The Red White and Blue Pill
‘Daily Show’ Debunks ‘Good Guy With A Gun’ Theory About Mass Shootings (VIDEO)
Correspondent Jordan Klepper went across the river to New Jersey to train for his concealed carry permit. After finishing his training, he went to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training in Texas to learn how to respond to an active shooter.
In a nutshell, it’s the training not the weapon that matters in an active shooter situation.
Trump Proves That Liberals Have Been Right All Along
the view that Republicans allowed the conservative grassroots to turn their party into a political action committee for white ressentiment has evolved over the years from an argument into a creed. Since at least 2012, liberals have been warning (at times mockingly, but never disingenuously) that by indulging and at times fanning the hostilities and procedural extremism of this part of their coalition, Republicans were letting expediency get the better of them.
Six Undeniable Facts About Mass Shootings
Another significant finding is that mass shootings and gun ownership rates are highly correlated. The higher the gun ownership rate, the more a country is susceptible to experiencing mass shooting incidents. This association remains high even when the number of incidents from the United States is withdrawn from the analysis.
The Bosnian Muslim community in St. Louis is doing fine
It’s easy to depict the resettlement of Bosnians in St. Louis – predominantly Bosnian Muslims, called Bosniaks, but also Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs, all fleeing war – as a prototypical American success story. In less than two decades, refugees who arrived with proverbial pennies in their pockets have bought cars, then homes, seen their children graduate from American high schools, then colleges.
But with Syria is would be different? Why? We’ve let groups of people fleeing oppression before and the record is pretty good. They integrate. They do well.
Six Problems with the GOP Debate on Financial Reform – Roosevelt Institute
Nobody Wants to Be a SIFI
Actually, institutions declared systemically important fight against it, hard. GE sold off GE Capital, and in the process its chairman said “GE will work closely with [regulators] to take the actions necessary to de-designate GE Capital as a Systemically Important Financial Institution.” They wanted out.
MetLife is suing the government because it was designated SIFI status. Carl Icahn is pushing AIG to break itself up to avoid its SIFI status. JP Morgan sold off 6 percent of its assets to prevent having the highest SIFI capital surcharge applied to them. The Too Big To Fail subsidy that is supposed to explain why people would want SIFI status has shrunk dramatically toward zero since the crisis. There is no bragging. There is solid resistance, as there should be.
The candidates funded by the hedge fund industry and the big banks wold be complaining about Financial reforms and The Volcker rule if it wasn’t a burden to their funders. Banks do not want to be tagged as a SIFI. The costs imposed on them are too great. They would much rather externalize their risks to others and ultimately the tax payers. Internalizing their risks it bad for bonus season.
Paul Ryan Throws Support Behind Mental Health Reform Bill
Ryan called mental health issues the “common theme” you see in mass shootings, along with attackers who are “terrorist-inspired.”
And good for him for noticing and taking some action on it. Let’s see how the rest of his party acts.
The speaker also said he opposed using the No-Fly List as a measure for restricting gun purchases, saying many people are put on the list arbitrarily or by “mistake.”
Maybe the no-fly list can be fixed then? Do we really want people fresh from jihad training walking off the aircraft and stopping at the nearest gun shop on the way to the commit a terrorist attack?
Alex Jones Believes in Donald Trump’s ‘Epic, George Washington-Level’ Campaign
But by far the best moment came when Jones tried to invite Trump into Jones’s shadowy world of “top generals, former Special Ops guys, former CIA, all top men” to explain how the country is being bored from within by “globalists who want a one-world government, using socialism at the grassroots.”
How to Write a “Political Correctness Run Amok” Article
Repeatedly remind readers (through both blatant and subtle appeals) that Free Speech = Good; Censorship = Bad. Be sure not to mention that the Person of Stature’s freedom of speech is not really at stake — like the rest of us, they are free to make any bigoted comments any time they want. Even more importantly, whatever you do, never acknowledge the fact that protests, petitions, and social media comments critiquing the Person of Stature also constitute acts of free speech. This is Pandora’s Box #1 — whatever you do, do not open it! Because if both the protesters and the Person of Stature are seen as having free speech, then this becomes a “marketplace of ideas” issue, and your readers will then feel entitled to make up their own minds as to who is in the right and who is in the wrong. And you can’t let this happen, because you have already decided this for them!
I keep asking for an example of “Political Correctness” that isn’t “Free Speech” and I just get dead air.
12 bad reasons for rejecting scientific studies
One of the best posts on false skepticism I’ve seen in a very long time. Worth a read.