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Two Senate Republicans are seeking to understand the VA's practice of reporting veterans to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check system.
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Lindsey Bever | Washington Post
Imagine a world where the characters from your favorite childhood fairy
tales and fables are armed.
Hansel with a hunting rifle. Or Little Red Riding Hood’s granny with a
shotgun.
That world now exists on the National Rifle Association’s NRA Family
website, which partnered with author Amelia Hamilton “to present her twist
on those classic tales” — a series that has infuriated gun-control
advocates, some of whom called it “disgusting.”
Gun-rights supporters say the stories — which started with “Little Red
Riding Hood (Has a Gun)” and continued with “Hansel and Gretel (Have Guns)”
— are a more peaceful alternative to the often disturbing fairy tales from
childhood.
“The stories are really also for adults,” Hamilton told CBS News on Friday
morning. “It’s all about safety and it’s for parents to start those
conversations.”
Hamilton’s latest story, published last week, tells the revised tale of
“Hansel and Gretel,” who “had been taught how safely to use a gun and had
been hunting with their parents most of their lives” — and who took their
survival skills into the woods.
Remember: The original portrays the children as starving siblings who are
abandoned in the woods and stumble upon a candy house. A witch inside
captures them and prepares them as her next meal.
“In the original ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ the plot of the story is that the
village is starving so they leave Hansel and Gretel in the woods to starve
to death because the parents can’t afford to feed them,” Hamilton said this
week on the NRA’s “Cam & Company” show.
Hamilton said that her takes on the classic tales were “much kinder”
stories than the originals.
“In my version,” she said, “they were just going to go explore some
different areas of the woods and see if they could come up with something
to help feed the family, which apparently is a million times worse than
sending your children to starve to death alone in the woods.”
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Who started it? The question recalls juvenile disputes between siblings or classmates, but at the moment it's the issue at the center of the increasingly puerile Republican presidential primary. Did Donald Trump or Ted Cruz start the fight over each other's wives? One thing is for sure: Cruz has not gone after or been a part of any attack on Trump's wife Melania. Anyone who claims otherwise is either woefully uninformed or buying into the falsehoods perpetuated by Trump himself or his campaign surrogates.
It's worth going through the timeline on this story. On March 21, the day before the Utah caucuses and Arizona primary, BuzzFeed's McKay Coppins reported on Facebook ads being seen by voters in those states encouraging Republicans to vote against Trump. The ads were paid for by a super PAC called Make America Awesome, a group created by Republican strategist Liz Mair for the sole purpose of fighting Trump. Make America Awesome is almost laughably small — by the end of February, the group had raised just under $19,000 since the beginning of the year.
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This video is going viral in Europe, but the #NeverTrump folks who refuse to listen to common sense will hate it. If you still support Obama bringing in thousands of Syrian refugees to our borders after watching this, then you will be to blame when something tragic occurs on our homeland: Please share this dire
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Restaurants and bars in the heart of this historic city are usually hopping. Not Thursday.
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A Romanian member of the European Parliament has lashed out at Europe's approach to the cultural war with migrants, and questioned the ability of Europe as a cultural entity to continue in the face of the onslaught.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proved that brevity is the soul not only of wit but of wisdom.
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If David Horowitz was such a threat to their world view, why didn't the students wrap the duct tape around their eyes and ears?
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It’s about time someone came to the city's defense.
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In 2016 America, the deepest divide is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s not even between conservatives and liberals. It’s between Us and Them – The People versus The Establishment.
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What's the harm in a little more rule by fiat?
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As those who follow this column or my Twitter feed know, I’ve been hit with a massive amount of anti-Semitism, some of it threatening, since making clear my distaste for Donald Trump. For just a taste, view my piece here. One of my most ardent anti-Semitic detractors has been former KKK honcho David Duke.
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Some Trump backers have been ganging up, harassing and threatening his critics online and in person for weeks and months on end.
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Brought to you by Bill Luke: http://billluke.com THE MOST AWKWARD Stand By Me Cover EVER - Donald Trump Ben Carson Dance on Stage - FNN
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The vice president can't complain if Republicans object to Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
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Microsoft's newly launched A.I.-powered bot called Tay, which was responding to tweets and chats on GroupMe and Kik, has already been shut down due to..
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Of Donald Trump’s vile streak, I needed no more proof. He mocked a handicapped person — physically mocked him, imitated him. He said despicable things about Megyn Kelly and Carly Fiorina. He compared Ben Carson to a child molester. (Turns out, Carson didn’t mind so much, but that’s a different story . . .)
He praised and defended Putin. He expressed the moral equivalence that one usually hears from the Left: “I think our country does plenty of killing also.”
But Trump’s antics in regard to Heidi Cruz are a new low.
I’ve known Ted and Heidi for many years. In fact, I will have a piece on this subject in the next National Review: the one that becomes available tomorrow. Furthermore, I’ll expand on that piece in my online column.
When I met Heidi, she was Heidi Nelson, an economic-policy whiz and beautiful, sporty California blonde. She had been in faraway places, on missions. She had hiked and trekked all over. She was exceptionally capable, and she was fearless.
You can see why Ted was drawn to her, and why anyone would be.
Like me and most other people, she has had highs and lows. Life has a way of being eventful. And Heidi, in my experience, has been a picture of poise, grace, and perseverance. If Ted is president, I think Americans will like him a lot — more than they know now. If Heidi is first lady, they’ll probably like her even more.
She can teach Trump, his supporters, and his apologists a thing or two about how to treat people.
I have nothing against Melania Trump. I’ve liked all of Trump’s wives. I like Trump too, for that matter, except when he’s being vile, or trying to be president.
I think Mrs. Trump No. 2 was my favorite. She was beautiful, like all of them, and I liked the way her husband said her name: “Mawla.” “Mawla, she’s turrific.”
Melania was once a model (duh). She is Slovenian, and, trust me, even an average Slovenian is attractive. You ever been to Ljubljana? There are few other places like it. Pepperdine University comes to mind. And Ole Miss.
Naturally, Melania has had racy photo shoots, and an anti-Trump PAC used one. (To read about this controversy, go here.) The Cruz campaign had nothing to do with it. But Trump lashed out at Ted, and Heidi.
I myself wouldn’t use a Melania photo for a political purpose. I think wives ought to be off-limits — until you have a 1992-style situation, in which Bill Clinton offered a “two for one” deal. For years, Clinton played a clever double-game: Hillary was his total political partner — until someone criticized her, at which time she became wifey-poo. Clinton got to play the indignant husband: “If you want to attack me, fine, but you better lay off mah wife! Pick on someone your own sahze!”
It worked very well for him. It was dishonest, of course. But it worked well, like most things Clintonian.
Anyway, I’m rooting for Heidi Cruz in this race. And her husband.
(Disclosure.)
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Former Donald Trump allies like Fox News and NBC have been taking shots at the candidate, but he has at least one staunch media friend.
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The media's responses to Donald Trump's threats to and disparagement of Heidi Cruz are a good example of how much they've enabled him during this campaign.
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Thousands Pledge to Get Arrested in D.C. Protests Next Month
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The American Association of University Professors notes problems with the newest interpretation of Title IX.
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This chart shows the number of persons killed by terrorist attacks 1970-12015 in Western Europe
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Did Trump feed dirt on Ben Carson to his old buddy's gossip weekly?
