Tuesday, May 31, 2022

TLDR DIGEST 5/22-29

 “It's also not a great look when DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was caught being unaware that the woman he hired had a series of cringeworthy and inaccurate TikTok videos about disinformation. Janky is a Russian collusion peddler and thought the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian PSYOP. The woman tasked with policing disinformation was herself a bastion of…disinformation. I don't need to remind you of this embarrassing fiasco that engulfed the DHS. So, Janky left, and the thought police squad was put on hold for now. It could come back.”

Ex-Biden Thought Police Chief Throws a Tantrum That Exposes DHS' True Goal

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/05/23/ex-head-of-biden-thought-police-attacking-me-is-a-national-security-threat-n2607554?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=272301c8f377cb4769525192b29cae221c10bb65c600b80a9e95a953d91ba2a2&recip=28870245


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“If Nina Jankowicz is a disinformation expert, why was her new board caught off guard and unprepared for a nefarious disinformation campaign and why didn't she know how to counter it?”


https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1527477129608167424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1527477129608167424%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fmattvespa%2F2022%2F05%2F23%2Fex-head-of-biden-thought-police-attacking-me-is-a-national-security-threat-n2607554


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“The surge in the early vote in Georgia shows that all the smears about the state’s new voting law, repeated by everyone from the president of the United States on down, were complete nonsense — a fevered fantasy that the credulous and fanatical believed because they didn’t know better, and the cynical and opportunistic believed because it served their purposes.”


The Big Lie about Georgia Voting Has Been Shredded

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/the-big-lie-about-georgia-voting-has-been-shredded/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=second


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“What Princeton is preparing to do gives off a revolting odor of using a long-settled matter as a pretext to punish one of its most distinguished professors because he dared to challenge race orthodoxy. The impression Princeton is creating is that elite institutions are now moving into punishing dissent from the leftist catechism by veering off into character assassination. The potential for a catastrophic chilling effect on academic freedom of thought is obvious. Princeton should take a deep breath and rethink whether appeasing the mob of race obsessives is worth the reputational damage to a nearly 300-year-old institution.”


Academic Freedom under Threat at Princeton

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/academic-freedom-under-threat-at-princeton/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=third


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“"The answer can't always be that someone from a marginalized community is automatically right — trump card, mic drop, end of discussion.  Because we're literally experimenting on children.”


Bill Maher: At This Rate 'We Will All Be Gay by 2054'

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/bill-maher-lgbtq-sexuality-children/2022/05/22/id/1070928/


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“The White House quickly tried to deny that the president meant what he seemed to be saying.”


https://twitter.com/rafsanchez/status/1528636538812260357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528708904028356608%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fspencerbrown%2F2022%2F05%2F23%2Fwhite-house-scrambles-to-clean-up-on-aisle-biden-after-another-botched-speech-abr-n2607655


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“Social Justice and Green New Deal dalliances were tolerated when things were good and dividends were rising. Shareholders may turn ugly when results turn red. The red wave coming in November may mean even more heartburn for these woke titans of business.”


The Day of Reckoning for Woke CEO's Is At Hand

https://townhall.com/columnists/gilgutknecht/2022/05/22/the-day-of-reckoning-for-woke-ceos-is-at-hand-n2607616


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"Senior FBI leaders refused to identify Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann as the source of evidence suggesting illicit back channel communications between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank, concealing Sussmann’s identity from the rank-and-file agents as they investigated the alleged Trump-Russia connection in 2016, FBI agent Ryan Gaynor testified Monday in Sussmann’s false-statement trial.


"FBI agent Ryan Gaynor — who “tracked” the course of the investigation from FBI headquarters in D.C. while it was carried out by agents in Chicago — was the focus of the defense’s efforts on Monday...


"Notably, Gaynor said that agents in Chicago repeatedly asked to be able to interview the source of the information (Sussmann), but that he denied them that opportunity because he had been told that senior FBI leadership placed a “close hold” on the source’s identity, limiting its distribution...Gaynor said that knowledge of Sussmann’s identity and professional connections would have altered the resulting investigation into the Trump-Alfa Bank evidence, calling Sussmann’s motivations “key” in determining what level of investigation to open."


Top FBI Officials Hid Sussmann’s Identity from Agents Working Trump-Russia Case, Agent Testifies

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top-fbi-officials-hid-sussmanns-identity-from-agents-working-trump-russia-case-agent-testifies/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=27819944&fb_news_token=yki0dUnjdrpwtlgtlr96tg%3D%3D.GDJzCxR4r2vDolz5cnV9e4U64SgZP%2B7Rj5FCK%2BADrUH1X5HuHji287J3Lz5Cr8R%2BD68%2FKvNxwg00F9BeaAb0CZtpLv7BNYjNn8j9k5VY47HK3uKOa7L1ycsgwJ%2BXX5%2FMk9vwRRAq%2BD9KgVQ2RL3BZOI4qsBVtSitk2RfsQ3LwrDd34T1xltQ2CwtIdOfr9JvShgpl0j7xOLoiRXW5AZ66fjkG9QbaDf%2Funu0ym8hcXYbpmVEvDjIrqQgS7gox4ZZQ809uZ42eGBbkATguJBSxAlHlWBCL9kHNq3Y1%2F1KUIoFamc9h7TnYlJ0L4JOnurGX6%2FfeMpvBhb%2BS7coV4MZ6i3fJInU59ThGllNTFrMVw7T5nevhGXS5iI8rHu%2F9JvYs7%2Btih57109PTFTLFi14aGSn1XrVZ71HoOE%2Fh4mmepkk0eYzFVf2BLVJs28am7EdrE7EgWJxzXn1qCuy44%2F%2FucEo6gqKqgGzoFB6%2BHTp0rc0vH6W9rml9HeAshAvSHwRutrCdorp2fgPwb6wggCttSN34El7wZ7WK1v6ovnmD2iDAz%2FlJBmVb3LQno6W3tXR8Aaub7dJAzTpFOTfGGDRQmG%2Fh9%2FXgwBpYK0ERw25bpoYJhtHj5r76ZAElpZMwAkPAkbX7Orp6ick73WDO3oNmX2kQSsHBF3XRStjz02Oa6kY3CarMeBh4S4zDlZ5FwSqQ407d7v9VEdPhoNJH%2FLVTizeUhg7ovKYKaPGhMtNzfN%2FI8Iz%2BYyCrWl3Glu%2BmB3z764kI5V7WPstv9f07knTjNeK3Je8%2BmzxPNzZjpaECDD62U1qJhVE7JskSufexTeJ&fbclid=IwAR2akk8Tteqf40tJKVF44EYpecSotFHM5RFbnPY3xYXS4JLig8hJICPLPvw


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“…Malliotakis is favored to win re-election in the 11th District after the Democrat-drawn map, which appeared to favor Democrats in what was a tightly contested area, was thrown out.”


The Bright Red District in the Heart of New York City

https://www.nysun.com/article/the-bright-red-district-in-the-heart-of-new-york-city?utm_content=The%20Morning%20Sun%3A%20Kissinger%20Wheels%20on%20Ukraine&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Morning%20Sun%2024-MAY-2022


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“Four years before he was captured, Eichmann gave hours of interviews to Dutch Nazi journalist Willem Sassen at the reporter’s home in Argentina. Sassen was one of many Nazis who also fled to the South American country after the war.  The recordings include remarks attributed to Eichmann that prosecutors presented at the trial, but that he denied at the time, including his clear declaration of having no regrets about the mass murder and even an expression of disappointment that millions more Jews were not killed. … “In conclusion, I must say to you… I regret nothing. I have no desire to say that we did something wrong,” Eichmann said in the recordings.  “If we had killed 10.3 million Jews I would say with satisfaction ‘Good, we destroyed an enemy.’ Then we would have fulfilled our mission. And thus, to my regret, it was not to be,'” Eichmann is heard saying in parts of the recordings that feature in the film and in which he was apparently referring to the entire Jewish population of Europe on the eve of the Holocaust.”


New film brings Eichmann’s Holocaust confessions to life using his own voice

https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-film-brings-eichmanns-holocaust-confessions-to-life-using-his-own-voice/?fbclid=IwAR0VmWgeKPyAJJ1t9cYmIq3raG2ctseRJq-wgve7XzSaptvLLYFtAJKOUyU


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“If student loans could be discharged in bankruptcy, the worst horror stories would be addressed. I would favor that, especially if it were coupled with a requirement that if a student discharges his student loan debts in bankruptcy, the college or university that educated him (or at least took his money in exchange for various courses) would have to cover the loss to the taxpayers. That would make schools think long and hard before they admitted academically weak students who can only make it through by taking raft of Mickey Mouse classes.”


Let’s Cancel Student Loans – Not Forgive Them, But Cancel the Program

https://www.aier.org/article/lets-cancel-student-loans-not-forgive-them-but-cancel-the-program/amp/?fbclid=IwAR2PxFQ-4cKs3h1jD2E4kqDOZH0f-taBtkNz1GJ67iqUzL91egXADP_YeqY


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"The Russia-Trump collusion narrative of 2016 and beyond was a dirty trick for the ages, and now we know it came from the top—candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. That was the testimony Friday by 2016 Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook in federal court, and while this news is hardly a surprise, it’s still bracing to find her fingerprints on the political weapon…Most of the press will ignore this news, but the Russia-Trump narrative that Mrs. Clinton sanctioned did enormous harm to the country. It disgraced the FBI, humiliated the press, and sent the country on a three-year investigation to nowhere. Vladimir Putin never came close to doing as much disinformation damage.”


Hillary Clinton Did It

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-did-it-robby-mook-michael-sussmann-donald-trump-russia-collusion-alfa-bank-11653084709?st=qyx6h50shqcr15l&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&fbclid=IwAR0QIjBfdLE2mUo7PRBbVkAikKUBsarg4hwmpHO721L3bfi6EIjmKS7eZtE


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“Aimee Arrambide, the executive director of the abortion rights nonprofit Avow Texas, was asked by Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., to define what "a woman is," to which she responded, "I believe that everyone can identify for themselves.””


Dem witness tells House committee men can get pregnant, have abortions

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-committee-witness-men-get-pregnant-have-abortions

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“The vast majority of the arrested educators were men.”


At least 135 teachers, aides charged with child sex crimes this year alone

https://www.foxnews.com/us/135-teachers-charged-child-sex-crimes-this-year-alone


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“Tuesday's in-person voting saw the voters Abrams alleged were being suppressed increase their turnout by nearly 30 percent over the previous midterm primary for her own race in which she ran unopposed.”


Stacey Abrams Said Voters Were Being Suppressed. Her Own Base Proved Her Wrong.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/05/25/after-suppression-fearmongering-georgia-dem-turnout-surges-27-percent-n2607780


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“…we must do oversight, and then outline what we will do once we take power. Drag up the weirdos, losers, and mutations and make them testify to their insanity. Remember how memorable the goof who assured Congress that men could get abortions too was? We need lots of that, coupled with the promise of reform when we take power.”

These SJWs Are a Drag

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/05/25/these-sjws-are-a-drag-n2607695


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“A new law allows the cultivation and sale of gene-edited crops. Good. Tweak and ye shall find”


Gene-edited food is coming to Britain

https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/05/24/gene-edited-food-is-coming-to-britain?utm_content=article-link-8&etear=nl_today_8&utm_campaign=r.the-economist-today&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=5/24/2022&utm_id=1179033


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“Darlingh a gave a short but fiery speech against what she described as “gender ideology” in schools during a Saturday feminist rally in Madison on April 23, according to a YouTube video of the rally. During her roughly three-minute speech, Darlingh spoke out against hormone treatments, social and medical gender transitions, and gender reassignment surgery for kids.  Darlingh used the F-word several times during the speech, including saying “F*** transgenderism.” She also said that she exists “to serve children,” and “to protect children.””


Wisconsin Threatens to Revoke School Counselor’s Teaching License for Railing against Gender Ideology

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wisconsin-threatens-to-revoke-school-counselors-teaching-license-for-railing-against-gender-ideology/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=third


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“Some of us are old enough to remember the term “going postal,” and when the phrase “recently fired employee” was often associated with mass shootings. The NIJ report suggests that this isn’t a trick of memory; workplace shootings are now considered rare.  This may well indicate that the background-check system is working; the vast majority of employees in a workplace are legal adults, and if an adult accumulates a criminal record or has a restraining order filed against him, he is barred from purchasing a firearm.  The mass shooters who have horrified us the most in recent years are teenagers and very young adults who haven’t yet accumulated a criminal record, and who were children less than a decade ago. … If you go to CNN’s coverage of the shooting this morning, it is a long list of world leaders and NBA coaches calling for gun control. The site seems much less interested in telling you what actually happened.”


The Hard Truth about ‘Tougher Background Checks’

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-hard-truth-about-tougher-background-checks/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=top-stories&utm_term=second


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" Last Thursday, the FBI’s former general counsel, James Baker, testified at length that his old friend Sussmann had requested an urgent private meeting and provided the bureau damning, confidential information. Sussmann claimed he did so solely “as a good citizen,” not on behalf of any client. Sussmann made the same claim in a text message to Baker the night before. Baker testified that he was “100% confident” Sussmann had repeated his disclaimer at the beginning of their meeting. (Before Special Counsel John Durham’s team concluded their case on Wednesday, they showed the jury that Sussmann had actually billed the Clinton campaign for that meeting.) Baker’s testimony was especially powerful because he was clearly reluctant to provide it.”


Sussmann Trial Exposes Dems' Scandal-Industrial Process

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/26/the_three-ring_circus_of_todays_political_scandals__147658.html


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“”My target wasn’t trans folk, but trans activist ideology. I’ve always confronted dogma that oppresses people and limits freedom of expression.” … He is right to call this out. Whatever name we give it, trans activist ideology has shaken the foundations of our society, challenging the meaning of such fundamental concepts as men and women. When it becomes a courageous act to say that trans women are not women, we are being oppressed and our freedoms limited.”


Ricky Gervais is no ‘transphobe’

https://spectatorworld.com/book-and-art/ricky-gervais-transphobe-netflix/


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“From the Alger Hiss and Rosenberg years on, the celebrated Boudin family of lawyers championed pro-Soviet communists and fellow travelers. Kathy’s red-diaper private school included as students Robert de Niro and Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary. Angela Davis was an American Friends Service student from the south. Precocious in her radicalism, Kathy was valedictorian at Bryn Mawr in 1965.

“At the time of [her] robbery, Kathy had been a long-term fugitive, hunted by the FBI. The Weather Underground’s rich-kid thrill seekers were never going to bring down the country. They were never Italy’s Red Brigades. But thanks to the partisan Sixties mythos among leftist historians, they have entered textbooks as sentinels of social justice and political visionaries, lionized by the woke.


“According to Boudin, policing and sentencing is saturated in racism and violence. Vagrants and paupers are victims. They cannot be anything but victims in capitalist, racist, imperialist Amerika. And that’s the core problem. A close-minded Boudin and those of like mind remain tethered to Marxist premises, dated social theories, and multicultural nostrums, dismissive of cogent policy.


“Boudin’s public glow will not dim with a June 7 defeat. Powerful associates in the US and abroad will help him land on his feet. A high-visibility post in the Department of Justice or State Department could lie ahead. Should San Francisco voters dump Boudin — which now seems almost certain — his political visibility and influence will persist.”


Chesa Boudin’s soft-on-crime policies will doom him

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/californians-recall-progressive-prosecutor-chesa-boudin/


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“Chesa … maintains the outlook or the mindset of a public defender. His view is that crime is just a part of life, something that we all have to endure and deal with. It’s never going to go away. No amount of punishment for any offender is going to change what happened, even in a murder case….I don’t think he’s willing to listen to Black voices.  He believes, in his mind, that he knows what’s best for them.”


The People vs. Chesa Boudin

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco-crime/629907/


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“[L]aw-abiding Americans have no obligation to take ownership of a madman’s actions. Nor is there any reason for them to surrender their right to self-defense so that Chris Murphy, who, evidenced in many of his comments, is only interested in incrementally limiting gun ownership. That’s his right, of course. He should try and repeal the Second Amendment. Until then, however, Democrats interested in genuine compromise may want to offer realistic, productive, and germane ideas, rather than using another horrific tragedy to dunk on their political opponents.”


Don’t Surrender To Do-Somethingism On Guns

https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/25/dont-surrender-to-do-somethingism-on-guns/


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“An unholy alliance of technocratic management and the woke sacralization of historically oppressed groups is creating a new form of American governance: call it “techwokery.” Though it describes itself as a rational movement to address injustice, it more closely resembles a secular theology. Its catechism is equality, inclusivity, diversity: the imposition of equal outcomes, ideological homogeneity and the primacy of group characteristics over individual character.”

America’s ‘techwokery’ is infecting its allies

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/america-techwokery-infecting-allies/


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Jones still stands by her wrongful-termination claim that she was dismissed for refusing to take part in a massive cover-up, even though the inspector general’s investigation found no evidence to support it, and the state fired her for insubordination.  She currently awaits a trial on a felony charge of illegally accessing government systems and downloading private personnel data. She also has a misdemeanor stalking charge, stemming from a different incident in which she was fired from Florida State University for having sex with a student in her class.”


Florida IG Rejects Conspiracist Rebekah Jones’s ‘Unsubstantiated’ Covid Cover-up Claims

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/florida-ig-rejects-conspiracist-rebekah-joness-unsubstantiated-covid-cover-up-claims/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=27855602


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“[[O]ne of her ex-staffers said] “She has done very little to cement [her] incumbency and the electorate is angry, and she has done nothing to address the issues that matter…AOC can beat Kirsten Gillibrand.”  In the 116th Congress, Gillibrand missed 15 percent of all Senate votes. By contrast, New York’s senior senator, Chuck Schumer, missed fewer than 1 percent of them. In the 2020 presidential election, Gillibrand dropped out with fewer than 2 percent of support, and nearly failed to qualify for Democratic primary debates.  Meanwhile, a study by the non-partisan Center for Effective Lawmaking, jointly run by Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia, ranked Gillibrand as one of the least effective Democrats in the chamber, with a score of 0.339 – a full 50 percent below the benchmark rating of 0.887, with no bills she introduced becoming law. Her action on gun legislation, meanwhile, was rated as 0.000 by the study.”


Kirsten Gillibrand Tells Voters Their Lives Depend on Electing Democrats

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/kirsten-gillibrand-tells-voters-their-lives-depend-on-electing-democrats/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=second


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“The document is the firmest proof to date that Obama-era officials were engaged in back-channel efforts to keep negotiations with Iran alive, even as former president Donald Trump and his administration worked to isolate the regime, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo told the Free Beacon in exclusive remarks. Pompeo, who was not aware of these meetings while leading the State Department, said the memo corroborates reports from the time about Kerry's efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal through back-channel powwows with Iranian officials.  Pompeo said it is startling to learn that members of a former U.S. administration attempted to handicap a sitting president's policies, describing the disclosure as "bad stuff, dangerous stuff, un-American stuff." These former officials, he said, "should be ashamed of themselves. Working against their own nation's policies alongside such a brutal regime.””


Disclosed: How Obama Administration Officials Conducted Shadow Diplomacy With Iran To Undermine Trump

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/disclosed-how-obama-administration-officials-conducted-shadow-diplomacy-with-iran-to-undermine-trump/


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“The important variable does not seem to be guns. Americans shoot each other to death at a much higher rate than do citizens of most other countries, but they also stab each other to death, beat each other to death, burn each other to death, etc., much more frequently than do citizens of other countries. In fact, the number of murders committed by Americans armed with nothing more than their bare hands each year exceeds the number of murders committed by Americans with so-called assault rifles. The United States has unusually high rates of criminal violence across the board rather than just an unusually high rate of gun-related violence.  My conclusion: The problem with America isn’t that it is full of guns — the problem with America is that it is full of Americans.”


Explaining the Gun Debate

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/explaining-the-gun-debate/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202022-05-29&utm_term=WIR-Smart












































 

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