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January 24, 2016
THIS SEEMS FAIR TO ME: Bill allows suits over gun-free zone incidents.
Sponsored by Sen. Dolores Gresham, R-Somerville, Senate Bill 1736 has a very specific purpose.
“It is the intent of this section to balance the right of a handgun carry permit holder to carry a firearm in order to exercise the right of self-defense and the ability of a property owner or entity in charge of the property to exercise control over governmental or private property,” the bill states.
To accomplish that goal, the legislation allows any Tennessean with a valid gun permit to sue a property owner in the event of injury or death provided the incident occurred while in a gun-free zone.
The legislation places responsibility on the business or property owner of the gun-free area to protect the gun owner from any incidents that occur with any “invitees,” trespassers and employees found on the property, as well as vicious and wild animals and “defensible man-made and natural hazards.”
If they take away your ability to protect yourself, they should bear the responsibility.
R.I.P., John Jay Hooker. He spoke at the UT Law College last year, and I told students that he was perhaps the last living southern politician who still delivered speeches in the traditional style. I knew him over many years, but not well.
I DUNNO, GEORGE CAN BE PRETTY HATEFUL AT TIMES: George Takei On Fighting Hate With Humor.
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO FOOTAGE OF THE MARCO RUBIO CRIME SPREE.
CC: The Washington Post.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: Tanned, Rested, and Ready to Ban All the Things!
So Hillary, Bernie, and Bloomberg — which totalitarian socialist will Democrats chose?
ACE EXPLAINS why he is unhappy.
INNOCENCE IS NO DEFENSE: Student cleared of rape still not welcome at his college.
A 19-year-old Roanoke College student was accused of rape in March 2015 by a college freshman. He was charged by the district attorney, but it took a jury just 25 minutes to find him not guilty at the end of a trial that lasted one day. A campus sexual misconduct hearing also found him not responsible.
Case closed, right? Wrong, of course.
When the student, who is from Zimbabwe, re-enrolled in Roanoke, campus activists started an online petition in an effort to bar him from campus, citing safety concerns. This just goes to show that students who are accused of sexual assault on college campuses are often considered guilty-until-proven-innocent, and even then are still considered guilty.
The goal, of course, is to make accusation equivalent to conviction.
WHY SHOULD TRUMP HAVE A MONOPOLY ON BURNING THE GOP TO THE GROUND? Why Jeb Bush is out to destroy Marco Rubio.
Not to mention out to destroy all of his donors’ money in the process.
PRO-GAY RIGHTS PROTESTORS SHUT DOWN EVENT HELD BY ONLY PRO-GAY RIGHTS NATION IN MIDDLE EAST: More than 200 protesters shut down a presentation organized by A Wider Bridge, an organization that fosters relationships between Israel and the LGBT community, on Jan. 22 during the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change conference in Chicago.
CARLY FIORINA ONLY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO ATTEND ANNUAL MARCH FOR LIFE IN DC: “You can scream and throw condoms at me all day long. You won’t silence me. You don’t scare me,” she said at the march. “I have battled breast cancer. I have buried a child. I have read the Bible. I know the value of life.”
Read the whole thing.
THE OTHER REASON THE WASHINGTON ELITE HATE TED CRUZ:
Because the threat smart members of the Washington political elite truly believe in is not Ted Cruz, but the model he represents: that the path for an ambitious freshman politician to achieve leadership of the Republican Party in this day and age is not the normal give and take and deference to leaders and precedent and the way we do things around here, but instead to take a flamethrower to this system from day one. Regardless of whether Cruz wins a general election, his nomination could fundamentally transform the political incentives of the Senate and change the internal dynamics of the Senate Republican Conference. It shows that you can get a shot at the presidency not by playing along, but by playing your own game.
The potential of every two years having someone walk through the door in each new Senate class who thinks they could be the next potential Ted Cruz is an absolute nightmare for those who have thrived in their cushy lifestyles as stewards of the world’s most exclusive club. And that is why his nomination is unacceptable.
Wait, I thought it was perfectly fine for a relatively unknown politician to stop by the Senate for a cup of coffee, then immediately hit the campaign trail uttering larger than life pronouncements in front of Styrofoam columns. But then, whether the RNC chooses Trump, Cruz or Rubio, as Glenn has noted, Beltway Elites chose the form of their Destructor in 2008.
BIDEN TO GOLDMAN SACHS EXECS: ‘I’M DOING A JOB INTERVIEW WITH YOU.’
Joe’s been rehearsing for that that gig since January of 2009; hasn’t he passed the audition yet?
Related: Glenn on employing the Pigouvian tax to slow the revolving door between Big Government and Big Business: “When the post-government-employment goodies are less good, they’ll pose less of a temptation.”
Not to mention, it’s the patriotic thing to do — just ask Biden himself!
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS THOUGHT THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION WAS A WARNING, NOT A HOW-TO GUIDE: Gates on White House: ‘This Micromanagement Is a Problem.’
Richard Benedetto’s “Lyndon B. Obama” thesis from last month remains spot-on.
“ANYTIME YOU CHALLENGE ANY ASPECT OF FEMINISM . . . YOU’RE GOING TO HEAR THAT YOU HATE WOMEN.” Prominent Medieval Scholar’s Blog on ‘Feminist Fog’ Sparks an Uproar.
A months-old blog post written by a respected medieval scholar, Allen J. Frantzen, has gained a second life on social media — and whipped the discipline into a frenzy.
The post, entitled “How to Fight Your Way Out of the Feminist Fog” and published on Mr. Frantzen’s personal website, attacks feminism, alluding repeatedly to “anti-male” propaganda, paints men as victims, and offers advice on how they should “clear the fog.” Mr. Frantzen retired in 2014, after more than 35 years at Loyola University Chicago.
The post borrows terminology often associated with men’s-rights activism, including encouragement for men to take the “red pill” of reality, not the “blue pill” of illusion, and to break away from the feminist fog. The fog, Mr. Frantzen explains, represents how feminism hangs over society — in a “sour mix of victimization and privilege” — and intimidates men into accepting its perspective.
Yeah, but more and more men aren’t putting up with it any more. Though, as here, it’s often the gay men who are leading the way.
GEE, I WONDER WHERE THEY GOT THAT IDEA FROM? North Korea Holding American College Student Hostage for ‘Hostile Act.’
(HILLARY ON) SO THAT’S WHERE THEY HIDE THE ALIENS (HILLARY OFF): Secret sites so classified they are pixelated by Google Earth.
I DON’T MIND PROVIDED THEY TYPE IT ALL OUT: In proper novel format, mind. Robots could soon read your mind – and there are no laws against it. And btw, yeah, because if someone can build a robot that does that a law is going to stop them. Yep. Magical ink. Yessireee Bob!
ADVICE FROM THE 1200s: How to Survive the Winter.
HUSBAND AND #2 SON GET VERY UPSET WHEN I CUT ANYTHING IN UNEVEN SLICES: Mathematicians Have Found Crazy New Ways to Cut Pizza Into Equal Slices. So I’m not telling them about this.
WHEN YOU RARELY EAT AT HOME AND NEVER ENTERTAIN, WHAT’S THE POINT OF A DINING ROOM: Why Millennial Home Buyers Want Playrooms, Not Dining Rooms. Actually in our recent home hunt, the more recent the home, the less likely to have a LIVING ROOM. The only thing we can figure is that people are entertaining way less.