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Archive for 2019
August 5, 2019
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Feds Investigating Former AOC Chief of Staff for Campaign Finance Violations.
NEW YORK TIMES: Abortion Pills Should Be Everywhere. “Each time I got a pack of pills in the mail, I was increasingly bowled over.”
GUY BENSON: Identify the Terrorism By Name, But Not Its Perpetrators. “On the issue of guns, I’m a supporter of the Second Amendment and a critic of the “do something” mentality. It’s not fair or right to curtail the rights of law-abiding citizens because of the actions of a tiny fraction of the population. And yes, it’s a tiny fraction. Paradoxically, US crime and murders remain at or near multi-decade lows, even as the number of guns owned in America has exploded. That said, even within that more optimistic context, deadly mass shootings are on the rise.”
Mass shootings shouldn’t be lumped in with regular crime, which generally features some sort of relatable motive — greed, jealousy, anger, turf wars — directed at someone or something specific. But they aren’t quite terrorism, either, which by definition includes a political agenda.
I suppose the confusion helps push the anti-gun agenda, so I wouldn’t expect it to end.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: While Democrats get crazier, Gabbard hits Harris criticism right on the nose.
KAROL MARKOWICZ: The new anti-natal movement is cruel and hypocritical. “Children are our future. But maybe you shouldn’t have any. That’s been the confusing drumbeat coming from liberals lately: Kids are our precious hope, but they are also bad for the environment, and we should make fewer or none of them.” The upside: The people who listen to them will help reduce the prevalence of gullibility-genes in the pool.
Possibly related: The Parent Trap.
UPDATE: From the comments: “So the Greenies agree with the New Zealand shooter. Got it.” The WalMart shooter, too, I believe.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Democrats Pounce on Trump ‘Toledo’ Misstatement, Ignore Biden’s ‘Houston’ Gaffe.
LARRY CORREIA: An Opinion on Gun Control, repost.
From 2012, following Sandy Hook:
Basically for most of my adult life, I have been up to my eyeballs in guns, self-defense instruction, and the laws relating to those things. So believe me when I say that I’ve heard every argument relating to gun control possible. It is pretty rare for me to hear something new, and none of this stuff is new.
So now that there is a new tragedy the president wants to have a “national conversation on guns”. Here’s the thing. Until this national conversation is willing to entertain allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons, then it isn’t a conversation at all, it is a lecture.
Now when I say teachers carrying concealed weapons on Facebook I immediately get a bunch of emotional freak out responses. You can’t mandate teachers be armed! Guns in every classroom! Emotional response! Blood in the streets!
No. Hear me out. The single best way to respond to a mass shooter is with an immediate, violent response. The vast majority of the time, as soon as a mass shooter meets serious resistance, it bursts their fantasy world bubble. Then they kill themselves or surrender. This has happened over and over again.
Plus: “The average number of people shot in a mass shooting event when the shooter is stopped by law enforcement: 14. The average number of people shot in a mass shooting event when the shooter is stopped by civilians: 2.5. The reason is simple. The armed civilians are there when it started.”
(Re-)read the whole thing.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: Beto exploits tragedy for sake of politics.
—The New York Post, yesterday.
● Chaser: The New York Post’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Editorial Is Nonsensical.
—Charles C.W. Cooke, NRO, today.
ROGER SIMON: From El Paso to Antifa to LA: America the Insane.
FIGHT THE POWER: Professor wins settlement blocking forced union dues.
HMM: U.S. to Outline Plans to Help Venezuela After Maduro Leaves. “The official declined to give any details about U.S. President Donald Trump’s vague warning on Thursday of a blockade for Venezuela, but said that Maduro should view Trump’s comments as a sign he should take advantage of ongoing talks in Barbados to come up with an “exit plan,” the official said.”
Maybe we could ship them a few thousand copies of Ayn Rand’s Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Mueller’s Dream Team Loses To The Nobodies.
WAIT, FROM MOST LEFTY ACADEMICS THAT WOULD BE PRAISE FOR TRUMP, THOUGH: Prof compares Trump to Hugo Chavez, Venuzuelan press to Fox News.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: As Expected, Trump Blamed for Deadly Massacres. “Twitter was full of all kinds of blame for Trump (and Fox News) which is strange because after domestic terror attacks by radical Muslims, we are immediately warned not to extrapolate blame beyond the guilty party.”
BLACK SEA COMBAT CRAFT: A U.S. Navy Combat Craft, Medium (aka Combatant Craft, Medium) assigned to Special Operations Command participates in exercise Trojan Footprint on the Black Sea. Photo taken June 13, 2019. Trojan Footprint is an annual special operations forces exercise sponsored by SOCOM.
NEIL DE GRASSE TYSON STRAYS FROM THE PARTY LINE:
UPDATE (From Ed): Neil Degrasse Tyson Apologizes For ‘Unhelpful’ Tweet Following Weekend Shootings.
NOT SURE IT CAN BE PUT MORE PRECISELY THAN THIS: “Pursuing Comey on the memo-leaking offense would be like charging Comey for jaywalking after he crossed the street to fire a close-range kill shot at our Constitution.” That’s according to “Adam Mill,” writing this morning in The Federalist. I’m waiting and seeing.
Mill makes the point enroute to his conclusion that there has been a succession of intelligence community scandals since 2013, one of which was the revelation in 2014 of NSA’s “Bumblehive.” If that doesn’t jar your memory, remember Admiral John Poindexter and “Total Information Awareness?” Go here.