Sunday, September 14, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Coalition of the Unwilling

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Nation

Coalition of the Unwilling: Mark Styen
The utter failure of our political class to respond to mortal danger: James Lewis
Dem Congressman Says 40 ISIS Terrorists Have Returned to U.S.: Sara Noble

Obama’s actions lost Iraq and gave rise to ISIS: Flopping Aces
President Obama Over-Ruled His Commanders on Ground Troops: Rich Lowry
The unWar with the non-Islamic Islamic State: PW

Nancy Pelosi Just Might Be Insane: Bryan Preston
Crazy Things Progressives Believe: Clarice Feldman
Snowden Helped Russia Invade Ukraine: Cliff Kincaid

Economy

Inflation Watch: How Much $1 Used To Get You!: ZH
The Fed Has A Big Surprise Waiting For You: ZH
This photo will mean absolutely nothing to college students: LI

Scandal Central

Our Politically Correct Army: Too Many Combat Leaders are White: RWN
Amnesty With Open Borders Equals National Suicide: CFP
Foley family threatened with terrorism charges by Obama regime: FAM

Hillary State Department can't account for $6 billion in last 6 years: Lee Cary
Should one man’s money be able to buy the rights of a nation?: Bearing Arms
Fire Department Chief Denounces Displays of Patriotism as “Racist”: MB

Climate & Energy

New all-time satellite-era record for Antarctic sea ice extent: WUWT
EPA faces '14 accusations on ethanol: Tim Devaney, The Hill
Wise criticizes EPA carbon crackdown: Atlanta Business Chronicle

Media

After 30 Years Of Lies, NY Times Admits “Assault Weapons Are A Myth”: Bob Owens
Feminism: The Final Solution?: R.S. McCain
Update From the Futile Search For Liberal Left Consistency: Gay Patriot

The Palin Family's Side of the Anchorage Brawl Story: Scott Conroy
W Spelled It All Out for Anyone Interested: MB
Priceless Pic Of The Day: Little Girl’s Reaction To Hillary Clinton: WZ

World

ISIS sets fire to Iraq’s largest oil refinery: LI
Obama’s Syria Problem: Keith Koffler
Al-Qaida's Syrian cell alarms U.S.: MarineTimes

Chinese See War With Japan as Inevitable: Walter Russell Mead
A Legacy of Failure: Klaus Rohrich
Syrian rebels Obama wants to arm have signed a non-aggression pact with ISIS: Scoop

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Sharing Economy: Frank Diana
Caught On Tape: Uber X's Latest Driver, Deadmau5 Taking Fares In His $300,000 Mclaren 650S: ZH
US Navy Tests Exoskeleton to Boost Worker Strength and Productivity: SingularityHub

Cornucopia

12 Reasons Shane is the Best Walmart employee ever: MadWorld
Hey Remember When I Said We Shouldn't Take Pleasure In Someone Else's Humiliation?: Ace
Veteran thrown out of Subway Restaurant in Paterson, New Jersey because of service dog: ABC-13

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QOTD: "In a stunning op-ed released Friday, the NY Times finally admitted that “assault weapons” are a made-up political term fabricated by anti-gun Democrats.

Op-ed writer Lois Beckett also admitted that once the term was manufactured and used to outlaw a class of weapons that dishonest anti-gun Democrats had used to con an entire nation, nothing happened...

...The op-ed concludes that violent homicides are primarily a poverty issue disproportionately concentrated among small groups of particularly violent young men, a stunning and rare admission that poverty and the drug trade are the primary problem driving murder, not access to firearms.

Don’t expect this sort of stunning admission of the facts to mark a change in cover from the Times, however. The brief bout of lucidity will quickly fade behind the veil of Alzheimer’s liberalism, and we’ll hear the rest of the deranged gaggle of op-ed writers to quickly fall back into the mantra of “Guns are bad, the NRA is evil, we need more taxes, government, citizen control, etc.”

Still… it’s nice to see that every once in a while a real and honest thought can escape from the morass of Manhattan, however fleeting that honest thought may be." --Bob Owens

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

".The op-ed concludes that violent homicides are primarily a poverty issue disproportionately concentrated among small groups of particularly violent young men"

Considering that there are more poor white people in the US than the entire population of blacks in the US, and that the homicide rate among poor whites hovers around 1 per 100,000 while the rate among ALL blacks is north of 18 per 100,000, what the author is clearly leaving out is the fact that a venn diagram of "small groups of particularly violent young men" and "young black men" is concentric circles.

Anonymous said...

"Op-ed writer Lois Beckett also admitted that once the term was manufactured and used to outlaw a class of weapons that dishonest anti-gun Democrats had used to con an entire nation, nothing happened..."

Not only was there zero statistical movement in crime rates when the "assault weapon" ban went into effect attributable to that ban, there was also zero statistical movement in crime rates when it lapsed a decade later.

Both facts are widely documented and publicly available, and typically completely ignored by legacy/leftist media.