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Recommended by R> MembersIf we have to listen to the blame aimed at the NRA for the actions of a crazed individual, can’t we point an accusatory finger at the NEA as well? They are the thugs who run the state-enforced monopoly of public schools that are producing these bullied, scared, sick children. It is certainly their fault […]
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CasperJim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem after three previous administrations acknowledged Jerusalem as the Israeli capital but refused to move the embassy. They also wince as Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin vetoes legislation that would allow residents to carry guns without a permit, leading Jim to wonder whether the anti-gun backlash after Parkland is making GOP officials more timid. And they roll their eyes as the media condemn Israel for defending its borders against thousands of Palestinians specifically sent to the border to instigate a response from Israel.
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Mack WeldonToday on the Daily Standard Podcast, digital editor Jonathan V. Last and associate editor Ethan Epstein discuss cultural appropriation as it relates to formalwear, Eric Schneiderman crashing to Earth, Senate primary elections, the Haspel nomination and the NRA’s new top gun.
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Recommended by R> MembersWhat, you were expecting someone else? President Reagan addressed the members of National Rifle Association at their annual convention two years after he was shot. He had real skin in the game, literally. He spoke out of two decades of careful deliberation on American politics, challenged and refined by a near-death experience.
More MSCNNBC has decided on a new late-night talk show featuring that font of charm and wisdom, David “Camera” Hogg. Let’s have a listen to an excerpt from the first show: Announcer: And now . . . aaalllllllll the way from Parkland, Florida . . . please give a warm welcome to . . . David […]
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Well for me this was a first. This morning I took the wife for her initial visit to a neurosurgeon, his hair was just beginning to gray. He has a good reputation, is part of the Vanderbilt system, and his medical questions and the way he conducted the exam I appreciated. His plans for follow-up and […]
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WincDavid French of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America applaud the Trump administration for evicting dozens of Russian officials from the U.S., many of whom were intelligence personnel posing as diplomats. They also dissect the March for Our Lives, as the Parkland teenagers insist one moment that they’re not after anyone’s guns and the next minute blame the NRA for the deaths of children. They also discuss how the gun control push may be the one thing that saves the GOP from a midterm election disaster. And they react to former President Obama’s saying he wants his foundation to be a way to connect activists and innovators and create a million more Barack Obamas in the process. David and Greg then discuss how de facto worship of politicians is bad for America on both sides of the aisle.
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Welcome to the Harvard Lunch Club Political Podcast for March 13, 2018, number 166! it’s the YoungUns edition of the show with your YoungUns hosts radio guy Todd Feinburg and nanophysicist Mike Stopa. This week, heavens to murgatroyd he’s done it again! We discuss Donald Trump’s stunning decision to meet with Kim Jong Un of North Korea before May, following communication with South Korean diplomats who have suggested that Kim *might* be willing to surrender his nuclear weapons. It is obviously too early to tell if anything here will pan out, but the great uproar following the announcement is just what we have come to expect here in the age of Trump. Surprisingly, many of the mainstream media – including CNN – have greeted this announcement with something resembling approval…or at least hope. Just about everyone has had the common decency to wish Trump and the Administration well in his negotiations. The only vocal, unbending and completely unhinged responses that we have seen come from two of the usual suspects, namely Rachel Maddow and Jennifer Rubin. Maddow, of course, is paid to be a nutcase. Rubin is evidently paid in spite of it.
Then we will discuss the upcoming high school “walkout” protests this Wednesday (3/14). Todd is far more peeved by this than Mike is. The main question is whether the protests are being wholesale appropriated by the anti-NRA lobby or whether there is anti-NRA sentiment being folded into the protests but that they are subsidiary to a general desire to talk about the issues from all sides. This will obviously depend on where you are from. We will see.
More So in my daily perusal of news, I came across the following article:
More“I don’t want mentally ill people to be having guns,” he says in the clip below. So far, so good: No one wants people who are unstable to be armed, even knowing that only a small percentage of the mentally ill are violent. But we have due process for a reason. If the state could strip you of your rights by declaring you “sick,” without a formal adjudication, the potential abuses are endless. Trump doesn’t seem to care, though. He says at one point here that the cops should have taken the Parkland killer’s weapons whether they had the right or not.
Since that fateful day of the Stoneman Douglas school shooting in Parkland, FL, a hornet’s nest has been stirred, and it’s long overdue. President Trump is hearing from all sides, hosting law enforcement, governors, as well as students and parents. I heard on the radio part of his discussion with Diane Feinstein and other […]
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Zip RecruiterJim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America discuss new polling showing public perception dropping for businesses that are publicly breaking ties with the NRA, due entirely to a massive plunge in favorability among Republicans. They also breathe a sigh of relief as Republicans in Arizona’s eighth congressional district reject the frontrunner in the primary after the married minister was caught exchanging inappropriate texts with a female staffer. And they wish the best of luck to 20 state attorneys general who argue that all of Obamacare should be declared unconstitutional now that the tax provision that saved it at the Supreme Court in 2012 has been scrapped in the new tax law.
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I am a person of no color, meaning I am WHITE. I didn’t choose to be white, I had no control over who my parents were going to be, and you have NO RIGHT to try and make me ashamed of being white. I had no ‘white privilege’ while growing up; my dad was a […]
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Recommended by R> MembersI noticed that Simplisafe decided to jump on the progressive, anti-Second Amendment bandwagon. I am very glad I never gave them business. I believe Ricochet should avoid doing business with companies that want to make a political statement against the NRA and the second amendment. Thankfully, it appears Simplisafe is not a current sponsor. I […]
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Inexplicably after the shooting in Parkland, the National Rifle Association, which had exactly zero ties to the massacre, have turned into the liberal boogeyman. I say inexplicable because it makes no sense, although it’s a predictable turn of events given recent history. At the CNN Townhall (which a friend has rightly nicknamed the Grief Porn Thunderdome) it was the NRA Spokeswoman Dana Loesch who was screamed at by attendees; not Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, whose department is looking more and more culpable by the day.
Not only did the County miss several opportunities to prevent the teen from ever obtaining firearms:
More Recommended by R> MembersOn Tuesday, January 23, there was a shooting at Marshall County High School in Benton, KY. Two students were killed (with 19 injured) by a fellow student. Less than one month later, a shooter killed 17 students (15+ injured) at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL.
I live in Nashville and watched the Kentucky shooting play out on the national news (though much more on local news, obviously) and I did the same on the day of the Florida shooting. It’s been startlingly obvious that the national media reaction and public frenzy has been decidedly different from the Kentucky shooting and I’ve been wondering why for the last few days.
More Recommended by R> MembersJake, for some time now, you’ve been one of the few mainstream media reporters I could tolerate, because you seemed like you played it straight. I may not always agree with how you presented the news, but it seemed like you took the time to try to understand both sides and let that understanding guide your stories.
So my question for you is this: When did you find out that a Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy stood by at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and did nothing as 17 children were slaughtered? Was it before the town hall, or after it? Would have moderated this Two Minutes Hate had you known that it was cowardice that led to this slaughter, not one particular style of gun? Would you have let Sheriff Lobo Israel run roughshod over Dana Loesch knowing that the incompetency of his department had a direct impact on the scope of the slaughter?
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