The left is pushing hard to close any freedom loopholes they can find. The target this time is assault weapons. Assault weapons are a menace and must be banned, they say.
Pretext - “a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason.”
From the FBI’s 2011 crime data:
Rifles (all varieties) [...]
80% of longterm poverty occurs in single parent households.
Jennifer Marshall of the Heritage Foundation
Following up on my previous note about the alleged epistemic closure on the right, I have a simple observation to make. The left is currently angry at Obama. They think he either lied to them or has been co-opted by Washington. The reasons for their heartburn include:
Allowing a two year extension of the Bush tax [...]
Here’s a great piece on the benefits of marriage even compared to unmarried, cohabiting couples:
higher incomes
higher net worth
greater health
There’s an interesting point that I hadn’t considered before.
Marriage knits the couple into a kinship network in which interest-free loans, babysitting, elder care, and other forms of assistance in hard times are more readily available.
Even in a [...]
The planners of the London Olympic games are taking measures to ensure that users of toilets in the Olympic park aren’t oriented towards Mecca while using the facilities. While they’re at it they should get specially designed toilets with a map of Europe in the bottom for users to aim at. That seems appropriate.
Back in 1999 the New York Times actually predicted the current financial mess. They correctly identified at the time a big problem waiting to happen (lowered standards for mortgages courtesy of the Clinton administration and Fannie Mae). The NYT 2008, of course, blames deregulation and the Bush administration.
From 1999:
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of [...]
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I realize that people of a left leaning persuasion often take great offense when their patriotism is questioned but a recent story provides yet another example of how they practically invite such questions.
Legislation meant to strengthen U.S. anti-propaganda laws recently passed the house and included a prohibition on "any form of communication in [...]
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