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IT’S A TYPE OF GUN CONTROL: Ukraine Goes West For Sniper Rifles.

METAPHOR ALERT: ‘Everyone on the Plane Threw Up’ — Turbulence Makes Passengers, Pilots Sick on DC-Bound Flight.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Skipping CPAP likely to send people with sleep apnea back to hospital.

MOVE OVER CNN. Another outlet just got into the shameful ‘doxing’ business with Pamela Geller’s daughters.

More here: Instagram Stars Harassed, Lose Talk Show After Daily Beast Doxes Them as Pamela Geller’s Daughters.

Note that in the first link, BuzzFeed is gleefully amplifying the story, which isn’t surprise since they practically invented the concept of doxxing innocent people in 2013 with #WhatTimeDoesJustineLand.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Your skin is crawling with bacteria, and some of them might help fight cancer.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Progressive militants are eager to ruin lives and careers on their way to building Paradise.

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HARRY KAZIANIS: The NRA Doesn’t Kill People, It Saves Lives. Just Ask My Family.

In the early 1990s, a member of my family was robbed at knife and gunpoint while trying to earn a living at his small business. The experience changed my family’s perception of our own safety and security forever. After several days of reflection, this family member made a heartfelt decision: he needed to protect his life, property, and our family by purchasing a firearm.

Such a choice did not come easy, but was guided by a fundamental truth. As someone who had never before considered purchasing a gun, he knew the police would never come to his aid fast enough if an armed assailant tried to rob him again—possibly costing him his own life. He made what he felt was the best decision for his family and his own safety, just like many other hard-working, honest Americans across our country do every single day.

Over the next few months he lived in libraries, talked with experts, and inquired with police and law enforcement to decide what type of firearm and safety courses he would need to arm himself and protect his business and our family in the safest possible manner.

This is where the NRA came in. When he did make a firearms purchase, it was NRA-trained and -certified instructors who spent hours of their own time to teach him how to safely operate his preferred method of self-defense. They did not talk politics or try to indoctrinate him in any way, but did what they could to teach him how to safely and effectively defend himself if the moment ever came.

Stories like his never make the news, but they happen every day.

THIS IS WHY HE HAD TO START HIS OWN COMPANY: A sad, sloppy job application from young Steve Jobs.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: ANNOY A LEFTIST, SEE BRUCE WILLIS’ DEATH WISH REMAKE (TWICE).

CHANGE: Taylor Force Act would end U.S. aid to Palestinian Authority as long as its leaders incentivize terrorist attacks.

BUSTED: Japanese Spy Plane Catches a Ship Illegally Selling Oil to North Korea.

JAYVEE UPDATE: ‘As ISIS Metastasizes Around the World, the Threat Becomes More Complex.’

Obama had the chance to knock this terror group out in 2013, 2014, but that would have disrupted his narrative of victory in Iraq.

PREDICTION: NO ONE WILL BE PUNISHED. Nunes: FBI may have violated criminal statutes in FISA application to spy on Trump adviser Carter Page.

NOT DECLINE SO MUCH AS COLLAPSE: D.C. Public Schools graduation rate on track to decline this year.

Data released Thursday by D.C. Public Schools shows that 42 percent of seniors attending traditional public schools are on track to graduate, while 19 percent are considered “moderately off-track,” meaning they could still earn enough credits for a diploma.

The likely drop in the graduation rate is the latest fallout from an investigation that cast doubt on the validity of diplomas awarded last year. The graduation rate in 2017 was 73 percent, but the probe revealed that one in three graduates received their diplomas in violation of city policy. Those students had walked across graduation stages despite missing too many classes or improperly taking makeup classes.

Even if all of the students regarded as “moderately off-track” receive diplomas, the graduation rate would stand at about 61 percent — 12 points below last year’s.

As was noted on Twitter, “One of the highest per-pupil spending districts in the country. Great work, everyone.”

OUT: Snowfalls Are Now Just A Thing Of The Past.

In: UK weather: Army called in to rescue drivers trapped in cars as forecasters warn of more snow and howling winds.

PUTTING OUT FIRE (WITH GASOLINE): Venezuela hikes its minimum wage again.

Venezuela’s repeated wage hikes haven’t kept up with the country’s runaway inflation. In January 2017, Maduro raised the monthly minimum wage 50% to 104,358 bolivars. At the time, that was worth $31.17, according to the unofficial exchange rate that millions of Venezuelans follow closely.

In other words, despite all the increases, the new minimum wage will be worth less than a fifth of what it was worth a year ago.

Corruption, mismanagement and price freezes have caused Venezuela’s economy to collapse. To try to appease voters, Maduro has raised the minimum wage several times in the past few years. Critics say the hikes amount to printing money and only exacerbate Venezuela’s hyperinflation.

“Critics.” No, that’s what reality says.

BREAKING: 2 killed at Central Michigan University, gunman ‘armed and dangerous.’

ROGER SIMON: Why I Didn’t Vote in the Oscars.

OUR DIGITAL GATEKEEPERS: Facebook Threatens Satire Site Babylon Bee over CNN Story That Snopes Rated ‘False.’

EMPEROR XI JINPING RIDES THE TIANANMEN TIGER.

So prepare for Emperor Xi, a high-tech 21st century monarch clothed in presidential garb, draped in Communist Party propaganda and supported by the globe’s second largest GDP.

…Zhou dynasty emperors invoked The Mandate of Heaven to justify their absolute monarchy. European royalists had their Divine Right of Kings. In the 21st century, the Central Committee Rubber Stamp Mandate satisfies Emperor Xi.

My latest Creators Syndicate column. (bumped)

THE VAPORS: Condoleezza Rice stuns ‘The View’ audience with amazing story about 2nd Amendment rights.

“Let me tell you why I’m a defender of the Second Amendment,” she began.

“I was a little girl growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the late fifties, early sixties,” she explained. “There was no way that Bull Connor and the Birmingham Police were going to protect you.”

“And so when White Knight Riders would come through our neighborhood,” she said, “my father and his friends would take their guns and they’d go to the head of the neighborhood, it’s a little cul-de-sac and they would fire in the air, if anybody came through.”

“I don’t think they actually ever hit anybody,” she continued. “But they protected the neighborhood. And I’m sure if Bull Connor had known where those guns were he would have rounded them up.”

“And so, I don’t favor some things like gun registration,” she said to a suddenly silent crowd.

Video at the link.

AND BRING ME A SHRUBBERY: College Wants Its Students To Call Each Other Ne.