I’m not sure what the legalities are of asking a foreign power to help bring down your political opponents. But we know such activities aren’t limited to just one political party. In addition to the Steel dossier there is this:
I’m not sure I see a reason why having a foreign nation supply legally obtained truthful information on political opponents should be illegal, immoral, or problematic. I have a big problem with people and/or organizations being hypocritical about it.
I remember when Federal and most states banned guns within 1000 feet of school property. That was when the school shootings started to became a trend.
Teachers in seven Florida county school districts will soon be locked and loaded thanks to a state law enacted this month that provides schools with the option to allow teachers to carry concealed guns.
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According to the Education Commission of the States, at least eight other states allow some teachers or other school employees to have guns. They include Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.
Since 2018, legislation to allow teachers and other school staff to carry firearms has been proposed in a handful of additional states, including Washington, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
It’s about time.
We can’t worry about inflaming the right anymore. Their inflammation is an “itis” that has no cure and the only treatment is to excise it.
Kelly Ann Pollard (@KellyPol55)
Tweeted on October 7, 2019
[Not the “extreme right”. Not the “alt-right”. Just the “right”.
The tweet above was replied to by Mick Collins @BroknHeadphones who said:
and cauterize the wound
This is what they think of you. This is what they want done with you and your family. They no longer hide it. They use their real names.
We are at war.—Joe]
Update: Ms. Pollard responded to me on Twitter:
Mr Huffman, will you please take this tweet down and remove this reference from your blog? I was speaking as a nurse and with regards to voting. Thank you.
I declined the request and invited her to make a comment on my blog. She declined my invitation.
If she intended to refer to voting she was certainly obscure in her reference. I’m skeptical that was her real intention.
Via email from Chet.
The University of Washington Should Not Censor Faculty Social Media:
Several faculty who had attended the gathering told me they were afraid to speak in my defense. One, a full professor and past chair, told me that what had happened was very wrong but he was scared to talk.
Another faculty member, who was originally from China and lived through the Cultural Revolution told me it was exactly like the shaming sessions of Maoist China, with young Red Guards criticizing and shaming elders they wanted to embarrass and remove.
Scary stuff. He documents numerous violations of University of Washington faculty code and constitutionally protected First Amendment rights.
One of my degrees is from the University of Washington but I haven’t donated any money to these communists in many years and won’t be either. They really need to get their act together. This sort of behavior is intolerable.
Dogmas collapse first in the minds of believers, when they slowly awaken to the reality that the dogma no longer serves them, it only serves to prop up the wealth, power and prestige of their increasingly fanatic leaders. Propping up a failed system doesn’t actually fix what’s broken; it only guarantees the banquet of consequences will include shackles: the option to escape the consequences will no longer exist.
So sorry, but your karma ran over your dogma.
Charles Hugh Smith
September 29, 2019
So Sorry, Your Karma Ran Over Your Dogma
[He has a point there.—Joe]
Use of the term “gun violence” is part of the democrat flimflam because it narrows the focus to fit the objective. The objective of course is to disarm the American public. Think about it. Have you ever heard the term “gun gentleness” used by a politician or anyone else?
No? Then ask yourself why the democrat party doesn’t focus on just violence instead of gun violence. Fact is they’re after guns, not violence. They couldn’t care less about the entire field of violence because it commingles too many criminals with peaceable, lawful citizens.
Gene Ralno
October 1, 2019
Comment to RE: Michael Corrigan
[It’s not about public safety. It’s about control of the common citizen.—Joe]
I have gotten courts to approve conservatorship’s for people more coherent than Joe Biden.
SPQR
October 3, 2019
Comment to Quote of the day—Biden for President
[The question is, can he do it for Joe Biden?—Joe]
His plan does not pass the laugh test, but it beautifully illustrates the magical thinking of gun controllers.
Jacob Sullum
October 2, 2019
Joe Biden Plans To Ban and Register ‘Assault Weapons’ but Won’t Say What They Are
[It also demonstrates how easy it is to lead the useful idiots.
See also the QOTD for yesterday.—Joe]
Four Paris police officers killed in knife attack at headquarters:
One of the most popular tourist areas in Paris is sealed off after an attacker goes on a knife rampage and is shot dead.
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The attacker had also recently converted to Islam, according to the French news channel BFM TV.
It has nothing to do with the person. This is obvious because it was someone who adheres to the religion of peace. What they need is common sense knife control.
Federal law prevents hunters from hunting migratory game birds with more than three shells in their shotgun. That means our federal law does more to protect ducks than children. It’s wrong. Joe Biden will enact legislation to once again ban assault weapons. This time, the bans will be designed based on lessons learned from the 1994 bans. For example, the ban on assault weapons will be designed to prevent manufacturers from circumventing the law by making minor changes that don’t limit the weapon’s lethality.
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As president, Biden will pursue legislation to regulate possession of existing assault weapons under the National Firearms Act.
Biden for President
October 2, 2019
THE BIDEN PLAN TO END OUR GUN VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC
[That’s just a small part of the pain Biden promises to inflict upon gun owners. He claims he would also ban the online sale of ammunition and gun parts. He claims he would give states incentives to register all firearms. He claims he would “Put America on the path to ensuring that 100% of firearms sold in America are smart guns.” He claims he would, “Prohibit the use of federal funds to arm or train educators to discharge firearms.”
The list goes on and on and on.
And check out the URL for the web page: https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/. “gunsafety”? Yeah. Orwellian doublespeak.
Just say, “No!” as clearly as is practical. The Democrats need to hear that with absolutely zero ambiguity.—Joe]
The Democrats’ electoral strategy is very simple and straightforward:
Metallicman
October 25, 2018
The Many Things that Democrats want to Ban (Running List)
[H/T to SayUncle.
If you have 10 minutes or so read the entire list.
He’s not wrong.—Joe]
@AmySwearer delivering basic facts about how Americans use firearms to @HouseJudiciary in their hearing on “assault weapons” is the dopamine hit I didn’t know I needed.
Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield
Tweeted on September 25, 2019
[I agree.—Joe]
Recently, we learned that Florida is apparently using its “red flag” law an average of five times a day.
Five times per day. That’s 1,825 people flagged per year.
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“Red flag” goes into effect. Homicides go up. Firearm homicides go up. Suicides go up.
They don’t work. The vast majority of firearm homicides are committed by people who aren’t supposed to have guns anyway, and who will get them; generally in an unlawful fashion.
“Red flag” laws may even make suicides worse, by aggravating already disturbed people while leaving them on the loose to die by other means, and by not Baker Acting them so they get help. If I’m correct, 2019 suicide numbers in Florida may well be even worse than the significant increase of 2018.
Carl Bussjaeger
September 28, 2019
Florida Red Flag Law: How is it working out?
[Great research!
If only the facts mattered. As anti-gunner Joe Biden said “We choose truth over facts.”
These things will have be resolved in some other way than public debate and legislative action, perhaps the courts, because facts are mostly irrelevant to the political left.—Joe]
We have Democrats demanding impeachment over a call President Trump had with the president of the Ukraine:
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Thursday and Friday mornings I had the “free” breakfast offered by the motel I was staying in. The television on both days was on CNN where talking heads talked about how terrible the crimes President Trump had committed.
And this afternoon commenter John Schussler said,
we have the leader of the party, Trump, well on his way to impeachment for trying to ensure his political future and that of his party by extorting a foreign power.
This evening I read the transcript of the call. I cannot find anything even hinting at the “extorting a foreign power” and that can be construed as a crime.
We even have Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky denying such claims:
When asked by reporters about the call on Wednesday in a joint press conference with Mr. Trump, Zelensky said that “nobody pushed me.”
I’m inclined to agree with Chet:
I did not expect a crisis until the election, but it now clear to me that the crisis has arrived. The left is now attempting to overthrow our government using any pretense.
I suspect the frenzy demonstrated by democrats since President Trump’s election in 2016 will make the history books. It will be studied by psychologists and sociologists for decades as as an example of one of the greatest mass delusions of all time.
Read the transcript for yourself.
Among the many things the “Right” still doesn’t understand is that the Left has concluded that this particular show need no longer go on. They don’t think they need a foil anymore and would rather dispense with the whole bother of staging these phony contests in which each side ostensibly has a shot.
Publius Decius Mus
September 5, 2016
The Flight 93 Election
[H/T Oppo.
This was clearly visible in September 2016 and it is now arc light illuminated three years later.—Joe]
Now that lifestyle and political affiliation correlate so closely, it’s awfully easy to taunt the “enemy” by waving a few cultural banners in their faces—or by putting legislation to partisan use. Why run afoul of protections for free speech, thought, and assembly when you can just torment people by piling restrictions on the things they enjoy in life? You can camouflage the targeting as a policy dispute, even though your teammates nudge-and-wink understand that it’s all about sticking it to the latte-sippers or bitter clingers.
Weaponized law. How can that go wrong?—except in every conceivable way.
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A little cultural flag-waving is just fine, but it emphasizes very real tribal divisions that raise the stakes in policy disagreements. Law is too dangerous a tool to leave in the hands of opposing tribes who just want to use it to bludgeon one another.
J.D. Tuccile
April 25, 2017
When Laws Become Partisan Weapons
[It’s an escalating process. Each side wanting revenge for the wrongs they have suffered at the hands of their political opponents. This is another justification for strictly limiting the powers of government to the essential services which cannot be practicably supplied by private enterprise.—Joe]
Union County high school teacher reportedly told students VP Pence should be ‘shot in the head’
A Union County high school teacher is under investigation after reportedly making threatening comments to a class of students, saying the vice president should be shot.
The Cuthbertson High School teacher called out VP Mike Pence while he was visiting NC, allegedly telling her students he should be “shot in the head.”
Leftists are inherently violent. It’s part of their nature. The 100+ million people murdered in the 20th Century by their own government were almost all victims of socialist and communist governments. It should come as no surprise those on the political left in this country want to murder their political opponents as well. And this explains the increasing shrillness to ban the guns most useful to defend ourselves from them. They are just more visible in the expression of their intents now than they have been in the last 40 years.
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership calls for immediate censure of Robert “Beto” O’Rourke by Congress, for insisting that if elected he would take guns from Americans, a blatantly illegal act. We call for an immediate and unequivocal renunciation of that position by every politician seeking office, unless they come out and publicly demand repeals of The U.S. Bill of Rights. Do not be cowards–face us and admit where you stand.
JPFO
September 18, 2019
Democrats have “come out of the closet,” cheering to disarm the public.
[Censure is not enough. He should be prosecuted.—Joe]
I’ve held an AR-15 in my hand, I wish I had it. It is as heavy as 10 boxes that you might be moving and the bullet that is utilized, a .50 caliber, these kinds of bullets, need to be licensed and do not need to be on the street.
Sheila Jackson Lee
September 16, 2019
[Via Sheila Jackson Lee Claims An AR-15 Fires a .50-Caliber Round, Weighs As Much As ’10 Boxes’.
Lying is what they do. It’s a critical portion of their culture.—Joe]
Enough with “speech is violence.” Restoring the ability to disagree without becoming mortal enemies is a new and urgent civic imperative.
Michael Bloomberg
September 15, 2019
Rage has free speech under siege on the American campus
[Via Sebastian.—Joe]