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A Constitutionalist View: Walmart to Stop Selling Handgun Ammunition
Post Date: 2019-09-04 18:32:30 by IbJensen
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Walmart CEO Doug McMillon announced in a memo to company employees on September 3 that the retail giant will discontinue sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition, as well as sales of handgun ammunition, and will end handgun sales entirely in Alaska. The announcement was made as a response to two deadly shootings at Walmart stores over the summer, one in Southhaven, Mississippi, on July 30, in which a former Walmart employee killed two people, and another in El Paso, Texas, on August 3, in which a gunman shot and killed 22 people. As tragic as these events were, it does not follow that discontinuing the sales of the types of ammunition he mentioned will do anything to prevent similar ...
‘They are riding a rubber ducky into alligator-infested waters’
Post Date: 2019-09-04 11:15:02 by Willie Green
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Trump faces a contracting U.S. factory sector, a narrow path to trade victories and investors spooked by recession risks — all before an election year. President Donald Trump is staring down a series of trigger points that will determine whether he enters the 2020 campaign backed by his most valuable asset — a healthy U.S. economy — or empty-handed and further on the defensive. The White House faces a time crunch on several major policy fronts this fall. The president will need to appease farmers and factory workers about his ongoing trade standoff with China, in which he shows no sign of backing down. His administration is trying to cajole the Democratic-controlled House ...
Is Vaccine Safety Too Dangerous for Us to Discuss?
Post Date: 2019-09-04 11:14:46 by Deckard
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Recently, the news and opinion site HuffPost removed an article that had been up for more than six years. The piece, titled “Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court – Now What?” was published in January of 2013, and dealt with a case in which the US government’s Court of Federal Claims conceded that routine vaccination had aggravated a child’s underlying condition and led to that child developing “features of autism spectrum disorder.” Now, the following statement appears in place of that article: A previous blog post published on this site has been removed in the interest of public health. The article expressed the sole opinion of its ...
Perth vegan demands neighbour stop cooking barbecues
Post Date: 2019-09-04 09:51:08 by misterwhite
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A Perth vegan has taken her neighbours all the way to the Supreme Court, demanding they stop smoking, bouncing balls and even cooking barbecues in the backyard. Cilla Carden, from Girrawheen, in Perth's northern suburbs said she's fed up with the smell of meat cooking on the barbecue next door. "They've put it there so I smell fish, all I can smell is fish. I can't enjoy my backyard, I can't go out there." The massage therapist claims her neighbours are doing it on purpose. Ms Carden, a massage therapist, is also furious at cigarette smoke wafting into her yard and the sound of children playing with basketballs next door. "It's been devastating, ...
Is the U.S. Government the Enemy of the People? AmericaÂ’s Lost Liberties, Post-9/11
Post Date: 2019-09-04 09:18:09 by Deckard
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“These are the times that try men’s souls.” ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis Take heed, America. Our losses are mounting with every passing day. What began with the post-9/11 passage of the USA Patriot Act has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. The citizenry’s unquestioning acquiescence to anything the government wants to do in exchange for the phantom promise of safety and security has resulted in a society where the nation is being locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive, legalistic, self-righteous, goose-stepping antithesis of every principle ...
Cycling vs. Driving and the Death of Car Culture
Post Date: 2019-09-04 09:15:22 by Deckard
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There’s North and South, liberals and conservatives; Star Trek people and Star Wars people . . . but few divides are greater than that which exists between drivers and cyclists. The etiology of the thing is interesting. It bugs some drivers that cyclists have the gall (as the drivers see it) to ride on roads which they – the drivers – consider their own or at least, not suitable for bicycles, because they aren’t able to keep up with the flow of traffic and thus slow down the flow of traffic. This is certainly true. Bikes sometimes can’t keep up with the flow of traffic. It is equally true that slow-moving RVs, garbage trucks and commercial vehicles slow/impede ...
Australian Feds Seize Hundreds Of Illegal Firearms From Citizens
Post Date: 2019-09-04 09:01:42 by Deckard
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Australian special police forces seized a total of 475 guns across the country in a week-long crackdown on illegal firearms, according to AAP (via Yahoo). Dubbed Operation Athena, the crackdown targeting firearms trafficking involved all police jurisdictions - including the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Border Force and the Department of Home Affairs. According to Detective Superintendent Peter Brigham from the Victoria Police State Anti-Gangs Division, trafficking of illegal firearms remains a key law enforcement issue across the country. "The community should be reassured we are getting results. We're arresting people and charging them ...
Dave Chappelle’s Politically Incorrect Comedy Special Hated by ‘Woke’ Critics, Loved by Ordinary Americans
Post Date: 2019-09-04 08:48:06 by Deckard
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Dave Chappelle’s new politically incorrect Netflix special is being panned by “critics” yet is loved by the general public, illustrating once again how Americans are sick of being lectured by woke idiots about what they’re allowed to laugh at.After I posted this, Rotten Tomatoes finally allowed audience scores and the difference is stunning. Americans are sick of being lectured about what they're allowed to find humorous.pic.twitter.com/j4fV0H3QFn
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Air Force-affiliated researchers want to let AI launch nukes
Post Date: 2019-09-04 08:39:41 by Deckard
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A pair of researchers associated with the U.S. Air Force want to give nuclear codes to an artificial intelligence. Air Force Institute of Technology associate dean Curtis McGiffin and Louisiana Tech Research Institute researcher Adam Lowther, also affiliated with the Air Force, co-wrote an article — with the ominous title “America Needs a ‘Dead Hand’” — arguing that the United States needs to develop “an automated strategic response system based on artificial intelligence.” In other words, they want to give an AI the nuclear codes. And yes, as the authors admit, it sure sounds a lot like the “Doomsday Machine” from Stanley Kubrick’s ...
YouTube Is Not the Government
Post Date: 2019-09-04 05:04:40 by Deckard
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Conservatives who argue that the video platform is constrained by the First Amendment are forsaking their constitutional principles. (Jeff Malet Photography/Newscom) Dennis Prager may or may not have a legitimate beef with YouTube, which he says has been restricting access to videos produced by his nonprofit organization, Prager University, because of its conservative perspective. But one thing is clear: YouTube is not violating the First Amendment, and the political commentator's claims to the contrary are anything but conservative.During a hearing last week before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, the two members of the three-judge panel who spoke were understandably ...
How Americans can break their outrage addiction
Post Date: 2019-09-04 00:38:57 by Gatlin
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How Americans can break their outrage addiction Anger is thrilling, although we’re loath to admit it. Whatever our ideological positions, scrolling through social media or reading the news, we get a delicious tingle of emotion over the latest scandal, the outrage du jour. The feeling is pleasing, even if negative. It aligns us with one group or another, generates a sense of engagement, and reminds us we’re alive!New research from the Pew Research Center reveals that after the 2016 US presidential election, use of the newly introduced Facebook “angry” emoji rose dramatically in response to politicians’ posts.Between Feb. 24, 2016–when Facebook first gave its ...
benghazi ... The country - caTholic religion - world via --- the obama - clinton culT of marx - saTan !
Post Date: 2019-09-03 20:04:49 by BorisY
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28 January 2017 Catholics Ask Trump to Probe Soros-Obama-Clinton Conspiracy at Vatican Written by William F. Jasper Did billionaire speculator George Soros, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and Obama/Clinton adviser John Podesta conspire to overthrow the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and replace him with a radical, Pope Francis? Did they use America’s intelligence agencies, and our nation’s diplomatic machinery, political muscle, and financial power to coerce and blackmail “regime change” in the Roman Catholic Church? Far from being some wild conspiracy theory, there is sound prima facie evidence to indicate ...
CIVIL WAR 2 in America - WHO WOULD WIN? In-Depth Analysis
Post Date: 2019-09-03 18:19:02 by Tooconservative
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A 51 minute analysis of a piece on Civil War 2 written by (an alleged) federal red team planner for civil emergency. Here is the original document upon which the video was based. The video commenter really goes through the numbers to produce a scorecard and it is one of the better efforts I've seen. Reddit: r/conspiracy Extensive analysis by anonymous "red team planner" of America's next Civil War between left and right and how it would play out. (long and detailed)Former red team planner for the government here.The United States Government has extensively studied the concept of second American Civil War (along the assumption that it will be left versus right. HMM. I ...
A Mississippi wedding venue rejected an interracial couple, citing ‘Christian belief.’ Facing a backlash, the owner apologized.
Post Date: 2019-09-03 17:02:43 by IbJensen
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When LaKambria S. Welch drove to Boone’s Camp Event Hall on Saturday, she was in search of an explanation. Welch told The Washington Post in an email that her brother and his fiancee had recently been coordinating with the wedding venue in Booneville, Miss., about hosting their upcoming nuptials until they were informed that they were no longer welcome. Why? Welch said it’s because her brother is black and his bride-to-be is white. In a now-viral video shared to social media by Welch over the weekend, a woman identified as the event hall’s owner can be seen telling the 24-year-old, “First of all, we don’t do gay weddings or mixed race … because of our ...
36 Gay Protesters during Straight Pride Parade
Post Date: 2019-09-03 11:07:41 by Deckard
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A Bethlehem man was among the nine people arrested and charged with assaulting police at the controversial Straight Pride Parade in Boston on Saturday, according to Boston police. Kenneth Kraft Jr., 24, will be arraigned Tuesday in Boston Municipal Court on charges of assault and battery of a police officer, a Boston Police Department spokesperson confirmed. Advertisement (function(){if(trb.data.ads.optimera)if(!window.oPageUnload){oAv.push("trb_ad_300x250_1_/news/local/mc-nws-kraft-arrest-boston-straight-pride-parade-20190903-rsbk6p4tj5czn");oVa["trb_ad_300x250_1_/news/local/mc-nws-kraft-arrest-boston-straight-pride-parade-2019090 ...
TSA Bans Coke Bottles That Resemble Fictional Star Wars Explosives
Post Date: 2019-09-03 09:05:27 by Deckard
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has banned passengers from bringing special bottles of Coca-Cola sold at Disney theme parks onto planes because the containers resemble the fictional "thermal detonator" devices in the Star Wars universe. The bottles are being sold at the newly opened Galaxy's Edge, a Star Wars–themed attraction at Disneyland in California and at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida. It's a clever bit of marketing, but any parkgoers who want to take their Coke bottles home as soveigners will be out of luck if they plan to fly. "It could create concern that it's the real thing," TSA spokesperson Jim ...
A Few Random Facts About The LGBTQ "Community"
Post Date: 2019-09-03 08:42:47 by Deckard
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Republicans Choose Trumpism Over Property Rights and the Rule of Law
Post Date: 2019-09-03 07:39:22 by Deckard
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Trump is just who he said he'd be four years ago. By rallying around him, Republicans are choosing to brand themselves in his image. (K.C. Alfred/TNS/Newscom) In more placid times, news that the president of the United States was encouraging aides to break the law by seizing swaths of private property along the southwestern border to build a wall might have caused more than a day's ripple.After all, legitimate controversy over the promiscuous threat of eminent domain (as well as illegitimate fears of a NAFTA Superhighway) dogged former Texas Gov. Rick Perry for a full decade, prompting him to eventually abandon his dreams of a Trans-Texas Corridor tollroad. ...
Gun Buy-back Schemes and Non-Compliance
Post Date: 2019-09-03 06:59:40 by Deckard
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Compelling Americans to surrender their so-called assault weapons has become “the newest purity test” for Democratic presidential candidates, according to the Washington Post. Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker, Kristin Gillibrand, and Bill de Blasio have all endorsed mandatory buy-backs of assault weapons as a key step to reducing gun violence. But while such plans might be politically profitable in a left-wing primary, in practice they could end in catastrophe. When Australia and New Zealand initially mandated buy-backs of assault weapons, most gun owners ignored the decrees. Similar non-compliance over laws to surrender or register guns has since occurred in California, New York, ...
Winter and EVs
Post Date: 2019-09-03 06:39:33 by Deckard
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Winter – and cold weather – is just a few months away and that means more than just cold and probably snow. It also means power outages. Sometimes, these last for several days. Last year, for example, an ice storm in my area took down many trees and with them several power lines. The juice was off for almost a week. How does one recharge an electric car in this scenario? The answer, of course, is that one doesn’t. Not unless one has a whole-house back-up generator that produces the 200 amp service necessary to power the “fast” charger. Most people don’t have that kind of back-up power, because it’s expensive. The typical install is about $5,000 for the ...
“This Legalistic Stuff”
Post Date: 2019-09-03 05:53:45 by Deckard
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Here’s an AGW who at least admits he doesn’t care what the law says. A man is video-recording from a public sidewalk. A super-sized AGW (your tax dollars pay double to clothe and feed this one) struts up and demands ID – which the man recording declines to provide, citing the law which doesn’t empower the AGW to demand it. This sends the AGW into a hissy fit. He waddles around and eructs that he hopes the man gets hit by a car – what happened to “concern” about our “safety”? – and then wails about “this legalistic stuff,” clearly annoyed that the man expects him to respect “this legalistic stuff.” “I don’t ...
Sheriff Mistakes Innocent Man for Suspect, Dumps 10 Rounds Into Him—NO CHARGES
Post Date: 2019-09-03 05:30:38 by Deckard
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Kimble County, TX — Kimble County Sheriff Hilario Cantu is taking fire in the form of criticism after he opened fire on an innocent man, dumping 10 rounds into him and his truck. Quite unlike what the general public would face, in the form of criminal charges, Cantu will likely face no charges, serve no time in jail, and will potentially not even be disciplined for shooting up the wrong moving vehicle. What started out as a traffic stop for a missing license plate nearly turned deadly for both one police officer and one hapless innocent bystander. When officer Lee Meadow pulled over a Gray Chevy Colorado pickup he had no idea the motorist would allegedly pull out a gun and shoot ...
Where is the outrage about abortions?
Post Date: 2019-09-02 19:47:06 by Gatlin
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It is such a shame that whenever an atrocity such as a “mass” shooting occurs there is outrage and calls for action. The recent shootings are indicative of acts committed by persons who are evil. Yet, there are calls to continue to regulate firearms ownership or as some would call for, the outright ban on firearms. Furthermore, the call for “red flag” laws which deny due process, property rights and firearm rights. However, there are constitutional rights addressing each of those. Where is the outrage and call for action for the approximately 600,000 children who are killed each year in the United States under the auspices of a mother’s right to affordable ...
Deadly U.S. Police Culture: Barney Fife Thinks He’s the Punisher
Post Date: 2019-09-01 12:47:01 by Deckard
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Barney Fife, of the celebrated 1960’s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, was the lovable, bumbling deputy with a heart of gold. His clumsiness was endearing and provided a large portion of the comic value of the show. Even when his gun accidentally discharged, the audience would chuckle, and no one ever got hurt. Yet Sheriff Andy Taylor, clearly aware of Fife’s inadequacies, allowed him only one bullet, and kept him on a tight leash. Taylor, for his part, knew the damage such an accident-prone bumbler could cause when allowed too much power, even one as pure-hearted as Fife. If only every police department employed an Andy Taylor, someone with keen judgment and an understanding of the ...
High School tennis stars score religious liberty victory in Washington state [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2019-09-01 12:24:22 by Deckard
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Siblings Joseph & Joelle Chung Two high school tennis stars scored a religious liberty victory in Washington state after being kicked off the court for their faith. The Chung siblings, Joseph, 15, and Joelle, 17, both Seventh-day Adventists, a Protestant denomination that observes Sabbath on Saturday as recorded in the Bible, sued the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) earlier this month after Joelle was disqualified from her final state tennis postseason competition because she doesn’t play on Saturdays. The Chung family, represented by Becket, a religious liberty law firm, filed a motion to withdraw their federal suit on Tuesday after WIAA agreed to add ...
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