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ABC News: Firearm Confiscation Orders Part of Solution to Mass Public Attacks - Breitbart

ABC News: Firearm Confiscation Orders Part of Solution to Mass Public Attacks - Breitbart:

"Senate Democrats pushed nine different gun controls during the past six weeks, and ABC News has now emerged with a tenth gun law which they suggest may be the ringer.
That law would legalize firearm confiscation orders like those in Washington state. Such orders allow a judge to issue an ex parte order for the confiscation of an American’s firearms."

Canadian Doctor Laments Pitfalls of Canadian Health Care

Canadian Doctor Laments Pitfalls of Canadian Health Care
"A Canadian doctor is lamenting the pitfalls of Canadian healthcare, penning an article for the Huffington Post blasting both his provincial government and the federal government for policies that are driving him and others away.

Adam Stewart, a family physician practicing in Ontario, says doctors like him are “looking for the exit,” citing high tax rates, severe underfunding, burnout, and feelings of unappreciation as driving factors.

“For over three years, Ontario’s doctors have been hit with multiple unilaterally imposed cuts to funding,...

And Stewart isn’t alone.

Nadia Alam, an anesthetist also based in Ontario, penned her own story of burnout and despair, writing,

“Dread and despair, uncertainty and panic ebb and flow around thoughts of my medical career.

Most days clamour with stories of clinics closing, physicians leaving and patients dying on waitlists — all flatly ignored by provincial leaders.

Stewart and Alam’s stories appear to run contrary to the progressive American view of Canadian universal healthcare, one that wants so desperately to believe that Canadian healthcare is free, efficient, and morally superior to that of private medicine.
If Canada’s system were implemented in the United States, the damage could be enormous."

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History for November 14

History for November 14 - On-This-Day.com
Claude Monet 1840 - French impressionist painter, Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 - Indian politician, Joseph McCarthy 1909 - Politician (U.S. Senator from Wisconsin)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922 - Egyptian politician, P.J. O'Rourke 1947 - Political satirist, journalist, writer, Condoleezza Rice 1954 - U.S. Secretary of State


1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the U.S.


1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.


1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.


1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 (1,003.16) level for the first time.


1972 - Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.


1979 - U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.


1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.


1995 - The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while most government offices operated with skeleton crews.

Gal Gadot Won't Be In The 'Wonder Woman' Sequel Unless Producer Brett Ratner Is Fired | Daily Wire

Gal Gadot Won't Be In The 'Wonder Woman' Sequel Unless Producer Brett Ratner Is Fired | Daily Wire:

"The star of this summer's blockbuster hit "Wonder Woman," Gal Gadot, says she won't return for the sequel unless Brett Ratner is dumped from the film.

According to the New York Post, Gadot has launched a one-woman crusade against the popular Hollywood producer who stands accused of sexually harassing more than a dozen women, including starlets Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn. Ratner has repeatedly denied the allegations, through his attorney Marty Singer, but the accusations keep piling up, and Hollywood movie houses are beginning to take notice."

The way we were-----Jan & Dean - Surf City - 1963

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We have been warned!-----The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany: William L. Shirer

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany: William L. Shirer
"…Hitler’s contempt for “professors” and the intellectual academic life had peppered the pages of Mein Kampf, in which he had set down some of his ideas on education.

...But, even more important, he had stressed in his book the importance of winning over and then training the youth in the service “of a new national state”—a subject he returned to often after he became the German dictator.
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’” he said in a speech on November 6, 1933, “I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. 
Ina short time they will know nothing else but this new community...’” 

MALKIN: An ICE Agent's Quest For Justice | Daily Wire

MALKIN: An ICE Agent's Quest For Justice | Daily Wire:

""Betrayed."

Victor Avila is a survivor. Soft-spoken but iron-willed, he dedicated his life to law enforcement and to his country. Yet, the feds are now fighting tooth and nail to bury the full truth about the 2011 ambush by Los Zetas drug cartel thugs in Mexico that left him gravely wounded and his partner, special agent Jaime Zapata, dead."

Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations - Washington Times

Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations - Washington Times:
"For all its talk of being a street uprising, Black Lives Matter is increasingly awash in cash, raking in pledges of more than $100 million from liberal foundations and others eager to contribute to what has become the grant-making cause du jour.
The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy recently announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF], a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition.
That funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress.
...aligned themselves with the staunch left-wing platform of the Movement for Black Lives, which unveiled a policy agenda shortly after the fund was announced accusing Israel of being an “apartheid state” guilty of “genocide...”"
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Instapundit » Blog Archive » KATIE YODER: Feminist attacks on Taylor Swift reveal something very ugly about the movement. “Swif…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » KATIE YODER: Feminist attacks on Taylor Swift reveal something very ugly about the movement. “Swif…:
"KATIE YODER: Feminist attacks on Taylor Swift reveal something very ugly about the movement. 
“Swift is already under fire from feminist critics. 
And their attacks reveal something very ugly about modern feminism: 
While today’s feminists claim to champion the rights of all women, they speak only for women who agree with them – vocally, frequently and on demand.”

"Yes, modern feminism isn’t about freedom, but about control."

Lunch video-----The Damaging Legacy of Communism: Daniel Hannan at the ACRE Liberty Summ...

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Newspeak runs wild: Abortion declared ‘heart of the issue of the right to life’

Newspeak runs wild: Abortion declared ‘heart of the issue of the right to life’:

"Now ECLJ’s American affiliate, the American Center for Law and Justice, is warning that the committee is moving forward with its pro-abortion agenda and “is about to impose a universal legalization of abortion by manipulation and in the name of the right to life.”

While the decision isn’t expected to be final for some time, since discussion is scheduled to continue at meetings in March 2018, where assisted suicide and euthanasia will be added to the ideology protected by “the right to life,” the move is cause for concern, ACLJ said."

The Wages of Social Justice Is Death | Trending

The Wages of Social Justice Is Death | Trending
"In the aftermath of the Ferguson riots in Missouri and the Freddie Gray fiasco in Baltimore, the decriminalization of crime in the name of "social justice" -- long a goal of the cultural-Marxist Left -- got fully underway. 
The result was exactly what anyone not fully invested in Critical Theory would have expected:

Calling violence in Baltimore “out of control,” Mayor Catherine Pugh ordered 30 agency heads to meet every morning at police headquarters, and to make crime reduction the top mission not only of police, but also of health workers, housing officials and public works crews.

The mayor ordered the directors of more than half of the city’s 55 departments to report to meetings daily at 8 a.m., when they will plan with Police Commissioner Kevin Davis where weeds should be cut, lead paint covered and drug houses boarded up and job applications can be handed out, among other tasks.

Pugh appeared at City Hall Thursday flanked by agency heads. “Violence in the city is out of control,” she said. “I want every neighborhood to know I am extremely concerned and focused on reducing violence.” Killings in the city have surged past 300 this year for a third year in a row. Violent crime is up 13 percent over last year, and reports of groups of youths attacking people apparently at random have dominated recent local news cycles.

Baltimore, a city whose best years ended more than a century ago, is a prime example of what happens when citizens are categorized by skin color or cultural background, and then have differing standards of behavior applied to them by what should be an impartial justice system. 

Instead of "social justice," the outcome is social disruption, mistrust, resentment, lawlessness and, if left unchecked, anarchy and civil war. 

The Marxists not only know this, they desire it, which is why they press so hard for it..."

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#1 Movie this week 1963-----It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) Official Theatrical Trailer

Undoing the Dis-Education of Millennials | NewBostonPost

Undoing the Dis-Education of Millennials | NewBostonPost
"I teach in a law school.
For several years now my students have been mostly Millennials. Contrary to stereotype, I have found that the vast majority of them want to learn.
But true to stereotype, I increasingly find that most of them cannot think, don’t know very much, and are enslaved to their appetites and feelings. 
Their minds are held hostage in a prison fashioned by elite culture and their undergraduate professors.
They cannot learn until their minds are freed from that prison.
This year in my Foundations of Law course for first-year law students, I found my students especially impervious to the ancient wisdom of foundational texts, such as Plato’s Crito and the Code of Hammurabi.
Many of them were quick to dismiss unfamiliar ideas as “classist” and “racist,” and thus unable to engage with those ideas on the merits.
So, a couple of weeks into the semester, I decided to lay down some ground rules.
I gave them these rules just before beginning our annual unit on legal reasoning.
Here is the speech I gave them.
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Before I can teach you how to reason, I must first teach you how to rid yourself of unreason..."
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#! This day 1965-----The Rolling Stones - Get Off of My Cloud (1967)

How's the Middle-Class Doing Under the European Welfare State?

How's the Middle-Class Doing Under the European Welfare State?
How’s the Middle-Class Doing Under the European Welfare State?

"According to progressives like Bernie Sanders, European nations have wonderfully generous welfare states financed by high tax rates on the rich.

But they’re wrong about how those welfare states are financed. Yes, tax rates on the rich are onerous, but not that much higher than in the United States. Instead, the big difference between America and Europe is that ordinary people pay much higher taxes on the other side of the Atlantic.

The US Has the Most “Progressive” Tax System

Indeed, I’ve previously cited Tax Foundation data showing that the United States arguably has the most “progressive” tax system in the developed world. Not because we tax the rich more, but simply because we impose comparatively modest burdens on everyone else.

And now we have some new evidence making the same point. Joseph Sternberg of the Wall Street Journal has some very sobering data on how the German tax system imposes a heavy weight on poor and middle-income taxpayers.

Europeans believe their tax codes are highly progressive, giving lower earners a break while levying significant proportions of the income of higher earners and corporations to fund generous social benefits. But that progressivity holds true only for direct taxes on personal and corporate income. Indirect taxes, such as the value-added tax on consumption and social-security taxes (disguised as “contributions”), are a different matter. The VAT disproportionately affects lower earners, who spend a higher proportion of their incomes..."

As you can see, high payroll taxes and the value-added tax are a very costly combination.

And the rest of Europe is similar to Germany..."

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