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“You listen to a justice like Antonin Scalia, not the most liberal justice who’d served on the Supreme Court, and even he found that there is no absolute guarantee under the Second Amendment and that the government does have a power to regulate those kinds of weapons that are extraordinarily unusual or deadly,” the former Texas congressman said on CNN Wednesday night.
— Beto O’Rourke, CNN, via Fox News, September 19, 2019
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Canada’s progressive prime minister, Justin Trudeau apologized after a 2001 photo emerged in a Time magazine report showing him wearing brown-face makeup to an “Arabian Nights” party at the private school where he was teaching.
“I shouldn’t have done that. I should have known better, but I didn’t and I’m really sorry,” Trudeau told reporters. “I take responsibility for my decision to do that. I shouldn’t have done that. I should’ve known better. It was something that I didn’t think was racist at the time but now I recognize that it was something racist to do and I’m deeply sorry.”
— Fox News, September 19, 2019
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LOS ANGELES – Ed Buck, the California Democratic megadonor, was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house after a third man reportedly suffered an overdose inside his West Hollywood home last week and survived.
— Fox News, September 18, 2019
Ed Buck, a prominent Democrat, party donor, and gay activist was arrested. He was charged with battery and running a drug house in L.A. This isn’t Buck’s first brush with the law, however. Why hasn’t the L.A. County district attorney brought down the hammer before on Buck?
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While most drones can carry only relatively small payloads, this will not deter terrorists. Several terrorists working together can launch an attack using several small drones, each carrying approximately a pound of explosives with shrapnel and triggered to explode by radio signal or by cell phone. Alternatively, a single terrorist could use a heavy-lift drone to transport explosives and explode them over the target, or to drop an explosive device near a specific target or into a crowd.
— Dr. Brian Blodgett, In Homeland Security, May 6, 2019
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The New York Times suddenly made a major revision to a supposed bombshell piece late Sunday concerning a resurfaced allegation of sexual assault by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — hours after virtually all 2020 Democratic presidential candidates had cited the original article as a reason to impeach Kavanaugh.
The update included the significant detail that several friends of the alleged victim said she did not recall the purported sexual assault in question at all. The Times also stated for the first time that the alleged victim refused to be interviewed, and has made no comment about the episode.
— Fox News, September 16, 2019
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The American College of Physicians says its mission is to promote the “quality and effectiveness of health care,” but it’s stepped out of its lane recently with sweeping statements on gun control. And that isn’t the only recent foray into politics by medical professionals. During my term as associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school, I was chastised by a faculty member for not including a program on climate change in the course of study. As the Journal reported last month, such programs are spreading across medical schools nationwide.
— Stanley Goldfarb, MD, WSJ Opinion, September 12, 2019
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“To equate what goes on in Venezuela to what I believe is extremely unfair,” Sanders countered.
— Bernie Sanders, Democratic Debate, CBS News, September 13, 2019
There are no Mariachi bands in Bernie Sanders’ version of socialism? No economic collapse. No food shortages. No overrun hospitals. No government jackboots and paid street thugs enforcing the government’s will. No Nicolás Maduro and his ironfisted disaster… in Venezuela – once a stable, peaceful, and prosperous nation.
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“As of today’s confirmation votes, Trump and McConnell have confirmed 150 judges to the federal bench — a group that can overwhelmingly be described as narrow-minded and elitist, favoring corporations and the powerful over the interests of all Americans,” said Marge Baker, executive vice president of the People for the American Way.
— The Washington Times, September 11, 2019
People for the American Way, a misnamed left-wing outfit is in full grouse mode. Why? Because President Trump just made his 150th appointment to the federal bench. The pace and number of appointments are historic, per the Washington Times. But there’s much more.
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“They made the decision we didn’t have to make.”
Those are the words of Lt. Col. Marc Sasseville, as recalled 18 years later in a new account of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks from the perspective of decision-makers in Washington, survivors, military service members and the families of those aboard United Flight 93, which was hijacked before passengers fought back and brought the plane down.
— Fox News, September 11, 2019
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A premature U.S. pullout from Afghanistan will fulfill the late Osama bin Laden’s prophecy, which he based on America’s Vietnam experience, that the United States has no staying power and all the terrorists have to do is wait us out.
— Cal Thomas, Washington Times, September 9, 2019
President Trump has the audacity to want to wind down the Afghanistan occupation. It’s an occupation, because almost 18 years later is it still a war?
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