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		<title>Return of the 1960s</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dark past revived under America's Radical-in-Chief. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1379512720-OaklandCopCar2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248436" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1379512720-OaklandCopCar2.jpg" alt="1379512720-OaklandCopCar2" width="348" height="260" /></a>In 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama signified that he represented a sea-change in the nature of American politics. Obama proclaimed that as a member of the younger generation — born in 1961, at the tail end of the baby boom — he no longer wanted to participate in the stale and tired politics of the 1960s. Instead, he wanted to thrust America forward into a &#8220;different kind of politics,&#8221; one beyond the &#8220;psychodrama of the baby-boom generation — a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago — played out on the national stage.&#8221;</p>
<p>Like most of what President Obama said, this turned out to be a lie. President Obama isn&#8217;t merely a reflection of 1960s politics. He represents a return to those ugly politics: the nastiness of anti-cop sentiment, the divisiveness of generalized anti-Western foreign policy, the idiocy of a war between the sexes and against the exclusivity of the traditional family structure. President Obama isn&#8217;t representative of a new breed. He is the child of the 1960s politics he once claimed to abhor.</p>
<p>Those politics, at least, had the excuse of an uglier America — one fresh with the wounds of Jim Crow, the sins of sexism, the controversy of Vietnam. Today&#8217;s 1960s reruns seem wildly out of context. But that&#8217;s the point: For the radicals of the 1960s, just as for the establishment Obamaites of today, context simply does not matter. When you are attempting to craft utopia, context is irrelevant — and human beings become either tools or obstacles toward the creation of that utopia. The vision never changes. Only the calendar does.</p>
<p>And so we&#8217;re watching racial tensions on a scale unseen since the 1970s play out across America — with the support of the political establishment. The images of police officers turning their backs on New York Mayor Bill De Blasio mirror the images of officers booing New York Mayor John Lindsay in 1972 at the funeral of Officer Rocco Laurie.</p>
<p>The images of rioters burning down Ferguson mirror the images of rioters burning down Detroit in 1967. Never mind that America of 2014 is not the America of 1967 or 1972 — if Obama and his allies have to recreate that chaotic era to forward their own political ends, they will.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re watching the foreign policy of the hard-left McGovernites re-establish itself, this time from the Oval Office. The images of Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., railing against the CIA on the floor of the Senate over the CIA&#8217;s use of enhanced interrogation techniques mirror the images of Senator Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., railing against the American military in the aftermath of the Winter Soldier hearings of 1971. The images of the Yazidis starving on mountaintops in Iraq mirror the images of Vietnamese rushing onto boats to escape the horrors of the communists in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re watching the divisive domestic politics of the social radicals reassert themselves. The images of failed Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis standing in pink sneakers to list the glories of late-term abortion mirror the images of Gloria Steinem blathering about &#8220;reproductive freedom&#8221; in 1971. The images of Nancy Pelosi touting freedom from &#8220;job lock&#8221; thanks to Obamacare mirror the images of President Johnson effectively doing the same thanks to the war on poverty.</p>
<p>President Obama and his ilk quest for a return to hopier, changier times — times like the 1960s. And so they will take us all back to the future. Sadly, our future will then be no more than a reversion to insanity of our past.</p>
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		<title>Support Heroic Police Officers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City returns to the bad old days. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/NYPD.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239762" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/NYPD-450x337.jpg" alt="NYPD" width="320" height="240" /></a>Police nationwide are feeling unsupported by elected officials and government – and that is simply awful and terrible. Nationwide, in the great United States of America, thanks should be constant to heroic police officers who risk their lives to keep us safe.</p>
<p>In America’s biggest city, <a href="http://observer.com/author/ronn-torossian/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">New York City</span></a>, Mayor Bill de Blasio has not been supportive of the police department.  As Sergeant Ed Mullins, President of the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) of the NYPD said this week when calling for the 2016 Democratic National Convention to not come to New York City,</p>
<blockquote><p>The Mayor has provided a public platform to the loudest of the city’s anti-safety agitators, instead of giving voice to the millions of <a href="http://nypost.com/author/ronn-torossian/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">New Yorkers</span></a> who want to live and work in safety.  Why would you kowtow to demagogues who push a political agenda?  Do you really think people in the city care more about politics than quality of life?</p></blockquote>
<p>Mullins noted,</p>
<blockquote><p>The degradation of our streets is on the rise.  As reported widely in the media, shootings have increased by 13% percent citywide since last year.  At the same time, the squeegee people are reappearing on the streets, and aggressive panhandlers and con-men are populating the subways and Times Square.  Why?  Because diminished support for police officers translates directly into crime spikes and drops in quality of life.  And right now the number of cops on the streets is insufficient to address the city’s growing problems.  The NYPD is understaffed and overworked, and underpaid.  Morale among police officers is low, and there are few signs that it will get better any time soon.  Our Mayor can’t be a leader in the fight against crime without supporting his police force.</p></blockquote>
<p>While perhaps it is baffling that countless elected officials blame the police constantly, perhaps the answer as to why comes from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani who said some months ago that the lack of support for our boys in blue “comes more from this very left-wing ideology, which is an anti-police ideology.”</p>
<p>Being a police officer is a very difficult job – it has to be so much harder when people do not feel the support of elected officials and government – the very people who should be supporting law and order.</p>
<p>Mullins noted that when De Blasio “ran for office last year, he spoke of a &#8216;Tale of Two Cities.&#8217;  Indeed, the City is heading toward a very real division: one part of the city consisting of citizens who respect the rule of law, and the other led by anti-safety political opportunists and blowhards pursuing a personal and political agenda.” People want safety – not politics.</p>
<p>Police officers wake up, do their jobs and go home to their families.  Nothing is perfect in anyone’s life – or profession – and unfortunately in law enforcement mistakes happen.  That doesn’t mean that elected officials can throw the baby out with the bathwater. Police officers remain committed to enforcing the law and improving the quality of life of Americans nationwide.</p>
<p>As a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/ronn-torossian/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">native New Yorker</span></a>, I remember a different city.  There was crime, violence,  squeegee men and drug pushers on every corner. New York needs strong law and order in this concrete jungle which I love so much. Police officers remain committed to making cities safe – and elected officials must stand side by side with them.  Supporting the police department should not be a political decision.</p>
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		<title>The Lie Behind the Lynch Mob</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Perazzo]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The remarkable statistics on police shootings and race.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/In-Missouri-Police-Officer-Named-Who-Shot-Michael-Brown.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239519" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/In-Missouri-Police-Officer-Named-Who-Shot-Michael-Brown.jpg" alt="In-Missouri-Police-Officer-Named-Who-Shot-Michael-Brown" width="309" height="268" /></a>Sunday in New York City, Al Sharpton led at least 2,500 marchers in a <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/23/thousands-to-call-for-action-over-death-of-eric-garner-at-staten-island-march-and-rally/">rally</a> condemning “<span style="color: #18181a;">a society where police are automatically excused” for wrongdoing. At issue was </span>the recent death of Eric Garner, a black New Yorker who resisted arrest and subsequently died from what a <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Eric-Garner-Chokehold-Police-Custody-Cause-of-Death-Staten-Island-Medical-Examiner-269396151.html">medical examiner</a> described as an interplay between a white police officer&#8217;s chokehold and Garner&#8217;s multiple chronic infirmities<span style="color: #343434;">. </span><span style="color: #18181a;">A featured speaker at Sunday&#8217;s demonstration was t</span><span style="color: #272727;">he mother of Amadou Diallo, a black man who was killed in a 1999 shooting by four NYPD officers. “Police cannot judge our sons and execute them for no reason,” she declared. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Yesterday, Sharpton <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/michael-brown-supporters-line-funeral-article-1.1915903">spoke</a> at the funeral of Michael Brown, the b</span>lack teenager who was recently shot and killed by a white policeman in Missouri. Claiming that the police had callously treated Brown &#8220;like his life value didn&#8217;t matter,&#8221; Sharpton called on the congregation to help &#8220;change this country.&#8221; Indeed, Sharpton has <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/michael-brown-rally-we-have-had-enough-rev-al-sharpton-n182701">vowed</a> to turn Brown&#8217;s death into a <span style="color: #272727;">“defining moment on how this country deals with policing.” His contention is that too many African Americans are being unjustifiably killed in the streets by white police. If he&#8217;s correct, then we&#8217;ve got a monumental national scandal on our hands that surely deserves to be addressed. So </span>let&#8217;s examine the facts and see what they tell us.</p>
<p>The most comprehensive information we have on this issue comes from a landmark 51-page <a href="http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/ph98.pdf"><span style="color: #680900;">report</span></a> published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2001. This study examined incidents where police used deadly force to kill criminal suspects during the 23-year period from 1976 through 1998.[1]  The study did not distinguish between whites and Hispanics,[2] but instead categorized all members of those two demographics as “<a href="https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/publications/doj-report-policing-and-homicide-1976-98/">white</a>.” So, for the moment, let&#8217;s refer to this group as “W&amp;H” (Whites &amp; Hispanics) rather than “whites.”</p>
<p>During the course of the entire 23-year period examined in the study, 56% of all suspects killed by police were W&amp;H, and 42% were black.</p>
<p>Over time, W&amp;H constituted an ever-increasing percentage of those who were killed by police: In 1978, they accounted for 50% of all such killings. By 1988 that figure had climbed to 59%, and by 1998 it stood at 62%.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the trend for African Americans was moving in precisely the opposite direction: In 1978, black suspects were 49% of those killed by police. By 1988, that figure had fallen to 39%. And ten years after that, it stood at 35%.</p>
<p>Most cases where police killed suspects during 1976-98 were same-race incidents: When W&amp;H officers were the killers, the suspects were usually W&amp;H (63%). And when black officers were the killers, the suspects were usually black (81%).</p>
<p>In 1998 specifically, 3.2 out of every 10,000 black officers killed a black suspect sometime that year, whereas only 1.4 out of every 10,000 W&amp;H officers killed a black suspect.</p>
<p>Also in 1998, about 2.8 out of every 10,000 W&amp;H officers killed a W&amp;H suspect sometime that year—<i>double</i> the rate at which W&amp;H officers killed black suspects.</p>
<p>To fill in the data from more recent years, we must turn to a 2011 Bureau of Justice Statistics <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf">study</a> which covers the period from 2003 to 2009. Unlike the earlier study, this one <i>does</i> distinguish between whites and Hispanics.[3] Of all suspects who are known to have been killed by police during the 7-year time frame, 41.7% were white, 31.7% were black, and 20.3% were Hispanic.</p>
<p>It is also worth noting that during the 2003-2009 period—when blacks were 31.7% of all suspects killed by an officer—blacks accounted for about 38.5% of all arrests for violent crimes, which are the types of crimes most likely to trigger a confrontation with police that could result in a fatality.[4]  These numbers do not in any way suggest a lack of restraint by police in their dealings with black suspects. On the contrary, they suggest the opposite.</p>
<p>The bottom line is this: Evidence of systemic racism in police shootings simply doesn&#8217;t exist. Anywhere.</p>
<p>But Al Sharpton and his ideological ilk have no use for facts like these. For Sharpton, the corpses of Michael Brown and Eric Garner are merely props to be exploited for the purpose of advancing the singular agenda he has had for more than 30 years, which is <i>to convince as many people as possible that America is, and always has been, an inherently racist wasteland that needs to be fundamentally transformed—economically, politically, and socially</i>. The facts of any specific case are irrelevant to Sharpton. For him, everything is about the larger agenda.</p>
<p>Nor is this anything new for Sharpton. Way back when this utterly pathetic individual was immersed in his equally pathetic Tawana Brawley “rape” hoax, one of his closest aides, Perry McKinnon—a former police officer, private investigator, and hospital security director—revealed the following: “Sharpton acknowledged to me early on that &#8216;the [Brawley] story do sound like bullsh**, but it don&#8217;t matter. We&#8217;re building a movement. This is the perfect issue. Because you&#8217;ve got whites on blacks. That&#8217;s an easy way to stir up all the deprived people … and all [you've] got to do is convince them that all white people are bad. Then you&#8217;ve got a movement.&#8217;”[5]</p>
<p>A quarter-century later, nothing—<i>absolutely nothing</i>—has changed.</p>
<p><b>NOTES:</b></p>
<p>[1] All calendar years from 1976 through 1998 are counted, thus 23 separate calendar years are included in the study. All told, approximately 8,578 suspects were killed by police during those 23 years. The annual totals ranged from a low of 296 to a high of 459. Data for a small handful of states is missing from this study, but the vast majority of police killings nationwide were counted.<br />
[2] “Hispanics” is a broad and nebulous term referring, generally, to people whose heritage can be traced to Spanish-speaking countries. The term was concocted for political purposes in 1970 by the Nixon administration. For an excellent explanation of the term&#8217;s origins and its subsequent ramifications, <a href="http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com/2005/09/how-richard-nixon-invented-hispanics.html"><span style="color: #011480;">click here</span></a>.<br />
[3] The data in this study are not entirely comprehensive, because not every U.S. state reported its overall statistics in every year that was examined. Nevertheless, the ratios uncovered in the report are highly illuminating.<br />
[4] The annual violent-crime arrest statistics for 2003-2009, broken down by race, can be found here: <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2003/03sec4.pdf">2003</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/persons_arrested/table_38-43.html">2004</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_43.html">2005</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_43.html">2006</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_43.html">2007</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_43.html">2008</a>, and <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_43.html">2009</a>.<b> </b><br />
[5] Richard T. Pienciak, “6 Interviews That Shook Tawana Team,” New York <i>Daily News</i> (June 16, 1988), p.4.</p>
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		<title>Liberals Go Crazy for the Mentally Ill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dems' solution to gun violence: let the insane roam the streets while impairing our right to self-defense. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ann-coulter/liberals-go-crazy-for-the-mentally-ill/1355722466804-cached-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-185259"><img class=" wp-image-185259 alignleft" title="1355722466804.cached" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1355722466804.cached.jpg" alt="" width="251" height="184" /></a>Obama has been draping himself in families of the children murdered in Newtown.</p>
<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats&#8217; gun proposals. (Let&#8217;s start with Meghan McCain!)</p>
<p>In a bizarre version of &#8220;A Christmas Carol,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Carol Costello fantasized about &#8220;a mother who lost her child,&#8221; showing up and knocking on Sen. Rand Paul&#8217;s door, saying, &#8220;Please don&#8217;t do this!&#8221;</p>
<p>The victims of gun violence are the left&#8217;s latest &#8220;human shields&#8221; &#8212; a term coined by me in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085SI81W/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0085SI81W&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=anncoulter-20">Godless: The Church of Liberalism</a> &#8211; for their idiotic ideas. At least it&#8217;s not the godawful Jersey Girls this time.</p>
<p>The one clear thread that unites all the mass murders currently being exploited by the Democrats is that they were committed by visibly crazy people who were unaccountably not institutionalized. But Democrats refuse to do anything about crazy people. Apparently, the views of families with relatives murdered by severely disturbed individuals are no longer relevant when it comes to institutionalizing the mentally ill.</p>
<p>If liberals had a decent argument for taking guns away from the law-abiding while doing nothing to prevent schizophrenics from getting guns, they&#8217;d make it. Manifestly, they don&#8217;t, so they send out victims to make the argument for them, knowing no one will argue with a person whose child has just been murdered.</p>
<p>This allows liberals to act as if Republicans&#8217; only counter-argument to their idiotic gun control proposals is: We don&#8217;t mind dead children.</p>
<p>The truth is the opposite. Republicans are pushing policies that will reduce gun violence; Democrats are pushing policies that will increase gun violence.</p>
<p>All the actual evidence &#8212; mountains of it, in peer-reviewed studies by highly respected economists and criminologists and endlessly retested &#8212; shows that limits on magazine capacity, background checks and assault weapons bans will accomplish nothing. Only one policy has been shown to dramatically reduce multiple public shootings: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226493660/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0226493660&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=anncoulter-20">concealed-carry laws</a>.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there are no similar studies on the effect of involuntary commitment laws for the mentally deranged because no such laws exist anymore and therefore can&#8217;t be tested. But we do know that the number of mass public shootings has ballooned since crazy people were thrown out of mental institutions in the 1970s.</p>
<p>For most of the 20th century, from 1900 to 1970, there was an average of four mass public shootings per decade. Throughout the &#8217;70s, as the loony bins were being emptied, the average number of mass shootings suddenly shot up to 13. In the 3.3 decades since 1980, after all the mental institutions had been turned into condos, mass shootings skyrocketed to 36 on average per decade.</p>
<p>Mass shootings don&#8217;t correlate with gun ownership; they correlate with not locking up schizophrenics.</p>
<p>Mental illness was blindingly clear in the case of Seung-Hui Cho, who committed mass murder at Virginia Tech. Jared Loughner showed signs of schizophrenia for at least five years before he shot up the Tucson shopping mall. James Holmes was being treated for mental illness long before his massacre at the Aurora movie theater. It was clear to Adam Lanza&#8217;s mother &#8212; nearly the only person who had contact with him &#8212; that he was mentally disturbed and had violent fantasies. (Three-quarters of matricides are committed by the mentally ill.)</p>
<p>We can add paranoid schizophrenic One L. Goh, who committed a mass murder at a Christian college in California last year, and the Muslim Army major, Nidal Hasan, known to be crazier than an MSNBC host, who killed 13 and injured 30 in a &#8220;gun-free&#8221; area of the Fort Hood Army base a couple years ago. For hundreds more examples of the mentally ill committing murder, read E. Fuller Torrey&#8217;s book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393341372/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0393341372&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=anncoulter-20">The Insanity Offense: How America&#8217;s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens</a>.</p>
<p>But Democrats simply will not address the one thing that is screaming out from all of these mass murders, which is that they were committed by crazy people.</p>
<p>As soon as the issue of mental illness came up at a Senate hearing on gun violence in January, Sen. Al Franken leapt in to say: &#8220;I want to be careful here &#8212; that we don&#8217;t stigmatize mental illness. The vast majority of people with mental illness are no more violent than the rest of the population.&#8221;</p>
<p>Liberals at ThinkProgress.org and The Huffington Post hailed Franken for his sensitivity. Can we check with the families of the children murdered by crazy people on the danger of &#8220;stigmatizing&#8221; the mentally ill?</p>
<p>Contrary to Franken&#8217;s claim, some of the mentally ill are far more likely to be violent. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, schizophrenics and similarly disturbed individuals are three times more likely to commit a violent crime than others.</p>
<p>The mentally ill are also more likely to be the victims of violence. Ask the sisters of the crazy homeless woman &#8220;Billie Boggs&#8221; how grateful they were to the ACLU for keeping Boggs out on the street.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the only target of Democrats&#8217; gun proposals &#8212; legal gun owners &#8212; are less likely to commit violent crimes than others. To the contrary, armed civilians justifiably kill about 1,500-2,800 felons a year, compared to 300-600 legal killings by the police. Responsible armed citizens protecting us from violent criminals should be subsidized rather than taxed and harassed.</p>
<p>After five mass shootings by deranged lunatics, even liberals know that the only policy &#8212; apart from concealed-carry laws &#8212; that might have stopped these shootings are laws permitting the institutionalization of the mentally ill.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why they keep claiming their gun bills address mental illness. Warning: Read the bill. You will find nothing in any of the Democrats&#8217; &#8220;gun safety&#8221; proposals that will make it easier to commit a crazy person or to prevent him from buying a gun.</p>
<p>The Democrats&#8217; argument for doing absolutely nothing about the dangerously mentally ill, while disarming crime-preventing armed citizens is: Tell it to this weeping mother. If the Democrats&#8217; &#8220;gun safety&#8221; bill passes, there&#8217;ll be plenty more weeping mothers to tell it to.</p>
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		<title>Doing the Research the NY Times Won&#8217;t Do</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ann-coulter/doing-the-research-the-ny-times-wont-do/new-york-times-5/" rel="attachment wp-att-172936"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-172936" title="new-york-times" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/new-york-times1-450x327.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="196" /></a>In Sunday&#8217;s New York Times, Elisabeth Rosenthal claimed, as the title of her article put it, &#8220;More Guns = More Killing.&#8221; She based this on evidence that would never be permitted in any other context at the Times: (1) anecdotal observations; and (2) bald assertions of an activist, blandly repeated with absolutely no independent fact-checking by the Times.</p>
<p>There is an academic, peer-reviewed, long-term study of the effect of various public policies on public, multiple shootings in all 50 states over a 20-year period performed by renowned economists at the University of Chicago and Yale, William Landes and John Lott. It concluded that the only policy to reduce the incidence of, and casualties from, mass shootings are concealed-carry laws. The Times will never mention this study.</p>
<p>Instead, Rosenthal&#8217;s column proclaimed that armed guards do not reduce crime because: &#8220;I recently visited some Latin American countries &#8230; where guards with guns grace every office lobby, storefront, ATM, restaurant and gas station. It has not made those countries safer or saner.&#8221;</p>
<p>So there you have it: The cock crowed, then the sun came up. Therefore, the cock&#8217;s crowing caused the sun to come up. Rosenthal went to Harvard Medical School.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a tip: High-crime areas are often bristling with bulletproof glass, heavy-duty locks, gated windows and armed guards. The bulletproof glass doesn&#8217;t cause the crime; it&#8217;s a response to crime. On Rosenthal&#8217;s logic, hospitals kill people because more people die in hospitals than outside of them.</p>
<p>(In any event, the Lott-Landes study didn&#8217;t recommend armed guards, but armed citizens.)</p>
<p>Rosenthal also produces a demonstrably false statistic about Australia&#8217;s gun laws, as if it&#8217;s a fact that has been carefully vetted by the Newspaper of Record, throwing in the true source only at the tail-end of the paragraph:</p>
<p>&#8220;After a gruesome mass murder in 1996 provoked public outrage, Australia enacted stricter gun laws, including a 28-day waiting period before purchase and a ban on semiautomatic weapons. &#8230; Since, rates of both homicide and suicide have dropped 50 percent &#8230;,&#8221; <strong><em>said Ms. Peters, who lobbied for the legislation.&#8221;</em></strong></p>
<p>&#8220;Ms. Peters&#8221; is Rebecca Peters, a George Soros-funded, Australian anti-gun activist so extreme that she had to resign from the International Action Network on Small Arms so as not to discredit the U.N.-recognized organization &#8212; which isn&#8217;t easy to further discredit.</p>
<p>Could the Times&#8217; public editor weigh in on whether unsubstantiated quotes from radical activists are now considered full and complete evidence at the Times?</p>
<p>It would be as if the Times headlined an article, &#8220;Abortion Increases Risk of Breast Cancer&#8221; with the sole support being a quote from Operation Rescue&#8217;s Randall Terry. (Except Terry would have evidence.)</p>
<p>Whether or not the homicide rate went up or down in Australia as a result of strict gun control laws imposed in 1997 is a fact that could have been checked by Times researchers. But they didn&#8217;t, because facts wouldn&#8217;t have given them the answer they wanted.</p>
<p>Needless to say, the effect of Australia&#8217;s gun ban has been extensively researched by Australian academics. As numerous studies have shown: After the gun ban, gun homicides in Australia did not decline any more than they were expected to without a gun ban.</p>
<p>Thus, for example, according to the Australian Institute of Criminology, the homicide rate has been in steady decline from 1969 to the present, with only one marked uptick in 1998-99 &#8212; right after the gun ban was enacted.</p>
<p>The showstopper for anti-gun activists like Ms. Rosenthal and Ms. Peters is the fact that suicides by firearm seemed to decrease more than expected after the 1997 gun ban.</p>
<p>But so did suicides by other means. Something other than the gun ban must have caused people to stop guzzling poison and jumping off bridges. (Some speculate that it&#8217;s the availability of anti-depressants like Prozac.)</p>
<p>Curiously &#8212; and not mentioned by Rosenthal &#8212; the number of accidental firearms deaths skyrocketed after Australia&#8217;s 1997 gun ban, although the law included stringent gun training requirements.</p>
<p>It turns out, until the coroner has certified a death as a &#8220;suicide,&#8221; it&#8217;s classified as &#8220;unintentional.&#8221; So either mandatory gun training has led to more accidents, or a lot of suicides are ending up in the &#8220;accident&#8221; column.</p>
<p>Most pinheadedly, especially for a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, Rosenthal says: &#8220;Before (the gun ban), Australia had averaged one mass shooting a year. (Since then,) there have been no mass killings.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mass murder is a rare enough crime that any statistician will tell you discerning trends is impossible. In this country, the FBI doesn&#8217;t even track mass murder as a specific crime category.</p>
<p>After Truman Capote&#8217;s &#8220;In Cold Blood&#8221; killers slaughtered the entire Clutter family in Holcomb, Kan., the murder rate in that quiet farming town went up 400 percent in a single year! Was it Holcomb&#8217;s big showing at the 4-H club competition that year?</p>
<p>Totally unbeknownst to Elisabeth Rosenthal, Australian academics have already examined the mass murder rate by firearm by comparing Australia to a control country: New Zealand. (Do they teach &#8220;control groups&#8221; at Harvard?)</p>
<p>New Zealand is strikingly similar to Australia. Both are isolated island nations, demographically and socioeconomically similar. Their mass murder rate before Australia&#8217;s gun ban was nearly identical: From 1980 to 1996, Australia&#8217;s mass murder rate was 0.0042 incidents per 100,000 people and New Zealand&#8217;s was 0.0050 incidents per 100,000 people.</p>
<p>The principal difference is that, post-1997, New Zealand remained armed to the teeth &#8212; including with guns that were suddenly banned in Australia.</p>
<p>While it&#8217;s true that Australia has had no more mass shootings since its gun ban, neither has New Zealand, despite continuing to be massively armed.</p>
<p>The only thing Australia&#8217;s strict gun control laws has clearly accomplished is increasing the amount of violent crime committed with guns immediately after the ban took effect. Of course, Times reporters don&#8217;t have to worry about violent muggings, rapes and robberies because they live in doorman buildings.</p>
<p>For those who can&#8217;t afford fancy doorman buildings, bad journalism kills.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leftist dog whistle that promotes hatred of rural America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/gun-culture-and-gun-control-culture/1-300x298/" rel="attachment wp-att-170092"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-170092" title="1-300x298" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/1-300x298.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="231" /></a>Hardly had the blood been scrubbed off the floors in Newtown than everyone who was anyone had begun shifting the blame from Adam Lanza to some intangible social failure.</p>
<p>Back in 2002, Michael Moore trundled his bulk over to Colorado to exploit the Columbine massacre for a general rant about gun culture, American foreign policy and how hard it was to find a shop selling bacon grease by the ton at two in the morning.</p>
<p>In his film, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary, Moore gave his audience what they wanted, lots of scenes of &#8220;hicks and hillbillies&#8221; buying, selling and giving away guns all over the place to illustrate the murderous ravages of American gun culture. Some of those scenes were staged, but it didn&#8217;t matter since Moore was catering to an audience that had nothing but contempt for working class Americans and would believe any awful thing about them.</p>
<p>What did gun culture have to do with a plot by two disgruntled dorks with tastes in pop culture far afield from the rural gun-loving dystopia that Moore was doing his best to depict? About as much as gun culture has to do with headcases like Adam Lanza or Jared Loughner.</p>
<p>Your average school shooter is unhappy and angry, irreligious, incapable of fitting into a community and filled with rage that he exercises through violent fantasies. His culture isn’t gun culture. It’s loner culture. Video games do not cause him to kill, but they are how he entertains himself until he can get a taste of the real thing.</p>
<p>Adam Lanza, Dylan Kleibold, Eric Harris, Seung-Hui Cho, James Holmes, One L. Goh and Jared Loughner had as much in common with what the Michael Moore Fan Club thinks of as &#8220;gun culture&#8221; as Michael Moore does with the working class. Whatever gun culture they had was not the American Scots-Irish culture of the hunter, the rancher and the militia member, but the urban posse of emasculated men of no worth that brandish weapons as a way to get respect.</p>
<p>The gun culture of the school shooter is the lobby scene in The Matrix, the frag or be fragged multiplayer gaming culture of Halo and Doom, and the Joker killing his way across Gotham. None of these products of mass entertainment make one a killer, but they are also far more illustrative of the type of gun culture that defines school shooters, than anything that Michael Moore and the MSNBC talking heads mean by gun culture.</p>
<p>For most Americans there is no gun culture, only the ownership of guns. To the extent that any gun culture has developed it was in response to a gun-control culture that sought to demonize the ownership of firearms. The traditional and religious culture of the American gun owner has little in common with the power fantasies of the school shooter. To the gun owner, a firearm is a necessary tool. To the school shooter, it is a way to stop feeling powerless, a way to get beyond the ersatz joys of killing bots and avatars, of watching Keanu Reeves spin through the air while filling a mob of policemen full of lead, with the joy of the real kill.</p>
<p>For all the loose talk about American gun culture, no one really seems to be able to define what it is. Defining gun culture by the entertainment industry drifts too far into Hollywood and Detroit, and away from the rural culture that is the real target of gun-control culture.</p>
<p>Instead there are a thousand articles written in children&#8217;s blood crying out, &#8220;We can&#8217;t just do nothing.&#8221; Something must be done. Now. Last week. If only we ban more weapons, we can be as safe as Norway, home of the worst shooting spree of all, or Connecticut, which already has an assault weapons ban. For the children&#8230; who had no one to protect them when a gunman came to their school and will still have no one to protect them when gun-control culture gets its way.</p>
<p>After these come a torrent of armchair psychology analyses of America&#8217;s gun culture, which are only slightly more elegant versions of Michael Moore&#8217;s thesis about rural America. And those are what gun culture is really about. After all how can you be confident of your own superiority unless you have a documentary and a hundred articles affirming it for you by the traditional method of putting down the people at the bottom of the ladder.</p>
<p>What liberals think of as gun culture is really shorthand for rural America. It&#8217;s what liberals won&#8217;t say, but it&#8217;s what they mean. Americans are still sentimental about the village, so, for now, the number of movies that portray the rural community as ideal, rather than a hive of small-minded bigots, is still rather high. But there are backdoor ways of getting at the same topic, and talking about gun culture is one of them.</p>
<p>When liberals talk about &#8220;gun culture&#8221;, they mean the same thing that Barack Obama did when he told his San Francisco fundraiser friends about the people out there who still cling to their bibles and their guns. It isn&#8217;t about the guns really, though gun-control culture is worried about having that much personal autonomy in the hands of people who don&#8217;t share their values and like their independence, it&#8217;s about rural America. And rural America, like guns, is another symbol that stands in for traditional America.</p>
<p>The left cannot talk about how much it hates this country. Gun culture is one of its dog whistles. Talking about gun culture allows the left to publicly vent its hatred for America. But the truth about gun culture is that the left has a great deal more in common with Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, Adam Lanza and Jared Loughner. Far more than those shooters had with any phantom conservative gun culture.</p>
<p>The American left, like any high school shooter, is bitter, angry, disgruntled and filled with contempt for the rest of the country. Stuck in a country made of flyover country, the left treats Americans to their own Columbine Massacre every time it defends criminals and terrorists, every time it wrecks American manufacturing and laughs all the way to the bank as it bankrupts Americans.</p>
<p>And both the left and the shooters agree that the people should not have guns.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/pc-insanity-cripples-our-military/troops-9/" rel="attachment wp-att-169879"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-169879" title="troops" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/troops.jpg" alt="" width="216" height="141" /></a>A proposed new handbook for soldiers serving in the Middle East reveals an alarming level of political correctness that infests the military chain of command. The 75-page document <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/12/proposed-army-manual-tells-gis-not-to-insult-taliban-speak-up-for-women/">suggests</a> that American ignorance of Taliban culture is chiefly responsible for the spate of so-called green-on-blue attacks by Afghan trainees on their American trainers, that have claimed the lives of 63 coalition troops this year alone. The manual is still in the drafting stages, but an <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324024004578171561230647852.html">article</a> published by the <em>Wall Street Journal </em>reeks of the typically leftist &#8220;blame America first&#8221; mentality that should enrage every American.</p>
<p>The leaked manual, <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/draft-army-manual-tells-soldiers-to-avoid-criticizing-taliban-pedophilia-or-advocating-for-womens-rights/">characterized</a> by the <em>WSJ</em> as the “final coordinating draft,” offers a list of “taboo conversation topics” soldiers should avoid. These including “making derogatory comments about the Taliban,” “advocating women’s rights,” “any criticism of pedophilia,” “directing any criticism towards Afghans,” “mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct” or “anything related to Islam.” In short, a combination of self-censorship and subservience to Islamist culture&#8211;self-imposed dhimmitude if you will&#8211;is seen as the key to countering the murderous behavior of Afghan trainees.</p>
<p>The handbook continues: “Bottom line: Troops may experience social-cultural shock and/or discomfort when interacting with [Afghan security forces,]” it states. “Better situational awareness/understanding of Afghan culture will help better prepare [troops] to more effectively partner and to avoid cultural conflict that can lead toward green-on-blue violence.”</p>
<p>You know what <em>really </em>facilitates green-on-blue violence? Armed Afghan trainees in the presence of their <em>unarmed</em> American counterparts. Unbelievably, until the policy was quietly <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/082012-622865-obama-exposed-troops-to-afghan-insider-attacks.htm?p=full">rescinded</a> last August, American soldiers were required to remove their magazines from their weapons, while quartered inside bases with their armed Afghan trainees. That insidious policy was promoted as a &#8220;gesture of trust&#8221; directed towards our Afghan &#8220;partners.&#8221; It took 21 deaths in 2011, followed by an additional 40 deaths in 2012, for military brass to reach the painfully obvious conclusion that it wasn&#8217;t working.</p>
<p>In September, the training of Afghan troops was <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/blaming_our_troops_gsNkgSOnejhkmabM2KA6TI">temporarily</a> suspended. It was then Americans got their first hint regarding the mindset that has apparently reached fruition with this handbook. Islamic &#8220;sensitivity training&#8221; was stepped up. A list of orders troops were expected to obey&#8211;or face severe punishment&#8211;included the following: wear surgical gloves whenever handling a copy of the Koran; never walk in front of a praying Muslim; never show the bottom of boots while sitting or lying across from a Muslim, considered an insult in Islam; never share photos of wives or daughters; never smoke or eat in front of Muslims during the monthlong Ramadan fasting; avoid winking, cursing or nose-blowing in the presence of Muslims, all viewed as insults; avoid exiting the shower without a towel; avoid offering and accepting things with the left hand, which in Islam is reserved for bodily hygiene, and considered unclean.</p>
<p>A senior US Army intelligence official illuminated the insanity. “The Afghans that know we’re doing all this PC cultural sensitivity crap are laughing their asses off at our stupidity,&#8221; he contended.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, as this new handbook indicates, such thinking is in the minority among military leaders. Yet one leader, U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, the top military commander in Afghanistan, is apparently dismayed by this latest effrontery to American men and women in harm&#8217;s way. &#8220;Gen. Allen did not author, nor does he intend to provide, a foreword,&#8221; said Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan. &#8220;He does not approve of its contents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Those contents are a testament to the poisonous multiculturalism that has apparently moved seamlessly from mainstream American culture into what ought to be the last bastion of resistance against it. Thus, the draft handbook includes a summary stating that some U.S. soldiers consider Afghan forces to be “basically stupid” thieves, &#8220;gutless in combat,&#8221; &#8220;profoundly dishonest&#8221; and engaged in &#8220;treasonous collusion and alliances with enemy forces.&#8221; Apparently any negative reaction by American soldiers to 63 insider deaths or the rigors of a decade-plus of combat are completely unjustified.</p>
<p>Nothing about this handbook should surprise anyone. It is little more than another facet of the Obama administration&#8217;s ongoing effort to diminish the reality of Islamist extremism, lest it interfere with their &#8220;outreach&#8221; initiatives. Those initiatives include a <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/hundreds-fbi-documents-muslims/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))">document purge</a> at the FBI, removing 700 pages of documentation from approximately 300 presentations given to agents since 9/11, a Justice Department <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/03/senate-hearing-to-protect-muslim-civil-rights/">program</a> to protect Islamic civil rights, Homeland Security meetings <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/napolitano-meets-with-muslim-brotherhood-leaders-pjm-exclusive/">conducted</a> between Janet Napolitano and extremist Muslim organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and establishing Muslim outreach as the <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0714/NASA-chief-says-agency-s-goal-is-Muslim-outreach-forgets-to-mention-space">primary goal</a> of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).</p>
<p>The version reviewed by the <em>Journal</em> is still subject to revisions,  Lt. Gen. David Perkins, commander of the Army&#8217;s Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., told the newspaper. Given the leanings of this administration, one is left to wonder whether such revisions might push the envelope on political correctness even further. Counter-jihad activist Pamela Gellar <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/12/new-army-manual-orders-soldiers-not-to-criticize-taliban-pedophilia-anything-related-to-islam-or-adv.html">reveals</a> the reality of ideological bankruptcy that has been elevated to the level of military policy. &#8220;Mass beheadings, gendercide, gassing of girls&#8217; schools, mass slaughter of non-believers and less than devout Muslims, attacks on US soldiers, acid attacks on women, brutal burka enforcement&#8230;must not be criticized,&#8221; she writes.</p>
<p>Yet it was the grief-stricken father of a Marine slain during one of the insider attacks whose <a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/08/20/my-son-trained-somebody-to-murder-him.html">words</a> should haunt everyone associated with this PC-inspired debacle. &#8220;At the end of the day, what happened is my son trained somebody to murder him,” Greg Buckley Sr. said at the funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Gregory T. Buckley&#8211;aged 21. And a new army handbook contends that at least part of such carnage is the fault of American soldiers&#8217; cultural insensitivity. Pathetic.</p>
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