Reagan on Gun Control

The Facts about Mass Shootings

I ran across this article this morning from national Review.  Although the Newtown school shooting incident was tragic this is NOT an epidemic as the media and President would lead you to believe.  This event was horrible and reprehensible, but the portrayal of this incident as an epidemic is just plain wrong.  It may even lead to another sociopath copycat.  Let's get the facts straight before we jump to immediate conclusions:

By John Fund

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A few things you won’t hear about from the saturation coverage of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre:

Mass shootings are no more common than they have been in past decades, despite the impression given by the media.

In fact, the high point for mass killings in the U.S. was 1929, according to criminologist Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections.

Incidents of mass murder in the U.S. declined from 42 in the 1990s to 26 in the first decade of this century.

The chances of being killed in a mass shooting are about what they are for being struck by lightning.

Until the Newtown horror, the three worst K–12 school shootings ever had taken place in either Britain or Germany.

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A beautiful poem dedicated to the adults and children who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary

Top medal denied twice to Marine

Steve Sebby, who was a combat photographer following Peralta’s unit that day, told The Times in November that the Pentagon’s own Navy Cross citation seems to confirm Peralta’s heroism. That citation says Peralta “reached out and pulled the grenade to his body.”

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/12/panetta-denies-medal-honor-marine-dived-grenade/?page=2#ixzz2EzwyZFXE
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World Trade Center Almost Finished!!

We may fall down, But we always get back up!! Pic taken 2 days ago!!

Florida about to register one million active conceal-carry permits

Hat tip Ninety Miles Blog At a news conference at the state Capitol Wednesday, Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam announced a fast approaching milestone. “Florida will have one million active conceal weapons licenses next week.” Hitting the million permit mark will mean one out of every 19 people in the state will be armed. 219-thousand of them are seniors and 200-thousand are women, few commit crimes. “Responsible use of these licenses is overwhelmingly the rule and with only .3 percent of licenses having been revoked for inappropriate use, I think the statistics support that,” Putnam said. Florida is about to become the first state in history with one million active conceal-carry permit holders. Read more: http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/state/florida-concealed-weapons-state-about-to-register-one-million-active-conceal-carry-permits#ixzz2EtdDqLM

Video: Dennis Miller blasts Obama for not being President of all Americans

Dennis Miller is tired of our divisive president and says that if Obama wants to be president of all Americans that he should stand up and condemn the hateful rhetoric and violence coming from unions, just like he did in his Gabby Giffords speech. CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO

Fantastic Book: Must Read Upcoming Online Symposium on Brandon Garrett’s Convicting the Innocent

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Next week, we will be hosting an online symposium on Brandon Garrett’s Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong (Harvard University Press 2011) (just released in paperback).  When I first approached Brandon about bringing a group together to discuss his ground-breaking work, he suggested that we highlight and discuss three new books that intersect well with the problems he tackles in Convicting the Innocent: Stephanos Bibas’s The Machinery of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press 2012), Daniel S. Medwed’s Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and its Impact on the Innocent (New York University Press 2012), and Dan Simon’s In Doubt (Harvard University Press 2012).  On Monday, Professor Garrett will kick off the symposium by providing an overview of all four books and their contributions.  That will no doubt spark a conversation about our criminal justice system, including the value of DNA evidence, the black box nature of plea bargains and its troubling implications, prosecutorial misconduct and discretion, cognitive biases affecting juries, among other issues.  Brandon Garrett will be joined by an exciting group of scholars:
Alexandra Natapoff
Steven A. Drizin
Stephanos Bibas
Keith A. Findley
Karen Newirth
Daniel S. Medwed
Dan Simon

Citizens United Primer

Hat tip: The Situationist

From Redstate: The Latest Liberal Lie.

Friends, Our liberal opponents are at it again. Now they are trying to claim that Indiana Republican senate candidate Richard Mourdock somehow believes God wants women to be raped. Mourdock has responded: "That's not even close to what I said. What I said is that God creates life." But no matter: liberal outlets like The Daily Kos, ThinkProgress and The Huffington Post are all trying to sink Mourdock's candidacy in the 11th-hour and distract from the real issues. It's going to take an immediate, emergency infusion of funds to help Mourdock overcome the last-minute lies of liberal activists. That's why I'm asking you to immediately give $20, $40 or even $80 to the REDSTATE SLATE of candidates, including Richard Mourdock, right now. Other candidates on the REDSTATE SLATE need your help right now. Everything hangs in the balance. Josh Mandel, Republican senate candidate in Ohio, is engaged in the fight of his life to defeat his opponent Sherrod Brown and help Mitt Romney win this make-or-break swing state. A win for Josh Mandel will help cement a win for Mitt Romney and will help us defeat Barack Obama. Can I rely on your support at the level of $50, $25 or even just $15 today? Donate to the REDSTATE SLATE of conservative candidates right away. Need any further convincing? Just spend some time online learning about conservative powerhouse Ted Cruz, Republican senate candidate in Texas, who is also supported by our REDSTATE SLATE fundraiser. We need powerful voices like his in the U.S. Senate as soon as possible. We don't have any time to waste. As I said, everything hangs in the balance. Help tip the scales towards the RIGHT side! Less than two weeks to go, P.S. The REDSTATE SLATE of candidates has been hand-picked to ensure the strongest possible conservative voices represent us in Washington. Please forego eating out once this week and donate the money saved to these critical races today! The future of our country and conservatism hangs in the balance.

This book will change your life! I read it in 2 days.

I had the pleasure of getting Rhonda Byrnes book "The Secret". This is a must read for anybody!! Get it now and read it cover to cover. I did in 2 days.

Idiot Farrakhan Lambastes Romney in Unhinged Rant & Claims American Exceptionalism Is an ‘Exceptional Lie’

Earlier this month, the Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered advice to President Barack Obama during a fiery speech in Charlotte, North Carolina. In a follow-up address entitled, “Guidance for Our President & Our Nation: Part II,” the leader of the Nation of Islam continued his rhetoric, taking aim at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and labeling American exceptionalism an “exceptional lie.” READ MORE

Lining up for Obamaphones in Reading, Pennsylvania

Must Read book by Ed Diener: Happiness

Get this Book by Ed Diener!! It's the Ed Diener, psychology dr Happiness

Just got this book in today, Highly recommended.

Redstate Endorses Karen Harrington to Defeat Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Karen Harrington is excited to announce that Redstate's Erick Erickson has endorsed her campaign to defeat Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Just before she addressed the 2012 Redstate Gathering, Erickson expressed his support for Karen's campaign. She is in a primary, well, how do I put this diplomatically? She is running in the primary as the person without the rap sheet. She is going to make a very fine member of the United States Congress. Redstate is pleased to support her candidacy, she will make a fine replacement for Debbie Wasserman Schultz. -Erick Erickson, Redstate Redstate joins other conservative organizations like, Susan B. Anthony List, Eagle Forum PAC, She PAC and others, in supporting our efforts to defeat President Obama's most divisive supporter of his failed policies, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Continue reading, Watch the video endorsement... Remember, early voting starts today, August 4th, and lasts until August 11th-Election day is August 14th. Vote Karen Harrington!!! (Early voting sites-Click here) Please support our campaign, donate to FireDebbie! Karen Harrington for Congress To learn more about Karen, please visit www.karenforcongress.com In addition, you can visit www.firedebbie.com Help me fire Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

Americans Want Next President to Prioritize Jobs, Corruption

Lowest priorities are taxing wealthy and environmental problems by Jeffrey M. JonesPRINCETON, NJ -- Creating good jobs, reducing corruption in the federal government, and reducing the federal budget deficit score highest when Americans rate 12 issues as priorities for the next president to address. Americans assign much less importance to increasing taxes on wealthy Americans and dealing with environmental concerns. READ MORE

Must Read: Screw Obama, Why Work at Home Businesses Will Thrive

This article has an answer to anyone that is disgruntled, unemployed or downright concerned about their families furtute and the future of this country. The article I'm sharing below does have a political twist to it, but just read it and contact me if you want to know a simple solution to your current economic plite. I read his blog everyday and I just believe all my readers should read it. It's a nice break from the negativity that is so prevalent on TV and in the news. There is so much concern, negativity, worry amongst everyone I talk to everyday. Obama wants to control every facet of our lives. But I say screw him. There is a better life. I am delighted to share an article from a gentlemen that keeps me going every day, not only in my political life, but my personal life as well. I was also thrilled to be a part of his company invovling the sale of graded Gold and Silver Coins. Check it out: By Ray Higdon If you have ever considered a better lifestyle, one that has you spending more time with your family and less time at the office or with your boss, this post will help you see that work at home businesses are a great idea and exactly why the timing is perfect. Who Would Even Consider a Work From Home Business? I think there are several categories in todays world. Here are a few: 1. The person that has finally realized that the higher you go up the corporate ladder the more they will pay you but also the more they will demand of you. In most cases, it’s paid servitude. 2. The person that realizes that work at home businesses allow YOU to be in control AND with todays tools (social media, blogging, etc) they CAN be successful without being an amazing presenter or trainer. 3. The person that does not have time. This may sound weird as a lot of times that is the biggest objection people have about work at home businesses is they don’t have time, well, if you understand that good work at home businesses pay you RESIDUAL INCOME and your job doesn’t, the person with no time all of a sudden realizes that they will NEVER have time in their life UNLESS they create something that does pay them passive income. Any other categories of people that you think should be looking at a work at home business opportunity? Be sure to comment below. READ FURTHER:

What you will never hear from Obama or Romney, this will shock you!!

 Money supply explosion will lead to accelerating inflation!!!

This is the time of year when City pundits produce their forecasts for the forthcoming year. Historically there has been little point to this exercise. Instead, here is the one chart which defines the background to all events in the coming years. It is the Mises Institute's True Money Supply (TMS) for the US dollar. TMS consists of cash, checking accounts and no-notice deposit accounts, as well as a few other minor cash balances. It represents the actual cash and electronic cash in the system that is instantly available for purchases of goods and services, and the chart goes back to 1959.


The dotted line is the exponential growth trend, in other words the maximum rate of growth that can continue for ever. This trend was valid until mid-2002, since when TMS has accelerated at a faster rate, telling us that TMS growth entered a hyperbolic phase when the Fed eased rates in the wake of the dot-com collapse. Put another way TMS is already hyperinflationary.

Bear in mind that economists are now telling central banks to accelerate monetary growth even faster to offset the tendency for bank credit to contract. They see no other way to avoid a bank balance sheet implosion with all the deflationary consequences that implies. So the prospects for 2012 and thereafter are for TMS to continue its hyperbolic trend, and incidentally supply funds for a government deficit completely out of control. Also bear in mind that when such a trend becomes established it becomes almost impossible to stop, since the whole debt-based economy and the banking system would collapse.

The second chart shows gold’s established hyperbolic course. This chart was put together by Armand Koolen, a Dutch physicist, after reading James Turk’s and my writings on gold and economics. In Koolen’s words, the hyperbola fits in with the official gold price in the early 1900s, the revaluation to $35 in 1934, the onset of the secular bull market in 2001, the bottom in October 2008 and its approximate track since then.


His discovery is interesting. Singularity for this curve, or the point where the gold price goes to theoretical infinity, is in February 2014, only 26 months away. Unless this long-term trend is somehow broken, gold is also telling us the dollar is heading for hyperinflation.

It would be a mistake to vest magical powers in such an extraordinary discovery, but given TMS itself is showing signs of going hyperbolic we must sit up and take notice. And we know how difficult it is to stop printing money at an accelerating rate: after all, the ECB’s reluctance to do so is threatening to collapse the eurozone. Will the Fed pull the trigger on the US economy or chicken out? The answer is clear.

So in 2012 we can expect a further escalation of money-printing. This being so, it will be followed by unexpected and accelerating price inflation. Nominal interest rates will then rise at the market’s behest, bringing a sovereign debt crisis for the dollar with it as the cost of borrowing for the government escalates.
And the world is on a dollar standard, which is why the chart of TMS tells us all we need to know about 2012.