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Its true. It's true. It's true. Yep.
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The two Muslim migrant boys from Sudan who were arrested last week on charges of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in Idaho were released into the custody of their parents following a hearing Thursday afternoon, WND has learned. They were reportedly released from the Snake River Juvenile Detention Center in Twin Falls pending their next […]
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>Megyn Kelly tonight really unloaded on Loretta Lynch and the DOJ, demanding to know who exactly gave the order to edit references to ISIS out of the Orlando
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Using Saul Alinskly tactics to “occupy” the House for their gun control agenda.
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Trump’s stance towards Islam is mild compared to other world leaders.
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The United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union. It is a seismic global event. Markets are going to be extremely volatile today. The other thing that will be extremely volatile are the …
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Rep. Tom Rooney drove home the decisive run to give the Republicans an 8-7 win over the Democrats in a heart-stopping finish to the 55th Annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game on Thursday night.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron announced Friday morning that he will step down as prime minister in the fall, saying the country needs "fresh leadership."
His announcement follows UK voters' historic referendum decision to leave the European Union.
He said he will continue as prime minister...
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Talking to gun-controlling Democrats after Orlando is a truly amusing exercise. On the one hand, they turn to the horror of Orlando and demand action. They demand a response, and that response is gun control. Point out that the very gun-control measures they now demand would not have prevented the massacre, and they immediately pivot — this isn’t about any one shooting, they say. It’s about the problem of gun violence generally.
#ad#Indeed, if a government was designing a rational policy to prevent jihadists from killing Americans, gun control would be at the bottom of the list. As I’ve noted before, less than 3 percent of Americans who’ve died to jihadist violence on American shores have died to gun violence. And when jihadists do use guns, they tend to violate multiple laws to do so — often including laws and regulations that ban weapons from their target locations. Laws intended to bring safety made Americans more vulnerable instead.
We actually have a model of policies that kept Americans safe. Between 9/11 and President Obama’s first term, three Americans died here at home to jihadist violence. Relentless offensive military action combined with heightened security here at home deprived the jihadists of safe havens and denied them freedom of action. By the end of the Surge, even the mighty terrorist force called al-Qaeda in Iraq (soon to be renamed ISIS) was reduced to a few hundred demoralized terrorists scattered across Iraq, hiding from American and Iraqi special forces.
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And now? The number of domestic terror deaths has increased by a factor of 30, terrorists control more territory and larger armies than at any time in the modern era, and they’re striking with increasing frequency not just in the heart of the United States but also in the great capitals of Europe.
And we’re talking about gun control?
No, actually we’re witnessing the continuing breakdown of the American body politic. Last night’s Democratic sit-in — complete with its singing, grandiose comparisons to Selma, and shouts of “Shame!” at Republicans — was about separating the good people from the bad. Full of quasi-religious zeal, the Democrats held their own version of a tent revival — except without any real missionary purpose. They weren’t hoping to convert, merely to define.
#share#A fundamental reality of the contemporary gun-control debate is that only one side is offering evidence-based solutions to mass shootings. According to an exhaustive fact-check by the Washington Post, not one recent mass shooting would have been prevented by Democratic gun-control proposals. In contrast, Eugene Volokh has documented multiple incidents in which mass shootings were stopped or prevented by the much-derided “good guy with a gun.”
Compounding their failure, Democratic-run cities are notoriously lax and delinquent both in enforcing gun laws that are on the books and in supporting tougher penalties for existing gun crimes. Their desire to end gun violence runs straight up against the dramatic racial disparities in violent crime and against their desire to end “mass incarceration” — and when that happens, identity politics always wins.
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The challenge for the conservative is twofold. The easiest part is defending gun rights. When your ideological opponent achieves the pious progressive trifecta — condescending, self-righteous, and ignorant — it’s a remarkably simple exercise to mobilize the conservative base to preserve gun rights and preserve due process. The Democrats’ proposals are doomed, and they know it.
The far more difficult task is to pivot the debate back to the real enemy — jihadists. With Democrats united in virtue-signaling over meaningless gun-control measures and the administration seeming set to continue its extraordinarily slow-motion war abroad, we have virtually no short-term hope for effective action against ISIS. That means more attacks. That means more dead Americans.
The Democrats shouted “Shame!” when they have none. They invoked the language of civil rights to try to deny civil rights.
Even if a new administration could step up the offensive against ISIS, enormous damage will have been done. Not only will ISIS have infiltrated the West, it will have months and years more time to indoctrinate radicals already here. It will have had time to reorganize in new locations (such as Libya), and it will have shown future jihadists perhaps the most effective long-term tactic for attacking America: not through the difficult and elaborate spectacular attack but rather through the random shooting, stabbing, or pressure-cooker bombing.
Today, there are vast numbers of progressives who feel quite pleased with themselves. They cheered the sit-in. They established once again that they’re good guys. They scratched that lingering Selma itch. But they did nothing to stop jihad. They did nothing to stop gun crime. And they have no real intentions of doing anything meaningful about either issue.
#related#The Democrats shouted “Shame!” when they have none. They invoked the language of civil rights to try to deny civil rights. They were hailed from the left coast to the far-left coast. In the meantime, there’s an actual enemy out there, and that enemy won’t be defeated by songs and chants. It will take bombs and bullets. And if the Democrats want to signal their virtue, they should do so by focusing their fury at the men who want to kill us, not at the law-abiding citizens who want to defend their homes, their liberties, and — yes — even the politicians who chant to take away their rights.
— David French is an attorney, a staff writer for National Review, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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CNN Newsroom host Carol Costello was easily quieted by her guest, Erich Pratt of Gun Owners of America, who came prepared with actual gun facts that shut down her anti-gun narrative.
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The Leave campaign won a majority vote in a state-wide referendum on Friday morning, advancing a movement to withdraw the UK for the European Union (EU).
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Nonie Darwish Moment: Why Moderate Muslims Can't Destroy ISIS. Nonie Darwish (Author, “The Devil We Don’t Know”) --------------------------------------------...
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The U.K. voted to quit the European Union after more than four decades in a stunning rejection of the continent’s postwar political and economic order.
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Perfect. Democrats are putting a show on a big show for the public cameras today. The poor darlings are holding ...
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One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the hum...
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Britain has voted to leave the EU in a popular revolt that will send shockwaves across Europe, leaving David Cameron’s premiership hanging in the balance and triggering financial market turmoil across the globe. On a night of high drama, Mr Cameron’s
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The UK has voted by a narrow margin to leave the European Union after 43 years in an historic referendum, a BBC forecast suggests.
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Even more so than Facebook, Twitter makes it next-to-impossible to investigate the legitimacy of bans and suspensions on its platform.
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British voters chose to "leave" the European Union on Thursday, defying Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but agreeing with Donald Trump.
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CNN Host Costello Crushed by Facts on Gun Violence
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If California Democrats have their way, Christian colleges and universities will no longer be allowed to require students attend chapel services or require them to profess a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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This man is completely out of control. Obama knocked Donald Trump ans his plan for a border wall today after ...
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At least 380 or 580 individuals convicted of terrorism have this in common.
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In Mayor Bill de Blasio’s progressive dystopia of New York City, businesses can be fined up to $250,000 for refusing to use the preferred pronoun that corresponds to a customer’s “gender identity.”…