It seem pretty clear that the Obama administration is just being punitive and make religious organizations bear the legal costs of going to court. From Fox News:The Obama administration says faith-based nonprofits should comply with ObamaCare’s birth-control mandate because they have more leeway than the corporations that won a Supreme Court ruling on the issue last year. Government attorneys made the argument on Thursday to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, after pro-life ministry Priests for Life asked...
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Thursday, January 15, 2015
As the police say, the pizza delivery woman "had no other choice" and she would have been in real danger if she hadn't had her concealed handgun permit. From Fox News:The employee was making a delivery in Decatur, Ga., Sunday night when a man approached her vehicle, forcing her onto the ground at gunpoint, according to the DeKalb County Police Department. The woman, who had a gun in her pocket, was able to fire at the man while on the ground -- striking the alleged assailant, identified as 24-year-old Donquaz Stevenson, in the face. Stevenson...
Putting 10,000 French soldiers in front of Jewish facilities will offer little protection as terrorists have control over where and when they attack. Terrorists have important strategic advantages in picking the time and place for attacks. Putting uniformed guards at places mean that terrorists will either kill these guards first or wait for them to leave an area before an attack occurs. From Israel National News:A prominent European...
Monday, January 12, 2015
What could possibly justify these vicious comments? Will gun control advocates keep this movie from "the Oscar spotlight"? From Fox Nation:. . . The Washington-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has given critics of the upcoming movie a Facebook outlet to rant about the subject of the movie, sniper Chris Kyle, killed after the leaving the military and while he was at a gun range with a vet suffering from PTSD. “Good Riddance,” wrote one. “What goes around comes around,” sneered another. Kyle is an American hero, a sniper...
Friday, January 9, 2015
From Yahoo News:Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on Thursday.Speaking after gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on a French satirical newspaper, MI5 boss Andrew Parker warned a strike on the United Kingdom was highly likely. . . .From the Daily Beast:In the Spring 2014 issue, for example, Inspire proposed attacking cities and military facilities in northern Virginia, the site...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
My newest piece in Investors' Business Daily starts this way:With chants of "NYPD, KKK" and signs saying "Stop Racist Police Terror" up until days before Christmas, protesters in New York made it clear that they don't trust the police.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's second inaugural address was blunt: "The truth is the justice system does need review. The truth is there are troubling questions that have been raised which must be answered." But despite the overwhelming political and media rhetoric and the polls, there is strong evidence that...
Gun control advocates are going for a state by state approach, following along what homosexual rights groups have done. The left wing Salon had this interview with Bloomberg's Shannon Watts:. . . If you look at what we’ve done in the states alone — in 2013, we helped close the background check loophole in several states (Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New York) … and then we built on that this year. We got six different states, red and blue, to pass laws that would keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. And those were...
Click on figure to enlarge it.A lot is being made about the fact that students at public universities are covering a greater percentage of the costs of their education. But students still only cover 25% of costs. The Washington Post makes a big deal about the fact that the share of state funded university expenditures that the students cover is more than that covered by states? The problem is that people are only covering a tiny fraction...
Sunday, January 4, 2015
A decorated retired New York cop is suing the state for taking away his guns. From Fox News:. . . Donald Montgomery’s lawsuit contends that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other state officials violated his Second Amendment rights when his guns were seized after a brief hospital stay for insomnia. Montgomery, a cop for 30 years and a U.S. Navy veteran, brought the lawsuit in Rochester Federal Court on Dec. 17, according to the Daily Caller. The SAFE Act became law with little public debate after Cuomo convinced lawmakers that New York needed...
This might not have gone as smoothly as one would want, but against two robbers it isn't clear what other option this many had. From TheIndyChannel ABC Channel 6:. . . IMPD [Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department] officers were called to a residence on the 3100 block of East 10th Street at 10:23 p.m. Sunday on a report of shots fired. The caller reportedly told police they had shot someone who attempted to rob them.Officers arrived on scene to find an unidentified male with apparent gunshot wounds.Homicide detectives said the suspect...
Saturday, January 3, 2015
St. Louis has been plagued for years by armed robbers who break into cell phone stores and steal all the cell phones that they can grab. An example from June 2013 is available here. Here is the police account from a robbery today:. . . An employee arrived to start work and saw two men in a Mitsubishi Diamante drive into the front glass door of the store. The men then entered the store carrying bags, followed by a third man who had exited a Jeep Cherokee. Once inside the store, the men began to smash out the glass on the counters where cell...
Thursday, January 1, 2015
This past June, Wendy Davis painted herself as being pro-gun on many issues (from open carry to allowing permitted concealed handguns to be stored in people's cars on college campuses to reducing training for permits). Democrats, of course, denied the claim that Davis was really anti-gun and just pretending to be pro-self defense. As the argument went this past summer, from Politico:Rising Democratic star and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has joined her top Republican rival in supporting a proposed "open carry" law. It would allow...
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