Category: Politics
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Liberals Love Arab News Propaganda
Double-irony from Al Gore & Current TV: It all starts with a story from The Atlantic Wire (A fairly left-leaning group:) Every once in a while a tweet appears that’s so silly, it must be a joke. Like this one from Glenn Beck: “Before Al-Jazeera bought Current TV, TheBlaze looked into buying it but we…
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Mass Shooting: 3 Dead, 2 Wounded, in Switzerland
No assault weapon involved: A man armed with an old military rifle and a handgun shot and killed three women and wounded two men in a southern Swiss village, police said Thursday. Police shot and wounded the suspect after he threatened to also shoot officers who arrived at the scene after the shooting in the…
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Shot vs. Shot & Killed – The Miracle of Modern Medicine
This post was originally drafted in April. Bare with me… very current story cited below. I’ve mentioned before that the shooting to death ratio appears very low to me. Crime stats over at Crime in Chicago suggest that in 2011 2,217 were shot, with 441 dead – 19.9% (ratio of 5:1.) So far in 2012…
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Obama Voters’ Gun Problem
Obama voters are killing each other Chicago’s murder numbers have hit that magic 500. Baltimore’s murder toll has passed 200. In Philly, it’s up to 324, the highest since 2007. In Detroit, it’s approaching 400, another record. In New Orleans, it’s almost at 200. New York City is down to 414 from 508. In Los…
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How Liberty Dies
People who wanted a little bit of security in lieu of liberty.
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Propaganda Alert from The Associated Press
Shear propaganda as written by the White House in an attempt to create some news: President Barack Obama has signed into law a five-year extension of the U.S. government’s authority to monitor the overseas activity of suspected foreign spies and terrorists. …. The law does not apply to Americans. When Americans are targeted for surveillance,…
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Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control
The U.K. and Australia: A media frenzy coupled with an emotional campaign by parents of Dunblane resulted in the Firearms Act of 1998, which instituted a nearly complete ban on handguns. Owners of pistols were required to turn them in. The penalty for illegal possession of a pistol is up to 10 years in prison.…
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UK Doctors’ Called For Kitchen Knife Ban
Yes, seriously. A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase – and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings. They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon. The research…
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Obama Admin Quietly Released 8,500 Criminals, Some Killers
Qian Wu thought the man who brutally attacked her was gone forever. She was sure that Huang Chen, a Chinese citizen who slipped into America on a ship and stayed in the country illegally, would be deported as soon as he got out of jail for choking, punching, and pointing a knife at her in…
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Armed Guards at Schools… Common
Nationwide, at least 23,000 schools — about one-third of all public schools — already had armed security on staff as of the most recent data, for the 2009-10 school year, and a number of states and districts that do not use them have begun discussing the idea in recent days. via NYTimes.com. NRA proposal not…