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The old “if I could have only one gun” argument is among the most commented on and fun discussions. It may even be enlightening. Heaven forbid we had to get by with only one gun. But the fact is, we do get by with one gun most of the time. I carry one gun — sometimes a backup goes along. When going on a road trip or hiking, I carefully consider which piece to pack. By extension, it is obvious these handguns might be at the top of the list if I were limited to only one gun. In...

The CEO of Goldman Sachs has responded to complaints from junior bankers, saying management is going to work harder to give them Saturdays off after a group complained they were being forced to work 100 hours a week. CEO David Solomon made the promise on a voice memo to staffers on Sunday, days after a group of junior bankers' PowerPoint presentation complaining of work conditions leaked in the media. The 13 first-year analysts, who make $91,000 a year before bonuses that can double their compensation, complained they were working nearly 100 hours a week and sleeping five hours a night...

The national media will tell you #MiamiBeach issued a state of emergency and shut down because of the crowds and some will lie and say it's because of Covid. That's only half the story. Here are some videos of what is really going on.

Interesting that a man killed ten people and not one story gives the details of how he did it. Hmm... The police are not going to tell how everything happened. The only thing they are reporting is an officer was killed and nine unidentified people were killed. Not many other details.

Police could be seen leading a handcuffed shirtless man from the scene with an apparently bloodied leg Ten people were killed, including a veteran police officer, during a mass shooting Monday inside a grocery store in Boulder, Colo., authorities said at a late news conference. The officer was identified as Eric Talley, 51, who served on the force since 2010. He was the first officer at King Soopers, the crime scene, after the shooting occurred at about 2:30 p.m. His actions were called heroic. Talley was the father of seven, his youngest seven years old, his father told the Denver...

Those events truly highlighted the absolute worst in what we are as a nation and they shouldn’t be forgotten. Each even gave us questions on where our society has gone wrong, what role our modern culture of music, movies, video games, and of course guns played in allowing those horrific events to unfold. Yet, the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history has largely been left out of the conversion. Few today even remember the Bath School Massacre, and it is rarely – if ever – even mentioned by the media alongside those other mass killings. The reason is that it...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps discussed attacking a US military base using an explosive-laden boat. Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps discussed attacking a US military base, according to the Associated Press. The Fort McNair Army base is a 10-minute drive from the White House and is located in the US capital. The National Security Agency intercepted the communications in January and they include discussions of using some kind of explosive-laden boat as was used in a 2000 attack in Yemen against the USS Cole. “The intelligence also revealed threats to kill Gen. Joseph M. Martin and plans to...

Action figures and bobbleheads are yesterday’s news for the nation’s top infectious disease expert, who’s due for a tribute in a new children’s picture book scheduled for release this summer.Publishing company Simon & Schuster announced Sunday the upcoming release of "Dr. Fauci: How a Boy From Brooklyn Became America’s Doctor."The 48-page, hardcover book chronicles the life and career of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the central figure in the country’s fight against the COVID-19 crisis."Before he was Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci...

Appvion Inc., a paper mill plant in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, is closing down on April 1 despite its union endorsing Joe Biden in 2020. The New York Post called it the “first significant manufacturing loss in this state since President Biden took office.” 293 people will lose their jobs: 250 union, 43 management. “When 300 people lose good-paying jobs, it’s not just 300 people that are adversely affected,” said Stephen McKnight of the Altoona-Blair County Development Corporation. “For every one job lost, an additional four to seven jobs outside the company are hurt, too. The long-term impact is even worse,...

At a meeting in Alaska last week Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan beclowned themselves in front of the Chinese. During a press conference they decided to use a brief ceremonial statement to tongue-lash, with soothing Diplospeak, the Chinese over their brutal oppression of the Uighur minority, the destruction of Hong Kong’s political freedom, and the intensifying threats against Taiwan. The pair didn’t have time to bask in their moral courage because the Chinese representatives unloaded on them with an absurd caricature of the United States straight out of Howard Zinn and Mother Jones. The...

Watching images of a bustling Berlin in 1927, and realizing how quickly it embraced National Socialism, is a reminder that this can happen anywhere. SNIP Could everyday ordinary Americans, just as easily, or eventually, embrace socialism? One would be naive to dismiss the possibility given the results of many respected polls and especially those taken of young Americans. Had the German signage been hidden, viewers might have thought it was 1927 London, Paris, or Manhattan. Just another lively metropolis with people going about their ordinary lives. Traveling to work on trains or buses, eating in restaurants, delivering packages by horse-drawn...

Speaking of people who aren’t in charge of anything at all… – The future DC Swamp sock puppet-in-waiting, Kamala Harris, continues to have deep trouble matching her sorority girl giggles and laughs to the situation at hand. Harris’s tendency to resort to completely inappropriate laughter whenever she’s asked a difficult question that she knows she can’t answer honestly has plagued her throughout her political career, and nothing has changed since she was installed as Vice President after a stolen election. Yesterday, she was asked if she would be visiting the border as she prepared to board Air Force 2. Watch...

Think of the horrors the elites will put us normal people through in the name of appeasing Gaia. COVID was a blessing for the Democrats. Primarily affecting older people (mostly Trump voters) and the infirm, it allowed the shutdown of most small business in America (again, mostly Trump-supporters). It permitted millenarian Democrat governors to test the efficacy of using fear to impel acquiescence to emergency rule by diktat. It showed people will voluntarily cede income and freedom in the face of an "existential emergency." "Armageddon" ruined Trump-supporters financially, while coincidentally allowing Dem supporters to continue drawing a paycheck or have...

The Iranian regime is shutting down the internet yet again this month—this time in response to the desperate protests in the Baluchistan and Sistan provinces. Tehran is methodically implementing a repressive playbook, imported at great expense from Beijing: first, label protesters as criminals; second, shut down the internet to prevent information from getting in or out; third, detain, torture and murder with impunity until the uprising is exhausted. But this time, the United States has the technology, resources and capacity to circumvent this oppression via satellite-provided internet, and give the Iranian opposition the ability to communicate freely.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 12Psalm 12[a] For the director of music. According to sheminith.[b] A psalm of David. 1 Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race. 2 Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts. 3 May the Lord silence all flattering lips and every boastful tongue— 4 those who say, “By our tongues we will prevail; our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?” 5 “Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I...

Cool Brew asked yesterday if anyone remembered the “Barack Hussein Obama umm, umm, umm” song that teachers across America had their charges sing back in the good old days. I’m certain I did a post on it at the time and was searching the blog for “umm, um, um.” I never found the Brown Shirt post but you’d be surprised at how often the term “umm, um, um” has appeared over the years. I’m leaving this little gem from 2015 that I stumbled across for your Throwback Thursday-On-Tuesday edition reading pleasure. I’m off to get new glasses that I’ve deferred...

Because America is an overachiever, it managed to achieve not one, but two, of the unpleasant scenarios spelled out in that document. SNIP The authors identify four possible reactions to an event. Two are most relevant: One is called “lockstep,” defined as “a world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.” Another is “hack attack,” an “economically unstable and shock-prone world in which governments weaken, criminals thrive, and dangerous innovations emerge.” There are two more on page 16. For my purpose here, they are less relevant. The treatise is careful to...

It begins. Faster than anyone anticipated. As Joe Biden falls 3 times in a light breeze boarding Air Force One, the latest sign of dementia he presents, and as his first-ever press conference looms next week, the public is being prepared for a transition of power to Kamala Harris. The gay conservative site Outspoken reports that it has received leaked emails revealing: …the White House is shifting toward a communication strategy that seeks to elevate Vice President Kamala Harris in all official White House business. The directive, the employee reports, came from a top White House communications team member and...

Most GOP senators are dodging the Democrats’ efforts to seduce them into joining very unpopular amnesty bills by citing President Joe Biden’s border meltdown, according to Politico. “Many of us support giving a path to citizenship,” to younger illicit migrants, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), told Politico. “But now the border is such a disaster that I don’t optically discern how you can do just a bill to deal with [that],” she verbalized March 18. Politico accepts the border rationale for the GOP evasiveness — and ignores the immensely colossal unpopularity of wage-cutting amnesty bills even if the border is under...

Last week, the House of Representatives passed two pieces of amnesty legislation – H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act, and H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Taken together, these bills seek to put 4.5 million illegal aliens on a pathway to citizenship without a single meaningful improvement to immigration enforcement. While their future in the Senate remains uncertain, if any immigration bill has a decent chance at reaching President Biden’s desk, it’s the farmworker amnesty. It’s worth noting that the Farm Workforce Modernization Act passed not only with near-universal Democratic support, but also a significant number of...