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Another day, another series of embarrassing errors and obfuscations by gun controllers who are ignorant of how guns, and the laws that seek to control them, actually work. In its quest to drive up gun sales even further and make gun control even less popular, the New York Times published yet another overwrought editorial on Friday demanding more gun control. Here's how the editorial, given the very measured and objective title of "Gunmakers' War Profiteering on the Homefront," began:

Once a small fringe, this “alternative” information ecosystem now includes websites, talk-radio programs, newsletters, conferences and “citizen journalists” who promote, debate and inflate such questionable causes as vaccine denial, climate-change skepticism , and the supposedly imminent imposition of sharia law in America. The fringe nowadays often injects its ideas into the mainstream by gaining the attention of sources broadly popular among conservatives, such as Fox News and the Drudge Report...

Are you following this little story? A train pulls into Braintree station; moments later it leaves with nobody in the driver’s seat and barrels down the track at breakneck speed, blowing through station after station, terrifying the few passengers aboard who were awake. Finally, somebody notices and pulls the plug on the third rail, cutting power to the out-of-control train and bringing it to a stop. The train “operator” had apparently tied a cord to the throttle, did not set the brake, and stepped off the train – possibly to check on the status of the weather. The situation does...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Audio sound bites I want to start with now. This is Inside Edition. Pop culture, low-information voter TV. Correspondent Megan Alexander reporting about Donald Trump's call to temporarily stop admitting Muslims to the US. Listen to this. ALEXANDER: While many are condemning Trump's Muslim proposal, conservative talk radio is standing by him. Here's what Rush Limbaugh said. RUSH ARCHIVE: He's confident that a lot of his voters are gonna be able to strip away the bombast and be able to get to the nuts and bolts of what he's saying, the kernel of truth of what he's...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, I am so excited, I have to tell you, I'm so excited. Practically everything I have in my show prep Stacks today is stuff I have already talked about that's just now ending in the Drive-By Media, just now ending up being discovered in the Republican Party among focus groupers. I mean, it's incredible, starting out with my brilliant monologue on Monday, it might have been Tuesday. The days are running together. I did the entire first hour of this program on what is really, really, really at the bottom of all of this angst over...

It was the most brutal attack ad run against Donald Trump, and it was tanking. Twenty-nine voters, all of whom supported or used to support Trump, watched retired Air Force Col. Tom Moe not so subtly compare the Republican front-runner to Adolf Hitler. "You might not care if Donald Trump says he's going to round up all the Hispanic immigrants, because you're not one," said Moe onscreen. "You might not care if Donald Trump wants to suppress journalists, because you're not one. But think about this: If he keeps going, and he actually becomes president, he might just get around...

Nicholas “Michael” Thalasinos, one of 14 murder victims of Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Mailik, at a San Bernardino, California, Christmas party last week, was described by friends "an awesome man of God," and a Christian "prayer warrior." But on Saturday, New York Daily News columnist Linda Stasi, using harsh invectives, blamed the victim for the terror attack by the ISIS loyalists, characterizing Thalasinos as "a hate-filled bigot" who wrote "NRA-loving, hate-filled screed on Facebook" and now is "inaccurately being eulogized as a kind and loving religious man" and who "died as the male equivalent of Pamela Geller." In...

Political analysts and pundits have scratched their heads so much over the phenomenal staying power of Donald Trump that they risk scraping through to the bone. Not only has Trump managed to defy expectations that either he would get bored and bail out of the presidential race, or that voters would tire of his shtick and jump off the bandwagon, but the billionaire continues to lead in almost every national poll, as well as in Iowa and New Hampshire. In the Granite State, Trump's lead has been in double digits in all but four polls since Labor Day, the point...

Watch Trump Spokeswoman Katrina Pierson annihilate the liberal media. This woman is a rock star in the making. Around 6:15 is the best part - Nails the lib puke on the media's slander on Trump in regards to Muslims cheering on 9/11.

“It reminded me of days in the Old West where there’d be a shooting and the whole town would go through and look,” former NYPD officer Bill Stanton tells TheWrap.The FBI potentially dropped the ball by letting media ransack the home of the San Bernardino shooters just two days after the massacre. “They [the FBI] totally scrubbed it from head to toe, or it’s a major **** up,” former NYPD police officer Bill Stanton told TheWrap about reporters from MSNBC, CNN and other outlets being allowed into the suspects’ home to comb through photos and documents. Stanton, who worked for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya9XjBuUZn4 At a recent rally for Donald Trump in South Carolina, the Republican frontrunner remarked that President Obama is thinking about signing an executive order for more gun control: "You know, the President is thinking about signing an executive order where he wants to take your guns away. You hear this one? This is the new. Not gonna happen. That won't happen. But that's a tough one, I think that's a tough one for him to do when you actually have the Second Amendment. That's tough. Because there's plenty of executive orders being signed, you know that. And we can't...

Last Sunday's edition of CBS' 60 Minutes featured the first ever interview with Allan Gross, the U.S. hostage held in Cuba's prisons for five years. Gross was a contractor for USAID (United States Agency for international Development) who was arrested in Havana on Dec. 9, 2009. His "crime" was attempting to provide Cuba's Jewish groups with satellite internet equipment. Gross was held in KGB-and designed dungeons for 5 months where he lost over a hundred pounds. In March 2011 he was finally "tried" (by a judicial system lifted lock-stock-barrel from Stalin's during The Great Terror) and sentenced to a further...

The most recent act of horrific violence in the United States — in San Bernardino, Calif. — was reportedly perpetrated by a Muslim man and woman. There are about 3 million Muslims in the United States, almost all of whom are law-abiding citizens. How should they react to the actions of the couple who killed 14 people on Wednesday? The most commonly heard response is that Muslims must immediately and loudly condemn these acts of barbarity. But Dalia Mogahed, a Muslim American leader, argues eloquently that this is unfair. She made her case to NBC’s Chuck Todd. “According to the...

The media are jackals. The feds are incompetent. We’re completely screwed. That’s the only message we can take from the media’s three-hour tour of the San Bernardino terrorists’ apartment. On Friday, at media request, the landlord of the apartment pried off a board covering the door with a crowbar, and the media, in all of their vulpine glory, rushed forward to feast on material evidence in a terrorism investigation. Video on link

Friday during MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” NBC News Kerry Sanders gave an on-camera tour of the San Bernardino, CA shooters apartment at the allowance of the property’s landlord. During that tour, several photos were shown on camera. ...(more w/video)...

The San Bernardino jihad massacre is the latest jihad atrocity, but it’s just like the last one, and just like the next one: it has played out in exactly the same way that the last jihad atrocity did, and in just the same way that the next one will play out as well. Mass killings by “radicalized” Muslims are followed by earnest statements from the President and the mainstream media that we must not rush to judgment, that the motive of the shooters was unclear, that we need gun control, that we need to address the real threat of climate...

Grim details emerged Thursday about the massacre at a California holiday party that left 14 people dead and 21 others hurt, but investigators are still trying to answer the key question: Why? [Snip] Authorities said they are still trying to determine why Farook and his wife attacked the Inland Regional Center. "We do not know the motive. ... It would be irresponsible of me and be way too early to speculate on motive," said David Bowdich, assistant director in charge of the FBI in Los Angeles. ... But authorities told NBC News on Thursday that Farook appeared to have been...

".....This will to dominate is what the more personal mass shootings have in common with the more impersonal ones that tend to get national news coverage. The goals are just smaller. Whereas a more typical shooter might shoot up his ex-wife and her co-workers to punish her for not wanting to be with him, more ambitious shooters like Elliot Rodger will rampage among strangers to punish women, collectively, for the same thing. Or perhaps an average shooter will unleash at a party because he thinks someone disrespected him, but your more grandiose types, modeling themselves on the Columbine killers, want...

There's a reason you've never heard of Eduardo Sencion, Kesler Dufrene and Salvador Tapia. ...in response to Robert Dear Jr.'s murder of three people at a Colorado Springs shopping mall last week, The New York Times exulted: "Even as politicians and those in Congress pump up public fears at the supposed threat of refugees fleeing Syria, every day in America people -- mostly white men -- are walking into movie theaters, restaurants, churches, grade schools and health care centers armed to the teeth, determined to take as many people out as they can." Mostly white men??? Here at home, an...

CNN panelist Tom Fuentes has already pinned the tragic shooting San Bernardino shooting on anti-government militias. Police have no suspects and no motive for the shooting. Even if he turns out to be correct, doesn't it seem just a little irresponsible to place blame so soon? CNN pundit already blaming anti-government militias for CA shooting