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Bombshell: Antifa Are Receiving Military Training in Syria

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Antifa has finally crossed the line from thuggish to outright terrorist — and now, as a new bombshell report finds, members of the protest groups are actually crossing into Syria to receive training from ISIS terrorists.

The ties that bind?

Both groups use violence as a means to their ends. And both groups share similar tyrannical political views that are aligned with communist, controllling principles.

The John Brown Gun Club is one of the group involved.

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American and European Antifa members are being attracted to the US-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) due to their anarcho-communist politics, who are in turn persuading the Antifa extremists to fight alongside them in the “Rojova revolution.”

Prisonplanet.com reports: Security agencies are concerned that these Antifa members will continue the “revolution at home” once they return. Already FBI sources have revealed Antifa literature and photos taken in the Middle East which were found in the hotel room of suspected Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock.

n a policy that began under the Obama administration, the US military is providing weapons and training to YPG members, many of whom are directly linked to the PKK terrorist organization.

This policy was wrapped under the guise of fighting ISIS, however, backing terrorists to fight terrorists hasn’t worked in the past.

An uproar occurred when US special forces in Syria attached YPG insignia to their arms and the US military was accused of supporting terrorism, to which the Pentagon admitted wrongdoing and said the use of the insignia was unauthorized.

As a result, the US military was forced to rebrand YPG as “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF) to provide plausible deniability.

The weapons and military training that the US military has provided them with are in turn being provided to western members of Antifa.

These members of Antifa, along with the Kurds, have been constantly glorified in the mainstream media.

Rolling Stone magazine interviewed several “western leftists” that are fighting in the YPG.

And the fact that these anarcho-communist militias have ‘women who are fighting ISIS’ is something that is oft-repeated.

Antifa groups in Europe and North America have posted photos of their fighters holding up the Kurdish YPG-flag along with the Antifa flag in Syria.

Now this group of militants is calling themselves the International Revolutionary People’s Guerilla Forces [IRPGF] and the vanguard “of the revolution” in Rojava who vow to fight capitalism all over the world.

This is already happening as Antifa members were part of an armed demonstration in Phoenix, Arizona.

One of the groups involved, the John Brown Gun Club, already glorifies the Kurdish YPG.

It’s plausible the photos from the Middle East that were found in the room of the Las Vegas shooter (along with Antifa literature) were photos of Antifa fighting alongside Kurds in Syria, and it’s also possible the shooter crossed into Syria to receive military training.

Foreign fighters are able to legally fly to Turkey and then illegally cross into the Syrian border without being detected.

Germany is already reeling from a large population of Antifa, 1.2 million Kurdish immigrants and Kurdish militant groups working together in large numbers.

Furthermore, thousands of Germans have illegally crossed into Syria to fight alongside Kurds, thus it’s no surprise when German Antifa gangs show up at right-wing rallies with hundreds of people and commit violent attacks.

The media, however, continues to glorify Kurdish fighters as “the only people fighting ISIS” while ignoring the efforts of the Syrian and Russian governments.

This is mainly because the military-industrial complex had plans to balkanize Syria and Iraq, in the “project for a new Middle East” and they don’t care if they accomplish it using Islamic terrorists or Kurdish communists.

The Kurdish militias are not much better than ISIS, nor as liberal and democratic as the media portrays them to be.

In fact, the Kurds themselves are not one homogenous group, with the majority of Kurds being Sunni Muslims and some of them even joining ISIS.

In Iraqi Kurdistan the percentage of female genital mutilation is around 70% while it’s zero in all other parts of the country.

In fact Iraqi Kurdistan, along with Yemen and Egypt, are the only areas of the Middle East where female genital mutilation is routinely performed.

But even the communist YPG has been active at ethnically cleansing Christian Assyrians, Arabs and other minorities in the areas they deem the “Kurdish” state. Often times the areas they claim don’t even have a Kurdish population.

Since the Kurdish population aren’t a majority in the areas Kurdish militias are trying to annex, they are carrying out these ethnic cleansings of non-Kurdish minorities in an attempt to achieve a demographic shift.

The YPG forcibly disarmed Assyrian Christian militias after assassinating their leader, David Jindo.

In Iraq the US-backed Kurdish militia Peshmerga forced Christian and Yazedi militias to disarm, before abandoning them to genocide once ISIS attacked.

And the Kurdish regional government of Iraq is still not allowing these minority groups to return to their villages even though ISIS was pushed out two years ago.

The idea that Kurds deserve their own state is something that is being perpetually pushed by pro-war think tanks and liberal sympathizers; however, this pays little attention to the origin and history of the Kurdish people.

For one thing, the word Kurd was a designator for Iranian nomads.

Like many other nomadic groups such as Bedouins and gypsies, they cross borders tending to livestock.

They typically cross through Iraq and Turkey following the Euphrates River and live mostly in mountains.

In 1915, the Turkish government promised Kurds the homes and cities of the Armenian Christians if they were to participate in the Armenian and Assyrian genocide.

However after Kurds complied, Turkey reneged on the deal of giving them autonomy.

The population of Kurds in north Syria resulted from multiple waves of illegal Kurdish immigration from Turkey after they failed to mount insurrections against the Turkish government.

Many of these Kurdish were given refugee status by the Syrian government at the time, but now these same refugees are demanding their own state and are trying to claim ownership of much of Syria’s oil fields and are blocking the Syrian army from fighting east of the Euphrates.

This foreign policy of balkanizing Middle Eastern countries to create a Kurdistan may have explosive implications not just for the Middle East, but also for the West, as it breeds a new form of “Antifa resistance” as well as terrorism in the same way that ISIS was bred through US deep state foreign policy.

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Trump Unveils New Strict 70-Point Immigration Enforcement Plan

Determined to finally solve illegal immigration, the White House submitted a 70-point enforcement plan to Congress Sunday proposing the stiffest reforms ever offered by an administration — including a massive rewrite of the law in order to eliminate loopholes illegal immigrants have exploited to gain a foothold in the U.S.

The plans, seen by The Washington Times, include President Trump’s calls for a border wall, more deportation agents, a crackdown on sanctuary cities and stricter limits to chain migration — all issues the White House says need to be part of any bill Congress passes to legalize illegal immigrant “Dreamers” currently protected by the Obama-era deportation amnesty known as DACA.

But the plans break serious new ground on the legal front, giving federal agents more leeway to deny illegal immigrants at the border, to arrest and hold them when they’re spotted in the interior, and to deport them more speedily. The goal, the White House said, is to ensure major changes to border security, interior enforcement and the legal immigration system.

“Anything that is done addressing the status of DACA recipients needs to include these three reforms and solve these three problems,” a senior White House official told The Times. “If you don’t solve these problems then you’re not going to have a secure border, you’re not going to have a lawful immigration system and you’re not going to be able to protect American workers.” (Read more from “Trump Unveils New Strict 70-Point Immigration Enforcement Plan” HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/10/trump-unveils-new-strict-70-point-immigration-enforcement

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LOOК: Аll Eyeѕ Наve Веen оn Аnthеm Protеѕters, Вut Тhе Rеаl Ѕtory Iѕ Тhе Ѕеats Веhind Тhеm

In the past couple weeks, we’ve seen more national anthem protests in the NFL than ever before and fans have reacted accordingly. Ratings have plummeted, fans have boycotted, and ticket sales have dropped dramatically.


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This was made very clear on Sunday when pictures were shared on social media of several NFL games where there were thousands of empty seats:

to ,read more and see pictures http://www.voxtribune.com/all-eyes-have-been-on-anthem-protesters/

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California Hepatitis A Outbreak on Verge of Epidemic

The California hepatitis A outbreak is on the verge of reaching statewide epidemic status, as cases have spread through homeless tent cities from San Diego north to Sacramento.

California health officials have reported that at least 569 people have been infected with the hepatitis A liver disease and 17 have died since a San Diego County outbreak was first identified in November. Cases have migrated north to homeless populations in Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Sacramento over the last 11 months.

Although local and state authorities have tried to underplay the risks and severity of the outbreak, the most recent annual totals for cases of hepatitis A in the United States was 1,390 in 2015, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). California only reported 179 cases during the same year. (Read more from “California Hepatitis A Outbreak on Verge of Epidemic” HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/10/california-hepatitis-a-outbreak-on-verge-of-epidemic/

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Mon/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Las Vegas and the left's dangerous amorality
by ERIK RUSH
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IRS Malfeasance Meets Equifax Ineptitude
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by Jordan Candler:  It was just a few weeks ago when Equifax finally came clean about a staggering security breach that imperiled the data of some 145 million Americans. Earlier this year, hackers infiltrated the company’s database and retrieved troves of intimate consumer data, including Social Security and credit card numbers. Security breaches happen, but this case was particularly infuriating due to some company officials’ lackluster — perhaps even criminal — response and the preventable way in which the breach occurred.

          Another agency that retains some of your most personal information is the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS isn’t exactly trustworthy either, as demonstrated through the actions of Lois Lerner, who walked away with impunity after targeting conservative groups. The last thing consumers and taxpayers want these two agencies doing in teaming up. So guess what? That’s exactly what they’re doing. What could possibly go wrong?
          On Sept. 29, the IRS awarded a $7.25 million contract “to establish an order for third party data services from Equifax to verify taxpayer identity and to assist in ongoing identity verification and validations needs of the Service.” How ironic — and damning — it will be when some untold number of IRS applications are flagged for fraud by Equifax due to the leaking of information … by Equifax. At this point it’s basically inevitable.
          According to Fox News, “The contract stated that Equifax was the only company capable of providing these services to the IRS, and it was deemed a ‘critical’ service that couldn’t lapse.” That may or may not be true. But as Rep. Early Blumenauer made very clear, “I am shocked that the IRS would contract with this firm for activities that they are clearly unfit to carry out.” The agencies are either tone-deaf or perverse — or both. Hardly surprising — but nonetheless exasperating — coming from such contemptuous agencies.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51696

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Stolen Valor Blumenthal Holds Phony 
Newtown II PR Stunt To Grab Guns
{rickwells.us} ~ Richard “Stolen Valor” Blumenthal was in his home state of Connecticut and still the crowd size was so pathetically small that deceptive staging had to be used to avoid exposing just how tiny it was... Aside from being able to hear the individual hands clap as a signal of the small size, there were other giveaways. The wide aisle in front of the speaker probably isn’t an aisle at all, it looks like they positioned their few participants behind and to Blumenthal’s left, with one to his immediate right, to provide the illusion, the assumption, that both sides were equally populated. They also kept the crowd shot tight, since backing out any further would expose the dismal turnout. He focuses primarily on that side as he claps like a school boy at a Thanksgiving program rather than a grown man who is supposedly a leader of a state and our nation. Of course Blumenthal is neither, he’s an operative for the enemy, the globalist left attacking our nation and our 2nd Amendment... https://rickwells.us/stolen-valor-blumenthal-grab-guns/
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Lawsuit demands Mueller 
reveal spending on Russia probe
by BOB UNRUH
{wnd.com} ~ Former FBI director and now special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating alleged influence by Russia on the 2016 presidential election... and he reportedly has expanded the scope to the business interests of associates of President Trump, but has yet to present evidence of any crime. Now, he’s declining to release details of his spending on the probe, prompting Washington watchdog Judicial Watch to file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice. Last summer, Mueller submitted a proposed budget to the DOJ, but Judicial Watch said officials declined to make the document public and committed only to releasing reports of the team’s expenditures every six months...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/lawsuit-demands-mueller-reveal-spending-on-russia-probe/
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liar-nObama and His Cushy Pension Just 
Got Massive Bad News From the GOP
by DAVIS
{conservativetribune.com} ~ One of the many perks of becoming the president of the United States is that you have been guaranteed an income for life worth millions of dollars... thanks to the American taxpayers — no matter what other earnings might be coming in. However, the days of the federal treasury paying presidents huge amounts of money they’ll never need may finally be over thanks to a bill that is making its way through the Senate, The Daily Caller reported. On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs unanimously approved a bill that would cut presidential pensions, saving the taxpayers millions... https://conservativetribune.com/obama-bad-news-gop/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Trump Considering Replacing 
Tillerson With CIA Director
by JACK CROWE
{dailycaller.com} ~ President Donald Trump is reportedly mulling whether to dismiss embattled Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replace him with trusted confidante CIA Director Mike Pompeo... days after Tillerson reportedly referred to him as a “moron.” Pompeo’s name recently surfaced as Tillerson’s potential successor due to his strong relationship with the president and the stability that comes with choosing a replacement from within the existing cabinet, according to Axios. A member of Trump’s inner circle, Pompeo enjoys unique access to the president, delivering his daily briefings and offering consultation on all foreign policy decisions...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/06/trump-considering-replacing-tillerson-with-cia-director/
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As Harvey Weinstein Scandal Grows, Democrats Rush to Give Back Donations
{newsmax.com} ~ Congressional Democrats, Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer and potential 2020 presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren among them... are starting to give charities thousands of dollars in donations they had received from disgraced Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein and his family have given more than $1.4 million in political contributions since the 1992 election cycle, virtually all of it to Democratic lawmakers, candidates and their allies, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. The party's effort to separate itself from the 65-year-old film executive came after The New York Times reported that he settled sexual harassment lawsuits with at least eight women...  https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/us-harvey-weinstein-democrats/2017/10/06/id/818267/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1757136_10072017&s=al&dkt_nbr=0105042mpiim
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Las Vegas and the left's dangerous amorality
by ERIK RUSH
{wnd.com} ~ One of the first admonitions that came from cooler heads in the hours following Stephen Paddock’s deadly shooting rampage at a country music festival in Las Vegas Sunday night was a recommendation that those analyzing the incident refrain from politicizing the tragedy. It didn’t take long, however, for liberal politicos including those in the press to cast aside this counsel in favor of wholesale politicization of the shootings.

My thinking on the matter is that considering the magnitude and nature of the tragedy, the avoidance of politicizing same would be prudent unless the perpetrator himself was attempting to make some sort of political statement in carrying out the assault, but this has not been reliably established.

As one may have noticed, conspiracy theories concerning Paddock’s rampage abound. There have been as yet unsubstantiated reports that Paddock converted to a radical form of Islam at some point, as well as other reports of multiple shooters and the like. While lack of an apparent motive and information in general as regards Mr. Paddock could speak volumes, it could simply be indicative of measures he took to keep his life – and subsequently, his intention to kill a lot of people – a secret.

Although it would behoove anyone seeking the truth to take heed of the word “unsubstantiated” as regards some of the more controversial reports, it would also be wise to take a couple of other items into consideration: One, it’s been established that clandestine groups both inside and outside of government have been known to cultivate unbalanced individuals and fanatics to carry out such attacks as instruments of their agenda advancement. The second is that the left is operating under extreme duress, as I have indicated in this space many times since Donald Trump’s election; this has already given rise to all manner of desperate action on the part of the left.

On Monday night, late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel made several false statements about gun laws, presumably to precipitate efforts on the part of Washington lawmakers to impose increased gun control measures. liar-Hillary Clinton offered up some truly embarrassing statements relating to firearms and firearms laws, and claimed that the availability of firearms was some sort of dark conservative-Republican- National Rifle Association (NRA) conspiracy. She also criticized a “slow and creaky” infrastructure for firearms background checks.

The ever-mouthy, squat Hollywood goblin Lena Dunham said on social media that there was “no way not to politicize” the incident, and that Paddock’s shooting orgy was “about gender and race as well as access to guns.” I won’t even attempt to unravel that bit of logic.

NBC’s Tom Brokaw, instead of reporting the news, admonished citizens to organize against the NRA. Actress and perennial moron Alyssa Milano tweeted a link to “a list of the members of the House and Senate, and their twitter handles, that have taken money from the NRA.” A large and lively bunch of Hollywood ignoramuses weighed in with similar advice vis-à-vis the NRA, and a Drexel University professor blamed the shootings on a supposed narrative of white victimization advanced by – you guessed it – President Trump and his surrogates.

I’m actually somewhat surprised that country music itself hasn’t been cited by the left as a catalyst for this sort of violence, but I suppose there’s still time for that.

Let’s not mince words here: Those on the left who are driving the exploitation of the Las Vegas massacre to advance gun control are not interested in measures that might reduce gun violence, because no manner of precautions are capable of deterring a determined perpetrator with a gun – or a knife, a bomb, or any other weapon one might obtain or devise. They are interested in neutralizing the Second Amendment and disarming the American people. liar-Hillary Clinton and her ilk would probably adore a nationwide ban on firearms and mandatory electronic gunpowder sniffers in every home wherein a “hot” reading would result in a visit from the local SWAT team, all to ensure our safety, of course.

Potential conspiracies and the progressive fantasy of an unarmed populace aside, my observation this week speaks to the recurring theme that the true believers among liberals as opposed to the deluded, who simply lack epistemic reference for their beliefs have become dangerously amoral people. One of the most offensive yet telling reactions to the Las Vegas shootings came from Hayley Geftman-Gold, a CBS senior counsel who said on Facebook that she was “not even sympathetic to the shooting victims because country music fans often are Republican gun toters.”

Geftman-Gold was quickly sacked by CBS, but she wasn’t the only person on the left to publicly articulate that correlation. She was, however, the only one audacious enough to suggest that the killed and injured country music fans – being Republican gun-toters and by logical extension, likely Trump supporters – had it coming.

I would submit that this level of callousness and inhumanity has become commonplace among the aforementioned liberal true believers. Liberal politicos and the press have worked tirelessly to dehumanize their political opponents, and while even many conservatives might disbelieve, I think that this is in preparation for some truly draconian social-engineering measures in future. These people are the sort who would turn their neighbors in to police-state authorities, even if they knew that in so doing they would consign said neighbors to enslavement, torture and death in concentration camps.

The response of those on the left to the Las Vegas shootings illustrate once more that they should be regarded as our mortal enemies, as opposed to fellow citizens with a somewhat divergent political viewpoint.
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Midterm 2018 Revolution

Midterm 2018 Revolution
President Trump / Trump tagged Congress / midterms 2018 / revolution / vote by MelissaM
 
 
I found a very encouraging article out of Breitbart. I have been talking about this for some time now. The midterms 2018 will be the real revolution, and the people will change the government once and for all. We have to, and only we can.
 
 
Then we will really see things happening once President Trump doesn’t have to deal with the obstructionists anymore!
 
It is more important in these times, then ever before, for all of us to pay attention to who is running for congress, as well as all other offices, in our states and get out there and VOTE when the time comes! Bring everyone with you, just like we did in the general election. Remember, massive turnout defeats voter fraud!
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School Teaches Kids, Staff How to ‘Witness Whiteness’

An expensive St. Louis kindergarten-through-grade 8 school is making sure its students are aware of race from the moment their enrolled until they time the graduate.

Thanks to the “Witnessing Whiteness” program, the $17,500 per year College School actually starts the racial consciousness in pre-kindergarten, with teachers pointing out to students, for example, how “few specific shades [of crayons], ranging from beige to brown” can be used as “the skin colors of figures in their drawings.”

According to The St. Louis American, the program is part of the “school’s approach to addressing race at every educational level.” For teachers and staff, they get to participate in discussions designed to get them to “rethink” how they view race. (Read more from “School Teaches Kids, Staff How to ‘Witness Whiteness'” HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/10/school-teaches-kids-staff-witness-whiteness/

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Mon/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Las Vegas and the left's dangerous amorality
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by ERIK RUSH
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IRS Malfeasance Meets Equifax Ineptitude
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          Another agency that retains some of your most personal information is the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS isn’t exactly trustworthy either, as demonstrated through the actions of Lois Lerner, who walked away with impunity after targeting conservative groups. The last thing consumers and taxpayers want these two agencies doing in teaming up. So guess what? That’s exactly what they’re doing. What could possibly go wrong?
          On Sept. 29, the IRS awarded a $7.25 million contract “to establish an order for third party data services from Equifax to verify taxpayer identity and to assist in ongoing identity verification and validations needs of the Service.” How ironic — and damning — it will be when some untold number of IRS applications are flagged for fraud by Equifax due to the leaking of information … by Equifax. At this point it’s basically inevitable.
          According to Fox News, “The contract stated that Equifax was the only company capable of providing these services to the IRS, and it was deemed a ‘critical’ service that couldn’t lapse.” That may or may not be true. But as Rep. Early Blumenauer made very clear, “I am shocked that the IRS would contract with this firm for activities that they are clearly unfit to carry out.” The agencies are either tone-deaf or perverse — or both. Hardly surprising — but nonetheless exasperating — coming from such contemptuous agencies.  ~The Patriot Post

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Stolen Valor Blumenthal Holds
Phony Newtown II PR Stunt To Grab Guns
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{rickwells.us} ~ Richard “Stolen Valor” Blumenthal was in his home state of Connecticut and still the crowd size was so pathetically small that deceptive staging had to be used to avoid exposing just how tiny it was... Aside from being able to hear the individual hands clap as a signal of the small size, there were other giveaways. The wide aisle in front of the speaker probably isn’t an aisle at all, it looks like they positioned their few participants behind and to Blumenthal’s left, with one to his immediate right, to provide the illusion, the assumption, that both sides were equally populated. They also kept the crowd shot tight, since backing out any further would expose the dismal turnout. He focuses primarily on that side as he claps like a school boy at a Thanksgiving program rather than a grown man who is supposedly a leader of a state and our nation. Of course Blumenthal is neither, he’s an operative for the enemy, the globalist left attacking our nation and our 2nd Amendment... https://rickwells.us/stolen-valor-blumenthal-grab-guns/
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Lawsuit demands Mueller 
reveal spending on Russia probe
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by BOB UNRUH
{wnd.com} ~ Former FBI director and now special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating alleged influence by Russia on the 2016 presidential election... and he reportedly has expanded the scope to the business interests of associates of President Trump, but has yet to present evidence of any crime. Now, he’s declining to release details of his spending on the probe, prompting Washington watchdog Judicial Watch to file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice. Last summer, Mueller submitted a proposed budget to the DOJ, but Judicial Watch said officials declined to make the document public and committed only to releasing reports of the team’s expenditures every six months...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/lawsuit-demands-mueller-reveal-spending-on-russia-probe/
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liar-nObama and His Cushy Pension
Just Got Massive Bad News From the GOP
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by DAVIS
{conservativetribune.com} ~ One of the many perks of becoming the president of the United States is that you have been guaranteed an income for life worth millions of dollars... thanks to the American taxpayers — no matter what other earnings might be coming in. However, the days of the federal treasury paying presidents huge amounts of money they’ll never need may finally be over thanks to a bill that is making its way through the Senate, The Daily Caller reported. On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs unanimously approved a bill that would cut presidential pensions, saving the taxpayers millions...  https://conservativetribune.com/obama-bad-news-gop/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Trump Considering Replacing Tillerson With CIA Director
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by JACK CROWE
{dailycaller.com} ~ President Donald Trump is reportedly mulling whether to dismiss embattled Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replace him with trusted confidante CIA Director Mike Pompeo... days after Tillerson reportedly referred to him as a “moron.” Pompeo’s name recently surfaced as Tillerson’s potential successor due to his strong relationship with the president and the stability that comes with choosing a replacement from within the existing cabinet, according to Axios. A member of Trump’s inner circle, Pompeo enjoys unique access to the president, delivering his daily briefings and offering consultation on all foreign policy decisions...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/06/trump-considering-replacing-tillerson-with-cia-director/
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As Harvey Weinstein Scandal Grows,
Democrats Rush to Give Back Donations
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{newsmax.com} ~ Congressional Democrats, Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer and potential 2020 presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren among them... are starting to give charities thousands of dollars in donations they had received from disgraced Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein and his family have given more than $1.4 million in political contributions since the 1992 election cycle, virtually all of it to Democratic lawmakers, candidates and their allies, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. The party's effort to separate itself from the 65-year-old film executive came after The New York Times reported that he settled sexual harassment lawsuits with at least eight women...  https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/us-harvey-weinstein-democrats/2017/10/06/id/818267/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1757136_10072017&s=al&dkt_nbr=0105042mpiim
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Las Vegas and the left's dangerous amorality
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by ERIK RUSH
{wnd.com} ~ One of the first admonitions that came from cooler heads in the hours following Stephen Paddock’s deadly shooting rampage at a country music festival in Las Vegas Sunday night was a recommendation that those analyzing the incident refrain from politicizing the tragedy. It didn’t take long, however, for liberal politicos including those in the press to cast aside this counsel in favor of wholesale politicization of the shootings.

My thinking on the matter is that considering the magnitude and nature of the tragedy, the avoidance of politicizing same would be prudent unless the perpetrator himself was attempting to make some sort of political statement in carrying out the assault, but this has not been reliably established.

As one may have noticed, conspiracy theories concerning Paddock’s rampage abound. There have been as yet unsubstantiated reports that Paddock converted to a radical form of Islam at some point, as well as other reports of multiple shooters and the like. While lack of an apparent motive and information in general as regards Mr. Paddock could speak volumes, it could simply be indicative of measures he took to keep his life – and subsequently, his intention to kill a lot of people – a secret.

Although it would behoove anyone seeking the truth to take heed of the word “unsubstantiated” as regards some of the more controversial reports, it would also be wise to take a couple of other items into consideration: One, it’s been established that clandestine groups both inside and outside of government have been known to cultivate unbalanced individuals and fanatics to carry out such attacks as instruments of their agenda advancement. The second is that the left is operating under extreme duress, as I have indicated in this space many times since Donald Trump’s election; this has already given rise to all manner of desperate action on the part of the left.

On Monday night, late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel made several false statements about gun laws, presumably to precipitate efforts on the part of Washington lawmakers to impose increased gun control measures. liar-Hillary Clinton offered up some truly embarrassing statements relating to firearms and firearms laws, and claimed that the availability of firearms was some sort of dark conservative-Republican- National Rifle Association (NRA) conspiracy. She also criticized a “slow and creaky” infrastructure for firearms background checks.

The ever-mouthy, squat Hollywood goblin Lena Dunham said on social media that there was “no way not to politicize” the incident, and that Paddock’s shooting orgy was “about gender and race as well as access to guns.” I won’t even attempt to unravel that bit of logic.

NBC’s Tom Brokaw, instead of reporting the news, admonished citizens to organize against the NRA. Actress and perennial moron Alyssa Milano tweeted a link to “a list of the members of the House and Senate, and their twitter handles, that have taken money from the NRA.” A large and lively bunch of Hollywood ignoramuses weighed in with similar advice vis-à-vis the NRA, and a Drexel University professor blamed the shootings on a supposed narrative of white victimization advanced by – you guessed it – President Trump and his surrogates.

I’m actually somewhat surprised that country music itself hasn’t been cited by the left as a catalyst for this sort of violence, but I suppose there’s still time for that.

Let’s not mince words here: Those on the left who are driving the exploitation of the Las Vegas massacre to advance gun control are not interested in measures that might reduce gun violence, because no manner of precautions are capable of deterring a determined perpetrator with a gun – or a knife, a bomb, or any other weapon one might obtain or devise. They are interested in neutralizing the Second Amendment and disarming the American people. liar-Hillary Clinton and her ilk would probably adore a nationwide ban on firearms and mandatory electronic gunpowder sniffers in every home wherein a “hot” reading would result in a visit from the local SWAT team, all to ensure our safety, of course.

Potential conspiracies and the progressive fantasy of an unarmed populace aside, my observation this week speaks to the recurring theme that the true believers among liberals as opposed to the deluded, who simply lack epistemic reference for their beliefs have become dangerously amoral people. One of the most offensive yet telling reactions to the Las Vegas shootings came from Hayley Geftman-Gold, a CBS senior counsel who said on Facebook that she was “not even sympathetic to the shooting victims because country music fans often are Republican gun toters.”

Geftman-Gold was quickly sacked by CBS, but she wasn’t the only person on the left to publicly articulate that correlation. She was, however, the only one audacious enough to suggest that the killed and injured country music fans – being Republican gun-toters and by logical extension, likely Trump supporters – had it coming.

I would submit that this level of callousness and inhumanity has become commonplace among the aforementioned liberal true believers. Liberal politicos and the press have worked tirelessly to dehumanize their political opponents, and while even many conservatives might disbelieve, I think that this is in preparation for some truly draconian social-engineering measures in future. These people are the sort who would turn their neighbors in to police-state authorities, even if they knew that in so doing they would consign said neighbors to enslavement, torture and death in concentration camps.

The response of those on the left to the Las Vegas shootings illustrate once more that they should be regarded as our mortal enemies, as opposed to fellow citizens with a somewhat divergent political viewpoint.
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The ability of the left-wing propaganda machine to demean any action by the Trump administration is on full display following the decision by Vice President Mike Pence to leave an NFL game because players knelt during the National Anthem.

Pence and his wife Karen attended the Indianapolis Colts Sunday game that was going to honor former quarterback Payton Manning by retiring his football jersey.

A group of the opposing players from the San Francisco 49ers knelt during the National Anthem and the vice president and his wife left the game.

The Washington Post reports on the decision by Pence:

“I left today’s Colts game because President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem. At a time when so many Americans are inspiring our nation with their courage, resolve, and resilience, now, more than ever, we should rally around our Flag and everything that unites us,” he said in a statement. “While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I don’t think it’s too much to ask NFL players to respect the Flag and our National Anthem. I stand with President Trump, I stand with our soldiers, and I will always stand for our Flag and our National Anthem.”

Following the news coverage of Pence, the left-wing propaganda machine swung into action and called the vice president’s action an expensive “stunt.”

Breitbart News reports on a Tweet from California Democrat Adam Schiff:

After all the scandals involving unnecessarily expensive travel by cabinet secretaries, how much taxpayer money was wasted on this stunt?

The Washington Examiner reports on Democrat reaction to Pence:

“This was orchestrated to make a point?” Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, asked on Twitter. “That’s not an inexpensive thing to do.”

MSNBC program “Morning Joe” continued to promote the expensive stunt message point:

Mediaite reports:

MSNBC’s Steve Schmidt kicked things off: “It’s truly amazing. So he took Air Force 2, full package of Secret Service from Las Vegas to Indianapolis for a stunt, inconvenienced tens of thousands of Colts fans.”

“To, again, use the flag and the anthem as a prop,” Schmidt said. “And the greatest desecration of that flag is the assault on its foundational values which occurs every day with this administration with their attacks on the spirit of the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of expression.”

CNN also weighed in:

How much did Vice President Mike Pence’s trip to Indianapolis to watch — and then abruptly leave — a football game Sunday between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers cost?

Finally, a 49ers player also called it a stunt:

And 49ers safety Eric Reid, who was one of the players to start kneeling with Kaepernick in 2016, told reporters that he thought the whole thing was a ‘PR stunt.’

‘So this looks like a PR stunt to me,’ he said in a post-game interview.

‘He knew our team has the most players protest[ing]. He knew that we were probably going to do it again. This is what systematic oppression looks like.

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The ability of the left-wing propaganda machine to demean any action by the Trump administration is on full display following the decision by Vice President Mike Pence to leave an NFL game because players knelt during the National Anthem.

Pence and his wife Karen attended the Indianapolis Colts Sunday game that was going to honor former quarterback Payton Manning by retiring his football jersey.

A group of the opposing players from the San Francisco 49ers knelt during the National Anthem and the vice president and his wife left the game.

The Washington Post reports on the decision by Pence:

“I left today’s Colts game because President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem. At a time when so many Americans are inspiring our nation with their courage, resolve, and resilience, now, more than ever, we should rally around our Flag and everything that unites us,” he said in a statement. “While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I don’t think it’s too much to ask NFL players to respect the Flag and our National Anthem. I stand with President Trump, I stand with our soldiers, and I will always stand for our Flag and our National Anthem.”

Following the news coverage of Pence, the left-wing propaganda machine swung into action and called the vice president’s action an expensive “stunt.”

Breitbart News reports on a Tweet from California Democrat Adam Schiff:

After all the scandals involving unnecessarily expensive travel by cabinet secretaries, how much taxpayer money was wasted on this stunt?

The Washington Examiner reports on Democrat reaction to Pence:

“This was orchestrated to make a point?” Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, asked on Twitter. “That’s not an inexpensive thing to do.”

MSNBC program “Morning Joe” continued to promote the expensive stunt message point:

Mediaite reports:

MSNBC’s Steve Schmidt kicked things off: “It’s truly amazing. So he took Air Force 2, full package of Secret Service from Las Vegas to Indianapolis for a stunt, inconvenienced tens of thousands of Colts fans.”

“To, again, use the flag and the anthem as a prop,” Schmidt said. “And the greatest desecration of that flag is the assault on its foundational values which occurs every day with this administration with their attacks on the spirit of the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of expression.”

CNN also weighed in:

How much did Vice President Mike Pence’s trip to Indianapolis to watch — and then abruptly leave — a football game Sunday between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers cost?

Finally, a 49ers player also called it a stunt:

And 49ers safety Eric Reid, who was one of the players to start kneeling with Kaepernick in 2016, told reporters that he thought the whole thing was a ‘PR stunt.’

‘So this looks like a PR stunt to me,’ he said in a post-game interview.

‘He knew our team has the most players protest[ing]. He knew that we were probably going to do it again. This is what systematic oppression looks like.

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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Can the Government Keep Us Safe?
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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The NRA Responds to Leftist Hypocrisy
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          Cox noted that Paddock was not a NRA member, but that NRA members were murdered and wounded in his shooting rampage. He emphasized that the NRA exists “so that good honest people aren’t left defenseless.” He also pointed to a simple fact: “Gun control is a failed policy. And it’s safe to say that it doesn’t keep people safe.
          In what was his most poignant defense of the NRA, Cox said, “The NRA spends millions of dollars each year teaching safe and responsible gun ownership, and Hollywood makes billions promoting and glorifying gun violence. And then the same hypocrites come in and say that we’re to blame for this.
          Carlson then asked him specifically about “bump stocks” and whether the NRA was calling for them to be banned. Cox responded, “Barack liar-nObama’s administration approved the sale of bump stocks and these other devices. What we have said is that the ATF needs to do their job. ATF needs to look and if there is technology that has come to the market that allows a semi-automatic rifle to function as a fully automatic rifle they need to be regulated differently. We didn’t talk about banning anything, we talked about ATF going back and reviewing whether or not these are in compliance with federal law. And if not let’s look at working together and figuring out a way to address this moving forward.”
          Cox closed by once again emphasizing the need for honesty. “We need to have a broader conversation about a violent culture and what’s happened with gratuitous violence out of Hollywood; what’s happened with prescription drugs. Being honest with one another that if we’ve tried something and it’s failed it’s time to move on.
          Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi (D-CA) yesterday hinted at exactly why the NRA exists — to defend our first civil right. In calling for Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to schedule a vote on a Democrat bill that would ban bump stocks, Pulosi was asked if she viewed this bill as a potential slippery slope toward further gun restrictions. She replied, “I certainly hope so.”  ~The Patriot Post

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Dobbs – Gorka Recommends Tillerson Replacement
He Says WILL Drain State Dept Swamp
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs asks Sebastian Gorka for his input regarding the conflicts at the White House... between President Trump and Secretary of Defense Mattis as well as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Gorka takes the somewhat safe route while leaving little doubt as to what he thinks, saying, “I’m not going to cast aspersions or critique individuals inside the administration, but I will say one thing. I got to know Mike Pompeo when I came into the administration.” Gorka says, “He is a hard charger. He is a  101% Trump loyalist. If anybody can shake the State Department into some kind of sense after decades of not acting in the best interest of the United States and being devoted ideologically to multi-lateral kumbaya globalism, it might just be DCI Mike Pompeo.”... https://rickwells.us/dobbs-gorka-tillerson-swamp/
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We can't stop mass murder
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by Shikha Dalmia
{theweek.com} ~ In the wake of massacres like the Las Vegas mass shooting, many Americans reflexively demand gun control. The instinct is understandable... But that doesn't mean such initiatives will be effective beyond the margins. So what should we do instead? How about focusing less on preemptively thwarting prospective attackers and instead boosting the defensive capacities of prospective victims. The grim lesson is this: There is nothing we can do to completely stop all killers at all times. The possibilities for mayhem are infinite. A society's means to stop them are finite. Psychotics and terrorists will always find ways to exploit the cracks. No government can create an entirely foolproof system...  http://theweek.com/articles/728581/cant-stop-mass-murder?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldZd016RTJOVFZoT0RjeSIsInQiOiJQenQ0M1wvUmZqV2E3SlFYcXBXYWxKbWNYT1NtdmJ0Z281MUFKMnRDb1Y4MG50RlZmMytKc2V2RTZLNVVLbGNWTjFlNnRKd1I4SFlDTHk1cDVnSlF2b0ZpdUVuWktWa1BYQjlCZmhTUU5ROW5RbWljQnZrY25rdG4xajVwU0NvVW4ifQ%3D%3D
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ISIS is losing badly. Should 
Trump or liar-nObama get the credit?
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by Jamie McIntyre
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ It is becoming increasingly clear that the Islamic State is on the ropes in Iraq and Syria, and its defeat is just a matter of time... What is less clear is whose strategy produced the victory. This week, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that the group's "fraudulent caliphate in Iraq and Syria is on the brink of being completely extinguished," and credited "an aggressive new strategy led by the president." On Thursday, U.S. and Iraqi officials announced that troops had seized control of Hawija in Iraq, the last major town held by the terror group in that country...The credit goes to Trump.  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/isis-is-losing-badly-should-trump-or-obama-get-the-credit/article/2636767?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From%20-%2010/07/17&utm_medium=email
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Indicted Aide Gives Feds 
SHOCKING Details On Dem Reps

{goppresidential.com} ~ House Democrats ordered the systematic falsification of records showing how they spend their taxpayer-provided office budgets, according to lawyers for two former House information technology (IT) aides...
 It’s a remarkable accusation that pits sitting lawmakers against the former aides, Imran Awan, his brothers Abid and Jamal, and his wife Hina Alvi. Imran was arrested in July while trying to board a flight to Pakistan, and then indicted on four counts of bank fraud involving moving money to that country. Imran and Hina, who was also indicted, face a court date Friday. One of Imran’s lawyers, Aaron Page, acknowledged the invoicing discrepancy Aug. 21, telling The Daily Caller News Foundation, “This is just how things have been done for forever. This is what experienced members of Congress expect: to expedite things, they adjust the pricing.”...
 http://goppresidential.com/2017/10/05/indicted-aide-gives-feds-shocking-details-on-dem-reps/
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Collusion and the Trump Dossier
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by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
{nationalreview.com} ~ If the Trump dossier is a tissue of lies, why are the Justice Department and FBI, now controlled by Trump appointees, concealing information about it?... It is an article of faith among the president’s most ardent supporters: The Trump dossier is a completely discredited piece of garbage. Hence, its relevance is limited to one matter and one matter alone: The dossier’s suspected use by the liar-nObama administration specifically, the Justice Department and the FBI as a pretext to spy on the opposition party’s presidential campaign — a ruse that included cribbing the dossier’s sensational allegations in secret court applications for wiretap warrants. It appears that this Trumpist tenet is going to be tested. The dossier that did so much to fuel the collusion controversy is assuming center stage once more... http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452427/trump-dossier-russia-collusion-investigation?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202017-10-07&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives
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Can the Government Keep Us Safe?
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~ Here we go again. The United States has been rattled to the core by an unspeakable act of evil perpetrated by a hater of humanity. A quiet, wealthy loner rented a hotel suite in Las Vegas, armed it with shooting platforms and automatic weapons, knocked out two of the windows, and shot at innocents 32 floors below. Fifty-nine people were murdered, and 527 were injured.

The killer used rifles that he purchased legally and altered illegally. He effectively transformed several rifles that emit one round per trigger pull and present the next round in the barrel for immediate use (semiautomatics) into rifles that emit rounds continuously when the trigger is pulled -- hundreds of rounds per minute (automatics). Though some automatic rifles that were manufactured before 1986 can lawfully be purchased today with an onerous federal permit, automatic weapons generally have been unlawful in the United States since 1934. Even the police and the military are not permitted to use them here.
 
I present this brief summary of the recent tragedy and the implicated gun laws to address the issue of whether the government can keep us safe.

Those who fought the Revolution and wrote the Constitution knew that the government cannot keep us safe. Because they used violence against the king and his soldiers to secede from Great Britain, they recognized that all people have a natural right to use a weapon of contemporary technological capabilities to protect themselves and their liberty and property. They sought to assure the exercise of this right by enacting the now well-known Second Amendment, which prohibits the government from infringing upon the right to keep and bear arms.
 
When the Supreme Court interpreted this right in 2008 and 2010, it referred to the right to keep and bear arms as pre-political. "Pre-political" means that the right pre-existed the government. It is a secular term for a fundamental, or natural, right. A natural right is one that stems from our humanity -- such as freedom of thought, speech, religion, self-defense, privacy, travel, etc. It does not come from the government, and it exists in the absence of government.

The recognition of a right as fundamental or natural or pre-political is not a mere academic exercise. This is so because rights in this category cannot be abrogated by the popular will. Stated differently, just as your right to think as you wish and say what you think cannot be interfered with or taken away in America by legislation, so, too, your right to own, carry and use arms of the same sophistication as are generally available to bad guys and to government officials cannot be interfered with or taken away by legislation. That is at least the modern theory of the Second Amendment.

Notwithstanding the oath that all in government have taken to uphold the Constitution, many in government reject the Second Amendment. Their enjoyment of power and love of office rank higher in their hearts and minds than does their constitutionally required fidelity to the protection of personal freedoms. They think the government can right any wrong and protect us from any evil and acquire for us any good just to keep us safe, even if constitutional norms are violated in doing so.
 
Can the government keep us safe? In a word, no.

This is not a novel or arcane observation but rather a rational conclusion from knowing history and everyday life. In Europe, where the right to keep and bear arms is nearly nonexistent for those outside government, killers strike with bombs and knives and trucks. In America, killers use guns and only stop when they are killed by law-abiding civilians or by the police.

The answer to government failure is a candid recognition that in a free society -- one in which we are all free to come and go as we see fit without government inquiry or interference -- we must be prepared for these tragedies.

We must keep ourselves safe, as well as those whom we invite onto our properties.

Surely, if the president of the United States were to have appeared at the concert venue in Las Vegas to address the crowd, the Las Vegas killer would never have succeeded in bringing his arsenal to his hotel room. Government always protects its own. Shouldn't landowners who invite the public to their properties do the same?

Add to government's incompetence its useless, intrusive omnipresence. In present-day America, the National Security Agency -- the federal government's domestic spying agency -- captures in real time the contents of every telephone call, email and text message, as well as all data sent over fiber-optic cables everywhere in the U.S. Thus, whatever electronic communications the Las Vegas killer participated in prior to his murders are in possession of the federal government.
 
Mass surveillance is expressly prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, but the government does it nevertheless. It claims it does so to keep us safe. Yet this exquisite constitutional violation results in too much information for the feds to examine in a timely manner. That's why the evidence of these massacres -- from Sandy Hook to Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino to Las Vegas -- is always discovered too late. At this writing, the government has yet to reveal what it knew about the Las Vegas killer's plans before he executed them and executed innocents.

This leaves us in a very precarious position today. The government cannot keep us safe, but it claims that it can. It wants to interfere with our natural rights to self-defense and privacy, but whenever it does so, it keeps us less safe. And in whatever arena it keeps us less safe and falsely fosters the impression that we are safe, we become less free.
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JUST IN: Kaepernick Caught In Criminal Plot

Notorious national anthem kneeler, Colin Kaepernick, is like an anchor around the neck of the NFL. He is sinking fast and is dragging the NFL down with him.

On September 22nd, President Trump told a crowd in Huntsville, Alabama that kneeling NFL players deserved to be fired. Protesting the national anthem “disrespects our flag,” he said, referring to a hypothetical protesting player as a “son of a b—-.” While the protests launched by Colin Kaepernick were originally confined to a small group of players, President Trump’s comments galvanized the league, and many players felt personally attacked. Now, hundreds of players are protesting the national anthem in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, however, few of these players understand that Kaepernick is a radical ideologue who has donated $25,000 to honor a cop killer, reports The Washington Times.

In April, The Colin Kaepernick Foundation donated $25,000 to Assata’s Daughters, a radical “direct action” organization dedicated to honoring the legacy and spread the teachings of notorious cop-killer Assata Shakur.

Assata Shakur was a member of the Black Liberation Army, an offshoot of the violent Black Panther Party. Shakur entered into a gunfight with police on the New Jersey Turnpike in May 1973 which resulted in the death of Officer Werner Foerster. Shakur was found guilty of first-degree murder, in addition to seven other felonies, and was sentenced to life in prison. Assata Shakur managed to escape prison in 1979 and flee to Cuba, where she lives under political asylum.

Of the $25,000 dollars donated to Assata’s Daughters by Kaepernick, $2,500 will be directed towards a program dubbed CopWatch, which encourages volunteers to follow and videotape police. Another $15,000 was directed towards education, to “develop and train young people, ages 4-19, in the Black queer feminist tradition and in the spirit of Assata.”

Immediately after President Trump insulted Kaepernick at the Alabama rally, NFL players, owners, and coaches spoke out. Now, full teams are kneeling for the national anthem, or are waiting in their locker room until after the anthem ends to head onto the field in a show of solidarity.

Kaepernick is a radical ideologue who has donated $25,000 to honor a cop killer. When NFL players emulate him,do they realize they are honoring a cop killer?

Targeting the NFL, targeting the quality of the character of guys in this league for that very protest. I find that very alarming,” said Alex Smith, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback. “We know what went on this week,” chimed in Julius Peppers, a defensive end with the Carolina Panthers. “So, I felt like it was appropriate to stand up with them.”

Smith and Peppers are not alone, and many players expressed that they were personally offended by President Trump’s comments. This is understandable. However, the NFL and the players showing support for Kaepernick’s protests should determine if the radical is really worth supporting. It could spell a media firestorm.

Kaepernick claims that his protests were about police brutality, but since leaving the league, The Colin Kaepernick Foundation has supported numerous radical causes — such as pro-open border advocates, pro-abortion groups, The Women’s March, and cop killers. Are the NFL and their players really prepared to take a stance on these controversial issues, and come out in support of a radical?

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JUST IN: Kaepernick Caught In Criminal Plot

Notorious national anthem kneeler, Colin Kaepernick, is like an anchor around the neck of the NFL. He is sinking fast and is dragging the NFL down with him.

On September 22nd, President Trump told a crowd in Huntsville, Alabama that kneeling NFL players deserved to be fired. Protesting the national anthem “disrespects our flag,” he said, referring to a hypothetical protesting player as a “son of a b—-.” While the protests launched by Colin Kaepernick were originally confined to a small group of players, President Trump’s comments galvanized the league, and many players felt personally attacked. Now, hundreds of players are protesting the national anthem in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, however, few of these players understand that Kaepernick is a radical ideologue who has donated $25,000 to honor a cop killer, reports The Washington Times.

In April, The Colin Kaepernick Foundation donated $25,000 to Assata’s Daughters, a radical “direct action” organization dedicated to honoring the legacy and spread the teachings of notorious cop-killer Assata Shakur.

Assata Shakur was a member of the Black Liberation Army, an offshoot of the violent Black Panther Party. Shakur entered into a gunfight with police on the New Jersey Turnpike in May 1973 which resulted in the death of Officer Werner Foerster. Shakur was found guilty of first-degree murder, in addition to seven other felonies, and was sentenced to life in prison. Assata Shakur managed to escape prison in 1979 and flee to Cuba, where she lives under political asylum.

Of the $25,000 dollars donated to Assata’s Daughters by Kaepernick, $2,500 will be directed towards a program dubbed CopWatch, which encourages volunteers to follow and videotape police. Another $15,000 was directed towards education, to “develop and train young people, ages 4-19, in the Black queer feminist tradition and in the spirit of Assata.”

Immediately after President Trump insulted Kaepernick at the Alabama rally, NFL players, owners, and coaches spoke out. Now, full teams are kneeling for the national anthem, or are waiting in their locker room until after the anthem ends to head onto the field in a show of solidarity.

Kaepernick is a radical ideologue who has donated $25,000 to honor a cop killer. When NFL players emulate him,do they realize they are honoring a cop killer?

Targeting the NFL, targeting the quality of the character of guys in this league for that very protest. I find that very alarming,” said Alex Smith, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback. “We know what went on this week,” chimed in Julius Peppers, a defensive end with the Carolina Panthers. “So, I felt like it was appropriate to stand up with them.”

Smith and Peppers are not alone, and many players expressed that they were personally offended by President Trump’s comments. This is understandable. However, the NFL and the players showing support for Kaepernick’s protests should determine if the radical is really worth supporting. It could spell a media firestorm.

Kaepernick claims that his protests were about police brutality, but since leaving the league, The Colin Kaepernick Foundation has supported numerous radical causes — such as pro-open border advocates, pro-abortion groups, The Women’s March, and cop killers. Are the NFL and their players really prepared to take a stance on these controversial issues, and come out in support of a radical?

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The Front Page Cover
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Will The Supreme Court 
Fall Into A Political Thicket?
by George Will 
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Stepping Back From the Crime Scene
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by Michael Swartz:  As is their practice after a shooting with casualties on a mass scale, leftists are blaming the guns for the behavior of a man who obviously lost sight of the commandment, “You shall not murder.” And while we mourn the victims, the mainstream media seems preoccupied with the possibility of multiple shooters and the need to ban “bump stocks.” Many folks have also lost sight of the big picture: Statistically, we’re at far greater risk in a hospital than at a public concert like Sunday night’s Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas.

          One statistician, in fact, concluded that the gun control measures being proposed would be rather ineffective in addressing the problem. Leah Libresco, who is described by The Washington Post as “a statistician and former newswriter at FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism site,” came to this realization as part of a large effort by her former employer — something FiveThirtyEight reminded us of this week — to analyze all 33,000 deaths by firearm in a particular year. She makes the case that “bump stocks,” bans on so-called “assault rifles,” and even gun buybacks would do little good when the largest portions of gun deaths involve their usage as “suicide machines” or as a method for young gangbangers to settle scores.
          “But, but,” stammers the Left, “look at how little gun violence there is in Australia — a place where certain types of guns were confiscated under penalty of law two decades ago after their own mass shooting.” While it’s true that no significant mass shootings have since occurred in Australia, a 2016 study by three Australian researchers found the data was inconclusive regarding the effects of the gun buyback: “Following enactment of gun law reforms in Australia in 1996, there were no mass firearm killings through May 2016. There was a more rapid decline in firearm deaths between 1997 and 2013 compared with before 1997 but also a decline in total nonfirearm suicide and homicide deaths of a greater magnitude. Because of this, it is not possible to determine whether the change in firearm deaths can be attributed to the gun law reforms.
          Moreover, as Corey Iacono of the Foundation for Economic Education points out, another study that used the adjacent island nation of New Zealand — where there are fewer restrictions on guns — as a control found that both had roughly the same decline in mass shootings. “Gun control advocates have built their entire case about Australian gun control on lazy data analysis, or perhaps no data analysis at all,” argues Iacono. “If anything, Australia proves the complete opposite of what advocates of gun control want.
          He added, “A national gun confiscation scheme which reduced the civilian firearm stock by an astounding twenty percent and nobody can seem to find any clear evidence it caused a meaningful effect on the firearm murder rate? That’s not only embarrassing, it goes against everything they believe about the nature of the relationship between guns and murder rates.
          Then, when we consider this longstanding fact that more guns have yielded less crime, leftists’ case really begins to unravel. Not that they’ll stop shouting from the rooftops about it anyway — their newest cause is to repeal the Second Amendment. Our response? Molon labe.
          The leftist viewpoint — shared, apparently, by the New York Times’ token “conservative,” Bret Stephens — doesn’t come close to meeting the smell test. Stephens’ anti-gun prejudices lead him to use faulty numbers, including counting five years’ worth of murder statistics to give himself a number that finally exceeds the annual toll in auto accidents. Even at this emotion-driven moment, this is all the gun-grabbers have.
          Should we remind them yet again that stridently anti-gun Europe, whose elites would love to see our pesky Second Amendment consigned to the dustbin of history, suffers more mass shootings on a statistical basis than the U.S. does? Europe’s restrictions don’t allow a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with one. As we often point out, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Stephen Paddock reportedly spent about 11 minutes firing at the crowd before a security guard finally made it to his room. Local police were even further behind.
          In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, Congress will certainly feel pressured to “do something,” with the most likely outcome a feel-good ban on bump stocks. Even the NRA doesn’t have a problem considering that, and a Republican lawmaker already has the bill set to go.
          Despite the statistics that have shown a trend toward more security, our government cannot make us perfectly safe — though armed citizens certainly have made us safer. Even if the government took away all the so-called “assault weapons,” deranged individuals bent on causing mass casualties would find a way to do so. One need look no further than the 85 people mowed down last year by a jihadi with a truck in Nice, France.
          Incidents like these are a problem of evil. Instead of debating the repeal of the Second Amendment — which was, after all, placed in the Bill of Rights as a check against a tyrannical government having all the firepower — we should be discussing the lack of self-control that our culture seems to encourage. There are still many laws on the books that extend the command of “you shall not murder,” and perhaps the first order of business should be to restore a much-needed respect for life.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51717

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Dobbs, Fitton – Outraged Corrupt GOP 
Handed Reins Of Witch Hunts To Dems
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs welcomed Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch to his program for a discussion of the insufferable boobs leading the Senate Intelligence Committee’s “fishing expedition and witch hunt”... and other traitors operating openly under the GOP label. Dobbs begins with a statement that “Watching Warner and Burr is so painful, because they think they’re fooling someone when they’re carrying out a political action, not one of oversight of the intelligence community, which is their primary charge, as the intelligence community is struggling to defend whatever assets we have left in cyberspace.” Dobbs doesn’t overstate the pathetic display put on by Senators Burr and Warner, which clearly looked like an attempt to offer excuses and buy themselves more time for their witch hunt to continue. Both of the crooked, bumbling jackasses were clearly engaged in a political hit and trying to make it look like a legitimate function of their positions...  https://rickwells.us/dobbs-fitton-intel-control-dems/
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Shaffer, Furman – 3 Clues Need Close 
Attention In Las Vegas Investigation
{rickwells.us} ~ Tony Shaffer and Mark Furman join Martha MacCallum to discuss the evolution of the case surrounding the massacre in Las Vegas... Shaffer notes there are three clues that Las Vegas Sheriff Lombardo has put out there which he believes we need to pay very close attention to. The radicalization statement of a couple of days ago, a “spontaneous utterance” about this issue, has not been resolved or addressed. He says that secondly, “they’ve announced a global investigation now ongoing for people who may have been involved and helped him.” Shaffer says, “That talks about a network, that means there’s something, either a criminal network or a terror network, but there’s something else there. And third, to the other point of the fact now that they’ve clearly said, there’s evidence, and they know more than they’re saying for obvious reasons.”... https://rickwells.us/shaffer-furman-3-clues-las-vegas/
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Pulosi Brain Drained – Freezes Up, 
Can’t Babble, Words Just Won’t Come Out
{rickwells.us} ~ We’ve all heard that a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and in Nancy Pulosi’s case, that was true even before hers stopped working... It never worked properly, as her leadership position in the communist Democrat Party has shown over time, but the dysfunction is now becoming something she can no longer hide. It’s like a police officer pulling someone over and asking you if they’ve had anything to drink tonight. The response, whether it be a semi-truthful “Yes sir, officer, only a couple of beers” or a lying “No, sir – I’m just a little tired,” the slurring of the words is going to be what answers the question. She can try to pretend she’s maintaining but reality is giving her away... https://rickwells.us/pelosi-brain-drained-freezes-up/
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Flanked By Top Military Leaders, Trump Comments “Calm Before The Storm”
{rickwells.us} ~ Whether the purpose was to inject uncertainty or fear into the minds of our adversaries from the standpoint of strengthening his negotiating position... an actual statement of imminent military conflict or something else, the words of President Trump were unsettling. At a reception for top military officials, President Trump said to the media and photographers during  a groupphoto, “You guys know what this represents? Maybe it’s the calm before the storm. Could be the calm before the storm.” A reporter asks him, “From Iran,  on ISIS or what? Another asks, “What storm Mr. President?” as he says, “We have the world’s great military people in this room, I will tell you that. And we’re going to have a great evening. Thank you all for coming, thank you.”..https://rickwells.us/military-trump-calm-storm/
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Kimmel's Clueless Condemnation
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by Thomas Gallatin:  Is Jimmy Kimmel looking to start his own religion with his expressed ability to look into the hearts and minds of people and enter into judgment against them? Or does he merely have his sights set on running for head of the Democratic National Committee? Tuesday evening he followed up his Monday evening emotion-filled rant against Republicans and their support of the Second Amendment. Kimmel decided to climb even higher up that self-righteous ivory tower of his to rain down contempt upon those who dared criticize him for his immediate politicizing of the atrocity in Las Vegas the night before. Kimmel blasted:
          They say it’s inappropriate to be talking about it because it’s too soon. Well, maybe it’s too soon for you because deep down inside you know, in your heart, you know you bear some responsibility for the fact that almost anyone can get any weapon they want. And now you want to cover yourself until the storm of outrage passes and you can go back to your dirty business as usual. But it’s not too soon for us, because we’re Americans, and last time I checked, the First Amendment is at least as important as the Second Amendment.

          Three things. First, no one has stopped or prevented Kimmel from exercising his First Amendment right to freedom of speech, as attested to by the fact that he is still freely speaking on his own TV show about what he’s feel so passionately about, no matter how misguided, illogical and flat out false it may be. No one even called for his free speech rights to be taken away. That’s what his campus leftist fanboys do.
          Second, if it wasn’t for the protections afforded by the Second Amendment he obviously hates so much, he wouldn’t be enjoying that First Amendment. Freedom, Mr. Kimmel, is never free. People fought hard to win that freedom you so flippantly malign.
          Finally, rather than actually focusing on those directly impacted by this atrocity by offering emotional comfort and encouragement, and rather than seeking ways to promote good will and healing and unity, Kimmel instead chose to promote division. He chose to stand on the bodies of the victims in order to condemn his fellow Americans who had absolutely nothing to do with this mad man’s massacre. In his politically correct self-righteous superiority, he judged his fellow citizens, declaring them guilty — for believing in and defending Liberty. Mr. Kimmel, this is why you should have waited to speak, because all you have done is sow greater division.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51691

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Will The Supreme Court 
Fall Into A Political Thicket?
by George Will 
{investors.com} ~ On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments tempting it to plunge into an impenetrable political thicket. It will consider a lower court's ruling that, if allowed to stand, will require the judiciary to determine whether and when partisanship in drawing electoral districts — something as old as the Constitution — is unconstitutional. And courts will wrestle repeatedly with cases requiring them to decide how to decide how much partisanship is too much.

It is instructive that the phrase "partisan gerrymandering" — the drawing of district lines by one party to disadvantage the other — is a redundancy. It has been since 1812, when Massachusetts Democratic-Republicans, serving Gov. Elbridge Gerry, created a district resembling a salamander. By then, the practice was old hat for New York, which had been hard at it since 1788, the year the Constitution was ratified.

The practice has recently become hotly disputed. This is partly because Republicans control 66 of 98 partisan state legislative chambers, and both the legislatures and governorships of 26 states. A challenge to Maryland's redistricting by Democrats is percolating in the judicial system. And it is partly because some members of the political science professoriate, which is as ideologically monochromic as academia generally, are inventing metrics that supposedly provide objective standards for identifying partisanship that is unconstitutionally excessive.

For several decades, federal courts produced redistricting plans for Wisconsin after decennial censuses because the Legislature could not agree on any. In 2010, however, Republicans won control of both houses of the Legislature and the governorship and produced a redistricting plan. In 2012, they won 60 of the 99 state Assembly seats with 48.6% of the statewide vote, and in 2014 they won 63 seats with 52% of the vote. However, under the court-devised plan in the previous decade, in five elections the Republicans won an average of 55.2 seats with an average of 49.1% of the statewide vote. This is partly because under requirements of the Voting Rights Act, Milwaukee's "majority-minority" districts were protected. And it is partly because Democratic voters, in Wisconsin and nationally, are inefficiently distributed, disproportionately concentrated in cities and college towns, such as Milwaukee and Madison. This is why in 2012, Barack Obama carried 27 congressional districts with at least 80% of the vote, whereas Mitt Romney carried only one that lopsidedly.

The 12 plaintiffs against the Republican plan have three problems, each fatal. First, they are contesting the entire statewide plan rather than their individual districts. So, they are asking the court to change its traditional standards for "standing" to sue, which require persons to demonstrate a "particularized injury" — in this case, that the configurations of their individual districts somehow unconstitutionally devalue their votes. The lead plaintiff is a retired University of Wisconsin professor whose Assembly district in Madison has voted Democratic by an average of 67.2% in the last five elections. This does not sadden him. What does — his supposed injury — is that the statewide plan diminishes his chances of enjoying a Democratic majority in the Assembly.

Second, until 31 years ago, the court held that the inevitable political component of redistricting plans is a non-justiciable "political question" properly consigned to the political (elected) branches. In 1986, the court said a political gerrymander could conceivably be justiciable, but it has never discovered what Justice Anthony Kennedy terms "a manageable standard."

Third, the plaintiffs want the court to plunge the judiciary into unending litigation involving dueling professors who will cherry-pick concocted metrics to serve as standards. Tuesday's arguments will illustrate why Wisconsin warns about a "social science hodgepodge." Plaintiffs will argue that an "efficiency gap" (the difference between all the loser's votes and the surplus of votes in excess of those the winner needed for victory divided by the total number of votes cast) that exceeds 7% — a figure plucked from the ether — is presumptively unconstitutional. By this metric, one-third of all legislative redistricting maps in 41 states over 43 years were impermissibly partisan.

Using partisan social science, the plaintiffs are asking the court to find in the Constitution a hitherto unnoticed requirement for proportional representation. Justice Felix Frankfurter perhaps anticipated this.

When in 1962 the court first intervened in states' redistricting practices, it propounded only the simple and neutral principle of "one person, one vote" — districts must be numerically equal. Nevertheless, Frankfurter dissented, having warned in 1946 against even entering "this political thicket." He worried that someday the court might be drawn ever-deeper into the fraught business of fine-tuning political processes. Unless the court is careful, that someday could arrive Tuesday.
 
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The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Will The Supreme Court 
Fall Into A Political Thicket?
by George Will 
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Stepping Back From the Crime Scene
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by Michael Swartz:  As is their practice after a shooting with casualties on a mass scale, leftists are blaming the guns for the behavior of a man who obviously lost sight of the commandment, “You shall not murder.” And while we mourn the victims, the mainstream media seems preoccupied with the possibility of multiple shooters and the need to ban “bump stocks.” Many folks have also lost sight of the big picture: Statistically, we’re at far greater risk in a hospital than at a public concert like Sunday night’s Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas.

          One statistician, in fact, concluded that the gun control measures being proposed would be rather ineffective in addressing the problem. Leah Libresco, who is described by The Washington Post as “a statistician and former newswriter at FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism site,” came to this realization as part of a large effort by her former employer — something FiveThirtyEight reminded us of this week — to analyze all 33,000 deaths by firearm in a particular year. She makes the case that “bump stocks,” bans on so-called “assault rifles,” and even gun buybacks would do little good when the largest portions of gun deaths involve their usage as “suicide machines” or as a method for young gangbangers to settle scores.
          “But, but,” stammers the Left, “look at how little gun violence there is in Australia — a place where certain types of guns were confiscated under penalty of law two decades ago after their own mass shooting.” While it’s true that no significant mass shootings have since occurred in Australia, a 2016 study by three Australian researchers found the data was inconclusive regarding the effects of the gun buyback: “Following enactment of gun law reforms in Australia in 1996, there were no mass firearm killings through May 2016. There was a more rapid decline in firearm deaths between 1997 and 2013 compared with before 1997 but also a decline in total nonfirearm suicide and homicide deaths of a greater magnitude. Because of this, it is not possible to determine whether the change in firearm deaths can be attributed to the gun law reforms.
          Moreover, as Corey Iacono of the Foundation for Economic Education points out, another study that used the adjacent island nation of New Zealand — where there are fewer restrictions on guns — as a control found that both had roughly the same decline in mass shootings. “Gun control advocates have built their entire case about Australian gun control on lazy data analysis, or perhaps no data analysis at all,” argues Iacono. “If anything, Australia proves the complete opposite of what advocates of gun control want.
          He added, “A national gun confiscation scheme which reduced the civilian firearm stock by an astounding twenty percent and nobody can seem to find any clear evidence it caused a meaningful effect on the firearm murder rate? That’s not only embarrassing, it goes against everything they believe about the nature of the relationship between guns and murder rates.
          Then, when we consider this longstanding fact that more guns have yielded less crime, leftists’ case really begins to unravel. Not that they’ll stop shouting from the rooftops about it anyway — their newest cause is to repeal the Second Amendment. Our response? Molon labe.
          The leftist viewpoint — shared, apparently, by the New York Times’ token “conservative,” Bret Stephens — doesn’t come close to meeting the smell test. Stephens’ anti-gun prejudices lead him to use faulty numbers, including counting five years’ worth of murder statistics to give himself a number that finally exceeds the annual toll in auto accidents. Even at this emotion-driven moment, this is all the gun-grabbers have.
          Should we remind them yet again that stridently anti-gun Europe, whose elites would love to see our pesky Second Amendment consigned to the dustbin of history, suffers more mass shootings on a statistical basis than the U.S. does? Europe’s restrictions don’t allow a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with one. As we often point out, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Stephen Paddock reportedly spent about 11 minutes firing at the crowd before a security guard finally made it to his room. Local police were even further behind.
          In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, Congress will certainly feel pressured to “do something,” with the most likely outcome a feel-good ban on bump stocks. Even the NRA doesn’t have a problem considering that, and a Republican lawmaker already has the bill set to go.
          Despite the statistics that have shown a trend toward more security, our government cannot make us perfectly safe — though armed citizens certainly have made us safer. Even if the government took away all the so-called “assault weapons,” deranged individuals bent on causing mass casualties would find a way to do so. One need look no further than the 85 people mowed down last year by a jihadi with a truck in Nice, France.
          Incidents like these are a problem of evil. Instead of debating the repeal of the Second Amendment — which was, after all, placed in the Bill of Rights as a check against a tyrannical government having all the firepower — we should be discussing the lack of self-control that our culture seems to encourage. There are still many laws on the books that extend the command of “you shall not murder,” and perhaps the first order of business should be to restore a much-needed respect for life.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51717

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Dobbs, Fitton – Outraged Corrupt GOP 
Handed Reins Of Witch Hunts To Dems
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs welcomed Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch to his program for a discussion of the insufferable boobs leading the Senate Intelligence Committee’s “fishing expedition and witch hunt”... and other traitors operating openly under the GOP label. Dobbs begins with a statement that “Watching Warner and Burr is so painful, because they think they’re fooling someone when they’re carrying out a political action, not one of oversight of the intelligence community, which is their primary charge, as the intelligence community is struggling to defend whatever assets we have left in cyberspace.” Dobbs doesn’t overstate the pathetic display put on by Senators Burr and Warner, which clearly looked like an attempt to offer excuses and buy themselves more time for their witch hunt to continue. Both of the crooked, bumbling jackasses were clearly engaged in a political hit and trying to make it look like a legitimate function of their positions...  https://rickwells.us/dobbs-fitton-intel-control-dems/
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Shaffer, Furman – 3 Clues Need Close 
Attention In Las Vegas Investigation
{rickwells.us} ~ Tony Shaffer and Mark Furman join Martha MacCallum to discuss the evolution of the case surrounding the massacre in Las Vegas... Shaffer notes there are three clues that Las Vegas Sheriff Lombardo has put out there which he believes we need to pay very close attention to. The radicalization statement of a couple of days ago, a “spontaneous utterance” about this issue, has not been resolved or addressed. He says that secondly, “they’ve announced a global investigation now ongoing for people who may have been involved and helped him.” Shaffer says, “That talks about a network, that means there’s something, either a criminal network or a terror network, but there’s something else there. And third, to the other point of the fact now that they’ve clearly said, there’s evidence, and they know more than they’re saying for obvious reasons.”... https://rickwells.us/shaffer-furman-3-clues-las-vegas/
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Pulosi Brain Drained – Freezes Up, 
Can’t Babble, Words Just Won’t Come Out
{rickwells.us} ~ We’ve all heard that a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and in Nancy Pulosi’s case, that was true even before hers stopped working... It never worked properly, as her leadership position in the communist Democrat Party has shown over time, but the dysfunction is now becoming something she can no longer hide. It’s like a police officer pulling someone over and asking you if they’ve had anything to drink tonight. The response, whether it be a semi-truthful “Yes sir, officer, only a couple of beers” or a lying “No, sir – I’m just a little tired,” the slurring of the words is going to be what answers the question. She can try to pretend she’s maintaining but reality is giving her away... https://rickwells.us/pelosi-brain-drained-freezes-up/
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Flanked By Top Military Leaders, Trump Comments “Calm Before The Storm”
{rickwells.us} ~ Whether the purpose was to inject uncertainty or fear into the minds of our adversaries from the standpoint of strengthening his negotiating position... an actual statement of imminent military conflict or something else, the words of President Trump were unsettling. At a reception for top military officials, President Trump said to the media and photographers during  a groupphoto, “You guys know what this represents? Maybe it’s the calm before the storm. Could be the calm before the storm.” A reporter asks him, “From Iran,  on ISIS or what? Another asks, “What storm Mr. President?” as he says, “We have the world’s great military people in this room, I will tell you that. And we’re going to have a great evening. Thank you all for coming, thank you.”..https://rickwells.us/military-trump-calm-storm/
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Kimmel's Clueless Condemnation
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by Thomas Gallatin:  Is Jimmy Kimmel looking to start his own religion with his expressed ability to look into the hearts and minds of people and enter into judgment against them? Or does he merely have his sights set on running for head of the Democratic National Committee? Tuesday evening he followed up his Monday evening emotion-filled rant against Republicans and their support of the Second Amendment. Kimmel decided to climb even higher up that self-righteous ivory tower of his to rain down contempt upon those who dared criticize him for his immediate politicizing of the atrocity in Las Vegas the night before. Kimmel blasted:
          They say it’s inappropriate to be talking about it because it’s too soon. Well, maybe it’s too soon for you because deep down inside you know, in your heart, you know you bear some responsibility for the fact that almost anyone can get any weapon they want. And now you want to cover yourself until the storm of outrage passes and you can go back to your dirty business as usual. But it’s not too soon for us, because we’re Americans, and last time I checked, the First Amendment is at least as important as the Second Amendment.

          Three things. First, no one has stopped or prevented Kimmel from exercising his First Amendment right to freedom of speech, as attested to by the fact that he is still freely speaking on his own TV show about what he’s feel so passionately about, no matter how misguided, illogical and flat out false it may be. No one even called for his free speech rights to be taken away. That’s what his campus leftist fanboys do.
          Second, if it wasn’t for the protections afforded by the Second Amendment he obviously hates so much, he wouldn’t be enjoying that First Amendment. Freedom, Mr. Kimmel, is never free. People fought hard to win that freedom you so flippantly malign.
          Finally, rather than actually focusing on those directly impacted by this atrocity by offering emotional comfort and encouragement, and rather than seeking ways to promote good will and healing and unity, Kimmel instead chose to promote division. He chose to stand on the bodies of the victims in order to condemn his fellow Americans who had absolutely nothing to do with this mad man’s massacre. In his politically correct self-righteous superiority, he judged his fellow citizens, declaring them guilty — for believing in and defending Liberty. Mr. Kimmel, this is why you should have waited to speak, because all you have done is sow greater division.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51691

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Will The Supreme Court 
Fall Into A Political Thicket?
by George Will 
{investors.com} ~ On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments tempting it to plunge into an impenetrable political thicket. It will consider a lower court's ruling that, if allowed to stand, will require the judiciary to determine whether and when partisanship in drawing electoral districts — something as old as the Constitution — is unconstitutional. And courts will wrestle repeatedly with cases requiring them to decide how to decide how much partisanship is too much.

It is instructive that the phrase "partisan gerrymandering" — the drawing of district lines by one party to disadvantage the other — is a redundancy. It has been since 1812, when Massachusetts Democratic-Republicans, serving Gov. Elbridge Gerry, created a district resembling a salamander. By then, the practice was old hat for New York, which had been hard at it since 1788, the year the Constitution was ratified.

The practice has recently become hotly disputed. This is partly because Republicans control 66 of 98 partisan state legislative chambers, and both the legislatures and governorships of 26 states. A challenge to Maryland's redistricting by Democrats is percolating in the judicial system. And it is partly because some members of the political science professoriate, which is as ideologically monochromic as academia generally, are inventing metrics that supposedly provide objective standards for identifying partisanship that is unconstitutionally excessive.

For several decades, federal courts produced redistricting plans for Wisconsin after decennial censuses because the Legislature could not agree on any. In 2010, however, Republicans won control of both houses of the Legislature and the governorship and produced a redistricting plan. In 2012, they won 60 of the 99 state Assembly seats with 48.6% of the statewide vote, and in 2014 they won 63 seats with 52% of the vote. However, under the court-devised plan in the previous decade, in five elections the Republicans won an average of 55.2 seats with an average of 49.1% of the statewide vote. This is partly because under requirements of the Voting Rights Act, Milwaukee's "majority-minority" districts were protected. And it is partly because Democratic voters, in Wisconsin and nationally, are inefficiently distributed, disproportionately concentrated in cities and college towns, such as Milwaukee and Madison. This is why in 2012, Barack Obama carried 27 congressional districts with at least 80% of the vote, whereas Mitt Romney carried only one that lopsidedly.

The 12 plaintiffs against the Republican plan have three problems, each fatal. First, they are contesting the entire statewide plan rather than their individual districts. So, they are asking the court to change its traditional standards for "standing" to sue, which require persons to demonstrate a "particularized injury" — in this case, that the configurations of their individual districts somehow unconstitutionally devalue their votes. The lead plaintiff is a retired University of Wisconsin professor whose Assembly district in Madison has voted Democratic by an average of 67.2% in the last five elections. This does not sadden him. What does — his supposed injury — is that the statewide plan diminishes his chances of enjoying a Democratic majority in the Assembly.

Second, until 31 years ago, the court held that the inevitable political component of redistricting plans is a non-justiciable "political question" properly consigned to the political (elected) branches. In 1986, the court said a political gerrymander could conceivably be justiciable, but it has never discovered what Justice Anthony Kennedy terms "a manageable standard."

Third, the plaintiffs want the court to plunge the judiciary into unending litigation involving dueling professors who will cherry-pick concocted metrics to serve as standards. Tuesday's arguments will illustrate why Wisconsin warns about a "social science hodgepodge." Plaintiffs will argue that an "efficiency gap" (the difference between all the loser's votes and the surplus of votes in excess of those the winner needed for victory divided by the total number of votes cast) that exceeds 7% — a figure plucked from the ether — is presumptively unconstitutional. By this metric, one-third of all legislative redistricting maps in 41 states over 43 years were impermissibly partisan.

Using partisan social science, the plaintiffs are asking the court to find in the Constitution a hitherto unnoticed requirement for proportional representation. Justice Felix Frankfurter perhaps anticipated this.

When in 1962 the court first intervened in states' redistricting practices, it propounded only the simple and neutral principle of "one person, one vote" — districts must be numerically equal. Nevertheless, Frankfurter dissented, having warned in 1946 against even entering "this political thicket." He worried that someday the court might be drawn ever-deeper into the fraught business of fine-tuning political processes. Unless the court is careful, that someday could arrive Tuesday.
 
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Will The Supreme Court 
Fall Into A Political Thicket?
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by George Will 
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Stepping Back From the Crime Scene
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          One statistician, in fact, concluded that the gun control measures being proposed would be rather ineffective in addressing the problem. Leah Libresco, who is described by The Washington Post as “a statistician and former newswriter at FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism site,” came to this realization as part of a large effort by her former employer — something FiveThirtyEight reminded us of this week — to analyze all 33,000 deaths by firearm in a particular year. She makes the case that “bump stocks,” bans on so-called “assault rifles,” and even gun buybacks would do little good when the largest portions of gun deaths involve their usage as “suicide machines” or as a method for young gangbangers to settle scores.
          “But, but,” stammers the Left, “look at how little gun violence there is in Australia — a place where certain types of guns were confiscated under penalty of law two decades ago after their own mass shooting.” While it’s true that no significant mass shootings have since occurred in Australia, a 2016 study by three Australian researchers found the data was inconclusive regarding the effects of the gun buyback: “Following enactment of gun law reforms in Australia in 1996, there were no mass firearm killings through May 2016. There was a more rapid decline in firearm deaths between 1997 and 2013 compared with before 1997 but also a decline in total nonfirearm suicide and homicide deaths of a greater magnitude. Because of this, it is not possible to determine whether the change in firearm deaths can be attributed to the gun law reforms.
          Moreover, as Corey Iacono of the Foundation for Economic Education points out, another study that used the adjacent island nation of New Zealand — where there are fewer restrictions on guns — as a control found that both had roughly the same decline in mass shootings. “Gun control advocates have built their entire case about Australian gun control on lazy data analysis, or perhaps no data analysis at all,” argues Iacono. “If anything, Australia proves the complete opposite of what advocates of gun control want.
          He added, “A national gun confiscation scheme which reduced the civilian firearm stock by an astounding twenty percent and nobody can seem to find any clear evidence it caused a meaningful effect on the firearm murder rate? That’s not only embarrassing, it goes against everything they believe about the nature of the relationship between guns and murder rates.
          Then, when we consider this longstanding fact that more guns have yielded less crime, leftists’ case really begins to unravel. Not that they’ll stop shouting from the rooftops about it anyway — their newest cause is to repeal the Second Amendment. Our response? Molon labe.
          The leftist viewpoint — shared, apparently, by the New York Times’ token “conservative,” Bret Stephens — doesn’t come close to meeting the smell test. Stephens’ anti-gun prejudices lead him to use faulty numbers, including counting five years’ worth of murder statistics to give himself a number that finally exceeds the annual toll in auto accidents. Even at this emotion-driven moment, this is all the gun-grabbers have.
          Should we remind them yet again that stridently anti-gun Europe, whose elites would love to see our pesky Second Amendment consigned to the dustbin of history, suffers more mass shootings on a statistical basis than the U.S. does? Europe’s restrictions don’t allow a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with one. As we often point out, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Stephen Paddock reportedly spent about 11 minutes firing at the crowd before a security guard finally made it to his room. Local police were even further behind.
          In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, Congress will certainly feel pressured to “do something,” with the most likely outcome a feel-good ban on bump stocks. Even the NRA doesn’t have a problem considering that, and a Republican lawmaker already has the bill set to go.
          Despite the statistics that have shown a trend toward more security, our government cannot make us perfectly safe — though armed citizens certainly have made us safer. Even if the government took away all the so-called “assault weapons,” deranged individuals bent on causing mass casualties would find a way to do so. One need look no further than the 85 people mowed down last year by a jihadi with a truck in Nice, France.
          Incidents like these are a problem of evil. Instead of debating the repeal of the Second Amendment — which was, after all, placed in the Bill of Rights as a check against a tyrannical government having all the firepower — we should be discussing the lack of self-control that our culture seems to encourage. There are still many laws on the books that extend the command of “you shall not murder,” and perhaps the first order of business should be to restore a much-needed respect for life.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51717

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Dobbs, Fitton – Outraged Corrupt GOP 
Handed Reins Of Witch Hunts To Dems
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs welcomed Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch to his program for a discussion of the insufferable boobs leading the Senate Intelligence Committee’s “fishing expedition and witch hunt”... and other traitors operating openly under the GOP label. Dobbs begins with a statement that “Watching Warner and Burr is so painful, because they think they’re fooling someone when they’re carrying out a political action, not one of oversight of the intelligence community, which is their primary charge, as the intelligence community is struggling to defend whatever assets we have left in cyberspace.” Dobbs doesn’t overstate the pathetic display put on by Senators Burr and Warner, which clearly looked like an attempt to offer excuses and buy themselves more time for their witch hunt to continue. Both of the crooked, bumbling jackasses were clearly engaged in a political hit and trying to make it look like a legitimate function of their positions...  https://rickwells.us/dobbs-fitton-intel-control-dems/
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Shaffer, Furman – 3 Clues Need Close 
Attention In Las Vegas Investigation
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{rickwells.us} ~ Tony Shaffer and Mark Furman join Martha MacCallum to discuss the evolution of the case surrounding the massacre in Las Vegas... Shaffer notes there are three clues that Las Vegas Sheriff Lombardo has put out there which he believes we need to pay very close attention to. The radicalization statement of a couple of days ago, a “spontaneous utterance” about this issue, has not been resolved or addressed. He says that secondly, “they’ve announced a global investigation now ongoing for people who may have been involved and helped him.” Shaffer says, “That talks about a network, that means there’s something, either a criminal network or a terror network, but there’s something else there. And third, to the other point of the fact now that they’ve clearly said, there’s evidence, and they know more than they’re saying for obvious reasons.”... https://rickwells.us/shaffer-furman-3-clues-las-vegas/
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Pulosi Brain Drained – Freezes Up, 
Can’t Babble, Words Just Won’t Come Out
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{rickwells.us} ~ We’ve all heard that a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and in Nancy Pulosi’s case, that was true even before hers stopped working... It never worked properly, as her leadership position in the communist Democrat Party has shown over time, but the dysfunction is now becoming something she can no longer hide. It’s like a police officer pulling someone over and asking you if they’ve had anything to drink tonight. The response, whether it be a semi-truthful “Yes sir, officer, only a couple of beers” or a lying “No, sir – I’m just a little tired,” the slurring of the words is going to be what answers the question. She can try to pretend she’s maintaining but reality is giving her away... https://rickwells.us/pelosi-brain-drained-freezes-up/
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Flanked By Top Military Leaders, Trump
Comments “Calm Before The Storm”
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{rickwells.us} ~ Whether the purpose was to inject uncertainty or fear into the minds of our adversaries from the standpoint of strengthening his negotiating position... an actual statement of imminent military conflict or something else, the words of President Trump were unsettling. At a reception for top military officials, President Trump said to the media and photographers during  a groupphoto, “You guys know what this represents? Maybe it’s the calm before the storm. Could be the calm before the storm.” A reporter asks him, “From Iran,  on ISIS or what? Another asks, “What storm Mr. President?” as he says, “We have the world’s great military people in this room, I will tell you that. And we’re going to have a great evening. Thank you all for coming, thank you.”..https://rickwells.us/military-trump-calm-storm/
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Kimmel's Clueless Condemnation
ks6RoNjq0TQPZ3AJZu08ZhOGpeFhgTHsxFohL1MU6oVPNuAKqAkj4AzVZTEMmvZ46E0vvFYKhW9PrE-xCZgD_exX1SQdTndKPtpEPH0kFs37vm2FoCJVnLBy-mk4keM=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=?width=500by Thomas Gallatin:  Is Jimmy Kimmel looking to start his own religion with his expressed ability to look into the hearts and minds of people and enter into judgment against them? Or does he merely have his sights set on running for head of the Democratic National Committee? Tuesday evening he followed up his Monday evening emotion-filled rant against Republicans and their support of the Second Amendment. Kimmel decided to climb even higher up that self-righteous ivory tower of his to rain down contempt upon those who dared criticize him for his immediate politicizing of the atrocity in Las Vegas the night before. Kimmel blasted:
          They say it’s inappropriate to be talking about it because it’s too soon. Well, maybe it’s too soon for you because deep down inside you know, in your heart, you know you bear some responsibility for the fact that almost anyone can get any weapon they want. And now you want to cover yourself until the storm of outrage passes and you can go back to your dirty business as usual. But it’s not too soon for us, because we’re Americans, and last time I checked, the First Amendment is at least as important as the Second Amendment.

          Three things. First, no one has stopped or prevented Kimmel from exercising his First Amendment right to freedom of speech, as attested to by the fact that he is still freely speaking on his own TV show about what he’s feel so passionately about, no matter how misguided, illogical and flat out false it may be. No one even called for his free speech rights to be taken away. That’s what his campus leftist fanboys do.
          Second, if it wasn’t for the protections afforded by the Second Amendment he obviously hates so much, he wouldn’t be enjoying that First Amendment. Freedom, Mr. Kimmel, is never free. People fought hard to win that freedom you so flippantly malign.
          Finally, rather than actually focusing on those directly impacted by this atrocity by offering emotional comfort and encouragement, and rather than seeking ways to promote good will and healing and unity, Kimmel instead chose to promote division. He chose to stand on the bodies of the victims in order to condemn his fellow Americans who had absolutely nothing to do with this mad man’s massacre. In his politically correct self-righteous superiority, he judged his fellow citizens, declaring them guilty — for believing in and defending Liberty. Mr. Kimmel, this is why you should have waited to speak, because all you have done is sow greater division.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51691

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Will The Supreme Court 
Fall Into A Political Thicket?
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by George Will 
{investors.com} ~ On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments tempting it to plunge into an impenetrable political thicket. It will consider a lower court's ruling that, if allowed to stand, will require the judiciary to determine whether and when partisanship in drawing electoral districts — something as old as the Constitution — is unconstitutional. And courts will wrestle repeatedly with cases requiring them to decide how to decide how much partisanship is too much.

It is instructive that the phrase "partisan gerrymandering" — the drawing of district lines by one party to disadvantage the other — is a redundancy. It has been since 1812, when Massachusetts Democratic-Republicans, serving Gov. Elbridge Gerry, created a district resembling a salamander. By then, the practice was old hat for New York, which had been hard at it since 1788, the year the Constitution was ratified.

The practice has recently become hotly disputed. This is partly because Republicans control 66 of 98 partisan state legislative chambers, and both the legislatures and governorships of 26 states. A challenge to Maryland's redistricting by Democrats is percolating in the judicial system. And it is partly because some members of the political science professoriate, which is as ideologically monochromic as academia generally, are inventing metrics that supposedly provide objective standards for identifying partisanship that is unconstitutionally excessive.

For several decades, federal courts produced redistricting plans for Wisconsin after decennial censuses because the Legislature could not agree on any. In 2010, however, Republicans won control of both houses of the Legislature and the governorship and produced a redistricting plan. In 2012, they won 60 of the 99 state Assembly seats with 48.6% of the statewide vote, and in 2014 they won 63 seats with 52% of the vote. However, under the court-devised plan in the previous decade, in five elections the Republicans won an average of 55.2 seats with an average of 49.1% of the statewide vote. This is partly because under requirements of the Voting Rights Act, Milwaukee's "majority-minority" districts were protected. And it is partly because Democratic voters, in Wisconsin and nationally, are inefficiently distributed, disproportionately concentrated in cities and college towns, such as Milwaukee and Madison. This is why in 2012, Barack Obama carried 27 congressional districts with at least 80% of the vote, whereas Mitt Romney carried only one that lopsidedly.

The 12 plaintiffs against the Republican plan have three problems, each fatal. First, they are contesting the entire statewide plan rather than their individual districts. So, they are asking the court to change its traditional standards for "standing" to sue, which require persons to demonstrate a "particularized injury" — in this case, that the configurations of their individual districts somehow unconstitutionally devalue their votes. The lead plaintiff is a retired University of Wisconsin professor whose Assembly district in Madison has voted Democratic by an average of 67.2% in the last five elections. This does not sadden him. What does — his supposed injury — is that the statewide plan diminishes his chances of enjoying a Democratic majority in the Assembly.

Second, until 31 years ago, the court held that the inevitable political component of redistricting plans is a non-justiciable "political question" properly consigned to the political (elected) branches. In 1986, the court said a political gerrymander could conceivably be justiciable, but it has never discovered what Justice Anthony Kennedy terms "a manageable standard."

Third, the plaintiffs want the court to plunge the judiciary into unending litigation involving dueling professors who will cherry-pick concocted metrics to serve as standards. Tuesday's arguments will illustrate why Wisconsin warns about a "social science hodgepodge." Plaintiffs will argue that an "efficiency gap" (the difference between all the loser's votes and the surplus of votes in excess of those the winner needed for victory divided by the total number of votes cast) that exceeds 7% — a figure plucked from the ether — is presumptively unconstitutional. By this metric, one-third of all legislative redistricting maps in 41 states over 43 years were impermissibly partisan.

Using partisan social science, the plaintiffs are asking the court to find in the Constitution a hitherto unnoticed requirement for proportional representation. Justice Felix Frankfurter perhaps anticipated this.

When in 1962 the court first intervened in states' redistricting practices, it propounded only the simple and neutral principle of "one person, one vote" — districts must be numerically equal. Nevertheless, Frankfurter dissented, having warned in 1946 against even entering "this political thicket." He worried that someday the court might be drawn ever-deeper into the fraught business of fine-tuning political processes. Unless the court is careful, that someday could arrive Tuesday.
 
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This Is Why We Stand

This Is Why We Stand

 
For every little boy who wants to be just like his soldier dad, even after dad didn't come home...this is why we stand.
For every little girl who's Soldier dad doesn't get to walk her down the aisle...this is why we stand.
For every wife who grieves for her soldier husband...this is why we stand.
For every parent who has to bury their soldier child...this is why we stand.
For every soldier who lost a buddy...this is why we stand.
For every coffin draped with an American flag... this is why we stand.
For every folded American flag that now sits proudly displayed on the mantle...this is why we stand.
For every fallen soldier...this is why we stand.
For every soldier who can no longer stand because he/she had the courage to stand for our freedom...this is why we stand.
We stand not because we have to, not so we can show off, but because we want to.  We stand because we understand the sacrifices that were made, so we could be free.  We stand out of respect for all of those who stood for us.  We stand out of respect for this country.
Yes, you have the right not to stand, you have the right to disrespect the flag and everyone who fought, suffered and died to keep that flag flying.  But just because you have the right, doesn't mean it is right.  You have the right because you live in the shadow of the protection that very banner provides.  That same flag you're stomping on, that same flag you're burning, that same flag you refuse to stand for, is that ONE flag that represents your freedom to do just that.
For every tear that falls...THIS IS WHY WE STAND!
 
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An open letter to the NFL players,



  A letter that explains exactly how the American people feel about these spoiled punks who take a knee, and disrespect all that our great country represents.
 
 
 
An open letter to the NFL players,
 
You graduated high school in 2011.  Your teenage years were a struggle.  You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks..  Your mother was the leader of the family and worked tirelessly to keep a roof over your head and food on your plate.  Academics were a struggle for you and your grades were mediocre at best. The only thing that made you stand out is you weighed 225 lbs and could run 40 yards in 4.2 seconds while carrying a football.   Your best friend was just like you, except he didn’t play football.  Instead of going to football practice after school, he went to work at McDonalds for minimum wage.  You were recruited by all the big colleges and spent every weekend of your senior year making visits to universities where coaches and boosters tried to convince you their school was best.  They laid out the red carpet for you. Your best friend worked double shifts at Mickey D’s.  College was not an option for him.  On the day you signed with Big State University, your best friend signed paperwork with his Army recruiter.  You went to summer workouts.  He went to basic training.
You spent the next four years living in the athletic dorm, eating at the training table. You spent your Saturdays on the football field, cheered on by adoring fans.  Tutors attended to your every academic need.  You attended class when you felt like it. Sure, you worked hard.  You lifted weights, ran sprints, studied plays, and soon became one of the top football players in the country.  Your best friend was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. While you were in college, he deployed to Iraq once and Afghanistan twice.  He became a Sergeant and led a squad of 19 year old soldiers who grew up just like he did.  He shed his blood in Afghanistan and watched young American's give their lives, limbs, and innocence for the USA.
You went to the NFL combine and scored off the charts.  You hired an agent and waited for draft day.  You were drafted in the first round and your agent immediately went to work, ensuring that you received the most money possible. You signed for $16 million although you had never played a single down of professional football.  Your best friend re-enlisted in the Army for four more years. As a combat tested sergeant, he will be paid $32,000 per year.
You will drive a Ferrari on the streets of South Beach.  He will ride in the back of a Blackhawk helicopter with 10 other combat loaded soldiers.  You will sleep at the Ritz.  He will dig a hole in the ground and try to sleep.  You will “make it rain” in the club.  He will pray for rain as the temperature reaches 120 degrees.
On Sunday, you will run into a stadium as tens of thousands of fans cheer and yell your name.  For your best friend, there is little difference between Sunday and any other day of the week.  There are no adoring fans.  There are only people trying to kill him and his soldiers. Every now and then, he and his soldiers leave the front lines and “go to the rear” to rest.  He might be lucky enough to catch an NFL game on TV.  When the National Anthem plays and you take a knee, he will jump to his feet and salute the television.  While you protest the unfairness of life in the United States, he will give thanks to God that he has the honor of defending his great country.
To the players of the NFL:  We are the people who buy your tickets, watch you on TV, and wear your jerseys.  We anxiously wait for Sundays so we can cheer for you and marvel at your athleticism. Although we love to watch you play, we care little about your opinions until you offend us. You have the absolute right to express yourselves, but we have the absolute right to boycott you.  We have tolerated your drug use and DUIs, your domestic violence, and your vulgar displays of wealth.  We should be ashamed for putting our admiration of your physical skills before what is morally right.  But now you have gone too far. You have insulted our flag, our country, our soldiers, our police officers, and our veterans. You are living the American dream, yet you disparage our great country.  I am done with NFL football and encourage all like minded Americans to boycott the NFL as well.
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National boycott of the NFL for Sunday November 12th, Veterans Day Weekend. Boycott all football telecast, all fans, all ticket holders, stay away from attending any games, let them play to empty stadiums. Pass this post along to all your friends and family. Honor our military, some of whom come home with the American Flag draped over their coffin.

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Bill Wilson
The "why" and "how" of Las Vegas

NOTEWhen writing about God and Jesus, The Daily Jot means YHVH as God and Yeshua Ha Mashiach as Jesus--the actual original names and the true nature and character of them.
  
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
I read a heart-wrenching story about a Martinsburg, WV woman who was killed during the Las Vegas massacre. She and her husband where shown kissing at the concert beforehand. They had saved up to attend. She died in his arms. There are families and friends of 59 others who were murdered and over 500 wounded or injured who will spend a lifetime trying to figure out the "why" such a thing happened. It is a horror, a senseless horror. Part of the "why" has to be that we live in an evil world and people who give in to evil are controlled by it. This guy, Stephen Paddock, obviously was influenced by satan to do such a brutal and horrendous act.
 
Paddock's brother was quoted as saying that Stephen was not affiliated with any politics or religion. The brother could not even venture a guess why Stephen would plan and execute such an act. There are a lot of theories, even conspiracy theories, populating the internet about Stephen Paddock's affiliations and a great deal of speculation as to why he would seek to kill so many innocent people. But there is one picture that is posted on pamelageller.com that speaks volumes to me if it is not photo-shopped. Pamela Geller traditionally has been a whistle-blower on Islam and is considered by many an excellent source of both facts and commentary, so I don't have reason to believe that the picture is a fake.
 
The picture shows Stephen Paddock and his girlfriend Marilou Danley protesting at an anti-Trump rally in Reno. He is in a pink NASA shirt wearing the pink vagina hat that became the trademark of radical anti-Trump protesters during the inauguration. Geller was able to get a screenshot of Paddock from a video that was posted on youtube. Youtube, however, has removed the video, saying it violated their policy on spam, deceptive practices and scams. I was able to find the footage on several other websites, including a youtube posting that wasn't removed. Notwithstanding, the photos and video appear legitimate after scouring several independent sources. Here is the point I am trying to make:
 
CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jeff Zeleny pointed out after President Trump made his remarks of condolence that most of the victims were country music fans and were likely Trump supporters. CBS Executive VP and Counsel Hayley Geftman-Gold said, "I'm not even sympathetic bc country music fans are often Republican gun toters." She was fired for her remarks. The hate rhetoric among the anti-Trump left has been so visceral and nonstop for so long that it is impacting the psyche of weak-minded people who live and die by it, and they are willing to act upon it. It is bad for the country and bad for individuals living here.
 
Remember in June the assassination attempt of Congressional Republicans by Illinois leftist James Hodgkinson, who wounded four and left Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) in critical condition? Hate-filled inflammatory rhetoric by Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, the ex-"president," Keith Ellison, Ashley Judd, Madonna, and so on, has people so stirred up that it was only a matter of time when a nut-case like Hodgkinson took matters into his own hands. I wrote at the time that Hodgkinson was not alone. Now Paddock. Who next? Proverbs 18:21 says, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." The "why" is satan. The "how" are those who act out his ways.
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson

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People Mag in Hot Water Over Fake Story About Fake Vegas Victim

People magazine has deleted a story about a Las Vegas shooting victim who doesn’t appear to exist.

The magazine ran a story on Wednesday about a terminally ill man, Larry Parra, who they claimed was among the 58 people killed in the mass shooting in Las Vegas last Sunday. The story, was based entirely off the account of one alleged eyewitness, Jason Rogers.

The photos that Rogers provided of “Larry Parra” are actually photos of Rogers’ husband, Mic reported.

Rogers claimed to have been at the Las Vegas concert with Parra, only to have gotten separated shortly before the shooting started.

“I heard the shots, and after I got up from the ground from ducking I went to try and find Larry,” Rogers told People. “I didn’t want to leave him because he is a very dear and close friend.” (Read more from “People Mag in Hot Water Over Fake Story About Fake Vegas Victim” HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/10/people-mag-hot-water-fake-story-fake-vegas-victim/

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