Fox Anchor Left Dumbfounded After Juan Williams Tries to Defend Policy of Military Members With No Guns | Video | TheBlaze.com

Fox Anchor Left Dumbfounded After Juan Williams Tries to Defend Policy of Military Members With No Guns | Video | TheBlaze.com:

 "Ever since the image of the shattered doors to the recruiting center, riddled with bullet holes, with a sign banning guns surfaced on social media yesterday, a huge debate has sparked over whether or not the marines should have been armed.

“These are Marines, everyone of them a rifleman,” Fox contributor Mary Katherine Ham said during Friday’s segment. “They are trained to protect themselves, and they have volunteered to be our sheepdogs, protect the rest of us, and yet we take the means out of our hands to do that. And that just seems like a sin.”

Is Puerto Rico Too Big to Fail?

Is Puerto Rico Too Big to Fail? - US News:
"Stop us if you've heard this before.
Officials are pleading for patience as a debt-stricken locale scrambles to find a solution to its financial crisis, with investors and onlookers wary about broader repercussions.
But this dilemma, in Puerto Rico, lies thousands of miles across the Atlantic from Athens.
And while Greece's financial dysfunction has caught much of the world's focus, Puerto Rico's problems pose interesting questions for the U.S. regarding how it will – or whether it should – help out its territory to the south.
"We might let a city go into default, but not a state. 
A commonwealth is in a slightly different position," says Robert Shapiro, former U.S. undersecretary of commerce for economic affairs.
"But, keep in mind, they're all citizens of the United States.
There is a question of political rights.
Do the people of Puerto Rico have the same right to have the federal government maintain the basic stability of their home that citizens of Mississippi and California do?"
..."They borrowed, they borrowed, they borrowed.
But people were looking at the demographics – declining population, an economy that's slowing.
You sort of had to see the writing on the wall," Peter Hayes, a managing director and head of the municipal bonds group at BlackRock Inc., said in a recent interview on Bloomberg's "Market Makers."...

Our "victimless crime" headline of the day-----Ann Arbor man jailed for luring 15-year-old girl into dog-collar sex parties with wife

Ann Arbor man jailed for luring 15-year-old girl into dog-collar sex parties with wife | MLive.com

Kathryn Schulz’s New Yorker story on Pacific Northwest earthquake: Geologists explain the risks.

Kathryn Schulz’s New Yorker story on Pacific Northwest earthquake: Geologists explain the risks
The last earthquake of roughly magnitude 9 in the Pacific Northwest happened 75 years before the United States existed.
One day, possibly in the not-too-distant future, the Earth’s crust will again convulse in a megaquake. What will happen then will dwarf any natural disaster our country has ever experienced.
This week in the New Yorker, Kathryn Schulz, who lives in Oregon, scared the living bejeezus out of us by describing the aftermath of the coming Cascadia megathrust earthquake in gut-wrenching detail.
Think of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami that sparked the Fukushima disaster—only the Northwest is nowhere nearly as prepared as Japan was.
A word of caution if you read the article:
If you live in Seattle, you’ll probably find yourself wanting to sleep outside tonight.
Here’s a telling excerpt:
By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”
Seattle’s excellent alternative weekly, the Stranger, emphasizes the main takeaways from the story: The earthquake will be really bad, the tsunami will be worse for many people, this event is now overdue, and the Northwest isn’t prepared for it.
So, how accurate is this doomsday scenario?
Did Schulz exaggerate any bits?
Should you start hoarding Tillamook cheese and Black Butte Porter?
Should we start a petition to the NFL to relocate the Seahawks to Omaha?..."

Obama's Statement to Muslims After Chattanooga Shooting Will Make You Physically Ill

Obama's Statement to Muslims After Chattanooga Shooting Will Make You Physically Ill:

"That’s it. No statement about the tragedy that happened during the holy month, no rebuke of religious extremism, and certainly no use of the phrase “radical Islam.”

When the president did eventually make a statement on Chattanooga, he called it “a heartbreaking circumstance for these individuals who have served our country with great valor to be killed in this fashion,” according to USA Today.

One sentence for the four Marines killed by a radical Islamic terrorist, but several hundred words about Eid-ul-Fitr.

If that doesn’t tell you where the president’s priorities lie, I don’t know what will."

Fact Check: The Washington Post on Donald Trump and John McCain

Fact Check: The Washington Post on Donald Trump and John McCain | Sharyl Attkisson:

"Donald Trump appears to have gotten under the skin of not only Democrats, but also fellow Republicans and the news media.
Has that subjected Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, to unfair and/or inaccurate reporting?
An article in the Washington Post today is headlined, “Trump slams McCain for being ‘captured’ in Vietnam.”
The article’s lead sentence states, “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump slammed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a decorated Vietnam War veteran, on Saturday by saying McCain was not a war hero because he was captured by the North Vietnamese [emphasis added].”
Is this report accurate?
In fact, Trump’s actual quote is the opposite of what is presented in the Post’s first sentence.

• Discussion
• 1. The Post did not provide context at the outset disclosing that McCain and Trump have been feuding, with McCain characterizing some Trump supporters as “crazies” and Trump stating that McCain graduated last in his class in Annapolis. 

The charged rhetoric continued at the conservative Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa this weekend.

• 2. When a panelist characterized McCain as a “war hero,” the Post is accurate in reporting that Trump initially said McCain is “not a war hero.” But then, Trump immediately modified his statement saying– four times– that McCain is a war hero:

“He is a war hero.”
“He’s a war hero because he was captured.”
“He’s a war hero, because he was captured.”
“I believe, perhaps, he’s a war hero. But right now, he’s said some very bad things about a lot of people.”

• 3. Did Trump say McCain is not a war hero because he was captured? No, not in the exchanges represented in the Post.
• 4. Is the Post’s characterization an accident? 

It would appear not, because it is repeated in the Post’s caption of the video clip, which also states: “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a decorated Vietnam war veteran, was not a war hero because he was captured by the North Vietnamese [emphasis added].”
Further, in the Post’s second sentence, Trump is quoted as stating of McCain, “He’s not a war hero…He’s a war hero because he was captured,” but the article selectively left out the phrase Trump had uttered in between: “He is a war hero.”

• Conclusion

Trump actually said the opposite of what the Post lead sentence and video caption claim.
The Post might have been able to get away stating that Trump “implied” McCain was not a war hero because McCain was captured, but even that would have been a subjective interpretation since Trump had actually stated the opposite.
It’s true that Trump stated one time that McCain is not a war hero.
But Trump stated four times that McCain is a war hero–and that was not accurately characterized in the article.
For interpreting and characterizing Trump’s true quote in a way that is at best questionable, and for selectively using some quotes and leaving others out, the Post receives Two Little Devils. (Ratings scale at end of article.)
Obviously, all are free to draw conclusions about any candidate or politician. 
But the news media has a responsibility to do its best to report accurately and fairly–even when reporters find a candidate and/or his positions to be personally distasteful."

Anyone seein' a pattern here?-----Two Couples Ambushed By Group Of Men While Walking Down Detroit Street, Stripped Of Clothes And Sexually Assaulted « CBS Detroit

Two Couples Ambushed By Group Of Men While Walking Down Detroit Street, Stripped Of Clothes And Sexually Assaulted « CBS Detroit:


Composite sketches of two of the suspects (credit: Detroit Police)

DETROIT (WWJ) – The hunt is on for a group of men in Detroit who allegedly attacked two couples while they were walking down the street, forcing the male victim to watch as his female companion is gang raped.
The first incident unfolded around 11:30 p.m. Thursday in a well-lit area near McNichols Road and Birwood Street.
The alleged attack happened in a northwest neighborhood just blocks away from Marygrove College.
According to police, a 22-year-old man and his 21-year-old girlfriend were walking along McNichols when they were approached by a group of six men.
The men reportedly forced the couple behind a nearby business where they were robbed and stripped of their clothes.
The group then allegedly took turns sexually assaulting the woman. 
After the attack was over, the nude victims ran to a nearby liquor store for help.
Just hours later, at 2:40 a.m. Friday, another couple was attacked.
A 21-year-old man and his 19-year-old girlfriend were walking in the area of McNichols Road and Pierson Street, nor far from the new Meijer store, when they were approached by four men who ordered them to the ground.
The group then took turns sexually assaulting the woman, forcing her boyfriend to watch.
After the attack, the suspects robbed the couple before ordering them to run away.
Investigators believe the two incidents may be connected. 
Authorities released composite sketches of three of the suspects, although police are searching for several more.
It appears surveillance cameras are in the area but its unclear if they recorded the incidents, which remain under investigation.
Anyone who might have information on the incident or the suspects is urged to contact police at 313-267-4600.

History for July 20

History for July 20 - On-This-Day.com
Sir Edmund Hillary 1919 - Explorer, first to climb Mt. Everest , Mike Ilitch 1929 - Founder of Little Caesar's Pizza franchises, owner of Detroit Red Wings, Chuck Daly 1933 


Diana Rigg 1938 - Actress (Medea, King Lear, The Avengers), Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin) 1938 - Actress (From Here to Eternity, West Side Story, Rebel Without a Cause), Mickey (Mitchell Jack) Stanley 1942 - Baseball Player 


Carlos Santana 1947 - Musician (Santana), Donna Dixon 1957 - Actress (Wayne's World, Dr. Detroit), Josh Holloway 1969 - Actor ("Lost") 


1861 - The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, VA. 


1868 - Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed. 


1881 - Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops. (Montana) 


1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. 

1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded. 


1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon. 


1974 - Turkish forces invaded Cyprus. 


1976 - America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful landing on Mars. 


1985 - Treasure hunters began raising $400 million in coins and silver from the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de Atocha." The ship sank in 1622 40 miles of the coast of Key West, FL. 


1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency. 

Here’s Why Netanyahu Says Those Praising Iranian Nuclear Deal Have Been Proven Wrong in Less Than a Week | TheBlaze.com

Here’s Why Netanyahu Says Those Praising Iranian Nuclear Deal Have Been Proven Wrong in Less Than a Week | TheBlaze.com:

“The Iranians aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they will use the hundreds of billions that they will receive under this agreement in order to arm their terror machine and they are clearly saying that they will continue their struggle against the U.S. and its allies, first among them being Israel, of course,” Netanyahu said.

On Saturday, just four days after the nuclear agreement was announced, Khamenei praised Iranians for chanting slogans at Al Quds Day holiday demonstrations the week before.

“You heard ‘Death to Israel,’ ‘Death to the U.S.’ You could hear it. The whole nation was shaken by these slogans. … So we ask Almighty God to accept these prayers by the people of Iran,” Khamenei said."

Krauthammer Thinks ‘It’s So Insane’ a ‘Phobia’ Has Prevented Authorities From Pursuing This | Video | TheBlaze.com

Krauthammer Thinks ‘It’s So Insane’ a ‘Phobia’ Has Prevented Authorities From Pursuing This | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Conservative political pundit said on the Fox News Channel Friday that “it’s insane” law enforcement doesn’t target mosques to gather intelligence about potential threats to the homeland.

Speaking on the cable-news network’s “Special Report,” the syndicated columnist contended law enforcement was paralyzed by a “phobia.”

Transgender Reporter Issued a Threat After Getting So Upset With a Conservative Commentator on Live TV: ‘Cut That Out Now, or You’ll Go Home in an Ambulance’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Transgender Reporter Issued a Threat After Getting So Upset With a Conservative Commentator on Live TV: ‘Cut That Out Now, or You’ll Go Home in an Ambulance’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Tur conceded that Jenner probably didn’t deserve the award, but said that “being transgender is about the bravest thing you can do.” Shapiro, though, went on to push back against the perceived normalization of the transgender issue.

“Why are we mainstreaming delusion?” he asked, proceeding to push back against another panelist who interjected to say that Shapiro was being insensitive. “Facts don’t care about your feelings. It turns out that every chromosome, every cell in Caitlyn Jenner’s body is male with the exception of some of his sperm cells. … what he feels on the outside is irrelevant to his biological status.”

San Francisco Sheriff ORDERED No Communication With ICE

San Francisco Sheriff ORDERED No Communication With ICE | The Daily Caller:
"San Francisco’s progressive sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi, issued a memo in March barring deputies from communicating with federal immigration agents, the sheriff’s deputy’s union revealed earlier this week.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Mirkarimi issued the memo on March 13, about a month before the sheriff’s department released Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal alien from Mexico who has used more than 30 aliases since first entering the U.S. in 1991 and has been deported five times.
Lopez-Sanchez, 45, allegedly fatally shot 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle in broad daylight July 1. Lopez-Sanchez was in federal prison until March 26. 
At that point, he was turned over to the San Francisco sheriff’s department because he had an outstanding marijuana warrant from 1995.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had issued a detainer request to the sheriff’s department asking to be notified before Lopez-Sanchez’s release. 
The sheriff’s department declined to honor that request because of San Francisco’s sanctuary city laws.
But Mirkarimi’s March 13 memo went even beyond the city’s statute.
In it, Mirkarimi called for “limited contact and communication with ICE representatives absent a court-issued warrant, a signed court order, or other legal requirement authorizing ICE access.”
According to The Los Angeles Times, Mirkarimi’s directive was stricter than the city’s 2013 Due Process for All ordinance.
That prohibited sheriff’s deputies from holding illegal aliens in jail on behalf of federal immigration agencies past their official release date except in cases involving certain felons.
Mirkarimi memo prohibited deputies from communicating to ICE that the department would not hold Lopez-Sanchez."

The Heartbreaking Reality Military Families Are Forced to Confront After Chattanooga | TheBlaze.com

The Heartbreaking Reality Military Families Are Forced to Confront After Chattanooga | TheBlaze.com:

"I care that I will never be able to let go of the fear that one day my husband or my friends will be targeted. I care that this kind of violence is happening in our backyards. I care that nothing is being done to allow our men and women in uniform to protect themselves while in that uniform.

I know they signed up to go into harm’s way for their families and their country. I know they volunteered to be sent to far-off places and defend us from the evils that hide in the darkest corners of this world. I just never expected that corner to be in Chattanooga. Or Fort Hood. Or a Navy yard in Washington, D.C.

They raise their right hand and swear to protect this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. What good is that promise if they can’t even protect themselves?"

Ret. Marine Colonel: Chattanooga Shows How 'Gun Control Mafia' Leaves Us Defenseless

Ret. Marine Colonel: Chattanooga Shows How 'Gun Control Mafia' Leaves Us Defenseless:
"During a July 16 appearance on Al Jazeera’s America Tonight, Colonel Gary Anderson, USMC (Ret), said the Chattanooga attack demonstrates that the “gun control mafia” has left military personnel and citizens alike in a defenseless position.
Al Jazeera introduced the segment by pointing out that “those who were at the [Chattanooga] recruiting station…were not permitted firearms.”
And they pointed out that “this is standard protocol, not only at recruiting centers but in other [military] facilities as well.”
...We can arm every recruiter, and that will help the recruiter stations in case they are attacked.
We can arm every Naval Reserve Center, every Army Reserve Center, but that’s not the issue.
The issue is, if [the recruiting stations and reserve centers] become hard targets, the other people that own shops and so forth in that strip mall aren’t protected themselves.
I think the problem is really this pervasive gun control mafia that we have in this country, that basically advocates for taking guns away from citizens who could potentially defend themselves, and leaving the only guns in the hands of those who might do them harm.
He said that because of these anti-gun policies, a military facility is not the only soft target. 
“It can be a grammar school, as we’ve seen, it can be church, as we’ve seen so recently.
You can’t protect everyone unless you actually arm the citizenry themselves, or at least allow them–and encourage them–to be armed.”"

EAA AirVenture week!-----The Soviet Airborne & Disembarking the Tupolev TB-3

The Soviet Airborne & Disembarking the Tupolev TB-3:
"The photographs below show the rather unusual method of how Russian Paratroopers disembarked from the TB-3.
By jumping or rather sliding from the wing.
The Soviets were one of the first countries to take the concept of airborne infantry seriously developing the tactic during the 1930s."

Windfarms Contaminate The Water Supply?

Instapundit » Blog Archive » #GREENFAIL: Windfarms Contaminate The Water Supply? “Right. So we’ve gone from wind farms choppi…:
"#GREENFAIL:
Windfarms Contaminate The Water Supply?
“Right.
So we’ve gone from wind farms chopping up birds to poisoning the water supply.
They’re not economically viable without public subsidy, they never meet their promised power generation or reliability, but, hey, they do give you diarrhea.
And maybe kill your unborn child. . . .
What on Earth are you complaining about?
Now, of course, nothing is proven yet, but I’ll wager dollars to donuts there’s more to this than the hysteria over fracking and earthquakes.”"

Chattanooga: The Effects of Our Suicidal Immigration Policy

Chattanooga: The Effects of Our Suicidal Immigration Policy | Conservative Review
The deadly terror attack that killed four Marines in Chattanooga will undoubtedly weigh on Americans sitting around the dinner table tonight and present questions for many heading into the weekend.
Why have we not learned the lessons of 9/11?
This past month, liberals looked throughout the country to destroy every last vestige of Civil War history in the pursuit of a peaceful utopia.

In the state of Tennessee, liberals are in the process of disinterring the grave of confederate Generals.
But nobody is willing to discuss the biggest existential threat to our national security, despite yet another sad reminder with the Islamic terror attack that killed four Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee yesterday.
When are we going to stop letting in Islamic terrorists through our front door?
...After 9/11, when the bipartisan 9/11 Commission identified the obvious root cause of the attack as an immigration problem, we doubled down on stupidity.
The U.S. has admitted roughly 1.6 million individuals from predominantly Muslim countries since 9/11 – twice the rate of immigration from that part of the world relative to the previous decade.
The Most Important Lesson of Chattanooga Terror Attack
The Islamic terrorist who murdered four marines at a recruiting station, Mohammad Youssduf Adbulazeer, was an immigrant from Kuwait.
Let’s be honest, not a single person has been killed in this country in recent history from a killer acquiring inspiration from the confederate flag and generals.
Yet, we have had countless Islamic terror attacks on our soil since 9/11 that have been directly inspired by the Islamic ideology and the teachings of Sharia.
...We can waste trillions of dollars and incur thousands of casualties refereeing endless Islamic civil wars oversees.
We can tip the scales of power from ISIS to Iran in response to this terror attack.
But what will that accomplish if we have already let in so many ticking time bombs through our front door and continue to do so on a daily basis?
We can talk about the absurdity of gun-free zones on military installations, and that is a valid point. As Mark Levin observed last night, the Iranian Islamists can be trusted with nukes but our military cannot be trusted with guns on their own bases.
But the most fundamental problem is suicidal immigration.
And it’s time we wake up as the political class gears up for new waves of immigration from the Middle East.
Here’s why:
Twenty-nine percent of males under 45 believe that violence against America is justified in order to make Sharia the law of the land..."

Disparate impact!---No evidence of violation of laws, so sue 'em anyway?--------Chicago suburbs hit with lawsuit for guns used in city crime

Chicago suburbs hit with lawsuit for guns used in city crime | Fox News:
"CHICAGO –  Summertime in Chicago, shootings ring out on the South and West sides as gang members execute drug-fueled vendettas.
Bodies pile up, and innocent civilians are caught in the crossfire.
Still, nothing seems to stop the bullets flying from illegal weapons.
Father Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina on Chicago’s South Side, is trying something new; pressuring the municipalities where he says the illegal guns originate.
He and several co-plaintiffs are now suing the Villages of Riverdale, Lyons and Lincolnwood. 
Each town is home to a gun store that Pfleger claims is lax with oversight for gun purchases. 
He wants the villages to crack down and prevent “straw purchasing” -- buying weapons in bulk, then selling them into the black market at a profit.
“We’re not asking anybody to take away guns from [legal] gun owners,” Pfleger said.
The lawsuit argues that a disproportionate number of crime guns originate from the targeted villages.
However, the heart of the issue is gang violence.
And the ATF says gang guns don’t necessarily come from the gun shops in Riverdale, Lyons and Lincolnwood.
“The largest percentage of crime guns used by gang members are coming from Indiana,” Special Agent Thomas Ahern said.
The Village of Lyons – the only one of the municipalities that responded to a request from Fox News for comment – said in response to the suit that Chicago officials, with whom Pfleger works closely, are trying to pass the blame to outside communities for shortcomings dealing with crime.
The suit also makes a civil rights argument along racial lines.
It reads: “The victims of these crimes in which the guns from these stores are used are overwhelmingly African American....

Disparate Impact As Official U.S. Policy – White House Administration Gathering Racial Stats on Everything To Support Social Justice….

Disparate Impact As Official U.S. Policy – White House Administration Gathering Racial Stats on Everything To Support Social Justice…. | The Last Refuge:

WASHINGTON – A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.”

Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.

This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.

Big Brother Barack wants the databases operational before he leaves office, and much of the data in them will be posted online.

So civil-rights attorneys and urban activist groups will be able to exploit them to show patterns of “racial disparities” and “segregation,” even if no other evidence of discrimination exists...

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Half of New CA Driver's Licenses Go to Illegal Immigrants

Half of New CA Driver's Licenses Go to Illegal Immigrants:
More than half of the new driver’s licenses issued in California during 2015 have gone to illegal immigrants.
“Of the 759,000 total licenses the DMV has issued, 397,000–or 52 percent–have gone to [illegals].”
The surge in illegal licensing is the result of AB 60–a California law that went into effect at the beginning of the year.
The law allows applicants to get a license by “only [proving] their identity and California residency, rather than their legal presence in the state.”