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Friday, December 21, 2012

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SHHH, NO ONE TELL PIERS MORGAN: Violent crime in the U.K. five (5) times worse than in the U.S.

Maybe this is why Piers Morgan's bowels loosen whenever people try to have a rational discussion about firearms. He seems so... defensive.

Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it has been revealed.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa – widely considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries.

The Tories said Labour had presided over a decade of spiralling violence.

In the decade following the party’s election in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to 1.158million – or more than two every minute.


...Britons suffer 1,158,957 violent crimes per year, which works out at 2,034 per 100,000 residents. By contrast the number in notoriously violent South Africa is 1,609 per 100,000.

The U.S., meanwhile, has a rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, which is lower than France’s, at 504; Finland’s, at 738; Sweden’s, at 1123; and Canada’s at 935...

If I were a lesser man, I'd call Morgan a pompous, euro-trash fraud who was fired in England for publishing doctored news photos.

But I'm too polite for that.


Related: Piers Morgan Quiz.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

PIERS MORGAN'S TOP 10 FIREARMS TIPS. Oh, did I say Piers Morgan? I meant the Founding Fathers

Gee, I wonder whose counsel is more valuable and timeless: that of America's Founding Fathers -- or of Piers Morgan?

10. "It may be laid down, as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency." ----George Washington, First President of the United States

9. "[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." --James Madison,The Federalist Papers, No. 46.

8. “And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; …” --Samuel Adams, 1789

7. “...the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms" --Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789, Article on the Bill of Rights

6. "The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full posession of them.” --Zachariah Johnson, Elliot’s Debates, vol. 3 “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution.”

5. "Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not." --Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States

4. "The great object is that every man be armed.” and “Everyone who is able may have a gun." --Patrick Henry

3. "I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." --George Mason, Co-author of the Second Amendment

2. "The best we can help for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8

1. "The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that … it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; … " --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Justice John Cartwright, June 5, 1824.

If Piers Morgan, Dianne Feinstein, Barack Obama, and the rest of the progressive Left want to limit the right to keep and bear arms, then they must accomplish it the lawful way: by offering a Constitutional Amendment and then passing it.


Hat tip: @RayWatts.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

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Friday, December 14, 2012

WORLD'S DUMBEST BLOGGER: My "Facts" About Gun Control Aren't Political, As Far As You Know

Last year, The Washington Post's Ezra Klein yanked the title of World's Dumbest Blogger from Matthew Yglesias.

Klein appears to be positioning himself to retain the title in 2013 by leaping into the gun control debate on the heels of the man-caused disaster at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Remember: we're not allowed to call evil by its rightful name, be it Islamofascism or plain psychopathy.

Klein's latest missive is as impressive a collection of lies, fables, half-truths and misdirection as you'll see in a single WaPo excretion. Consider a couple of clips:

If roads were collapsing all across the United States, killing dozens of drivers, we would surely see that as a moment to talk about what we could do to keep roads from collapsing. If terrorists were detonating bombs in port after port, you can be sure Congress would be working to upgrade the nation’s security measures. If a plague was ripping through communities, public-health officials would be working feverishly to contain it.

Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not.

I've got a better analogy: if increasingly easy access to welfare and food stamps offer incentives to rear children out of wedlock... and if those kids born out of wedlock are proven to commit violent crime at far higher rates than kids raised in two-parent familes... and if the correlation of welfare to violent crime had been proven in roughly two dozen studies... and if said correlation affected millions of kids... would Democrats finally abandon their failed "Great Society" policies that have literally turned inner cities into violent, crime-ridden wastelands?


Would Democrats repudiate their own destructive policies that condemn huge numbers of inner-city kids to lives of violence, death or prison?

I didn't think so.

States with stricter gun control laws have fewer deaths from gun-related violence.

Last year, economist Richard Florida dove deep into the correlations between gun deaths and other kinds of social indicators. Some of what he found was, perhaps, unexpected: Higher populations, more stress, more immigrants, and more mental illness were not correlated with more deaths from gun violence. But one thing he found was, perhaps, perfectly predictable: States with tighter gun control laws appear to have fewer gun-related deaths.

You mean like Illinois?

An Aurora Massacre occurs every 10 days in Chicago, the city with the strictest handgun restrictions in the U.S., located in the state with the strictest firearm restrictions in the country.

Like Washington DC, New York City, cities in Mexico, cities in Germany, and even London -- to name but a few -- "gun-free" cities are truly areas where the innocent are targeted by predators who have no intention of abiding by any law.

The masterminds who think they can banish evil from the world by banning guns must reject all of human history, as well as logic and reason, to promote their unconstitutional schemes.

Which is why Ezra Klein will almost certainly retain the title of the World's Dumbest Blogger next year.


Monday, December 03, 2012

NIELSEN'S LATEST: State of the Media--The Social Media Report 2012

Some interesting snippets from Nielsen's annual recap:

• The top social networks in terms of users...


• The phenomenal growth of mobile...


• And the implications for customer service...


Marketingland has the synopsis.


BRUISED AND BATTERED: Gee, I wonder why we never saw this photo of George Zimmerman before?

Uhm... it's quite, eh, curious that this photograph was never released before.

A color photograph of George Zimmerman with a bloody, swollen nose taken on the night he shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin last February was posted on the Internet on Monday by Zimmerman's legal defense team.

...On February 26, Zimmerman, who was a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot and killed 17-year-old Martin who was walking to the home in Sanford where he was staying with his father.

Zimmerman's murder trial is set for June 2013.

Zimmerman claims he shot Martin in self defense during a struggle.

"Does it really show what happened that night to George? Yes," O'Mara said... O'Mara told Reuters that prosecutors in May had given him a grainy black-and-white photocopy of the image which was taken in the back seat of a Sanford police cruiser. O'Mara said he received the digital image from prosecutors after repeated demands by his office and he posted it Monday on Zimmerman's defense website.

Al Sharpton and Touréyonce hardest hit.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

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IT EXPLAINS ALOT: The Confidence Fairy

Zero Hedge commenter TruthInSunshine has a perspective worth sharing. He explains why no one in a position of power will speak the truth about the financial wall -- not cliff -- that the economy is headed for:

No government agency or business association spokesperson is ever going to speak of the truth of how bad things are in the present, unless they have no choice because incontrovertible proof has already been released to the masses that would otherwise and obviously demonstrate their insincerity.

As long as "official datum" as published by the various governmental and quasi-governmental agencies/bodies allow governmental and business association spokespeople to understate the severity of our real economic crisis, they will, whether Democrats, Republicans or the chief economist for The National Association of Realtors.

No governmental employee (and especially no politician) will voluntarily relay how dire things may be (again, given a backdrop of "official" statistical datum that is inaccurate and relatively misleading they can fall back on) because they wouldn't want to upset the apple cart, cause further distress or even panic amongst the populace or within the "markets," and no business association spokesperson, whose very jobs entail, at least in significant part, a public confidence-building role, will do anything to further dampen the confidence that ... hope remains amongst potential consumers of their products (e.g. would a spokesperson for the NAR really come out and say that existing homes are selling quickly because inventory is being artificially constrained by GSEs and federal reserve policy and also due to federal reserve monetary policy that has a huge % of listed homes being purchased by investors for cash in an attempt to produce yields in a yield-starved economy - BECAUSE of federal reserve monetary policy? What impact would that have on the confidence of conventional, prospective existing home purchasers, who might then realize there is no true present price discovery and that another leg down is more than possible?).

In other words, they lie because our economy is dependent, in quite a large degree, on an illusion that is often referred to as the "confidence fairy."

If those people who still have the means to purchase a particular service or good feel confident about the security of their own jobs and the current & likely future state of the economy, they're more apt to go ahead and dig themselves into more debt or pay cash to purchase that service or good, regardless of the accuracy (and realism) of their "confidence level."

Conversely, if they don't feel confident about the security of their own employment situation and/or the current and likely future state of the economy, they're more apt to refrain from purchasing that good or service, and save instead, in preparation for what may lay ahead.

And this is why, without exception, throughout history, the masses do not understand there is a crisis until well after it has already begun, and they've already committed to many purchases, indebtedness and other forms of dis-saving, that they wouldn't have committed to had they known accurate information sooner.

Hence, the "confidence fairy," which governmental employees, politicians and business spokespeople all actively perpetuate in their own methods and by various tactices, is a serial and mass killer of efficient markets and rational economic behavior (as it severely distorts essential economic information that is relied upon by economic and market participants)

As Monty Pelerin so succinctly puts it, "21st Century politics sees no need for truth."


Sunday, December 02, 2012

THE "STUPIDITY" OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR: The Left's Other Economic Straw Man

Writing at The Reformed Broker, Joshua Brown correctly dismisses the Left's incessant calls for economic "fairness", but then ensnares himself in another field of rhetorical quicksand: the "stupidity" of corporations and the private sector.

...the economy isn't fair and you can make a pretty strong case that it's gotten less fair, but that fact alone will never sway those in power...

...So instead of lamenting the lack of fairness, let's talk about the stupidity of this hollowing out of the middle class in this country, year after year, with bought and paid for legislation and preferential tax treatment.

Henry Blodget demonstrated last night how, while corporate profits have never been higher, the wages paid to workers at these same corporations have never been lower. While corporate profit margins just hit a 70-year high, have a glance at wages as a percentage of GDP:


Corporations haven't magically learned a new secret to profitability, they've just found a workaround to the need for a living wage in this country. F*** it, someone else's problem.

Yes, Joshua: corporations have all -- in concert -- decided to screw the "middle class", whoever that may be. It's not the insane, ever growing number of regulations from hundreds of government entities that grow like weeds in good times and bad. It's not takeovers of entire industries -- like health care -- with countless repercussions as diktats and fiats emanate from unelected, faceless bureaucrats. Corporations certainly couldn't be husbanding resources to prepare for the unknown, could they?

And, oh my: 54 percent of jobs are created by small businesses, not large companies. How is it that they, too, appear to have conspired to screw "the middle class"?

...the stupidity of having such an obviously unbalanced economy is the more important discussion we should be having right now. The corporations are every bit as vulnerable to the disappearance of the middle class as the middle class is itself.

They've managed around this issue thus far with an increasing emphasis on exports (now responsible for half of the S&P 500's sales and profits) as well as systemic and legally-sanctioned overseas tax evasion. Consider that Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009 and paid zero Federal income tax (you want to laugh, they actually got a rebate of $256 million). GE earned $14 billion in 2010 and also paid zero in Federal income tax. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have each set up offshore subsidiaries which they use as payment conduits so as to keep their profits shielded from the IRS.

But offshoring of profits and the export of goods and services won't sustain these corporations forever. At a certain point, native companies within the developing world will nudge our adventuring multinationals aside (China's already building its own version of Wall Street). And when that happens, Corporate America is going to turn around and be horrified by the devastation in its own backyard.

So, Joshua, why have these corporate entities set up offshore tax shelters? Could it be because they are incented to do so, thanks to populist -- and destructive -- corporate tax policies and (in the case of GE) crony capitalism?

And concerning Exxon Mobil, could it also be that we already pay an incredible rate of taxation on every gallon of gas, which -- by the way -- hits the middle class, and poor, and the rich equally?

Well, you enormous f***ing idiots, you fired all your customers. You've spent the last decade or so suppressing wage growth in the name of "creating shareholder value" and now even your shareholder base is disappearing.

You allowed wages to stagnate for a decade and made every decision you could in the service of nudging the quarterly profit higher, thinking less of the yearly profit and virtually nothing of the long-term viability of your business.

No, Joshua: you are dead wrong.

I have an Almanac from 1929. It is fascinating. As you flip the pages, you see dozens of pages of advertising representing hundreds of different companies. Perhaps one-half of one percent of these companies are still alive today.

No, Joshua: companies (and individuals) are trying to survive an out-of-control government that is leeching more and more money from every corner of the economy, issuing ever more onerous regulations, and wreaking administrative havoc with bills like Dodd-Frank and PPACA that have yet to be fully fleshed out.

Companies are terrified of a federal government that has grown like a cancer, decade after decade.

See, Joshua: we already have a structure that will work for all Americans. We have a precious and priceless framework our predecessors bequeathed to us called "The Constitution".

It attempted to limit the powers of a centralized federal government because it knew that "absolute power corrupts absolutely".

And so it is we have arrived in November of 2012: with an unconstrained central government, borrowing and printing money that will never be repaid in pursuit of a collectivist ideology that has no blueprint, no design, and no endgame that can be shared with the citizenry.

It confiscates ever more money from the private sector, recycles it through thousands of inefficient bureaucracies, and then sends the remainder to its favorite constituent groups to aid in its reelection efforts.

It micromanages our lives and regulates every aspect of the private sector. It tells us what kind of light bulbs we can buy, how much mileage our cars must get, how much water can flow through our shower heads, and how big a pond can be in our backyards before it turns into a "protected wetland".

The federal government is the world's biggest borrower, its biggest lender, its biggest health insurer, and runs the biggest retirement system. And every time it has touched any part of our economic system, it has bankrupted or destroyed it.

The system is going to collapse, just as it is collapsing in Europe today, just as it did in Argentina a decade ago, and just as it did in the Weimar Republic. And the tragedy -- the travesty -- is that we were blessed with a system of Constitutional government that was explicitly designed to prevent all of this madness.

Corporations are terrified of the federal government. And those ostensibly running things, our politicians -- with the exception of a handful of plain-spoken folks demonized as "extremists" -- have largely surrendered to the corruption endemic to an unconstitutional, centralized government that, each and every day, pushes us closer to tyranny.

That, Joshua, is the problem: the world's biggest corporation called the federal government.


Saturday, December 01, 2012

LAUGHINGSTOCK: The Washington Post Commits Suicide

Is there anyone on either side of the aisle that takes The Washington Post seriously?

That's a rhetorical question.


"Obama takes a hard line on debt"?

"Obama takes a hard line on debt"?

"Obama takes a hard line on debt"?


Here's the real debt that Barack Obama and the Democrats have created since January of 2009, depicted in red.

You see that tiny little sliver of green? That's Obama's proposal - to generate about $80 billion by raising taxes on "the rich".

That's what The Washington Post calls "a hard line on the debt."

This egregious deficit spending cannot be sustained much longer: two, three years tops, according to former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer, before the system begins to unravel.

We are headed for a societal collapse. We are headed for runaway inflation, a collapse of the currency, and civil unrest... in that order. We are seeing it break out in Europe now, we saw it in Argentina a dozen years ago, and we saw it in the Weimar Republic before the rise of Hitler.

Inevitably, the laws of economics overtake the politics.

And The Washington Post is led by people so criminally dishonest and so infected with partisan greed that they are willing to lie -- boldfaced -- to the American people time and time again, as the country prepares to walk off the real economic cliff.


Photo of headline: @EmilyMiller.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

GOOD NEWS: Democrat Congressman Floats Idea of Constitutional Amendment to Restrict Free Speech

And isn't this precisely what we've come to expect from the modern Democrat Party, with its increasingly authoritarian bent?

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) says, “corporations control the patterns of thinking” in the United States and that the Bill of Rights to the Constitution should be amended so that the government is given the power to restrict freedom of speech.

"We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations," said Johnson... “They control the patterns of thinking ... They control the media. They control the messages that you get. So, you are being taught to hate your government--don’t want government, but keep your hands off of my Medicare by the way. I mean, we are all confused people and we’re poking fingers at each other saying, well you’re black, you’re Hispanic, immigration, homosexuals. You know, we’re lost on the social issues, abortion, contraception.

“And these folks," Johnson said, "are setting up a scenario where they’re privatizing every aspect of our lives as we know it. So, wake up! Wake up! Let’s look at what’s happening. We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.”

The modern Left is as far from classical liberalism as one could imagine.

These men are Statists: interested only in centralizing ever more power and in consolidating that power with fewer and fewer masterminds in Washington. These are the kind of men that our country's founders despised and feared.

They are would-be despots who worship unlimited government, who respect neither checks nor balances, and blatantly violate the Constitution at every opportunity.

I wonder what America's breaking point will be? By that I mean, when will have the circle of liberty constricted around the average American's throat sufficiently to waken the sleeping giant?


Tuesday, November 27, 2012

KIRA DAVIS: Meme-crusher

Radio personality and conservative pundit Kira Davis saw this piece of fabricated nonsense (left) and responded using the online equivalent of a tactical nuclear weapon.


You can catch Kira's radio show at Conservative Daily News.



EXPOSED: The Real Tea Party Platform

Yes, the fabric of our society has unraveled to the point where the following principles are reviled as "extreme" and "right wing" by antique media and the punditry class:


Thousands of years of civilization have taught us the paramount importance and wisdom of individual sovereignty, private property, self-reliance and limited government. These are the precious gifts our country's founders bequeathed to us.

Now, in Washington, we have corrupt and craven politicians who stress the sovereignty of government, collectivism, reliance on handouts and the need for an unconstrained government.

But we Constitutional Conservatives are the extreme ones, right?


Hat tip: MOTUS.

Monday, November 26, 2012

POOR RICHARD'S PROGRESSIVE ALMANAC: The Bizarro Ben Franklin's Most Infamous Quotes

What if Benjamin Franklin had been a progressive? Well, for one thing, no one would have ever heard of him, but -- more importantly -- some of his quotes in Poor Richard's Almanac would be dramatically different:

• A penny saved is a penny best confiscated by the government and redistributed to the rulers' green energy scams

• The early bird shouldn't get the worm, in the interest of fairness

• Honesty is the best policy, except when serving in public office

• Energy and persistence are overrated

• Never do today what you can leave till tomorrow

• God helps those who help themselves to others' labors

• Rather go to bed with dinner and rise in debt

• The Constitution grants people the right to happiness, whether they pursue it or not

• Early to bed and early to rise, makes no difference, because in the interest of fairness, those who rise late should be treated equally

Each of these quotes represents the antithesis of their original intent. Yet each represents a platform of the modern Democrat Party.


HEY, I'M DOWN WITH JUSTICE GINSBURG'S IDEA: We do need an all-female Supreme Court!

Yes, she really said that:

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says there will be enough women on the Supreme Court when all nine justices are female.

“...when I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that,” she said.

Unlike progressives, we conservatives care about the quality of each Justice's mind, not their genitalia, skin color or religion. We cherish their virtue, their integrity and their fidelity to our nation's highest law -- the Constitution. The content of their character, as Martin Luther King, Jr. so eloquently put it, not the content of their undergarments.

But all that said, I do support an all-female Supreme Court, so long as it consists of:

Michele Bachmann

Deneen Borelli

Ann Coulter

S.E. Cupp

Mary Katherine Ham

Dana Loesch

Michelle Malkin

Sarah Palin

Katie Pavlich

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a "Rule 5" post or not, but has anyone else noticed how smoking hot conservative women are compared to their progressive counterparts?



Hat tip: John Hawkins.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

HELPFUL CHART: The idiocy of raising taxes on "the rich" (and by that, they mean small business owners)

Considering the Democrat establishment and the media (but I repeat myself) are engaged in an annoying, fact-free debate over tax rates and government receipts, I figured 'hey, why not do the job antique media should be doing?'

In this case, use actual "data" and "history" to come to some conclusions. Yes, out of the box thinking, I know.

Using data culled from the Tax Policy Center and the National Taxpayer's Union, I've plotted out a historical picture of individual tax rates on the highest wage-earners vs. individual tax receipts received by the federal government.

So what do facts, logic and reason tell us?


Here are some observations:

• The Reagan tax cuts ignited the greatest explosion in receipts from individuals to the government in history. Even Bill Clinton was the beneficiary.

• And Clinton also benefited from the the invention of the World-Wide Web, which touched off the tech boom during the nineties. The Clinton tax rate would have certainly suppressed growth had it not been for the coincidental occurrence of the tech boom and the massive spending on the Y2K (Year 2000) remediations that required investments of nearly a trillion dollars before the turn of the millenium.

• After the 9/11 attacks had sucked half a trillion dollars out of the economy, the Bush tax cuts helped revive the economy. That is, until the Democrats' grand experiment with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and subprime borrowers touched off the mortage meltdown.

The government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. And raising taxes on the most productive Americans -- including the small businesses who employ 54 percent of the private sector -- will have a debilitating effect on the economy.

Of course, facts, logic, history and reason are all anathema to Democrats and the media, which is why you'll never see any of these issues discussed.