Hillary's 'Gun Show Loophole' Proposal Is A Joke

Hillary's 'Gun Show Loophole' Proposal Is A Joke
In the wake of a mass shooting at an Oregon community college last week, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced today that she would close the so-called “gun show loophole” with an executive order if she were elected president. The only problem with her gun show loophole proposal is that it would accomplish exactly nothing, because current law already covers her proposal.

Here’s how Slate described Hillary Clinton’s proposal:

What makes Clinton’s plan particularly noteworthy, though, is her suggestion that she’d be able to go it alone on at least one of the proposals if elected president: the gun show loophole.

And just how would she do that? According to her campaign, even if Congress were unwilling to act, Clinton would be able to use her executive authority to tweak the existing rules to reclassify anyone who sells a “significant number of guns” as someone “in the business of selling firearms”—a distinction that would make those high-volume private vendors who sell guns at gun shows and over the Internet subject to the same rules as larger, licensed brick-and-mortar retailers. Clinton doesn’t appear to have settled on an answer to the question of just how many guns constitutes a “significant” number, but even if her chosen definition didn’t close the loophole completely, it would at least shrink it.

Such an effort could face legal challenges in the courts and, at the very least, a guaranteed NRA-led political freakout in Washington. And, even if the effort survived both, it wouldn’t come close to ending gun violence in the United States. But for gun safety advocates and like-minded voters who are desperate for action on a problem that can feel politically impossible, Clinton’s outside-the-box plan will be a welcome start.

Slate’s Josh Voorhees characterized Clinton’s plan as “clever,” which leads me to the inescapable conclusion that neither Voorhees nor Hillary Clinton is even remotely familiar with existing federal gun laws.

For starters, the federal government already has the statutory authority to define who does and does not qualify as an individual “in the business of selling firearms.” It derives that authority from 18 U.S. Code § 921. Here’s how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) specifically defines whether an individual is engaged in the business of selling firearms and should therefore be subject to federal firearms licensee (FFL) requirements:

Dealer in firearms — a person who devotes time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through the repetitive purchase and resale of firearms, but such term shall not include a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms (18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(21)(C));

Here’s the federal statute from which the ATF derives its existing authority to define who is and isn’t engaged in the business of selling guns:.....

Contra Hillary Clinton’s campaign, “high-volume private vendors” cannot legally exist under current law. 
Under the ATF’s existing definition, it is impossible to sell high volumes of firearms without triggering the definition of a dealer in firearms. 
The “repetitive purchase and resale of firearms” makes you a dealer, not a private individual. 
Anything other than “occasional sales” makes you a dealer, not a private individual. Unlicensed dealing is against the law. 
Refusing to conduct background checks as a dealer (licensed or not) is against the law....
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Obama Tells UN Not All Terrorists Are Muslims... Here's 1 World Leader's BLUNT Response

Obama Tells UN Not All Terrorists Are Muslims... Here's 1 World Leader's BLUNT Response:

"On Tuesday at the U.N. Leaders Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism, Barack Obama stated that violent extremism isn’t limited to any one faith. However, British Prime Minister David Cameron had one very important clarification to make on Obama’s assertion, and it was epic."

Antidepressant Use up 400% in America

Harvard Health: Antidepressant Use up 400% in America | Intellectual Takeout
It’s no secret that a lot of Americans are taking anti-depression medication. The uptick has been so high, though, that it is raising eyebrows and questions about what’s causing it and whether or not the medicine is helping.

Over at Harvard Health, the publication reports that,

“According to a report released yesterday by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the rate of antidepressant use in this country among teens and adults (people ages 12 and older) increased by almost 400% between 1988–1994 and 2005–2008.”  

Harvard Health also notes,

“Here are a few other stand-out statistics from the report on antidepressants:

• 23% of women in their 40s and 50s take antidepressants, a higher percentage than any other group (by age or sex)
• Women are 2½ times more likely to be taking an antidepressant than men (click here to read a May 2011 article in the Harvard Mental Health Letter about women and depression)
• 14% of non-Hispanic white people take antidepressants compared with just 4% of non-Hispanic blacks and 3% of Mexican Americans
• Less than a third of Americans who are taking a single antidepressants (as opposed to two or more) have seen a mental health professional in the past year
• Antidepressant use does not vary by income status.”

The publication then goes on to state that some will argue that the incredible uptick in anti-depressant use is the result of under-treatment of depression, while others argue that the pharmaceutical industry is “responsible for the surge in prescriptions...”

Charlatans and Sheep - Thomas Sowell

Charlatans and Sheep - Thomas Sowell - Page full:
"One of the many painful signs of the mindlessness of our times was a recent section of the Wall Street Journal, built around the theme "What's Holding Women Back in the Workplace?"
Whenever some group is not equally represented in some institution or activity, the automatic response in some quarters is to assume that someone has prevented equality of outcomes.
This preconception of equal outcomes requires not one speck of evidence, and defies mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Even in activities where individual performances are what determine outcomes, and those performances are easily measured objectively, there is seldom anything resembling equal representation.
For 12 consecutive years -- from 2001 through 2012 -- each home run leader in the American League had a Hispanic surname.
When two American boys whose ancestors came from India tied for first place in the U.S. National Spelling Bee in 2014, it was the 7th consecutive year in which the U.S. National Spelling Bee was won by an Asian Indian.
We all know about the large over-representation of blacks among professional basketball players, and especially among the star players.
The best-selling brands of beer in America were created by people of German ancestry, who also created China's famed Tsingtao beer.
Of the 100 top-ranked Marathon runners in the world in 2012, 68 were Kenyans.
The list could go on and on. Although blacks are over-represented among professional football players, even the most avid National Football League fan is unlikely to be able to recall seeing even one black player who kicked a punt or a point after touchdown.
Should there be an article titled: "What's Holding Black Kickers Back in the NFL?"
Could it be that blacks are more interested in playing positions where there is more action and -- not incidentally -- more money?..."

‘Do You Get How Bad It Looks?’: Hillary Clinton Repeats Three-Word Claim Several Times When Confronted on Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘Do You Get How Bad It Looks?’: Hillary Clinton Repeats Three-Word Claim Several Times When Confronted on Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Hillary Clinton apologized for making a “choice that has resulted in this kind of situation” when pressed about her private email scandal during a “Today” show town hall event on Monday, but was more evasive when asked if she understands “how bad it looks” to the average American."

Eastern European smugglers shopping nuclear material to ISIS, other terror groups

Eastern European smugglers shopping nuclear material to ISIS, other terror groups | Fox News
"CHISINAU, Moldova –  In the backwaters of Eastern Europe, authorities working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The Associated Press has learned.
The latest known case came in February this year, when a smuggler offered a huge cache of deadly cesium -- enough to contaminate several city blocks -- and specifically sought a buyer from the Islamic State group (ISIS).
Criminal organizations, some with ties to the Russian KGB's successor agency, are driving a thriving black market in nuclear materials in the tiny and impoverished Eastern European country of Moldova, investigators say.
The successful busts, however, were undercut by striking shortcomings: Kingpins got away, and those arrested evaded long prison sentences, sometimes quickly returning to nuclear smuggling, AP found.
Moldovan police and judicial authorities shared investigative case files with the AP in an effort to spotlight how dangerous the nuclear black market has become.
They say the breakdown in cooperation between Russia and the West means that it has become much harder to know whether smugglers are finding ways to move parts of Russia's vast store of radioactive materials -- an unknown quantity of which has leached into the black market.
"We can expect more of these cases," said Constantin Malic, a Moldovan police officer who investigated all four cases.
"As long as the smugglers think they can make big money without getting caught, they will keep doing it..."

History for October 7

History for October 7 - On-This-Day.com
James Whitcomb Riley 1853, Niels Bohr 1885, Henry Wallace 1888 

Andy Devine 1905, June Allyson 1917, Oliver North 1943 


1765 - Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances." 


1777 - During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga began. 


1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed. 


1950 - The U.S.-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea. 


1956 - A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows. 


1963 - U.S. President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union. 


1981 - The Egyptian parliament, after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, named Vice President Hosni Mubarak the next president of Egypt. 


1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent more troops, heavy armor, and naval firepower to Somalia. 


1994 - U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert. 


2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis. 

In Rare Interview, Matt Drudge Issues Major Challenge to Obama and Hillary: ‘I Dare You!’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

In Rare Interview, Matt Drudge Issues Major Challenge to Obama and Hillary: ‘I Dare You!’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Matt Drudge issued a dare to President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Tuesday, during a rare radio interview with Alex Jones.

Drudge was responding to Jones asserting that a civil war may ensue if politicians attempt to confiscate guns.

“Well, because they are all armed themselves. Where they all have that security around them themselves. They don’t have to worry about [security],”

Cruz: Obama's plan to accept Syrian refugees 'nothing short of crazy' | TheHill

Cruz: Obama's plan to accept Syrian refugees 'nothing short of crazy' | TheHill:

"Cruz’s remarks on the issue follow comments by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) last week expressing openness to those displaced from Syria.

“There is a real crisis in the Middle East with refugees,” Snyder said in Lansing, Mich., according to MLive.com on Sept. 30. “Isn’t it the part of our nature as Americans to say, ‘How can we help people in need?’

“I don’t want to overreact to say it’s a certain number, or we’re going to do this, but I think it’s worth exploring and making sure we have a program and do that homework,” Snyder added. "Isn’t that part of being a good Michigander?”


NO!!

Audience Member Asks Texas DPS Chief if Suspected Islamic State Members Have Been Apprehended at the Border — Here’s His Answer | TheBlaze.com

Audience Member Asks Texas DPS Chief if Suspected Islamic State Members Have Been Apprehended at the Border — Here’s His Answer | TheBlaze.com:

"Have any suspected members of the Islamic State terrorist group ever been apprehended on the Texas-Mexico border?

That was the question posed by one audience member to Texas Department of Public Safety director Steven McCraw at the annual Texas Border Coalition annual meeting recently — and his answer was alarming."

McConnell Admits He “Boxes Out” Cruz – Helps Obama | ConservativeHQ.com

McConnell Admits He “Boxes Out” Cruz – Helps Obama | ConservativeHQ.com:

"In one of the most stunning admissions of establishment Republican perfidy in recent political history, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has admitted that he and his staff “box out” one of his own Republican colleagues – principled limited government constitutional conservative Senator Ted Cruz – to the advantage of our political opponents, far-Left Democratic President Barack Obama and his allies in the Congress."

Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?

Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings? - The Washington Post
"Backers of laws that let pretty much all law-abiding people carry concealed guns in public places often argue that these laws will sometimes enable people to stop mass shootings.
Opponents occasionally ask:
If that’s so, what examples can one give of civilians armed with guns stopping such shootings? Sometimes, I hear people asking if even one such example can be found, or saying that they haven’t heard of even one such example.
A while back I posted about a few examples, but since then there have been some more, so I thought I’d note them.
Naturally, such examples will be rare.
Even in states which allow concealed carry, there often aren’t people near a shooting who have a gun on them at the time.
Many mass shootings happen in supposedly “gun-free” zones (such as schools, universities or private property posted with a no-guns sign), in which gun carrying isn’t allowed.
And there is no central database of such examples, many of which don’t hit the national media, especially if a gunman is stopped before he shoots many victims.
Moreover, at least some examples are ambiguous, because it might be unclear — as you’ll see below — whether the shooter had been planning to kill more people when he was stopped.
Still, for whatever they are worth, here is a list of some such incidents (which deliberately excludes killings stopped by people who were off-duty police officers, or police officers from other jurisdictions, at the time of a shooting, as well as some other cases which struck me as borderline):
1. In Chicago earlier this year, an Uber driver with a concealed-carry permit “shot and wounded a gunman [Everardo Custodio] who opened fire on a crowd of people.”
2. In a Philadelphia barber shop earlier this year, Warren Edwards “opened fire on customers and barbers” after an argument. Another man with a concealed-carry permit then shot the shooter; of course it’s impossible to tell whether the shooter would have kept killing if he hadn’t been stopped, but a police captain was quoted as saying that, “I guess he [the man who shot the shooter] saved a lot of people in there.”
3. In a hospital near Philadelphia, in 2014, Richard Plotts shot and killed the psychiatric caseworker with whom he was meeting, and shot and wounded his psychiatrist, Lee Silverman. Silverman shot back, and took down Plotts. While again it’s not certain whether Plotts would have killed other people, Delaware County D.A. Jack Whelan stated that, “If the doctor did not have a firearm, (and) the doctor did not utilize the firearm, he’d be dead today, and I believe that other people in that facility would also be dead”; Yeadon Police Chief Donald Molineux similar said that he “believe[d] the doctor saved lives.” Plotts was still carrying 39 unspent rounds when he was arrested. [UPDATE: I added this item since the original post.]
4. In Plymouth, Pa., in 2012, William Allabaugh killed one man and wounded another following an argument over Allabaugh being ejected from a bar. Allabaugh then approached a bar manager and Mark Ktytor and reportedly pointed his gun at them; Ktytor, who had a concealed-carry license, then shot Allabaugh. “The video footage and the evidence reveals that Mr. Allabaugh had turned around and was reapproaching the bar. Mr. [Ktytor] then acted, taking him down. We believe that it could have been much worse that night,”Luzerne County A.D.A. Jarrett Ferentino said.
5. Near Spartanburg, S.C., in 2012, Jesse Gates went to his church armed with a shotgun and kicked in a door. But Aaron Guyton, who had a concealed-carry license, drew his gun and pointed it at Gates, and other parishioners then disarmed Gates. Note that in this instance, unlike the others, it’s possible that the criminal wasn’t planning on killing anyone, but just brought the shotgun to church and kicked in the door to draw attention to himself or vent his frustration.
6. In Winnemucca, Nev., in 2008, Ernesto Villagomez killed two people and wounded two others in a bar filled with 300 people. He was then shot and killed by a patron who was carrying a gun (and had a concealed-carry license). It’s not clear whether Villagomez would have killed more people; the killings were apparently the result of a family feud, and I could see no information on whether Villagomez had more names on his list, nor could one tell whether he would have killed more people in trying to evade capture.
7. In Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2007, Matthew Murray killed four people at a church. He was then shot several times by Jeanne Assam, a church member, volunteer security guard and former police officer (she had been dismissed by a police department 10 years before, and to my knowledge hadn’t worked as a police officer since). Murray, knocked down and badly wounded, killed himself; it is again not clear whether he would have killed more people had he not been wounded, but my guess is that he would have (UPDATE: he apparently went to the church with more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition).
8. In Edinboro, Pa., in 1998, 14-year-old Andrew Wurst shot and killed a teacher at a school dance, and shot and injured several other students. He had just left the dance hall, carrying his gun — possibly to attack more people, though the stories that I’ve seen are unclear — when he was confronted by the dance hall owner James Strand, who lived next door and kept a shotgun at home. It’s not clear whether Wurst was planning to kill others, would have gotten into a gun battle with the police, or would have otherwise killed more people had Strand not stopped him.
9. In Pearl, Miss., in 1997, 16-year-old Luke Woodham stabbed and bludgeoned to death his mother at home, then killed two students and injured seven at his high school. As he was leaving the school, he was stopped by Assistant Principal Joel Myrick, who had gone out to get a handgun from his car. I have seen sources that state that Woodham was on the way to Pearl Junior High School to continue shooting, though I couldn’t find any contemporaneous news articles that so state..."

Geraldo Calls The Constitution "Bull***t"... Goes On Epic Rant Then Slams Americans

Geraldo Calls The Constitution "Bull***t"... Goes On Epic Rant Then Slams Americans:

"One could argue that Geraldo Rivera became unmoored from reality right about the time he tried to open Al Capone’s vault and has never really bothered to return. However, as the years have gone on, it’s become clear that he’s become even more ridiculous.

Geraldo proved that again in the wake of the Roseburg, Oregon, shooting, writing a Facebook post in which he called the Second Amendment “bulls***” and then somehow advocated for more armed guards."

Do Government Employees Make More Than You?

Do Government Employees Make More Than You? | Intellectual Takeout

If It Quacks Like an $11 Billion State Taxpayer Liability

If It Quacks Like an $11 Billion State Taxpayer Liability… [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Detroit Public Schools recently borrowed $78.5 million from a "Michigan Finance Authority," and the same day made payment on another loan of $107.8 million taken out last May.
Yet Department of Treasury spokesman Terry Stanton said the state was not lending money to the Detroit school district.
“To be clear, the State is not loaning the district money. 
The Michigan Finance Authority (MFA) facilitates these transactions on behalf of the district,” Stanton stated.
ForTheRecord says: That’s the official line. Here’s the reality:
The Michigan Finance Authority is an administrative entity created by past legislatures to oversee various government lending programs.
Its board consists of political appointees chosen by the governor and its chairman is the state Treasurer.
Its executive director is Mary G. Martin, who has worked for the state since 1994.
The Treasury department is required to provide a comprehensive list of resources to the authority.
The authority has incurred about $11 billion in debt, which it turns around and lends to other entities or individuals as authorized by various state laws.
It collects around $1.2 billion in annual payments from those borrowers.
If the cities, schools, college students and others it lends to do not repay their loans, neither the MFA board members, director, spokeperson nor the state Treasurer will be on the hook for the money the “authority” borrowed to make those loans.
Three guesses as to who is ultimately obligated to repay the $11 billion in debt it has accumulated, and who covers the tab if any of its own debtors don't pay their loans off.
Decide for yourself whether that makes the MFA “the State of Michigan,” but there’s no question that the liabilities it incurs are burdens carried by the people of Michigan."

Hillary Hits Obama for Being Too Strict on Illegal Immigrants

Hillary Hits Obama for Being Too Strict on Illegal Immigrants | The Weekly Standard
Hillary Clinton took a swing at President Barack Obama for being too strict on illegal immigrants. Clinton said, in an interview with Telemundo, that she would be less strict if she becomes president of the United States.
"I believe in comprehensive immigration reform.
And it would include in my plan a path to citizenship, which I think is absolutely essential.
 That is the goal.
But if we still are working toward it, fighting for it, then I want to do everything in my power not only to continue-- the executive orders that-- President Obama has put forth, D.A.P.A., and D.A.C.A., and the kinds of changes that he has made," Clinton said in response to a question about how much further she'd go on executive action than Obama.
"But I want to do more on an individual basis by putting more resources, more personnel into the system to try to help as many people as possible get a different status.
I will not be deporting parents.
I will not be breaking up families.
I will not be doing what we've seen too much of, which is tryin' to, you know, make immigrants the scapegoat for everything that people are concerned about in the country.
..."That's within existing authority within the executive branch. 
I'm gonna look for every legal way I can find to make sure that we don't intimidate and terrify hard working immigration families.
That they know that they will not have to worry about a knock on the door or a raid on their workplace.
Because I just don't think that's the right thing to do."

Finally an Accomplishment! Obama Turns Putin into World’s Most Powerful Leader - Eagle Rising

Finally an Accomplishment! Obama Turns Putin into World’s Most Powerful Leader - Eagle Rising:

"On Tuesday, the New York Post’s Benny Avni has some even harsher (but still true) words for President Obama and his liberal supporters.

The baton was officially transferred Monday to the world’s new sole superpower — and Vladimir Putin willingly picked it up.

President Obama (remember him?)"

Portland State course aims to ‘make whiteness strange’

Portland State course aims to ‘make whiteness strange’ | BizPac Review:
"According to Portland State University Professor’s Rachel Sanders’ “White Privilege” course, “whiteness” must be dismantled if racial justice will ever be achieved.
The course description states that “whiteness is the lynchpin of structures of racial meaning and racial inequality in the United States” and claims that “to preserve whiteness is to preserve racial injustice.”
Students taking the course will “endeavor to make whiteness strange.” 
In order to make whiteness strange, the description says students must “interrogate whiteness as an unstable legal, political, social, and cultural construction.”
The course readings and concepts are drawn, in part, from the field of “critical race theory.” According to Harvard University, critical race theory “combine[s] progressive political struggles for racial justice with critiques of the conventional legal and scholarly norms which are themselves viewed as part of the illegitimate hierarchies that need to be changed.”
The Portland State University course description claims the construction of “whiteness” attaches material and psychological benefits to “individuals who identify, or are identified, as white.”"

Bloody Baltimore: No end seen to post-Freddie Gray spike in homicides, shootings

Bloody Baltimore: No end seen to post-Freddie Gray spike in homicides, shootings | Fox News: "Baltimore's bloody summer ended with a barrage of bangs, as the rate of homicides and gun crimes continued to spike in the wake of the racially charged case of Freddie Gray, whose death in police custody left citizens angry and cops demoralized.
For September, homicides were up 39 percent and non-fatal shootings nearly doubled over the same month in 2014, continuing a disturbing trend that has gripped the Charm City since Gray's death in April and the rioting that followed.
For the year, murders are up 52 percent and non-fatal shootings 80 percent over last year.
"We have highly motivated bad guys in Baltimore," Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith told FoxNews.com.
"I don't think police officers are going to engage potential gang members the way they did before Gray..."

Men haters try to change American boys-----Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity

Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity - The College Fix
‘Being emotional is manly in my opinion’
The size of G.I. Joe’s biceps and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s guns in the Terminator movies is proof that the dominant form of masculinity is out of control.
That message and similar ones were conveyed recently to students during Vanderbilt University’s “Healthy Masculinities Week,” organized by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center. 
Attendance for students was optional.
...Political correctness has value, Katz said. Supporters of presidential candidate Donald Trump say like they him for “not being politically correct,” but what they really mean is they like him “for saying racist and sexist comments,” Katz added.
Pop culture also has an insidious effect on masculinity, Katz continued, imploring the audience not to “check your brain and moral conscience when you go to the movies.”
He showed clips from his film Tough Guise, in which Katz claims “there has been a ratcheting up of what it takes to be considered menacing in the 1980s and 90s.”
As evidence, Katz noted that G.I. Joe’s biceps have gotten larger over the years and that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone use bigger guns for their iconic roles as the Terminator and Rambo than did Humphrey Bogart in his 1930s and 1940s film roles.
Athletes and fraternity members are a risk to themselves and others because of the pressure put on them to act masculine, according to other events from the week.
One event featured a screening of the limited-release documentary The Mask You Live In, which blames “America’s narrow definition of masculinity” for the deteriorating mental health of boys and men.

“The three most destructive words that every man receives when he’s a boy is when he’s told to ‘be a man,’” former NFL player Joe Ehrmann says in the film.
Now a minister, Ehrmann spoke on an all-male panel in 2013 titled “Breaking the Male Code,” which was organized by Vagina Monologues writer Eve Ensler.
...Asked about the Fox News pundits’ criticisms, Vanderbilt’s Dicker said they “missed the fact that … there are many ways to be masculine, but American society pressures boys and men to adopt” the version that prioritizes “being competitive, stoic and aggressive, for example.”
Boys and men should also be taught that “emotional vulnerability, cooperation, and sensitivity are valuable human traits,” Dicker said.

German Woman Gets Eviction Notice to Make Room for Migrants — and She’s Not the First | TheBlaze.com

German Woman Gets Eviction Notice to Make Room for Migrants — and She’s Not the First | TheBlaze.com:

"A German woman is protesting the eviction notice she received informing her she has until the end of the year to vacate the government-owned apartment she rents in order to make room for migrants who have arrived seeking asylum.

“I think it’s a scandal to throw tenants out of their apartments,” Gabriele Keller, 56, told Germany’s SWR television. “I can’t see the sense of it.”

Kissing the American Dream Goodbye

Kissing the American Dream Goodbye | Intellectual Takeout:
"According to The Atlantic, the American dream has been downsized.
In fact, the American dream is no longer the simple wish of “home, job, and family.” Instead, many Americans simply dream about getting out of debt.
“[W]hen a survey asked people which things were the most important to their personal American dream, only 26 percent selected ‘owning a nice home’ as a top choice, while 37 percent chose ‘achieving financial security’ and 36 percent chose ‘being debt free.’ 
In a 2013 Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll that asked respondents to define what it means to be middle class, 54 percent of respondents chose ‘having the ability to keep up with expenses and hold a steady job while not falling behind or taking on too much debt,’ and only 43 percent defined being middle class as earning more, buying a home, and saving.”  "