"Since the 1950s, all but two mass shootings have occurred in locations where victims were restricted from carrying weapons for self-defense, his work says. This stunning statistic led the university to question the effectiveness of so-called “gun free zones.”
Charles K. Edwards had been allowed to quietly resign as acting inspector general and transfer to another post within the Homeland Security Department in December, just before Johnson took office. But after Johnson reviewed the 27-page report from a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs oversight subcommittee Thursday he put Edwards on leave."
Experts warn of a growing fragility as coal-fired plants are shut down, nuclear power is reduced and consumers switch to renewable energy.
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"One oddity of the current economic debate is that the more Barack Obama’s incompetent income-redistribution policies have failed, the more the left calls for more government-intervention policies to correct for the deficiencies of the earlier rounds. American middle-income families have lost nearly $3,000 in purchasing power since 2007, and the left’s only solution to get us out of the rut is more debt, more social-welfare spending, more income redistribution and higher taxes on the rich and big business."
"Letter From Darrell Issa to Eric Holder (Apr. 23, 2014):
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling, allegedly caught on an audio recording making repeated racist remarks, is scheduled to receive an NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award next month from the organization’s Los Angeles chapter, Deadspin reported.
According to the Associated Press, Podesta's study will hinge largely on the discriminatory potential of the mountains of data accumulated by public and private firms alike.
What was this forbidden literature? Was it radical propaganda? Was it hate-filled tirades of madmen?
March sales of previously owned homes fell to their slowest annual pace in 20 months, down 0.2% from February to 4.59 million, the National Association of Realtors reported. It was the third straight monthly decline.
Another ridiculous politically-correct brouhaha has broken out at Dartmouth College, America’s most hopelessly and disturbingly fragile Ivy League school.
"There’s a danger that sci-fi pulp like Transcendence is watering down the real risks of artificial intelligence in public discourse.
"Here is video proof that Republican Rep. Joe Wilson (SC-2) was right. Wilson came under tremendous fire for two words that he uttered during Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address in September 2009. During that speech, Obama said, “There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”
"Now plans for a tax reduction are waning and shifting instead to addressing pothole-ridden roads.
"What stops the federal government from merely deeding private lands to foreign governments “because they can”? Actually, nothing stops the government from doing anything, certainly not the Kelo Decision.
Brighton admitted many of her friends automatically disagree with her, afraid of offending Islam, but added: “If you actually get them to look at the facts and read some of it, they’ll say, ‘Oh I didn’t know that!"
