Hopefully the damage to Scott won't make the difference in this close race, but even a discussion on MSNBC noted that people will remember the charge more than they will remember the reporter's apology. Hot Air has a discussion describing what happened as a failed "gotcha momen...
Friday, October 31, 2014
“Tillis even led the effort to pass the kind of ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws that caused the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.”The Washington Post has this evaluation of the campaign ad:It is telling that Senate Majority PAC does not bother to offer any defense of this radio ad. Perhaps it hoped it could slip this past reporters asking too many questions. . . . .Even if Harry Reid isn't defending the ad, Alex Wagner on MSNBC is defending ...
Thursday, October 30, 2014
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way:The recent spate of “lone wolf” terrorist attacks both here and in Canada seem to have come out of nowhere. And it’s clear that they have left Americans and Canadians as sitting ducks. Simply by using the Internet, ISIS has encouraged “lone wolf” individuals. These “wolves” have initiated attacks on their own with no planning or coordination with others and without leaving a trail of clues about their intentions. Law enforcement authorities and our government are not well suited to...
Tom Corbett has consistently been one of the best governors in the country on gun control issues. His signing the new law that ends the patchwork quilt of local gun regulations is just one example of that. It is interesting that gun-control advocates who keep pushing state and Federal gun control laws support letting local gun control laws when it gets them what they want. Unfortunately, Corbett has been unjustly beaten up over other issues, such as privatizing state liquor stores or introducing some competition to public schools....
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
From Alabama's WVTM TV in Birmingham:. . . Around 6:30 Sunday night, two men walked into KFC in Ensley and they were armed. At the time, there were no customers inside the fast food restaurant but it was filled with employees. One of those employees was forced into action. "He wanted to flee for cover. So in the process of fleeing he was shot and after he was shot he grabbed his weapon and returned fire,” Lt. Sean Edwards with the Birmingham Police Department described. That employee shot one of the suspects...
The difference in price between Obamacare plans and these alternative ones provides strong evidence that Obamacare increased insurance costs and that the higher premiums are due to all the new regulations. In any case, this death spiral implies even greater increases in insurance premiums. From Fox News:A fast-growing, short-term alternative to ObamaCare that allows customers to get cheap, one-year policies could put the government-subsidized plan into a death spiral. The plans, the only ones allowed for sale outside of ObamaCare...
This video is from the Quad City Times about voting at the Moline Public Library.Similar problems have also been discovered yet again in Maryland (see here for a story by the Baltimore CBS affiliate).UPDATE: "Nearly 70 percent of voters will be casting ballots by hand on Tuesday" From The Hill newspaper:States have abandoned electronic voting machines in droves, ensuring that most voters will be casting their ballots by hand on Election Day. With many electronic voting machines more than a decade old, and states lacking the...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
From EducationViews.org:Since the launch of Obamacare, at least 122 colleges and universities across the nation have cut student and faculty work hours to skirt the federal law’s mandate requiring employers to provide healthcare for people who work 30 hours or more per week.Those who have seen their paychecks shrink as a result of the Affordable Care Act include students who work on campus at restaurants, bookstores or gyms, teaching assistants, Residence Advisers, officer workers, student journalists, and a variety of other workers,...
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Following the CPRC study showing that there were about 11.1 million concealed handgun permits by the beginning of the year, I then showed that the number of concealed handgun permits in just seven states had increased by over 400,000 from the end of 2013 to July 2014. Since then Florida's permits have increased by another 50,000, Alabama's by almost 100,000, Utah's by 31,000, Minnesota's by about 2,800, and Illinois by about 50,000. It is my understanding that California's permits have increased by about 20,000 to over 50,000. That...
The Huffington Post is quite happy about this:The Conservative government appears to be quietly shelving its controversial “Common Sense” gun bill in light of Wednesday’s shooting. Government House Leader Peter Van Loan’s office was silent Friday about the future of Bill C-42. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney’s office refused to comment, directing inquiries to Van Loan. The Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act was scheduled to be debated for the first time on the day of the shootings, with three days set aside for discussion. It no...
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst made this statement in 2012:"I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family -- whether it's from an intruder, or whether it's from a government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important."Paul Begala, always one to misinterpret what someone says when it serves the right political cause, has this comment:This notion -- that the Second Amendment...
Friday, October 24, 2014
Hillary Clinton: Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.You know that old theory, "trickle-down" economics. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.You know, one of the things my husband says when people say "Well, what did you bring to Washington," he said, "Well, I brought arithmetic.”So incentives don't matter? In the Clinton world, the government creates jo...
For someone who has made a career of getting people to think that conservatives like Sarah Palin are dumb, it is clear from these pictures that Ms. Fey has trouble knowing how to correctly swipe a credit card. (Click on screen shots to enlarge.) The first picture shows her swiping the card and the second is a close up of how she apparently believes the card should be swiped. Indeed. Ms. Fey appears to a slow learner as the American...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
This news article misses the point that even to the extent that a ban takes some guns from criminals, that is offset by the fact that victims are easier targets. From The Age newspaper:Banning semi-automatic handguns won't take such guns off the street, Victoria Police has told a federal inquiry into gun violence. Victoria Police told the submission such a ban "would most likely have little effect on the number of illegally held firearms in Australia". "The majority of semi-automatic handguns seized are from criminals who are prohibited...
A couple of days ago, news reports came out saying that the Obama administration is buying enough special paper to make 34 million green cards. Here is an amazing video of Ed Henry and Major Garrett nailing WH Press Secretary Earnest on his unwillingness to answer a simple question. This should be on every evening news broadcast.&nb...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
From the WSJ:Speaking in an interview with foreign media, Mr. Leung reiterated that the student demand for direct input from the public on candidates for the city’s top post was impossible. He said using a nominating committee as required by Beijing gives representation to a wide range of groups.He warned that if candidates were nominated by the public, the population that earns less than the median monthly salary of $1,800 could dominate the process.“If it’s entirely a numbers game and numeric representation, then obviously you’d be talking to...
My newest piece at Fox News starts this way:Tensions are still high in Ferguson, Mo., after the Aug. 8 police shooting of Michael Brown. On Friday, it was reported forensics showed Brown’s blood was on both the inside of police officer Darren Wilson’s car as well as Wilson’s gun. The gun had also been fired twice within the car. This evidence hardly squares with early witness accounts that Brown was shot with his hands in the air while he was surrendering.With...
FOX 13 NewsFrom My Fox Tampa Bay:. . . Deputies said the homeowner, Chris Bane, heard glass breaking at about 5:40 a.m. He grabbed his gun and went into the hallway, where he came face to face with Calvin Yoder. "The burglar fired a shot and the homeowner returned fire, striking and killing the intruder," said Wendy Rose, a spokesperson for the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office. "Apparently the homeowner has been the victim of burglary recently so he was on alert, he was on edge, and as soon as he heard glass breaking he armed himself to protect...
Regarding Colorado:James O’Keefe, the guerilla filmmaker who brought down the ACORN voter-registration fraudsters in 2010 and forced the resignation of NPR executives, politely disagrees. Today, he is releasing some new undercover footage that raises disturbing questions about ballot integrity in Colorado, the site of fiercely contested races for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, and the governorship. When he raised the issue of filling out some of the unused ballots that are mailed to every household in the state this month, he was told by Meredith...
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau's name was apparently previously known as Michael Joseph Hall prior to converting to Islam. He had been designated a high-risk traveler and that his passport had recently been confiscated. Zehaf-Bibeau had a long criminal history with arrests for robbery, making threats, and various drug offenses. He served time in prison on at least a couple of occasions (67 days for the uttering the threat), but he was still able to obtain a gun. Apparently, he wasn't on the government's watch list of about 90...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Eric Holder: “I think the inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is, for me, something that I take personally as a failure, and something that I think we as a society should take as a failure.”Given that passing legislation isn't supposed to me Holder's job, possibly this tells up part of the problem with this administrati...
If this is even remotely true, there will be a flood of people who think that they will be able to get US citizenship for free. Republicans might challenge all this in court, but with millions of people flooding into the country, no one believes that those millions of new people will be asked to leave. It is clear that the Democrats will be wining a lot of elections in the future. From the UK Mail:U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plans to seek a vendor to produce as many as 34 million blank work permits and 'green cards'...
Monday, October 20, 2014
Everybody values competence, and Obama's approach of never taking responsibility and blaming others might be wearing thin. Obama surely hasn't show competence when claiming that he didn't know what was happening with everything with IRSgate, EPAgate, APgate, VAgate, NSAgate, Secret email gate, StateDepartmentgate, etc. If women are generally more risk averse then men, possibly this incompetence&nb...
Sunday, October 19, 2014
From Sylacauga, Alabama (Al.com):. . . Police Chief Chris Carden . . . said in a news release that a man was walking near Beth Yates Park on West Spring Street Sunday at about 6:15 p.m. when he was approached by Hall, who threatened him with a large stick and demanded money. The victim pulled out a handgun and aimed it at Hall, who then fled the scene, Carden said. The victim was unharmed, and he returned home to give a detailed description to police of the man who threatened him. Patrol officers located Hall near Ogletree Plaza, matching...
From Lake Elsinore, California (The Press Enterprise):. . . About 10:45 p.m., a woman called 911 to report a burglary in progress, Riverside County sheriff’s officials said in a news release. The woman said a man was trying to force his way into their home in the 100 block of South Torn Ranch Road and that her husband had armed himself with a handgun. Sheriff’s officials said the husband, who is in his 40s, warned the man that he was armed and would shoot if he continued. The intruder did not heed the resident’s warning, breaking a window,...
From Reuters:A U.S. government watchdog agency is asking the Air Force to explain why it decided to destroy 16 aircraft initially bought for the Afgan air force and turn them into $32,000 of scrap metal instead of finding other ways to salvage nearly $500 million in U.S. funds spent on the program. John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, asked Air Force Secretary Deborah James to document all decisions made about the destruction of the 16 C-27J aircraft that were stored at Kabul International Airport for years...
Thursday, October 16, 2014
The fact that the individual who stopped this robbery was outside his business when he saw what was happening indicates that it is a concealed handgun permit holder who stopped this robbery. From Phoenix, Arizona:. . . Two armed suspects wearing masks entered the Desert Schools Credit Union near Cactus and Tatum around 3 p.m. and attempted to rob it, police said. A witness then opened fire on the suspects. It is not known if the suspects returned fire. Authorities said one of the suspects was shot and transported to a local hospital...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
From SF Gate: 28-year-old woman from Campbell whose car tumbled hundreds of feet down an embankment on Mount Hamilton east of San Jose was rescued and taken to a hospital Tuesday morning after she spent more than 12 hours stuck and injured, officials said. . . . On Monday afternoon, just after 2 p.m., Campbell police officers received a report from General Motors’ OnStar system saying there had been a rollover accident involving Melissa Vasquez’s Chevrolet Cruze in the area of White Oaks Road and Shelley Avenue in Campbell, said Capt....
This event occurred on Tuesday night. From the Philadelphia Inquirer:The two alleged assailants were caught a few blocks away, and two additional teenagers were later arrested as accomplices, Harrisburg police said Wednesday. Arrested were Jamani Ellison, 17; Jyair Leonard, 15; Derek Anderson, 17; and Zha-quan McGhee, 15. They were charged with attempted homicide, conspiracy, robbery, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and carrying a firearm without a license. They were charged as adults, police said, and officers recovered...
Monday, October 13, 2014
This is a dramatic story from last Friday in Flint, Michigan. From MLive:The mother of a woman who told police she was attacked inside an eastside home said she is thankful for neighbors who rushed to her daughter's aid, including a man who held the alleged attacker at gunpoint then chased him down and helped hold him until police arrived. . . ."If it wasn't for all these people who cared enough to help her, and not turn the other cheek like so many people would, my daughter would be dead right now." Jessica Abels, who lives near the...
Sunday, October 12, 2014
If the Washington Post gives this scandal 1/4th the coverage that it gave former Senator George Allen's macaca quip, Warner will be toast. McAuliffe has already been implicated in the scandal to bribe state Senator Puckett to stay in office. Now it appears that Warner was also directly involved. From the Washington Post:The son of a former Virginia state senator has told federal investigators that U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner discussed the possibility of several jobs, including a federal judgeship, for the senator’s daughter in an...
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:An armed gunman got more than he bargained for when he tried to hold up a store clerk at a BP Gas Station in the 3100 block of South Grand early today. St. Louis Metropolitan Police provided sketchy details and said the shooting happened at 1:30 a.m. when the clerk managed to fire two shots at the gunman wounding him in both legs. The man was taken to a local hospital. His condition is not known. . . . Thanks to Tony Troglio for the li...
Friday, October 10, 2014
CNN's John Blake has a new article on how race and guns. Bob Cottrol is also interviewed for the piece. Here is part of the discussion where he discusses my work:Some gun rights advocates say contemporary black communities could learn from that tradition of self-defense.Restrictive gun control laws often victimize black people more than any other group because they suffer disproportionately from violent crime, says John R. Lott Jr., author of "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws." A black person is 6.5...
From Fox News:. . . a large hawk took offense to the quadcopter drone loudly buzzing in the same airspace. The GoPro camera captured the hawk swooping in from above and slamming into the drone. At this point, Schmidt throttled down the props to avoid doing any serious damage to the hawk and the drone is filmed falling to the ground where it lands upside down on a grassy area of the park. According to Schmidt, the hawk zipped away and was apparently unharmed from the encounter. Detailed in the...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Remember the scandal where the EPA was accused of trying to charge conservative groups fees while largely exempting liberal groups. The fees applied to Freedom of Information Act requests -- allegedly, the EPA waived them for liberal groups far more often than it did for conservative ones. The Obama administration has done what it always does. Delay, delay, delay, and then say that the information has been destroyed and that all this is old news. Of course, this isn't the first time that the EPA has tried to hide information....
From Fox News:The actor is particularly vocal about gun rights. He said a frightening experience at his home in Los Angeles helped shape his opinion on the topic. “I was terrified. I’m a big, strong guy and my knees were buckling like ‘Oh my gosh,’” Cain said of a night when he awoke to a stranger pounding on his door. “I’m armed to-the-teeth now. At 4 o’clock in the morning come bang at my door, my knees won’t buckle.” . . .This provides a contrast with recent news that Liam Neeson opposing guns. On the other hand, you have people such...
My newest piece at Fox News starts this way:When former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control groups release a report, they consistently garner massive, uncritical news coverage. Alas. With the huge number of factual mistakes in these reports, you would think that reporters would have grown wary of pushing their propaganda. For example, Bloomberg’s Everytown, Mothers Demand Action, and Mayors Against Illegal guns have been caught padding the number of school shootings. While Everytown claimed 74 school shootings...
So much for all the people who have bought more dangerous cars because they thought they were getting better fuel economy or saving money on gas. From the UK Telegraph:Drivers looking for savings at the petrol pump could be making a mistake if they swap their estate or 4x4 for a smaller car, according to research which suggests that fuel economy estimates are biased against larger vehicles. . . . The discrepancy between manufacturers’...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
From WTAE.com:The House voted 143-54 for a bill that would discourage local governments from imposing illegal gun restrictions by giving anyone whose rights are violated by such laws the ability to sue and recover legal fees, as well as reimbursement for any lost income. That bill also would require the state police to submit mental health data within 90 days to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, run by the federal government. . ....
Apparently, a number of Democrats are not very optimistic about their election prospects. From The Hill newspaper:Democrats are starting to play the blame game as they face the possibility of losing the Senate in November. Tempers are running high a month out from Election Day, with polls showing Democratic candidates trailing in the crucial battleground states that will decide whether control of Congress flips to Republicans. . . . “Yes, you’ve seen pre-emptive finger pointing in the last couple of weeks,” said Gerald Warburg,...
Obamacare has a funny way of reducing the number of people without health insurance. From the Associate Press:Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation's largest private employer. Wal-Mart told The Associated Press that starting Jan. 1, it will no longer offer health insurance to employees who work less than an average of 30 hours a week. The move affects 30,000 employees, or about 5 percent of Wal-Mart's...
Monday, October 6, 2014
This is an interesting case where a frequent and well-known customer stopped a robbery, but apparently the people who work at the bar and the other customers can't identify him to police. Presumably this concealed carry permit holder knew that he wasn't allowed to carry in the business and wants to avoid an possible criminal penalties. I know one person who undoubtedly wishes that she had violated the prohibition against carrying a concealed handgun in a bar when Tennessee used to ban it. From KHOU in Houston:Just after closing...
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Fox News is broadcasting a discussion that I had on Bloomberg's misinformation on guns three times this weekend. They did it yesterday at 5:15 PM EDT, and today at 10:15 PM EDT and tomorrow morning at 1:15 AM EDT. Fox Business will also show the discussion at 9:15 PM EDT.However, you can watch the two segments from the show on youtube here and here.Bloomberg's people were invited yet again to participate, but they continue to refuse to appear with anyone to debate. If you would like to embarrass them for refusing to debate anyone,...
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