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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
Possibly this would have gotten more attention if this promise had been made on the English networks and not on a channel for Spanish speakers. From The Hill newspaper:President Obama will “make good” on his promise to implement eexecutive actions on immigration by the end of the year, press secretary Josh Earnest said Sunday. . . . “This is a promise the president will keep,” Earnest said during an appearance on Telemundo’s “Enfoque con Jose Diaz-Balart.” “The president has tasked his team with looking at the law and determining what...
19 Action News|Cleveland, OH|News, Weather, SportsWhen the station's owner was asked about his employee carrying a gun, the owner said what do you expect since Canton is a dangerous place. The article at Action News 19 in Canton is available here.The Canton Police Department has released surveillance video and 911 calls connected to Monday night's deadly robbery attempt at a Marathon gas station. Two of the suspects were killed, but one is still on the run. . . .Police say two of the suspects, identified as Antonio Garcia, 23, and Ronnie...
From Agence France-Presse:Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a plan for a seismic shift from the country's all-private health insurance system to a state-run scheme. Referendum results showed that almost 62 percent of voters had shot down a reform pushed by left-leaning parties which say the current private system is busting the budgets of ordinary residents. The results also underlined the national divisions over the hotly-contested issue as the country's German-speaking regions voted against the plan, while their French-speaking counterparts...
Sunday, September 28, 2014
It is pretty amazing how many different places within the state that this state representative votes. But this isn't unusual. for other examples of vote fraud see here or here. From the New Haven Register:State Rep. Christina “Tita” Ayala, D-Bridgeport, was arrested Friday on 19 voting fraud charges. Ayala, 31, is accused of voting in local and state elections in districts she did not live, the Chief State’s Attorney’s Office said in a press release. The arrest warrant affidavit also alleges Ayala provided fabricated...
Friday, September 26, 2014
This disillusionment of liberal Democrats may represent the biggest risk to Democrats this November. From The Hill newspaper:The growing dissatisfaction on the left could limit Obama's ability to help Democrats in the midterm elections and could threaten his political legacy if — as happened with George W. Bush — his party begins to abandon him. The slipping support for Obama is most evident in a pair of recent surveys of Democratic strongholds. Just 39 percent of registered New York voters surveyed in a Marist College poll said Obama...
From The Hill newspaper:Colorado Democrats are fretting that Sen. Mark Udall’s (D-Colo.) “war on women” battle cry against Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) is starting to sound like a broken record. After a series of polls this past month have shown the race statistically tied or even with Gardner up, some Democrats are urging Udall to find a new refrain against his opponent, lest Republicans claim the seat in November. “Gardner gave him a lot to work with on that subject, but a lot people think he may have overdone it,” said one well-connected...
Those tax refunds that people thought that they were getting apparently aren't going to come through. Nice that this timing will be after the election. From USA Today:A significant benefit of the Affordable Care Act is the opportunity to receive money-saving tax credits up front to cut the overall cost of health insurance, but now hundreds of thousands of consumers could owe back some of that money next April.Those affected took advance payments of the premium tax credit for health insurance. Some married couples could owe $600 or...
In this case, the shooter was a reserve deputy, but it is still a case where they were very happy that there was a gun in the workplace. From KFOR.com about the attack in Moore, Oklahoma:Officials with the Moore Police Department say the FBI is now involved in the investigation related to a brutal attack of workers at a food distribution plant.Sgt. Jeremy Lewis says the alleged suspect, 30-year-old Alton Nolen had just been fired when he drove to the front of the business, hit a vehicle and walked inside.He walked into the front office area...
From NewsOK.com:An 11-year-old girl was called a hero by neighbors Wednesday after she used a handgun to shoot a man who was attacking her mother. About 4 a.m. Tuesday, Oklahoma City police were called to a home at 3308 SE 89 and found Brandy Moreno, who said she was stabbed by her ex-boyfriend, Leo Henry. Police said Henry broke into the house and began to attack Moreno until her daughter, Jayda Milsap, 11, shot Henry twice with a handgun. Henry tried to flee from the home after being shot and was found down the street, police said....
The article yesterday in Forbes starts this way and is highly recommended:With the midterms just over a month away New York City’s former mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending at least $50 million to make his gun-control agenda part of this election. His gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety has endorsed more than 100 federal and state candidates. They are also running television commercials, holding events and pushing their studies into the newsrooms of a mostly favorable press.John Feinblatt, Everytown’s president, told USA Today, “We want...
Monday, September 22, 2014
From Politico:Gabby Giffords, irreproachable figure of sympathy, has fashioned an improbable new role for herself this election year: ruthless attack dog. The former Democratic congresswoman, whose recovery from a gunshot wound to the head captivated the country, has unleashed some of the nastiest ads of the campaign season, going after GOP candidates in Arizona and New Hampshire with attacks even some left-leaning commentators say go too far. And Republicans on the receiving end are largely helpless to hit back, knowing a fight with the much-admired...
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Family income for the poorest families has fallen continually during the Obama "recovery." Indeed, the drop in family income for those in the 10th and 20th percentiles is larger during the recovery than during the recession. The drop in family income for the 40th percentile and the median is about as large for the recovery as it was during the recession. Only the wealthiest families those in the top 10 percent have seen their incomes...
Saturday, September 20, 2014
This past April when the University of Rhode Island System trustees voted 8-to-1 to let campus police carry guns, you would see stories such as this:University of Rhode Island campus police will soon carry guns under a policy announced Monday, ending the school’s status as the only public university in the country where campus police do not carry firearms. . . .This is where we stand now:The University of Rhode Island has begun training campus police officers to carry guns after a controversial decision in April to arm the campus police force. Public...
Thursday, September 18, 2014
More evidence that deterrence works.Click on figures to make them larger.It is possible that some of the thieves have switched from iPhones to Samsung devices. Of course, it is possible that cell phone thefts were increasing generally and that the ability to lock the iPhones caused their thefts to decline. From a report by the San Francisco District Attorney:. . . In New York City, thefts of iPhones fell significantly after release of...
In Lansing, Michigan, Kroger's stood up to Bloomberg's Moms Demand Action and asked them to leave the store. From the Lansing State Journal:A group protesting Michigan's open-carry gun rules hope a Lansing Kroger store's grand re-opening today will spur a new policy barring guns in the Holmes Street store. Michigan Kroger representatives said that's not likely. The Cincinnati-based grocery chain is sticking by Michigan law, which doesn't prohibit openly carrying guns in public. Michigan gun owners have to have a concealed-pistol license,...
This attack is deadlier than the Columbine school shooting. It is deadlier than the Washington Navy Yard or Aurora Movie Theater shootings. In each of those three attacks, 12 people were killed. From Reuters:Gunmen stormed a higher education college in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, firing on fleeing students and setting off an explosion in an attack that killed at least 15 people and wounded 35, police said. . . . "The attackers were wearing suits and were running and shooting everywhere." . . . At least 82 people...
From the Washington Times:Republicans, and even some Democrats, in a dozen states are showing off their shooting skills in videos and television ads or posing with firearms in mailers, underscoring the backlash against federal and state proposals to restrict access to guns and ammunition. This year’s tone was set by Republican Joni Ernst, who won the Iowa Senate primary in June after running a television ad that shows her firing at a bull’s-eye at a shooting range while promising to “unload” on Obamacare. She now faces Democratic Rep....
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
From The Hill newspaper:Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) introduced S. 2141, the Sunscreen Innovation Act, which would require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a process for the review and approve over-the-counter (OTC) sunscreens. The Senate passed the measure through a unanimous consent agreement and it now heads to the House for further action. The Senate passed H.R. 4751, which renames the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial as the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial. The House passed the...
From The Hill newspaper:. . . “The ATF is a largely duplicative, scandal-ridden agency that lacks a clear mission,” he said. “It is plagued by backlogs, funding gaps, hiring challenges and a lack of leadership. For decades it has been branded by high profile failures.” The ATF has become a GOP punching bag in recent years after it was revealed the agency lost track of hundreds of guns, some of which ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, part of the infamously botched Operation Fast and Furious. The Sensenbrenner bill...
Click on figure to enlarge. The NY Times article on their September 12-15 survey is available here.-- Right before the 2010 midterm elections Obama's approval rate was at 45 percent. Before the 2012 election it was at 50 percent. Today it is at 40 percent.-- Right before the 2010 midterm elections 34 percent thought that the country was heading in the wrong direction. Before the 2012 election it was at 39 percent. Today...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
From the Independent (UK) newspaper:. . . “I am totally for gun control in the US,” he says. “The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying. Every day we’re seeing some kid running rampant in a school. And do you know what the gun lobby’s response to Newtown was?” he asks, referring to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, which left 20 children dead in December 2012. “The National Rifle Association’s official response was ‘If that...
Monday, September 15, 2014
Data on the number of permits currently issued in Alabama counties is shown below. The state has a total of approximately 470,005 permits, about 12.6% of the population over 18 years of age. A couple of the counties have more than 18 percent of their adult population with permits.The article in al.com notes that Alabama is number 1 in terms of the number of concealed handgun permits, but it is very likely that the six states that...
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch article lists school superintendents who are against guns in school, but notice that it doesn't say that all the St. Louis-area school superintendents are against let people protect the children. From the article:Many St. Louis-area school superintendents say they don’t want guns in their schools regardless of a new state law that allows designated teachers to carry them. The law lets school districts appoint teachers or administrators as “school safety officers” who would be allowed to carry concealed weapons...
Bloomberg's groups have been pushing for sometime to get businesses to ban guns in their facilities. On Monday, Panera Bread announced that it was asking customers not to bring guns to its restaurants" ((314) 984-1000). But much of the media coverage has been misleading and simply asking people not to bring their guns with them won't have any legal effect. The question is if Panera Bread will be posting signs and it doesn't appear to be the case. Still, that gives Bloomberg's groups another...
Original data available here. The number of insider trading cases increased from 6 a year under President George W. Bush to 15 a year under President Obama. The big increase in cases under Obama didn't come until 2011, which isn't surprising as it takes some time after a case is brought before a sentence is determined. This bodes ill for the increase over cases during the rest of the Obama administration. Some economists...
Saturday, September 13, 2014
This young man has helped design a computerized wheelchair that allows users to better control how the wheelchair operates. It sound like a great idea. But in listening to this piece at the WSJ I was surprised that the FDA had to approve the wheelchair before it could be produced. Is the FDA soon going to regulate any type of chair that the disabled might sit in? What happens if someone with disabilities sits in an unapproved chair? Will the FDA SWAT team descend on the hou...
Friday, September 12, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
This story won't be a surprise for those who have followed the CPRC (or here). In California, concealed carry permit holders are allowed to carry on school property if they have approval of the school superintendent, which it would be too surprising for Vice Principal to obtain. From KBAK/KBFX in Bakersfield, California:A Tevis Junior High School administrator who was arrested and subsequently released last month after bringing a gun to school has filed a claim against the city of Bakersfield and its police department,...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Stu Rothenberg in Roll Call predicts "at least 7 seats" for the Republicans in the Senate:While the current Rothenberg Political Report ratings don’t show it, I am now expecting a substantial Republican Senate wave in November, with a net gain of at least seven seats.But I wouldn’t be shocked by a larger gain. . . .Of the seven Romney Democratic seats up this cycle, Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia are gone, and Arkansas and Louisiana look...
Sunday, September 7, 2014
From TMJ4.com: "Police bust a dangerous teenage crime ring after a 15-year-old suspect is shot to death by one of his intended victims." These "thugs" were believed to have previously beaten and robbed a young woman. The 15-year-old who was shot and killed had been shot in a similar robbery last month.More on the story from WISN.com TV:Police in Milwaukee say the person shot during a robbery attempt Monday was a teen with a long arrest record.Police said a group of people attempted to rob another group of people near South Second Street and National...
Brookings is the old line liberal think tank in Washington, DC. It isn't too surprising that the New York Times would have a lot of connections with Brookings. Those connections have done a lot of damage to Brookings. Here is just a few of the examples in the piece:Qatar, the small but wealthy Middle East nation, agreed last year to make a $14.8 million, four-year donation to Brookings, which has helped fund a Brookings affiliate in Qatar and a project on United States relations with the Islamic world. Some scholars say the...
With Labour holding 40 of the 59 Scottish seats in the UK parliament, Scottish independence is going to dramatically transform British politics. Forty seats out of 325 needed for a majority and the most recent polls showing a slight majority of Scots in favor of independence, the Labour Party is in disaster mode, with Labour MPs flocking to Scotland to convince voters there not to vote for independence. A lot of the purported fears about Scottish independence are pretty weak. Take the claim that new Scottish government...
Saturday, September 6, 2014
From Fox News Insider:Joseph Palumbo, owner of the Albion Gun Shop in Albion, New York, was forced by state police to hand over 165 customer records or risk having his store raided. Palumbo spoke to Tucker Carlson this morning on Fox and Friends Weekend and explained that the police said they were looking for anyone who had purchased a modified AR-15 rifle. Although the police did not have a written order to seize the customer records, Palumbo said they made it clear there was the imminent threat of a SWAT team raid of...
Will voters realize that Obama is just delaying amnesty until after the when voters can punish him for amnesty? It is hard to believe that this trick could really protect Democrats from any fallout, but Obama is sure going to try. From Politico:President Barack Obama has one person to blame for looking indecisive, dithering and cowed by bungled political calculations: Barack Obama. He’s the one, after all, who strode into the Rose Garden on June 30 to announce that America couldn’t wait forever on immigration reform and pledging...
Friday, September 5, 2014
Why won't Senator Gillibrand name the names of Senators who supposedly engaged in sexual harassment? Gillibrand wants to have it both ways. She wants to have the publicity from claiming the incidents occurred but she doesn't want to actually let the people who supposedly did this defend themselves. Unfortunately, Howard Kurtz doesn't go quite far enough on this discussion. He assumes that her claims are true (and they may be), but what if they aren't? What if she is making up claims just to help herself out politically?UPDATE: Sen....
What possible reasonable justification could the Obama administration have for not providing contact information for a former employee? From Fox News:A top House Republican is demanding the Department of Justice hand over contact information on a former employee accused of having a conflict of interest in the IRS targeting scandal investigation.In a Sept. 3 letter, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, once again asked Attorney General Eric Holder for information on Andrew Strelka’s whereabouts.“Despite notifying [Oversight and Government Reform] Committee...
US Attorney General Eric Holder is still trying to go after George Zimmerman. Dragging out the legal case like this over years imposes massive costs on George Zimmerman -- not only does it impose legal costs on him, but it makes it very difficult for him to plan his life. Holder's actions here are a real criminal penalty that are being imposed on Zimmerman. Either charge Zimmerman with something or eventually let go of the case. From Grabien.com:REPORTER: “There is a big announcement that you made years ago about the investigation...
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