Repeal the Second Amendment? Almost Half of Democrats Say Yes | National Review

Repeal the Second Amendment? Almost Half of Democrats Say Yes | National Review
"The vast majority of Democrats also support banning all semi-automatic weapons.
More than a third of the Democratic party would do away with the Second Amendment, a survey by The Economist and YouGov revealed.
Even 21 percent of the American public would support that plan, according to the study.
The poll was conducted from February 25-27, while the nation was still reeling from the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 earlier last month.
...The survey also showed that a majority of Democrats, 82 percent, are in favor of banning semi-automatic weapons, which include handguns as well as rifles. 
Only slightly over half of Republicans, 53 percent, are against this proposal.
...Half of the general population said that gun purchasers should be required to pass a mental examination before walking away with a firearm, with 68 percent of Democrats and 41 percent of Republicans supporting this idea."

War on Free Speech: EU Demands Facebook and Google Censor 'Illegal' Speech in One Hour

War on Free Speech: EU Demands Facebook and Google Censor 'Illegal' Speech in One Hour:

"The unelected executive branch of the European Union (EU) has ordered social media and tech firms like Facebook to delete content it considers “illegal” within one hour, as they ramp up efforts to censor the Internet."

Levin: ‘Phony Science’ of Climate Change Is About Control

Levin: ‘Phony Science’ of Climate Change Is About Control:
"On his nationally syndicated radio talk show Tuesday, host Mark Levin set the record straight on climate change when he said that the ‘phony science’ of climate change is about control.

“Every aspect of government’s involvement in this phony science called climate change is about controlling every aspect of what takes place in your automobile, what takes place in your home, what takes place in your business,” stated Mark Levin. “That’s what it’s all about. That’s their reality, to use Obama’s term.”

Levin’s comments came after former President Barack Hussein Obama spoke to an audience of people at MIT Sloan Sports Analytic Conference last week, where Obama’s remarks were supposed to have been kept “off-the-record” and “completely secret,” according to Reason.

As can be heard in the audio recording, apparently leaked to Reason, Obama said the following concerning climate change and science:

“You and I can have an argument about climate change in which you conclude, ‘we're not going to stop the Chinese and the Indians from burning a bunch of coal, it's gone on for a pretty long time, we're just going to have to adapt, and maybe we'll invent some new energy source in the nick of time, and that's why I'm opposed to the Paris Accords,’” said Obama. “I'll come back and say, ‘well no it just turns out if we just invest in some smart technology and we create a smart regulatory framework that incentivizes investment in clean energy, we can actually solve this problem now, and if we don't it's going to be catastrophic.’”

Below is a transcript of Levin’s remarks from his show on Tuesday addressing Obama on climate change:

“See, the vast majority of the American people are not involved in energy production. The vast majority of the American people have no idea how gasoline gets to the pump, how oil is used. They just use it.

“So when you have a slick salesman from progressivism saying, ‘All we have to do is a little bit of this and a little bit of that. We can save the planet, lower the temperature, stop the ocean from boiling, the rising of the oceans with more of this and less of that. And look, we’re willing to debate the particulars, but we’re not willing to debate the fact of climate change.’

Levin-“...only recently...with the advent of the Clinton-Gore administration, did it suddenly become the case that we have what they used to call global warming. Now we have climate change. And before that, of course, in the 70s they called it global cooling..."

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Teacher Coalition Seeks to End Obama School Discipline Policy: ‘A Lot of Fear in Schools’ | Breitbart

Teacher Coalition Seeks to End Obama School Discipline Policy: ‘A Lot of Fear in Schools’ | Breitbart:
"The school discipline policy that may have allowed Nikolas Cruz to escape arrest by Broward County law enforcement and ultimately purchase the firearm he used to kill 17 people is in effect in over 50 school districts across the country.

“He probably wouldn’t have been able to buy the murder weapon if the school had referred him to law enforcement,” veteran FBI agent Michael Biasello told RealClearInvestigations (RCI).

In 2014, the Obama administration issued a “Dear Colleague” guidance that threatened school districts – whose disciplinary measures showed a disproportionately greater number of minority students affected – could be subject to investigation by the Departments of Justice and Education, regardless of whether the behaviors leading to the discipline were unacceptable.

Deborah York, now a retired teacher in Edina, Minnesota, tells Breitbart News she sees “a lot of fear in schools, not only physical fear of being assaulted or violently abused, but ‘system fear’ that’s coming from the top down about gag orders and data privacy, where you can’t talk among your fellow teachers, even to share information.”...

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Paul Joseph Watson on Breitbart News Daily: YouTube Censors Conservatives Because the Left Can't 'Compete with Us' | Breitbart

Paul Joseph Watson on Breitbart News Daily: YouTube Censors Conservatives Because the Left Can't 'Compete with Us' | Breitbart:

"“Well, this all came about, and this is what’s amazing to me, Alex, as a result of basically a CNN lobbying campaign. Last week they put the article up that you just mentioned saying that we were one strike away basically from a YouTube ban, which is what happens afterwards,” replied Watson. “We’re back to one strike, by the way, they revoked one of them. This started a chain of events which people are now calling the YouTube purge.”

Watson then explained that though the purge was largely affecting right-wing accounts, there were also centrist accounts being sanctioned, noting, "

New threat! Supremes could turn Constitution into ‘suicide pact’

New threat! Supremes could turn Constitution into ‘suicide pact’:
"If the court finds that Shariah supremacism equals Islam, equals religion, equals immunity from governmental protective measures, “the Constitution really will have become a suicide pact,” they wrote.

“We will have decided that anti-constitutional Shariah radicals are just as welcome as any other law abiding, patriotic Muslims.”

The brief was submitted by the American Freedom Law Center in a lawsuit against Trump’s plan to improve the security of the United States by banning entry of unvetted individuals from eight terror-supporting nations."

Missed this on the liberal media?-----Racist serial killer is indicted for killing THREE more hikers | Daily Mail Online

Racist serial killer is indicted for killing THREE more hikers | Daily Mail Online:
"'Kill all white people': Racist serial killer is indicted for killing THREE more hikers in random attacks bringing the total body count to six

• Fredrick Demond Scott, 22, made said in 2014 he wanted to kill all white people
• Scott has been charged in connection with three murders - two middle aged men and one homeless woman - all victims were white
• On Friday he was indicted in three other murders of white men 
• The murders were all over the course of a year with the latest victim shot in the head at noon on August 13 in Kansas City 
• All victims were killed near the Indian Creek hiking trail in the city of 480,000
• Scott's mother said he refused to get treatment for paranoid schizophrenia

A Missouri man who threatened to 'kill all white people' and was already charged with slaughtering three in the Kansas City area was indicted Friday in the murders of three other people.
Frederick Demond Scott, a 23-year-old black man, is now charged in the murders of five white men and one white woman in total, although investigators and prosecutors have not discussed a motive for the killings..."  

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Scott (pictured in court in Sept) is now facing six counts of murder and six counts of armed criminal action after being indicted on three new murders Friday..."
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Patriotic ad takes internet by storm | Fox News Video

Patriotic ad takes internet by storm | Fox News Video:
"Patriotic ad takes internet by storm - Grunt Style CEO and founder says his mission is to spread patriotism across America. The company sells patriotic and military tees."
Link is to the FNC interview with the founder. A good one!
Here's just the video:

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Liberal self-delusion and brainwashing our students-----How biased is your news source? You probably won’t agree with this chart - MarketWatch

How biased is your news source? You probably won’t agree with this chart - MarketWatch:
"Are we even aware of our biases anymore?

If you look at this chart and are convinced your “extreme” source belongs in the middle, you just might be part of the problem plaguing America today.

“In the past, national evening news programs, local evening news programs, and the front pages of print newspapers were dominated by fact-reporting stories,” says the chart’s creator, patent attorney Vanessa Otero.

...She released the first version of the chart back in 2016, and she’s updated it several times since. 

Over the past year, it’s gone viral, with thousands of educators at both the high school and college levels using the compelling visual..."

Worthless.

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ICE blames California sanctuary law for illegals' arrests - Washington Times

ICE blames California sanctuary law for illegals' arrests - Washington Times:

"Federal immigration authorities said California’s new sanctuary law forced this week’s sweep that netted 232 illegal immigrants in the Bay Area — and set off a massive controversy after Oakland’s mayor gave a public warning that may have helped hundreds of other migrants elude arrest.
Of the 232 arrests, 115 had felony or serious misdemeanor records. Another 65 had either been deported before and snuck back in, or were ignoring final deportation orders from an immigration judge.
But the remaining 52 were likely snared when officers were out in their communities looking for the priority targets."

Maine: Battle over female genital mutilation bill raging « Refugee Resettlement Watch

Maine: Battle over female genital mutilation bill raging « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
Diversity is beautiful alert!

"This is one of those great ‘fun’ political debates you will get to have once the population of Muslims, mostly from East Africa, ‘find their way’ to your state. 

Maine, especially Lewiston, is the Somali capital of the East!...
Here is a bit of the story from the Portland Press Herald just to give you the flavor:

AUGUSTA — There are parts of the world where it has long been common for adult women to slice away girls’ external genital tissue in a bid to dampen their sexual desires.

Though Maine is a long way from anywhere this has traditionally been a problem, a battle is raging among lawmakers about whether the state ought to have a law specifically barring female genital mutilation.

Safiya Khalid: “It is horrible.” But, here’s what I want to know: if the Somalis in Maine are truly refugees why are they going back to Africa for any reason? Isn’t that the place they claim they were “persecuted.”

...One provision in a bill legislators are considering also would make it a felony to take a girl outside Maine to have someone cut her genital tissue without a medical reason, which is already illegal under federal law.

Safiya Khalid, a Somali-American from Lewiston who serves on the city’s library board, said Friday that “old school” women in her community “wouldn’t risk” having the procedure done on a child in Maine, but some might take their daughters back to Africa for it. She doesn’t know anyone who’s had it done, she said, but she thinks it probably has occurred..."

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History for March 4

History for March 4 - On-This-Day.com:
Prince Henry the Navigator 1394, Antonio Vivaldi 1678, Knute Rockne 1888


Jim Clark 1936 - Race car driver, Catherine O’Hara 1954 - Actress, Chastity Bono 1969 - Daughter of Sonny and Cher


1766 - The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, which had caused bitter and violent opposition in the U.S. colonies.


1861 - The Confederate States of America adopted the "Stars and Bars" flag.


1908 - The New York board of education banned the act of whipping students in school.


1914 - Doctor Fillatre successfully separated Siamese twins.


1933 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gave his inauguration speech in which he said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."


1950 - Walt Disney’s "Cinderella" was released across the U.S.


1952 - Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married.


1954 - In Boston, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital reported the first successful kidney transplant.

Why Did It Take Two Weeks To Reveal Parkland Students’ Astroturfing?

Why Did It Take Two Weeks To Reveal Parkland Students’ Astroturfing?:

"The president of the American Federation of Teachers told BuzzFeed they’re also behind the national school walkout, which journalists had previously assured the public was the sole work of a teenager. (I’d thought teachers were supposed to get kids into school, but maybe that’s just me.)

In other words, the response was professionalized."

The way we were-----Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (Live)

Boob-tube-----TODAY's First Weather Forecast: Jan. 14, 1952 | Archives | TODAY

Three Times The Mainstream Media Has Denied The Existence of No-Go Zones In Europe

Three Times The Mainstream Media Has Denied The Existence of No-Go Zones In Europe: 
"For many years, the mainstream media has denied the existence of No Go Zones across various European countries. 
This is despite heavily migrant populated neighbourhoods turning into areas of high crime and danger for police and public alike.
This week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel shocked the world by admitting that even Germany, which has taken in well over a million migrants since the 2015 migrant crisis, has no-go zones.
Merkel, who was described as the “leader of the free world” by left-wing publication the Independent after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, is only the latest European leader to recognize the problems within migrant enclaves.
Whether they are called no-go zones, vulnerable areas, as in Sweden, or sensitive urban areas (ZUS), as in France, their existence has become undeniable — as documented in an in-depth book by Breitbart London editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam recently.
Here are three times the mainstream media has denied the very existence of any no-go areas across Europe:
1. CNN Slammed Republican Bobby Jindal for Mentioning No-Go Zones in 2015..."
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Smashing The Myth Of America's "Stingy" Welfare State | Zero Hedge

Smashing The Myth Of America's "Stingy" Welfare State | Zero Hedge
"...According to the World Health Organization, only Luxembourg, Norway, and the Netherlands spend more government money on healthcare per capita. 

In the US, the sum is $4,153 per capita, and in Norway it is $5,154. In the United Kingdom, the total is $2,716. 

This presents a problem for advocates for more government control of the healthcare system, of course. Often, their line of argument is that Americans are too "stingy" with social health benefits. 
When confronted with the fact that government spending is quite high, however, they switch tactics, and then declare that if the US adopted a more government-regimented system, then spending would actually be lower. 
This was a tactic employed by Bernie Sanders. 

This latter claim may or may not be so, but the one thing we do know is that the US already spends more taxpayer money on healthcare than most everyone else. So, it seems hard to fathom that the "problem" — whatever that may be — is a product of too little government spending on health care. 

If advocates for reform want to argue over how the money is spent, let them do so, but the debate should hardly include any proposals to increase government spending. 

In the US, government spending on healthcare as a percentage of total government spending, is one of the highest among wealthy nations. Although, by this measure the US is equal with Japan and the Netherlands. 

I am not a defender of the US government's gargantuan military budget, but even considering that huge expense, government healthcare spending still takes up an unusually large amount of government spending in the US. 

There is no shortage of articles in publications like Slate and The Nation stating that "the American social safety net does not exist" and that the US has a "stingy social safety net."

Now, if by "stingy" one means, "poorly administered," "ineffective," or "counterproductive," then one would be on to something. 

But if by "stingy," one means "underfunded," well, there's little evidence of that. 

Even many advocates for a reduced federal budget are likely willing to consider ideas that would spend taxpayer dollars more effectively. 

After all, if it's a given that one is going to pay a large federal tax bill, one usually would rather see that money go to something like housing for a single mother and her children who are living in a car..."

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Trump Official Says 'Illegal Immigrants Have No Constitutional Right To Abortion' | Daily Wire

Trump Official Says 'Illegal Immigrants Have No Constitutional Right To Abortion' | Daily Wire:

"According to The Hill, the ACLU hit at Scott Lloyd for his comments regarding the constitutional basis for illegal immigrants obtaining abortions:
In a deposition Lloyd gave in December, he replied "yes" when asked if he believed undocumented minors have "no constitutional right to abortion."
The ACLU has battled the Trump administration over the policy, representing four pregnant undocumented minors who had been blocked from getting abortions.
In three cases, the girls were able to get abortions while the fourth was released to a sponsor."

The incredible Trump agenda -- What most Americans don't know about the war the president has waged | Fox News

The incredible Trump agenda -- What most Americans don't know about the war the president has waged | Fox News:
"President Trump’s style has dismayed many on the right as well as the left. 
But when it comes to actions, conservatives find much to delight them.
While the 2016 presidential elections were underway, policy analysts at The Heritage Foundation (my employer and one of the nation’s leading think tanks) compiled a six-volume series of conservative, research-based policy recommendations for the next president.
The recommendations were calculated to help the incoming president and Congress jumpstart the economy, strengthen national security and halt the increasing centralization of power in the federal government.
At the end of 2017, we reviewed all 334 recommendations presented in our “Mandate for Leadership” series and found that the Trump administration had embraced fully 64 percent of them. 
That’s nearly two out of three – and that’s very good indeed.
From pulling America out of the unaffordable and unworkable Paris Protocol on Climate Change to ending the damaging Obama era regulations on net neutrality, the Trump administration has advanced a broad conservative agenda on dozens more fronts in 2017.
Most Americans are already familiar with some of the conservative agenda items adopted in the last year.
...But relatively few Americans are aware that the president has waged his own war on over-regulation. 
...But make no mistake, 2017 was a banner year for conservative policy victories. 
On that score, President Trump can confidently stack his record right up there next to President Reagan’s first year..."
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