Guns And The New Class: Why The Gun Control Issue Is So Polarized

Instapundit Blog Archive MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Guns And The New Class
Why The Gun Control Issue Is So Polarized:

"...One reason the battle is so pitched is that, as the new class multiplied in numbers and strength, the divide between it and the rest of the country grew into the Mariana Trench.

...Guns are especially frustrating to the new class because they are the rare case where the courts, which normally are its ally, have not achieved its objectives. The Heller decision (2008) irks Democrats to no end because the Supreme Court said that Second Amendment guarantees rule out some forms of regulation. Gun owners have been adept at using the language of rights—usually the preferred means of the new class—to attain ends the new class abhors. That has forced advocates of gun control back into the democratic arena, where the new class has so often been repudiated.

Their counterparts in Europe have beaten their own deplorables into near-total submission. 
The American New Class can only envy that.

Related: When Rulers Despise The Ruled. 
“If the rulers feel neither loyalty nor empathy toward the ruled, the ruled can be expected to return the favor.”--Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

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Global Warming? An Israeli Astrophysicist Provides Alternative View That Is Not Easy To Reject

Global Warming? An Israeli Astrophysicist Provides Alternative View That Is Not Easy To Reject
"...“Global warming clearly is a problem, though not in the catastrophic terms of Al Gore’s movies or environmental alarmists,” said Shaviv. “Climate change has existed forever and is unlikely to go away.
But CO2 emissions don’t play the major role. Periodic solar activity does.”
...“Only people who don’t understand science take the 97% statistic seriously,” he said. “Survey results depend on who you ask, who answers and how the questions are worded. 
In any case, science is not a democracy. 
Even if 100% of scientists believe something, one person with good evidence can still be right.”...
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Minneapolis bans drive-thrus to help meet emissions goals - Roadshow

Minneapolis bans drive-thrus to help meet emissions goals - Roadshow
"Minneapolis, Minnesota, will not be home to any new drive-thru windows in the future. 
Following a city council vote, members have voted to update zoning laws that will ban construction of any new drive-thru windows. 
Businesses with existing drive-thru operations needn't worry, however, as they've been grandfathered in.
The whole premise behind the change is to reduce vehicle emissions, Streetsblog reported Friday. ...the city also plans to phase out gas stations and mandatory parking regulations. 
The latter has apparently encouraged car ownership in the metropolitan area. 
Effectively, this plan looks to curb that trend..."
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Still a popular card among libs.

Corrupt media hiding secret about Dayton shooter, says Limbaugh - WND

Corrupt media hiding secret about Dayton shooter, says Limbaugh - WND:

Limbaugh was reacting to a caller who said, “Everybody knows the Dayton shooter said that he was anti-Trump.”
“No, everybody doesn’t know it,” the talk host said, referring to the young man who murdered nine people in the Ohio city over the weekend.
“The people watching mainstream media don’t know it. They ‘know’ an entirely different thing – ‘know’ in quotes,” said Limbaugh. “They are being lied to about the Dayton shooter, and they’re being lied to about the El Paso shooter, and they’re being lied to about Trump each and every day.”
Limbaugh asked: “What percentage of people that watch the Drive-By Media fall for all of it and never question it?”

In quiet decision, Michigan continues Medicaid coverage of gender changes | Bridge Magazine

In quiet decision, Michigan continues Medicaid coverage of gender changes | Bridge Magazine
"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration with little fanfare last month clarified that sex change surgery and hormone replacement therapy would be covered under the state’s Medicaid program.
People like Beau VanSolkema, who once had a full beard at the same time as DDD-cup breasts, say the procedures can be life-saving.
...That means “comprehensive health care, including prescription drugs, and benefits inclusive of sex, gender identification, and sexual orientation,” said Bob Wheaton, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services..."
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History for August 10

History for August 10 - On-This-Day.com
Herbert Clark Hoover (U.S.) 1874, Jimmy Dean 1928, Rocky Colavito 1933


Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers) 1940, Ronnie Spector 1947, Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) 1947


1954 - Construction began on the St. Lawrence Seaway.


1995 - Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.

Guns Saved These Americans From Assault and Robbery in July | The Heritage Foundation

Guns Saved These Americans From Assault and Robbery in July | The Heritage Foundation:

Yes, firearms can be used to carry out horrific acts of violence, and we should absolutely pursue ways of ensuring that individuals who pose serious risks of danger to themselves or others are disarmed long before they can commit these types of atrocities.  But the vast majority of lawful gun owners will never use their firearms for unlawful purposes. In fact, they are much more likely to use their firearms for self-defense than criminals are to use firearms to harm innocent people.  As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted in a 2013 report, almost all national studies of defensive gun uses have found that firearms are used in self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times every year in the United States.

The way we were-----Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind (Official Music Video)

Boob-tube-----Gillette Foamy 1965 TV commercial

West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began - Reuters

West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began - Reuters
"LAGOS (Reuters) -
...As the world marks 400 years since the first recorded African slaves arrived in North America, slavery remains a modern-day scourge.
Over 40 million people are estimated to be trapped in forced labor, forced marriages or other forms of sexual exploitation, according to the United Nations.
...Africa has the highest prevalence of slavery, with more than seven victims for every 1,000 people, according to a 2017 report by human rights group Walk Free Foundation and the International Labour Office.
The report defines slavery as “situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power.”
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Rosanna Arquette Says FBI Told Her to 'Lock' Her Twitter Account

Rosanna Arquette Says FBI Told Her to 'Lock' Her Twitter Account
"Actress Rosanna Arquette said Thursday the FBI advised her to make her Twitter account private after online critics lambasted her on Wednesday for tweeting that she was ashamed of being “white and privileged.”
...In her statement to TheWrap, Arquette detailed the “threatening and cruel” online response to her Wednesday tweet.
“There are toxic and very vicious people on social media. Threatening and cruel,” Arquette said. 
“I said yesterday the I am ashamed of the color of my skin. I am privileged just because I’m white. I feel shame. Because of all the violence that is happening in America and other racist countries.”
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Food Stamp Households At Lowest Point in 9 Years | Breitbart

Food Stamp Households At Lowest Point in 9 Years | Breitbart:

The nation’s dependency on food stamps has also declined on an individual level in addition to the household level.
Breitbart News reported in July that the number of individuals partaking in the nation’s food stamp program reached its lowest enrollment for the first time in ten years, with 35,993,281 individuals taking part in SNAP.

Kurt Schlichter--They Will Still Hate You Even If You Disarm

They Will Still Hate You Even If You Disarm:
"It was quite a surprise to find out that we Trump voters were personally responsible for the savage murder sprees of a creep who dug single-payer and a satanist fan of Big Chief Warren. 

• The El Paso scumbag decided he wanted to murder Hispanics because migration would somehow destroy the environment, which falls right in line with classical progressive eugenics balderdash. 
• The Democrat from Dayton was full-on #Resistance. 

But apparently we conservatives were to blame for their actions because we refuse to give up our rights.
...Remember, everything the mainstream media tells you at the behest of the liberal elite is a lie and a scam designed to increase their power and wealth by diminishing your power and wealth. 
Global warming?
It’s such a crisis that they need to fly their private jets to fabulous resorts to discuss how you must trade in your Ford Expedition for a Schwinn and how millions of people like you who support their families in the petroleum industry better learn to code.
And now the crisis of two left-friendly mutants out of 335 million people means you need to be disarmed. 
Oh, and you’re also racists so you should be disenfranchised too.
Weird how the liberal solution to every problem is always to make you less free..."
Always read all of Kurt!

Has anyone actually read the El Paso manifesto?

Instapundit Blog Archive BYRON YORK: Has anyone actually read the El Paso manifesto? 
Has anyone actually read the El Paso manifesto?

"Much discussion was spurred by an article in the New York Times with the headline, “El Paso Shooting Suspect’s Manifesto Echoes Trump’s Language.” 
The story quoted just 28 words of the nearly 2,400-word manifesto. 

...Nevertheless, the Times declared that even “if Mr. Trump did not originally inspire the gunman, he has brought into the mainstream polarizing ideas and people once consigned to the fringes of American society.”

Democratic contender Beto O’Rourke, an El Paso native, was much more blunt. “22 people in my hometown are dead after an act of terror inspired by your racism,” O’Rourke tweeted to the president.
So what did Crusius actually write? 

...But since the manifesto has become such an important part of the moment’s political debate, it is worth looking at the whole thing. 

And the impression one gets after reading the manifesto is quite different than some press accounts."

"Shocking, that. I think that it’s unprofessional to simultaneously not link to the manifesto to deny it attention — and then talk about the manifesto a lot, especially in a misleading way. 

But then, “unprofessional” is what journalism is all about these days.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds "

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Lunch video-----The Charlottesville Lie

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Mayor Pete sued for hiding ID cards for illegals - WND

Mayor Pete sued for hiding ID cards for illegals - WND:

Government watchdog Judicial Watch is suing the administration of Mayor Pete Buttigieg in South Bend, Indiana, for documentation of its hiring of a private organization to create ID cards for illegal aliens.
“Mayor Buttigieg’s city administration in South Bend is in cover-up mode on his work for special ID cards to make it easier for illegal aliens to stay in the United States contrary to law,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch made simple open records requests and have faced nothing but games from the Buttigieg administration – which is why we had to sue.”

Steady cooling for the past 8,000 years - Ice Age Now

Steady cooling for the past 8,000 years - Ice Age Now:
"It is labeled with the Roman and Medieval war periods and Little Ice Age.
It shows steady cooling.
Fake climatologists like to fake temperature data and draw a vertical spike at the end."