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A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON HOMICIDE
The Young Conservatives Instagramed this graphic a couple of days ago. I haven’t verified all the numbers, but I checked most of them against FBI data and they appear to be correct. The chart puts current hysteria over homicide and firearms into perspective. The left axis is homicides per 100,000 Americans:
… so the left’s angst is actually tied to the decrease in homicides? When violent crime drops, it is time to disarm everyday Americans.
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CONCORD, N.H. – On Tuesday, December 22, the Strafford County Superior Court ruled that New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services should not have delayed releasing documents under a valid “right to know” request from New Hampshire Right to Life.
The documents in question related to the licensing of Planned Parenthood’s distribution of the abortion drug, RU-486 and FDA safety protocols required under NH state law.
The Pantsuitress (That could be a Hillary Clinton super-villain name) lied again last Saturday. She stated that Donald Trump’s words about Muslims are being used by ISIS to recruit. It is not true and even Politifact has had to admit as much.
But is that the story? Is another Hillary lie news or is the story how her remarks may have aborted the newest Democrat prevarication by plucking it from the womb before it was “viable?”
I really do wonder what kind of woodshed is brought for the Presidential “Responsible for being the stand-in for Baghdad Bob” flacker (that would be Josh Earnest, the most badly named Prez Press Sec evah!) actually tells the truth about Obama’s all encompassing need to disarm civilians – and admits NONE of them would do anything? … Read more
Woodrow Wilson fit this mold. The Socialists of the Frankfurt School did as well. Beware the intellectual who seeks power over our decisions and over the persuasion to which we can respond, especially when he seeks this power to prevent us from doing what he thinks we should not desire to do. – Harold Demsetz (“The … Read more
A smaller percentage of “the poor” A slightly smaller percentage of “the middle class” A much larger number of households (3X ??) at the top end. Looks like, all pundits and media aside, the US is richer now than what it was in 1967. (H/T: Cafe Hayek)
From Weekend Pundit (emphasis mine): Voters are furious that Washington is ignoring them. The anger cuts across all party lines as a majority of the electorate think the US government is focusing on trivial matters rather than what Americans see as important – the looming threat of ISIS, a continually weak and handcuffed economy, bogus unemployment … Read more
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The New Jersey Second Amendment Society has issued a formal reply to the recent press release and report issued by Gov. Christie on firearms purchasing and permitting in New Jersey. They ask that the people of New Hampshire not be fooled by this move. Here is their formal statement in response.
Following the death of Carol Bowne, a report detailing the recommendations of a special commission convened by Governor Christie has been released regarding second amendment issues in New Jersey. In this report, the direct activism of NJ2AS volunteers in various New Jersey police departments was cited. As stated before, the NJ2AS will no longer chase government for answers in hearings or meetings, or participate in senseless protests or petitions – we will only engage in direct, damning activism that captures the tyranny of our state and FORCES a response FROM government TO us. Unfortunately, the report itself is little more than a campaign distraction with very little substance.
File this under “Bwahahahahaha!” [wpvideo uidShgul] Daily Caller | A four-minute video released by ISIS last month, entitled “No Respite,” includes an image of Bill Clinton, who is called a “fornicator” — a reference to his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, among many others. Would any of Mr. Clinton’s many female defenders and … Read more
Green energy is not that green. In this segment we touch on the toxic mess behind renewable energy, the regulatory state, rent-seeking, crony capitalism, tradeoffs, wasted dollars, and the desire of planners to meddle regardless. Full podcast here. GrokTALK! is a Mobile-Ready Broadcast. Click the icon to listen on iTunes, TuneIn, iHearRadio, Sticther Radio, or Spreaker.
Quinnipac has a new national poll out today in which the Trump lead has dwindled: Trump 28, Cruz 24, Rubio 12, Carson 10, with Christie at 6, Paul and Fiorina at 2, and Kasich, Huckabee, and Santorum at 1.
The national average of all RCP polls shows Trump at 33 and Cruz at 18. Rubio is already declining from his peak last week, down two points to 12. Carson is at 10, Bush at 4.5, Christie at 3.5, with Paul and Fiorina tied at 2.4. Kasich is at 2.1 and the rest are under 1%.
Sunday Polling had Cruz +9 in Iowa and Trump +18 in New Hampshire.
It is Trump then Cruz in Florida and South Carolina as well with Rubio a slightly stronger third in his home state.
21st century edition. Check out the Tesla manufacturing plant in Fremont, CA. Impressive stuff. h/t my inbox
There’s a climate schism brewing at the Vatican.
ROME, December 18, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – A heated exchange regarding global warming and magisterial teaching between a top Vatican official and various other presenters ended a December 3 Acton Institute conference in Rome. Argentinean Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, a close advisor to Pope Francis and the Chancellor of both the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences stressed that the pope’s declarations on the gravity of global warming as expressed in the encyclical Laudato Si’ are magisterial teaching equivalent to the teaching that abortion is sinful.
What a shocker. “Now, if only Gilmore would get out, the path to a Pataki victory would be clear”- Said No One Ever.
Trees were killed unnecessarily to create Fergus Cullen’s doorstop, Granite Steps. It’s an ode to the politics of New Hampshire’s First in the Nation primary as told by the man who bankrupted his own State party and escorted it out of power and in to obscurity. No, I have not read it. If I found a copy at the dump I wouldn’t waste part of my life to pick it up, let alone read it.
Here’s the hard data from Amazon.com
Former Department of Homeland Security investigator turned whistle-blower Phillip Haney sat down for an interview with Ginni Thomas. Haney describes his job, and what happened when Obama’s Civil Rights storm troopers came calling.
Back in 2012, seven officials from the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Division (CRCL) found Haney’s work objectionable, leading to the 2012 effort to close his work down as the civil rights of foreign nationals could be violated.
“The administration was more concerns about the civil rights and liberties of foreign Islamic groups with terrorist ties than the safety and security of Americans,” Haney says.
If you’d like to know my opinion of Star Wars ‘The Force Awakens’–no spoilers, not to worry–after I walked out of the theater at the end of the movie…I was willing to buy another ticket and watch it again. I liked it. I liked it a lot.
Yes, once again I trekked over to Treehugger for a post that complained that IF Congress failed to renew the wind and solar tax credits, up to 100,000 jobs would be lost. Well being the Free Marketeer that I am, I could not let that go and waded into the comments. A couple of them here (emphasis mine). For instance, the first one starts off on what seems to be OK – and then tanks:
Distortion is the idea behind subsidies. Never should an industry that is doing well and can continue on their own receive a subsidy. Instead industries that we want to have grow and flourish get subsidies.
And I could not wrap my mind about this next point:
If advocates of stricter gun-control regulations are correct that easier access to hand guns necessarily leads to more violence committed with guns, why do we never hear of mass shootings (of people) at firing ranges?
Yes, there was the killing of Chris Kyle at a gun range. That admitted, this question speaks to the normal operations at ranges rather than this unusual exception. I’ve been to the range plenty of times and I find it to be one of the safest places to be. EVERYONE is concentrating on safety because everyone knows that a lapse of focus can create a real bad day.