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Censorship in Seattle
by Cal Thomas
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Drug Deaths Nearly 6X Gun Murders
by Political Editors: While the Leftmedia has been hyperventilating over America’s “gun culture” and the false narrative that the country is in the throes of an epidemic of “gun violence,” another much greater and fast-growing problem is for the most part being ignored. Appearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee last Thursday, Deborah Houry of the Centers for Disease Control stated, “Preliminary data for 2016 indicate at least 64,000 drug overdose deaths, the highest number ever recorded in the U.S.” That number is twice that of all gun-related deaths last year. And keep in mind that two-thirds of deaths from guns are suicides. the FBI murder statistics for 2016 show 11,004 murders with guns — a little more than one-sixth the number of drug overdose deaths.
by Political Editors: While the Leftmedia has been hyperventilating over America’s “gun culture” and the false narrative that the country is in the throes of an epidemic of “gun violence,” another much greater and fast-growing problem is for the most part being ignored. Appearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee last Thursday, Deborah Houry of the Centers for Disease Control stated, “Preliminary data for 2016 indicate at least 64,000 drug overdose deaths, the highest number ever recorded in the U.S.” That number is twice that of all gun-related deaths last year. And keep in mind that two-thirds of deaths from guns are suicides. the FBI murder statistics for 2016 show 11,004 murders with guns — a little more than one-sixth the number of drug overdose deaths. What is even more concerning is the precipitous increase in overdose deaths, especially over the last couple years. Not only have overdose deaths increased, but it can be argued that they have increased due to the government’s 2010 creation of stricter regulations of pharmaceutical companies. Call it the law of unintended consequences. It could be argued that government over-regulation exacerbated and destabilized what had been a relatively controlled problem. The opioid crisis is out of control.
Returning to the heated topic of gun control, the Left loves to suggest that more, and always more, “common sense” gun control laws will somehow limit the number of people killed by guns. What is conveniently ignored by these same leftists is the fact that since the early 1990s, gun-related crimes and deaths have significantly decreased while the number of guns owned has increased by over 50%. In fact, as Mark Alexander highlighted yesterday, it is Democrat-controlled cities where gun laws are strictest where one will see the highest number of gun-related violence and death. The law of unintended consequences, or rather the real human toll of anti-gun crusaders?
But hey, at least YouTube has changed its rules for firearms videos… ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51811
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“Hero” Mandalay Security Officer
Not State Licensed As Jesus Campos
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ The State of Nevada requires all security guards to be registered with and licensed by the state, under the jurisdiction of the Nevada Private Investigator’s Licensing Board... They must meet eligibility requirements such as no felony, moral turpitude convictions or record of illegal possession or use of dangerous weapons. They also must meet character and citizenship/ residency requirements. Those all seem like reasonable requirements as the basis for the state granting permits to work in that type of field. Curiously, the security officer at Mandalay Bay who we have been told stumbled upon Paddock as he was about to begin his murderous rampage and was shot as a result, Jesus Campos, isn’t registered. Unless it’s under a different name, he has not been granted permission to work in that field in the State of Nevada... https://rickwells.us/hero-mandalay-licensed-campos/.
Trump, Paul Forge Alliance on ‘Biggest
Free-Market Reform of Health Care in Generation’
by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ Unable so far to achieve even a partial rollback of liar-nObamacare from Congress, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could make it easier for some consumers to buy insurance across state lines... potentially increasing competition. “The competition will be staggering,” Trump said before signing the order. “Insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up, and you will be hopefully negotiating, negotiating, negotiating, and you’ll get such low prices for such great care.” “Should have been done a long time ago, and it could have been done a long time ago,” he said... http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/12/trump-paul-forge-alliance-on-biggest-free-market-reform-of-health-care-in-a-generation/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpnd1pUUmxZbVl6TURnMyIsInQiOiJSQng5dFp5eHBXYWZnT1ZCbkpTenBMbFZsVUZaY0NZYWNrT3FnNXBhZWdScXNBRG1idDJObytrZUdxZTc4Smk0Y21WZVYrdlBNd3NQTllkNlI2bFJMclVQXC9XcTBjWnpcL1NocW5GYnFlRXdyTGM3cXlIR1kyVEptSkNaaE9DbXhvIn0%3D.
Congressman warns Dems
handed U.S. secrets to Pakistanis
by ALICIA POWE
{wnd.com} ~ Multiple reports have detailed the equipment and nearly $6 million a Pakistani family of IT specialists allegedly took from the U.S. government while running computer networks for numerous congressional Democrats... But that’s only money and equipment, says a U.S. congressman who contends that the biggest problem is the classified information to which the Awan family had access. The taxpayers’ dollars confiscated from Congress is “not the highest of our concerns,” Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told WND in an interview about the case of IT staffer Imran Awan, his brothers Abid and Jamal, and their wives Natalia Sova and Hina Alvi... http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/congressman-warns-dems-handed-u-s-secrets-to-pakistanis/
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Beijing sends frigate & jets to warn off US
destroyer near disputed South China Sea islands
by msn.com
{msn.com} ~ China sent a guided-missile frigate, two fighter jets and a helicopter to warn off the USS ‘Chafee’ near disputed islands in the South China Sea... accusing the US of damaging the country’s sovereignty and security interests in the region. Beijing condemned the mission of the guided-missile destroyer USS ‘Chafee,’ which on Tuesday sailed within 16 nautical miles of the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, within the framework of a so-called “freedom of navigation” operation. “In the face of repeated provocation by the US forces, the Chinese military will further strengthen preparation for combat at sea and in the air and improve the defenses to resolutely defend national sovereignty and security interests,” China’s Defense Ministry said in a statement, quoted by the South China Morning Post newspaper... http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/beijing-sends-frigate-26-jets-to-warn-off-us-destroyer-near-disputed-south-china-sea-islands/ar-AAtiRXl.
Trump will stay in Iran nuclear deal, but won't certify
by Sarah Westwood
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump will decline to certify the Iran nuclear deal on Friday through a process that will leave the agreement intact while inviting Congress to weigh in on new restrictions against Tehran... The White House hopes the resulting U.S. policy toward Iran will expand beyond its current dependence on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the Iran deal is formally known, and involve a broader look at Iranian aggression. But the approach Trump will lay out on Friday could allow the debate over how best to counter Iran to languish in a divided Congress, which could force Trump to continue observing a deal he described last month as an "embarrassment" to the U.S... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-will-stay-in-iran-nuclear-deal-but-wont-certify-compliance/article/2637394?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2010/13/17&utm_medium=email.
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Censorship in Seattle
{townhall.com} ~ If it were a plague, the government would rush to quarantine the infected, as occurred during Europe's Black Death in the 14th century.
An immigration debate at Seattle University School of Law is a plague of a different sort, but deadly in a different way. The victim here is the right to free speech.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that Annette Clark, the dean of Seattle University's Law School, has revoked the school's sponsorship of a Federalist Society event. The reason? The proposed debate on immigration, hosted by the school's Access to Justice Institute, might be "harmful" to minority students and "undocumented immigrants," aka people who broke the law to get to America, though we are not supposed to talk like that these days.
At first, I thought it was a joke. It is. But a joke played on those elites who claim to believe in tolerance, academic freedom, and inclusion. Dean Clark's edict reflects her and the school's intolerance, academic propaganda and exclusion of any view that does not conform to the university's imposed ideology. Isn't this the stuff of re-education camps and gulags?
Many college campuses claim devotion to diversity while practicing and imposing conformity. To them, diversity has to do with skin color, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. It is secular liberalism dressed up in different garb. Real diversity would include people of different opinions.
At Seattle U's Law School, the Federalist Society, a conservative organization that believes in an originalist view of the Constitution, was preparing for an immigration debate. The last I checked a debate is supposed to include opposing points of view. The purpose of a debate is to inform people so they can decide which view is superior to the other. In the '80s, these were the kinds of debates in which I participated on many college campuses. With only a few exceptions I was granted a respectful hearing, as was my debate opponent. Often we would attend a dinner before the debate, or a reception afterward, where students and faculty could observe us interacting with decorum, humor and mutual respect.
The kind of censorship practiced in Seattle is not unique to that school either. It is trending across the country. Increasingly, campuses have become "safe spaces" so that "snowflakes" will not be troubled by ideas that rattle their still-developing brains, which should, instead of stagnating, constantly evolve. If they think they already know everything, why spend time and money going to college?
The greater question is this: Why do so many parents, especially conservative parents, send their children to schools that undermine their faith and values, distort history and promote causes that will not help them get a job once they graduate? A corollary question: Why do students take on so much debt to attend universities where their "consciences" might be raised on the liberal side, but where they are shielded from what real life looks like?
Nat Hentoff, the late liberal journalist and social critic, said the answer to speech you don't like is not less speech, but more speech. The students at Seattle Law School are being denied a well-rounded education by the speech and thought police. Students should demand that a portion of their tuition be refunded, and the federal government should consider denying tax subsidies to institutions of "higher learning" that practice censorship.
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