Category Archives: Crime

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, October 1, 2019:

When the FBI released its 2018 Crime Statistics on Monday, the silence from the anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment mainstream media was deafening. The Washington Post and the New York Times gave the report short shrift, while the Wall Street Journal ignored it altogether.

Apparently the mainstream media isn’t interested in listening to facts and data that contradict their preconceived ideology:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, September 29, 2019:

Most of the “sinkhole” states with the most red ink are blue. But should we be surprised?

Now that states are required to follow new rules of full financial disclosure, the truth is coming out: Most of the states in the union don’t have enough money to pay all of their bills. In its latest report, Sheila Weinberg, head of Truth in Accounting (TIA), which prepares and publishes its Financial State of the States report every September, said:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, September 9, 2019: 

So determined is House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) to impeach the president that he is breaking 200 years of precedents to do so.

Two hundred years of precedents declare that the House must first authorize its Judiciary Committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry. Only then can that committee proceed with an investigation to determine if the president has committed crimes worthy of impeachment. If such evidence is uncovered, then the full House must vote to approve one (or more) of the committee’s articles of impeachment.

If an article is (or articles are) approved, then the Senate may approve but only through a “supermajority” vote, or 67 senators.

Nadler, apparently, couldn’t care less. On Monday

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, September 2, 2019: 

When the Pharisees became indignant over Jesus’ healing of a woman on the Sabbath, they became indignant. Jesus called them out and the people rejoiced.

May that happen with Cory Booker and his running mates!

From The Message (Luke 13:10-17):

He was teaching in one of the meeting places on the Sabbath. There was a woman present, so twisted and bent over with arthritis that she couldn’t even look up. She had been afflicted with this for eighteen years. When Jesus saw her, he called her over. “Woman, you’re free!” He laid hands on her and suddenly she was standing straight and tall, giving glory to God.

 

The meeting-place president, furious because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the congregation, “Six days have been defined as work days. Come on one of the six if you want to be healed, but not on the seventh, the Sabbath.”

 

But Jesus shot back, “You frauds! Each Sabbath every one of you regularly unties your cow or donkey from its stall, leads it out for water, and thinks nothing of it. So why isn’t it all right for me to untie this daughter of Abraham and lead her from the stall where Satan has had her tied these eighteen years?”

 

When he put it that way, his critics were left looking quite silly and red-faced. The congregation was delighted and cheered him on.

Cory Booker and his fellow Democrats’ staggering hypocrisy was on full display following another mass shooting in west Texas on Saturday. Without knowing the details – who the shooter was, his mental condition, his history, his motivation – the fact that he apparently used a semi-automatic rifle to murder five people and wound more than 20 others was enough for them to vent their anti-Second Amendment spleens once again. In the process they exposed their dishonesty, duplicity and fraud.

Each had something to say following the shooting, but nothing matched the egregious rant from Booker:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, September 1, 2019: 

Democrats’ staggering hypocrisy was on full display following another mass shooting in West Texas on Saturday. Without knowing the details — who the shooter was, his mental condition, his history, his motivation — the fact that he apparently used a semi-automatic rifle to murder seven people and wound more than 20 others was enough for them to vent their anti-Second Amendment feelings once again. In the process, they exposed their hypocrisy.

Each of them supports abortion. In other words, murdering an unborn person is acceptable to these Democrats vying for their party’s nomination for president but, once born, a person’s murder is a terrible thing to contemplate.

Beto O’Rourke: “More information is forthcoming, but here’s what we know: We need to end this epidemic.”

Julián Castro: “My prayers are … that each will find the strength within us to act … to act boldly, swiftly.”

Joe Biden: “I’m heartbroken, sickened and angry. Weeks after the horror in El Paso, another community in Texas has been terrorized by gun violence. Enough. We must end this epidemic.”

Elizabeth Warren: “I’m heartsick for the victims of this latest mass shooting in Odessa and Midland. We shouldn’t have to live with this near daily fear and horror. We’ve already lost far too many to gun violence — Congress must act now.”

Kamala Harris: “I’m sick of this. America is sick of this. We need to act.”

Andrew Yang: “We must do all we can to curb the scourge of gun violence in this country.”

John Delaney: “We have to take action. Universal background checks, banning assault weapons, [passing] red flag laws and more.”

The Texas Department of Safety reported that the rampage began when two state troopers attempted to stop a car on Interstate 20 that was travelling westbound near Midland, Texas at around 3:15 pm Saturday afternoon:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, August 8, 2019: 

Media hysteria over recent mass shootings just reached new highs. Rather than rehashing the ghastly atrocities committed over the past weeks, the Associated Press instead recounted the number of shootings committed since the first of the year and loudly lamented in its headline: “U.S. Mass Shootings This Year Nearly Reach 2018 Levels, and It’s Only August!”

It proclaimed:

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, August 9, 2019: 

According to the Urban Dictionary, “‘If it bleeds, it leads’ basically means that the media loves violence: television, radio, and film for the most part have much higher ratings if it’s about a bunch of people getting murdered rather than something nice, like somebody saving a cat from a tree.”

And the slogan first created by New York Times‘ owner Adoph Ochs in 1897, “All the News That’s Fit to Print” remains on the masthead of the paper today.

But what if the news doesn’t “bleed?” What if it doesn’t “fit?”

There’s been plenty of blood lately, goodness knows. The Associated Press raised the level of hysteria to a new high with its headline, “U.S. Mass Shootings This Year Nearly Reach 2018 Levels, and It’s Only August!”

The AP proclaimed that “Just seven months into 2019, the U.S. has experienced almost as many mass killings as occurred in all of 2018 … mass killings so far this year [total] 23, leaving 131 people dead. There were 25 mass killings in 2018 … according to a database complied by the Associated Press, Northeastern University and USA Today.”

The AP went on to explain how it defined “mass killings” – now apparently no longer referred to as “mass shootings” – “as killings involving four or more fatalities, not including the killer. What the AP failed to explain is how they missed reporting on those incidents where firearms were used to prevent injuries and killings.

Back when Obama was president,

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, August 7, 2019:

This writer was too optimistic back in June when he prematurely rejoiced that Trump’s sanctions on Maduro’s totalitarian regime in Venezuela appeared to be working (see Sources below). It seemed reasonable at the time. After all, similar sanctions applied by President Reagan to the Noriega regime in 1989 had the desired effect.

When one of Russia’s suppliers of military equipment to Venezuela pulled out, it was easy at the time to report that it represented “a body blow from which it [Maduro’s dictatorship] might not recover.” In cocktail party parlance, “the first olive out of the bottle is always the hardest; the others come out a little more easily.”

It didn’t happen. And so, on Monday night, President Trump went for broke. He issued an executive order placing an immediate and total embargo on Maduro’s regime, and explained why in a letter he sent to Congress at the same time:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, August 6, 2019: 

As he signed an executive order on Monday night placing an embargo on Venezuela, President Trump explained why he did so in a letter to Congress:

I have determined that it is necessary to block the property of the Government of Venezuela in light of the continued usurpation of power by the illegitimate Nicolas Maduro regime … [which includes] human rights abuses, arbitrary arrest and detention of Venezuelan citizens, curtailment of free press, and ongoing attempts to undermine Interim President Juan Guaido of Venezuela and the democratically-elected Venezuelan National Assembly.

The extraordinary escalation exceeds previous sanctions against some 100 individuals associated with Maduro’s inner circle. The executive order now blocks anyone

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, August 4, 2019: 

The reactions following the ghastly atrocity that took place outside and inside a Walmart store in El Paso on Saturday morning were predictable. The president called it hateful and offered his sympathies and prayers, the state’s lieutenant governor warned Antifa to stay out, and Democrats called for more gun control.

Tweeted the President:

Today’s shooting in El Paso, Texas was not only tragic, it was an act of cowardice. I know that I stand with everyone in this Country to condemn today’s hateful act. There are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people. Melania and I send our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the great people of Texas.

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick told Fox News:

I just saw … where Antifa is posting they want to come to El Paso and do a 10-day siege. We don’t need them coming in on September 1.

 

We didn’t need them to begin with before this happened. I would say to Antifa: scratch Texas off the map and don’t come in. It’s not the time or the place for them to come at any time, but particularly in the aftermath of what just happened in El Paso.

Bodies of slain victims weren’t even cold before Democrats running for president saw another opportunity to burnish their anti-gun credentials. Elizabeth Warren tweeted:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, July 30, 2019: 

Almost immediately after 19-year-old Santino Legan was killed by police within a minute of beginning a shooting rampage that left three dead and a dozen wounded at the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, Sunday night, questions began: How did he get into the festival? Where did he get this weapon? Why the festival? What motivated him? Why didn’t California’s strict gun laws keep this from happening?

There are, at this writing, precious few answers, but a few clues.

Santino had been planning the attack for some time. He knew California’s strict gun laws would keep him for being able to purchase a firearm, as he was only 19 (California restricts firearm ownership to those age 21 and older). He knew that security at the food festival — one of the nation’s best known and most popular — would be extremely tight, with metal detectors at the main entrance.

The shooter’s solution:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, July 23, 2019: 

The budget “deal” cobbled together over the last couple of weeks is a win for every vested interest but one: the U.S. taxpayer. It provides proof about what can be accomplished, even by Congress, when the motivation is sufficiently strong.

That motivation was provided by a letter from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on July 12 that his “extraordinary measures” being employed since the debt ceiling was reached in early March were about to be “exhausted.” This move allowed him to conduct budget negotiations directly with Pelosi, sidelining Trump’s budget director Mick Mulvaney and resulting in a deal that was a win for nearly every vested interest in Washington.

First and foremost