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December 18 –

TSA, THE MOST USELESS GOV'T AGENCY …
ISRAEL'S PROTECTION OF SCHOOLS …
WHY ONE RICH GUY WANTS HIGHER TAXES


Chew on it, Democrats: The new black member of the U.S. Senate is Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina!


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If you have holiday plans that involve air travel, remember this: The TSA Gestapo that hassles and delays people at the airport are part of an agency that has never caught even one terrorist. Yet it eats up seven billion tax dollars per year. Plus, of course, whatever “prohibited” items its agents can steal from travelers. (We don't really believe many of those items don't go home with the airport TSA agents, do we?)

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Consider this. Israel, subjected to endless terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings, is a place where children are no more immune to mindless murder than anyone else. Yet schools seem to be off-limits to Muslim murderers. Why? The answer is obvious. Schools are protected by guards with GUNS.
    If we shed some of the deadweight teachers and administrators – there are plenty of both – armed guards wouldn't even increase costs.


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Among the many disgraceful excesses by the media in their coverage of the Connecticut massacre, fraught as it is with misinformation, is their treatment of autism and its victims. Autism, in and of itself, is not an indicator of a hidden proclivity for violence.
    I know from experience in my own family that there are many autistic people who live quiet, unthreatening – and often productive – lives while handicapped by a little-understood condition that needs far more attention than it has gotten.


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Some perspective from Wes Pruden …
    “'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and which is more, you'll be a man. . . '
    “Well, maybe. But Kipling is an old guy who has nothing to say to us. Being a man is not even the proper 21st century response to crisis. We’re all modern here, so we must emulate frightened, hysterical old women like Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City, who thinks he knows how to silence the guns. President Obama should ignore Congress and write out an executive order tomorrow morning to make the streets safe for everyone, including all the little kitties.”
 … and on the media frenzy ...

    “Bob Schieffer of CBS News is relieved that the Connecticut shooter is a good Judeo-Christian American: 'If this person had had, I’m sorry to say this, but if he had had an Arab name people would be going nuts about what we ought to do right now.' What an odd thing to say. People with Arab names have done evil things sometimes – the Fort Hood massacre comes to mind – and there’s no record of anybody going nuts over it. But it sounds like the right thing to say.”

Of course, anyone with a functioning brain knows that Schieffer is an aged punk leftist boot-licker.


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I've talked many times with John Lott, a college professor who was once opposed to legal gun ownership then did a total turnaround once he seriously studied the relationship between guns, crime – and defenselessness.
    Now Prof. Lott tells Newsmax that gun-free zones become “a magnet” for deranged killers who hope to burn their names into the history books by running up a big body count.

    He said there is a “very good chance” the Connecticut school shooting could have been averted, if teachers there were permitted to carry concealed handguns. It is no accident, he said, that mass shootings repeatedly have occurred in designated gun-free zones, which attract lunatics looking to murder as many souls as possible before they turn their guns on themselves.

    Of course.

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Call me paranoid, but take note that even as Obama is arming a “civilian” force for unspecified purposes, he is trying to
disarm citizens, using the Connecticut tragedy as a launching platform for more anti-gun ownership laws.
    Bonus tip to Obama: If you're going to wipe away a tear on TV, remember -- they come from the inside corner of the eye, not the outside. If you're going to phony it up, at least be accurate.


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Only the willfully blind can fail to note that many of those who grieve over the killing of school children have no problem with the murder that is disguised as “partial-birth” abortion, the procedure in which a living baby being born is stabbed in the brain by scissors.

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Reader Art offers this …
   “At this time of year we are constantly reminded of the 'division of church and state.'  Nativity scenes are banned from the public square, we are told that those decorated evergreens are 'Holiday Trees' and prayers in school have long been prohibited.
      “Yet in the response to the tragedy in Newtown, politicians ask us all to pray for the victims and their families.  The president said he delivered 'the love and prayers of a nation' and reminded the people that 'God had called them all home.'  He also promised to use 'whatever power this office holds' to safeguard our children, and presumably the rest of us as well.
    “Is there any chance that these actions might include a new acceptance and allowance of a religious based morality that isn't mandated, but is no longer generally acknowledged."

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If Republican House Speaker John Boehner gives in and allows Obama tax increases with no cuts in government wasteful spending, there is one word that describes him. Whore.

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Of
course I believe Hillary fell and got a concussion (even though she didn't even go to a hospital) and is thus unable to testify about her role in the Beghazi, Libya, murders of Americans.
    Now, excuse me while I make up my list for Santa …


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Two days ago in this space I related a conversation with a gentleman from Turkey, who said the situation re oppression of even fellow Muslims in his country by the supporters of medieval Sharia law – including the current Turkish president – was far worse than reported in the U.S. because that man and Obama are friends.
    Now comes word of the latest step backward. Students applying for admission to universities in Turkey are being subjected to a rigid test on Sharia law and other aspects of Islamic fundamentalism so that those fanatics who have attended the Turkish equivalent of the madrassas that turn out terrorists in Pakistan and elsewhere are favored.


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Warren Buffett and assorted other rich hypocrites are pushing for a higher death tax. So are life insurance companies that make big bucks selling the life insurance policies to people who want to protect their families from the robbery that
is the “inheritance tax.”
    We can be sure it's just coincidence that Mr. Buffett owns
seven insurance companies.

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Michael Goodwin (NY Post) reflects upon the martyrdom of St. Susan ...
     "When it comes to metaphors for the Obama administration, it is hard to top the rise and fall of Susan Rice. Her ascension to the inner circle was born of her loyalty to candidate Obama, and she failed to become secretary of state because she was loyal to President Obama instead of the truth.
     "The sacrifice of Rice is just another bump in the road to shielding Obama from accountability for the Benghazi debacle. Her loss is his gain. He wanted her to have the job, but not at his expense, so she fell on HIS sword.
     "Even better, he could blame Republicans. It’s another convenient lie, with even liberal human-rights groups accusing Rice of coddling African warlords and genocidal maniacs. False, too, was the bid to paint her critics as racists and sexists. The shock is that so many yahoos still swallow such boob bait."

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"One of the great lessons in the age of Obama is that wealth and poverty will always remain relative. Happiness is now defined not as having the basics I need, but as ensuring that someone else does not have more. Obama has successfully appealed to the oldest and basest of human emotions — envy and jealousy, masked with the notion of enforced fairness — and for now they trump even the human desire to be free." -- Victor Davis Hanson

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Adam Carolla on the tactics employed by Democrats ...
    "They always say tax 'the rich.' Who's 'the rich'? I'm not rich. I'm successful. They never say 'tax the hard-working' or 'tax the successful.' They say 'the rich' because it's easier to deal with their inability to be successful by attributing others' success to luck."


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Wesley Pruden's thoughts on the Obamunism of our military ...
     "Barack Obama says he's a Christian. Good for him (and for the Gospel). But rarely has a Christian paid such obeisance to another faith and ideology. The president's bow and scrape to Islam knows no end. That's not so good.
      "The U.S. Army is soon to issue a handbook instructing soldiers to copy Mr. Obama's example of when and how to defer to an alien ideology that stands against everything Americans are taught, whether by faith, ethics, morals or another code of good conduct.
      "The new manual, which runs to 75 pages, orders American military personnel to refrain from saying anything to offend the Taliban in Afghanistan, to be careful not to criticize the practice of sexual relations with children, the abuse of women, beheadings, massacres of girls and the killing of 'unbelievers' and Muslims who Taliban enforcers regard as insufficiently devout in the faith. Holding to what they have been taught, whether at Sunday school or a mother's knee, is presumably OK for American soldiers, at least for now. But they must keep such ideas to themselves."

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As the Jets lost to Tennessee, even the diehards must admit a couple of things …
    #1 – Rex Ryan is a terrible, dumb coach.

    #2 – Mark Sanchez is yet another big-name college quarterback who only looked like a star only because he played on a powerhouse college team, USC.


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Sage advice from the sagacious Mr. Eason …
     "Alcohol does not solve any problems, ...but then neither does milk."

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The Sky-guy circulates this one …
After a tiring day, a commuter settled down in her seat and closed her eyes as the train rolled out of the station.
As the train moved out, the guy sitting next to her pulled out his cell phone and started talking in a loud voice: "Hi sweetheart. It's Eric. I'm on the train. Yes, I know it's the six-thirty and not the four-thirty, but I had a long meeting. No, honey, not with that blonde from the accounts office. I'm with the boss.”
“No sweetheart, you're the only one in my life. Yes, I'm sure, cross my heart!"

Fifteen minutes later he was still talking loudly, when the young woman sitting next to him had enough and leaned over and said into the phone, "Eric, turn that phone off and come back to bed."

Eric doesn't use his cell phone in public any longer.

Lee Rodgers"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."
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