Turn on CNN and you get the impression that mass shootings are mainly carried out by mentally unstable teenagers with assault rifles in high schools. But the data points to a very different picture.
In the last 5 years, five major mass shootings were carried out using AR-15 or similar rifles.
Back in 2012, pretty much everyone thought ObamaCare was going to be struck down as unconstitutional. The Obama admin had claimed, repeatedly, that the healthcare law was not a tax and that seemed to be the only way to justify its existence.
You have to give Justin Trudeau credit for one thing. His eight day trip to India made the Ontario PC leadership race where Patrick Brown is running to replace himself after he may or may not have resigned look downright boring. While the international media has lately made fun of Canada’s poor excuse for a leader, his trip to India made not only him, but Canada a laughingstock throughout the world.
OTTAWA, ON – The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) today expressed concern about the Trudeau government’s 2018 budget, which did not lay out a clear path to eliminate the deficit and failed to address growing concerns about Canada’s tax competitiveness.
VANCOUVER—Despite the rhetoric coming from Ottawa, the federal government’s plan of deficit spending and higher taxes is not working and today’s budget ignores the serious economic challenges facing Canada, according to Charles Lammam, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
Dianne Feinstein is nothing if not a staunch left-winger. Yes, every now and then she might express an idea that the radical base is uncomfortable with but, by and large, she toes the Democrat line. Still, she has a problem. "Toeing the line" is no longer good enough.
I don't know if anyone really thought he wouldn't run for re-election, but you're pretty much laying any doubt to rest when you name the guy who's going to run your re-election campaign.
Current law, established more than 40 years ago, says unions can compel workers to pay them "agency fees" even if the workers choose not to join the unions, because the workers still benefit from unions' work collectively bargaining for wages, pensions, etc. That law almost went down two years ago, but Antonin Scalia's death resulted in a 4-4 tie vote.
As usual, the media are pretty excited about anything they can portray as a rebuke of the Trump Administration or its policies. They've had a pretty good time with low-level, liberal federal judges striking down perfectly legal executive orders, particularly on immigration, but those lower-court rulings usually get overturned by the Supreme Court because they're completely unconstitutional and without any legal basis. They're just liberal judges smacking the president because they want to.
It seems every time an horrendous shooting occurs in a “gun free zone”, the anti-gun zealots seem to lead the charge for more anti-gun laws. Is that really the answer for preventing future gun crimes?
Why don't we make sure the gun laws we already have on the books are enforced?
Oil and natural gas aren't just fuels. They supply building blocks for pharmaceuticals; plastics in vehicle bodies, athletic helmets and thousands of other products; and complex composites in solar panels and wind turbine blades and nacelles. The USA was importing 65% of its petroleum in 2005, creating serious national security concerns. But thanks to fracking, imports are now 40% and the US exports oil and gas.
Strictly cowardice. One hundred percent. Not one of the companies listed below is acting on some sort of moral objection to the NRA and its positions on gun rights. Those positions have long been known by all of them, and they have not changed since Parkland.
It's the gun's fault. It's the NRA's fault. It's the FBI's fault. It's every gun owner in America's fault. It's firearm manufacturers' fault. At this point, we've heard everything - and everyone - under the sun blamed for the systemic failure that allowed the Florida gunman to carry out his rampage.
Over the past several months—with particular emphasis on these last two weeks of the Florida high school shooting—the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has had many of its scurrilous secrets, corruption and lies exposed to the public. The contemptuously blasé behavior patterns of its upper management or "the 7th Floor" have left such an odious stench that its headquarters may need to be completely gutted.
Don't worry, everyone. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is aware that "everything wasn't done perfectly" in the response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Considering the fact that the FBI failed, the Sheriff's department failed, the school failed, and the officers on the scene failed, Israel's comment is probably the understatement of the century.
The Democrats’ deeply dishonest rebuttal to the congressional report on the Obama administration’s abuses of surveillance authority came out on the weekend as the House intel chief seemed to threaten to abolish the secret court that granted the abusive requests.
Rob did an excellent job yesterday of covering the CYA weaseling we're getting from Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. Maybe someone needs to explain to Sheriff Israel that if you hire a deputy and the deputy fails to do his job, the deputy may be responsible for his failings, but you're the sheriff, which means so are you.
It’s unlikely that CNN, led by Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper, et al, know they’re helping relive the Children’s Crusade of 1212.
This time it’s not about sacred religions. It’s mostly about expressing hatred of the National Rifle Association (NRA), banning guns, and, by association, anti-Trump everything.
After all these years, Whitewater counsel Ken Starr, as it turns out, gives Monica Lewinsky, of blue dress infamy, “the creeps”.
You can’t make this stuff up, unless that is, you’re willing to wipe out with a magic eraser, the proven perversion of Hillary’s errant husband Bill Clinton.
In an essay for Vanity Fair released on Monday, Lewinsky who didn’t but could easily have started off with the words…”Dear Diary”, was finally able to express her innermost feelings to Starr after running into him by chance at a Manhattan restaurant.