December 23, 2012

We already have over 28k on "We the People" White House Petition site requesting Piers Morgan be deported after he ranting and raving about Americans 2nd Amendment rights.


Wall Street Journal columnist explains on Twitter how to deport Piers Morgan

1:50 AM 12/23/2012
Patrick Howley
Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto Saturday night joined in the chorus of American voices suggesting that British-born CNN host Piers Morgan could legally be deported from this country for his televised attacks on the Second Amendment, and pointed out the legal precedent that leaves Morgan vulnerable to deportation.
Morgan began the dispute when he complained on Twitter Saturday about a petition on the White House’s “We the People” Web page that asks the government to deport him.
“British Citizen and CNN television host Piers Morgan is engaged in a hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution by targeting the Second Amendment. We demand that Mr. Morgan be deported immediately for his effort to undermine the Bill of Rights,” the drafters of the petition wrote in their introductory statement.
The petition has already netted more than 13,000 signatures one day after its launch, putting it well on pace to reach its goal of 25,000. That’s the threshold at which the Obama administration has promised to respond to online petitions submitted on the White House website, provided they reach that number in 30 days.
“Ironic U.S. gun rights campaign to deport me for ‘attacking 2nd Amendment rights’ – is my opinion not protected under 1st Amendment rights?,” Morgan tweeted.
“Your opinion is protected, your presence in the U.S. is not. See Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972),” Taranto replied to Morgan.
Taranto linked to transcripts from a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the U.S. Attorney General’s refusal to allow a foreign journalist into the United States did not violate the First Amendment. The case resulted from Nixon administration attorney general Richard Kleindienst’s refusal to grant a temporary nonimmigrant visa to Marxist Belgian journalist Ernest Mandel.
Taranto’s tweet was praised by Twitter users who would like to send Morgan back to his native land.
“I knew there was a reason I’ve liked you for years,” tweeter Lee Dodson said to Taranto. “Excellent shot across this silly Brit’s bow. Well done.”
Morgan has been using his CNN talk show to blast gun-rights advocates in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Connecticut on Dec. 14.
“There are nearly 12,000 murders a year from guns in this country. When are you guys [Second Amendment supporters] going to focus on that and stop telling me the answer is more guns. It is not the answer! How many more kids have to die before you guys say, ‘We want less guns, not more,’” Morgan said on the air December 14. (RELATED BLOG POST: Does Piers Morgan’s bodyguard carry a gun?)
Morgan is the host of CNN’s low-rated talk show “Piers Morgan Tonight,” occupying the slot once held by American citizen Larry King. He was previously the editor of multiple British tabloids, including the News of the World, which ended its run in 2011 amid allegations of phone hacking.
MSNBC host Martin Bashir, another left-leaning British journalist who hosts an American TV show, did not immediately weigh in on Taranto’s tweet.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/23/wall-street-journal-columnist-explains-how-to-deport-piers-morgan/#ixzz2Fw0Od8MR

December 22, 2012



Debunking Some Popular Media Myths on Guns

By Erich Pratt | December 21, 2012 | 11:28
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The press is engaged in a furious feeding frenzy in the wake of the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. And talk show hosts like Piers Morgan have resorted to insulting their guests when they can’t counter their arguments. You’ll need to watch Morgan’s debate with GOA’s Executive Director to believe it.
Time and again, the “old guard” media is demonstrating that it can’t shoot straight when it comes to reporting the news and is guilty of peddling several worn-out myths.
Myth #1: Banning so-called “assault weapons” will make people safer.
Connecticut's strict “assault weapons” ban did NOT stop the Newtown tragedy from occurring. In fact, the Brady Campaign says that Connecticut has the fifth toughest gun laws in the country. They have a myriad of gun restrictions -- including a ban on guns in schools and a semi-automatic ban (which is much stricter than the Clinton “assault weapons” ban ever was) -- and all of these laws were broken by the shooter in Newtown.
Not only that, the Columbine massacre in 1999 happened while the federal semi-automatic ban was in place. To wit, the Clinton gun ban did not stop the Columbine killers from getting their hands on semi-automatic “assault weapons.”
Even a study conducted by the Clinton Justice Department concluded that the semi-auto ban did nothing to reduce crime or shootings. The Justice Department stated, “The ban has failed to reduce the average number of victims per gun-murder incident or multiple-gunshot wound victims.” (National Institute of Justice, “Impacts of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban,” 1999.)
Licensing or banning guns is not going to stop bad guys from getting their hands on these “assault weapons” -- which are really a misnomer, as they are not used by any military on the earth. They are SEMI-automatics (not machine guns) and, functionally, they fire the exact same way as any deer rifle.
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Myth #2: The U.S. is so dangerous because we have millions of guns in circulation.
No, America is dangerous to the extent that we have created thousands of gun free zones where criminals can work in safety. Former FBI profiler, Clint Van Zandt, reported on NBC News recently that potential mass murderers seek out venues where there is no law enforcement officer and where they know no one is armed.
That’s why we don’t see armed thugs, who are intent on committing evil, trying to shoot up a police station where their victims are armed. Rather, they target locations like the Oregon mall (this December) or the theater in Aurora, Colorado (in 2012) or Virginia Tech (in 2007) or Columbine (in 1999) -- all places where guns were illegal, even for law-abiding citizens.
The last thing we need to do is create more targets of opportunity for disaffected young men.
Myth #3: Gun control in foreign countries has stopped gun massacres from occurring.
Actually, what gun control does is lull people into thinking that we have made people safer when we haven’t. Dunblane, Scotland suffered through a school-yard massacre in 1996, even though the country had much stricter gun control than we have today. Norway experienced its own horrendous massacre last year where 69 kids were shot and killed in one event, even though their laws are also stricter than ours.
By contrast, foreign countries have stopped school-related violence, not by banning guns, but by arming teachers. The nation of Israel -- after more than 20 children were murdered by Muslim terrorists during the Ma’alot massacre in 1974 -- has solved their school-related violence problem by allowing armed teachers to protect students. Thailand has pursued the same approach, as well.
There are also examples of how good people successfully use guns in this country to stop potential massacres. Consider Assistant Principal Joel Myrick at the High School in Pearl, Mississippi (in 1997) or Jeanne Assam at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs (in 2007).
Both Myrick and Assam stopped their attackers before the police could arrive and without injuring one innocent person.
Myth #4: No American needs a magazine holding 30 rounds of ammunition.
Banning high capacity magazines will not keep criminals from getting them, any more than DC’s gun ban prevented criminals from getting guns. And keeping them from honest citizens will only make them less safe.
Just consider the Korean merchants who armed themselves with so-called “assault” weapons (and lots of ammunition) during the Los Angeles riots. Dozens of people were killed during the riots -- and hundreds more saw their homes and businesses looted. But the Koreans’ stores remained standing, while others around them burned to the ground.
The nation also witnessed law-abiding civilians who had to defend themselves from roving gangs after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. When you are facing gang or mob violence -- and the police are nowhere to be found -- you need more than just a six-shooter.
The press should stop pushing for restrictions upon the rights of decent Americans, because guns in good people’s hands save lives.
Erich Pratt is the Director of Communications for Gun Owners of America, a national gun lobby with over 300,000 members.


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/erich-pratt/2012/12/21/debunking-some-popular-media-myths-guns#ixzz2FngGTQHR

December 21, 2012


SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2012

Putting Gun Violence into Proper Perspective

The horrible and tragic school shooting incident in Newtown, Connecticut prompts some to advocate for even tighter gun restrictions. As a common-sense individual, I'm in favor of equally common-sense and balanced safeguards as long as they do not punish law-abiding citizens who are within their Constitutional rights to "keep and bear arms."
United States Constitution:  AMENDMENT II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
As a data nerd, I have some basic questions.  No doubt, tragic events like the Newtown shooting are sensational and garner much deserved media attention.  However, is gun violence a leading cause of death among Americans?

Let's examine actual data courtesy of the United States Census Bureau.  Table 121. Deaths by Age and Selected Causes categorizes causes of death in the United States for 2007, the most recent year where side-by-side data is available.  Low on the page, the table shows the number of murders (homicides) caused by a discharge of firearms.  The total number of people killed by firearms nationally in 2007 was 12,632.


Each death is indeed a tragedy and some deaths might have been prevented.  Are MORE gun laws the answer?  How many EXISTING local, state, and federal firearms laws did the Newton shooter violate?  Did these existing gun laws ACTUALLY make the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary any safer?  Were they enforced?

Additionally, how many lives were SAVED thanks to firearms?  That's a much harder number to qualify.  Where I live, our excellent police protection is likely a minimum of 15 to 20 minutes away after making a call.    I have a weapon for home protection and both my wife and I know how to use it.  Thankfully, we've never needed to use it, much like the fire extinguisher in our kitchen or our earthquake preparation kit.

Let's put the risk of being murdered by firearms into proper perspective.  Moving up the page a bit, see that simple falls kill nearly twice as many people as do murderers using firearms.  Is the solution to ban gravity?  No, but there are common-sense solutions to reduce the risk.  As proven in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, simply banning guns will not by itself reduce gun violence.


Deaths from other causes are far more preventable than murders by firearms or people killed by gravity. For example, move near the top of the page.  HIV kills nearly as many people in the United States as gun violence.  A major cause of HIV is unprotected sex.  Perhaps the solution is for Congress to pass a new federal law REQUIRING condoms when engaging in certain acts.  "Preposterous!" will claim many civil libertarians.  Yet, there is no explicit Constitutional guarantee safeguarding someone's right to unprotected sex.  However, there is an explicit Constitutional protection to keep and bears arms, written in the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution.


I agree that we should act to curb violence, especially against the innocent.  But again, let's put gun violence into perspective.  Another almost-entirely preventable action takes nearly 100 TIMES MORE INNOCENT LIVES than firearm violence.  Likely for political reasons, the United States Census Bureau does not list it along with the other causes of death.  These deaths are tracked separately in Table 102. Abortions by Selected Characteristics: 1990 to 2007.  In 2007, there were 1,210 x 1,000 abortions performed in the United States, equal to 1,210,000 or 1.21 MILLION.  This is 95 times higher than the total number of people killed by firearms that same year--including adults and children.  This is also roughly the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis at the Auschwitz death camp during all its years of operation.  This also roughly equates to the entire population of Dallas, Texas--America's 9th largest city.  Most of these deaths are also entirely preventable. However, even the simplest proposed restrictions against abortion are met with protest and outrage despite clear mentions of government protections for life in the Declaration of Independence and in the 14th Amendment.


We should work to prevent deaths when we can do so intelligently and without violating the Constitution rights of those who are breaking no laws.


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December 20, 2012


I would never be so insulting as to accuse the U. Penn Political Science Department of tokenism

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This is a follow up to my post, I would never be so insulting as to accuse the NY Times of tokenism, regarding the demeaning accusation by University of Pennsylvania Political Science Professor Adolf L. Reed Jr. calling Tim Scott and other Republicans who are black of being “cynical tokens.”
Let’s take a look at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Political Science Standing Faculty:

I would never be so insulting as to accuse the U. Penn Political Science Department of tokenism.
Such an accusation would be insulting to the people who worked hard (like Tim Scott) to get where they are (like Tim Scott) and who (like Tim Scott) accomplished much in their lives, and who should not be insulted or demeaned as tokens just because they are part of an overwhelmingly white entity.
Respect for the accomplishments of others, apparently, is not a requirement of being a member of the Standing Faculty of the U. Penn. Political Science Department, or an Op-Ed writer at The NY Times.

December 19, 2012


This lunatic is my Representative unfortunately  She gets re-elected over and over again by the way far left liberal Jews in my little suburban town. They all have money. Rep Schwartz NEVER replies to any of my emails or letters. Called her office once to get help and they did NOTHING!

VIDEO: Pro-choice congresswoman compares school massacre to killing of abortionists

BY KIRSTEN ANDERSEN
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com)  – A pro-choice Congresswoman has compared the mass murder of 20 first graders at a Connecticut elementary school to the killing of abortionists.
However, she downplayed any link between abortion and murder, saying “I don’t see a connection.”
Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, D-PA, discussed the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Tuesday.
A caller said the legalization of abortion, and taxpayer funded abortions, have led to a “culture of death.”

“Roe v. Wade took away the right to life,” the caller said. “We encourage the culture of death by giving money to Planned Parenthood - they kill more people. Now it’s terrible what happened in Connecticut, but unborn persons killed with the support of taxpayer money – these are persons, too.”
“I don’t see the connection here,” answered Rep. Schwartz. “Of course, we have seen gun violence against those who actually do provide reproductive health services and abortion services, and that’s been pretty tragic.”
Schwartz was apparently referencing the 2009 murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller, along with a rash of shootings at abortion clinics in the 1990s that killed four abortionists and clinic workers and injured several others.  By contrast, the average number of abortions performed in the United States each year is 1.3 million, according to the National Abortion Federation. Tiller’s clinic alone was responsible for thousands of abortions, mostly late-term procedures performed on healthy babies. 
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