker�s comments earlier this week to Breitbart News. He said President Obama�s recent criticism of Wisconsin�s so-called �right to work� law �suggests maybe we�re the front-runner if somebody is taking an active interest in what a state governor is doing, particularly in light of the fact that we�re not the only one.�

4. "Early Intensity In Race..." goes to the NYT's "New Hampshire, Shaping Up as Free-for-All, Gets Early G.O.P. Attention": At the link, a photo of Jeb, grim-faced and surrounded by grim-faced media types poking microphones at him, and a photo of Walker, smiling in a baseball cap and listening to one person at the  New Hampshire Republicans' 2016 Kickoff Grassroots Training at Concord High School. Key sentence: "Talking to a motorcycle aficionado afterward, he even mused about coming back to campaign here on his Harley-Davidson."

5. "Does road to White House start in Wisconsin?" goes to the Weekly Standard's John MacCormack's "See Scott Run/Does the road to the White House start in Wisconsin?"

Do you know who isn�t an ordinary person? Hillary Clinton. �Saying you�re broke when you�ve got two homes, or you�re making a quarter of a million dollars a speech, or you haven�t driven a car in 18 years, those are all things that I think further embolden that theory that someone like Hillary Clinton who is of Washington�who lives in Washington, who worked for the last term for President Obama in Washington, who served in the Senate in Washington, who lived in the White House in Washington, who spent the early days of her career in Washington�this is someone who embodies Washington,� Walker told me during our March 8 interview. (Like an ordinary guy, Walker sometimes says a word like �embolden� when he means �emphasize.�)