Debunking The Lie That GOP Politicians Are In The Pocket Of The National Rifle Association | Daily Wire

Debunking The Lie That GOP Politicians Are In The Pocket Of The National Rifle Association | Daily Wire:

"There has never been a shortage of Democrats willing to hurl mud at GOP politicians who staunchly support the constitutionally protected American right to bear arms. In January, 2016, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said, “The NRA built their political power over 20 to 30 years. And Republicans right now are in the pocket of the NRA.” More recently, on his late night “comedy” show, Jimmy Kimmel said the NRA “has Republicans’ balls in a money clip”.

However, liberal claims of political influence buying are rarely supported by empirical evidence and comparison statistics. The mainstream media, as always, are complicit in pushing the leftist gun-control narrative. They allow Democratic politicians and celebrities to make spurious claims without digging deeper, because an actual comparison of NRA direct campaign contributions to liberal and progressive special interest contributors to Democrats would leave suggestions of corruption ringing hollow."

The False Ideas Intellectuals Peddle at College Campuses

The False Ideas Intellectuals Peddle at College Campuses:
"As George Orwell said, “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
Many stupid ideas originate with academics on college campuses.
If they remained there and didn’t infect the rest of society, they might be a source of entertainment, much in the way a circus is.
Let’s look at a few stupid ideas peddled by intellectuals.

• During the Cold War, academic leftists made a moral equivalency between communist totalitarianism and democracy.

...Worse is the fact that they exempted communist leaders from the type of harsh criticism directed toward Adolf Hitler, even though communist crimes against humanity made Hitler’s slaughter of 11 million noncombatants appear almost amateurish.

• According to Professor R.J. Rummel’s research in “Death by Government,” from 1917 until its collapse, the Soviet Union murdered or caused the death of 61 million people, mostly its own citizens.
• From 1949 to 1976, Communist China’s Mao Zedong regime was responsible for the death of as many as 78 million of its own citizens.
• ...More recent nonsense taught on college campuses, under the name of multiculturalism, is that one culture is as good as another. Identity worship, diversity, and multiculturalism are currency and cause for celebration at just about any college.

Longevity Predictor Test: How Old Are You Really? - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Longevity Predictor Test: How Old Are You Really? - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Two as-yet unidentified life insurance companies plan to use Life Epigenetics' M-Panel test to predict how long potential clients will live. 
The test, based on research by the UCLA scientists Steven Horvath and Brian Chen, essentially estimates an individual's biological age (as opposed to his chronological age) using markers associated with turning various genes off or on.
Horvath and Chen report that for about 5 percent of the people who take it, the M-Panel test finds that their biological age is around 10 years higher than their chronological age. 
For those unfortunate people, their risk of mortality is 48 percent higher than the average for their age cohort. 
More happily, about 20 percent of the test population learns that their biological age is 5 years younger, and their mortality risk 18 percent lower.
Needless to say, this could have interesting consequences for the life insurance market. 
If my results indicate that my biological age is younger than my chronological age, an insurer would be happy to charge me less for a term policy.
On the other (and sadly more likely) hand, if my test indicated that my biological age is greater than my chronological age, the insurer would want to charge me higher premiums..."
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Why We Cannot Trust the FBI

Why We Cannot Trust the FBI:

"It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Obama FBI wanted me and the other speakers at the event dead. Dutch freedom fighter Geert Wilders was the keynote speaker; he has been living with armed guards for years for supposedly “insulting Islam.” My colleague Robert Spencer has received numerous death threats from Muslims. Cartoon contest winner Bosch Fawstin drew Muhammad. Did Obama’s pro-Islam FBI want us all dead?"

Read the comments!-----"Are the manufacturers going to be compelled by the government to turn over lists of customers who legally acquired [products] that were declared by the regulatory authority to be legal?

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"Are the manufacturers going to be compelled by the government to turn over lists of customers who legally acquired [products] that were declared by the regulatory authority to be legal? This could set the precedent for a gun grab if you're retroactively banning these things."

Bump Stock Ban Retroactively Criminalizes Possession of Legally Acquired Products

Current owners of newly prohibited accessories could go to prison for keeping them.

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Vincent La Iacona Doesn't it violate the ex post facto clause of the Constitution? They can ban the manufacture perhaps (only because the courts set the precedent with regards to the 2nd Amendment). But banning an item obtained legally would be a different violation.

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Morgan Hughes Yes, it does.

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Jennifer Jurado It should in theory. I see the Constitution being stepped on a lot lately.

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Dan Bongard No, it doesn't. The ex post facto issue arises when you are charged with something that wasn't a crime when you did it.

Charging someone with *having bought* a bump-stock would violate ex post facto. Charging them with posession wouldn't, because theystill possess the bump stock now.

The law SHOULD violate the 10th amendment, since Congress has no Constitutional authority to ban sale of anything... but that ship sailed long ago.

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Althouse: Interest in sexual harassment was suppressed to protect Bill Clinton: Is that part of why Harvey Weinstein got away with his abuses?

Althouse: Interest in sexual harassment was suppressed to protect Bill Clinton: Is that part of why Harvey Weinstein got away with his abuses?
Interest in sexual harassment was suppressed to protect Bill Clinton: Is that part of why Harvey Weinstein got away with his abuses?

"...But in 1998, when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Democrats reversed the message. 
In the biggest sellout of feminism I've seen in my lifetime, sexual harassment turned into just sex, and those who wanted to take it seriously were derided as prigs.

Now, I'm reading the NYT article "Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them/'This way of treating women ends now,' Ms. Paltrow said as she and other actresses accused the producer of casting-couch abuses," and I'm wondering why only now? 
Why not earlier? 
What stood in your way?
My hypothesis is that liberals — including nearly everyone in the entertainment business — suppressed concern about sexual harassment to help Bill Clinton. 
Giving him cover gave cover to other powerful men, and the cause of women's equality in the workplace was set back 20 years.
...Are these allegations coming out now because Hillary Clinton lost the election and the time for covering for Bill Clinton is over at long last?"
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One in four government workers makes $100K thanks to overtime | New York Post

One in four government workers makes $100K thanks to overtime | New York Post:
"One out of every four New York City government workers pulled in pay of more than $100,000 last year — thanks largely to overtime, according to a new study.
“New York City can be a hub of opportunity, and not just for aspiring Broadway stars. All sorts of city workers earn big bucks,” said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of the government watchdog OpenTheBooks.com, which conducted the study.
About 37,000 of 295,455 full-time city workers receive a salary that tops $100,000.
But the number jumps to 76,166 when factoring in overtime and other extra pay, the group said.
The supplemental pay accounts for 12 percent of the workers’ total compensation, or more than three times the 3.5 percent rate in the private sector, according to the study.
Some career choices proved particularly lucrative.
Of the 775 school custodians, 694 cleared $100,000 or more.
And of those 694, 398 exceeded $150,000..."

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The Democrats' IT scandal just got even more bizarre | Fox News

The Democrats' IT scandal just got even more bizarre | Fox News:

"Perhaps you’ve lost track of the Democrats slowly exploding IT scandal, as much of the media is doing all it can to simply ignore it away.

I’m referring to the strange case of Imran Awan, the IT aide Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., kept on her congressional payroll even after it became known he and his wife, Hina Alvi Awan, were being investigated by the Capitol Police for possible theft, fraud, moving terabytes of data off Congress’s system and more."

Survey: 58% of Students Want a Campus Where They Are Not Exposed to 'Intolerant or Offensive Ideas' - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Survey: 58% of Students Want a Campus Where They Are Not Exposed to 'Intolerant or Offensive Ideas' - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"A majority of students either don't think hate speech is protected by the First Amendment or aren't sure. 

And among the 46 percent of students who correctly state that hate speech is protected, nearly half of those students say it shouldn't be.
These are among the findings of a new survey of college students' opinions...
A full 58 percent of students told the pollsters that they want to be part of a campus community that is free of "intolerant or offensive ideas." 

What's more, a majority of Black (76%) and Latino students (69%) agree that it is important to be part of a campus community where they are not exposed to intolerant or offensive ideas, as opposed to one-half of White students (51% agree)..."

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History for October 12

History for October 12 - On-This-Day.com
Elmer Sperry 1860, Jean Nidetch 1932, Dick Gregory 1932


Luciano Pavarotti 1935, Chris Wallace 1947, Kirk Cameron 1970


1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas. He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India. The same day he claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain.


1810 - Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. The royalty invited the public to attend the event which became an annual celebration that later became known as Oktoberfest.


1892 - In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Columbus landing the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in public schools.


1915 - Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt criticized U.S. citizens who identified themselves by dual nationalities.


1942 - During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.


1945 - Private First Class Desmond T. Doss was presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor for outstanding bravery as a medical corpsman. He was the first conscientious objector in American history to win the award.


1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounded a shoe on his desk during a dispute at a U.N. General Assembly.


1972 - During the Vietnam War, a racial brawl broke out aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. Nearly 50 sailors were injured.