On its initial publication in 1998, John R. Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. More than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws: despite all the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever been able to refute Lott’s simple, startling conclusion that more guns mean less crime. Relying on the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever conducted on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws, the book directly challenges common perceptions about the relationship of guns, crime, and violence. For this third edition, Lott draws on an additional ten years of data—including provocative analysis of the effects of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C—that brings the book fully up to date and further bolsters its central contention.
Nuclear power could be America’s saving grace — if progressive activists would only stop kneecapping its spread.
Although it’s both clean and abundant, nuclear power is often overlooked by a misinformed public and environmental activists alike.
But change makers like Bill Gates are championing the technology, and should be celebrated for doing so.
The billionaire philanthropist has invested $1 billion in TerraPower, a brand new nuclear power plant which commenced construction in June in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
A 345-megawatt Natrium reactor — the next-generation of nuclear technology — it’s expected to be safer than traditional fission power plants because sodium is used to cool the reactor.
The plant, which has an estimated total cost of $4 billion, is yet to be approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but Gates said that he’s confident TerraPower will hold up to scrutiny.
Knowing your identity in Christ will change your outlook on life. In this resource, memorize some or all of these 26 Bible verses focused on remembering your identity in Christ.
On the final leg of the journey, after boarding, the pilot asked for volunteers to leave the plane as they were too heavy to take off.
They had flown a 50 min flight from my final destination to where I was and, without fuelling, were turning around to go back. They were adamant that the plane was too heavy and (with a print out from one of the flight computers in hand) were asking for 27 people to leave the flight. //
LH2327, today (11.2.20) A320 Neo. I'd guess at somewhere around 120 people (two full bus loads). they definitely didn't refuel. They said they filled the plane in Munich the day before to give the plane more balast to cope with the storm winds. //
The filling of the plane with fuel thing might have been a red herring, one of the stewards said it, although they hinted it was to keep it more firmly planted on the ground during the storm, not to affect flight performance in any way.
- Go to Settings > Apps
- Click the Gear Icon (top-right of the UI)
- Click on Default Apps > Assist & Voice Input > Assist app.
- Click "None" (the other option is Google App).
This puts the dialer shortcut back on the lock screen, but it also disables long-pressing the home button to launch the Google App.
In this first lecture of Security Engineering (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html), Ross looks at the various kinds of attacker and their capabilities: the crooks, state actors, corporate competitors, and "the swamp". Sam then looks at the various tools they all use, and how real-world vulnerabilities are patched and/or exploited.
In legal disputes, the threat of a lawsuit is often used as leverage to prompt a resolution. However, it’s essential to understand whether telling someone you will sue them constitutes a threat and the legal implications of such an action. This guide explores the legality and appropriateness of threatening to sue.
Is Telling Someone You Will Sue Them a Threat?
Yes, if you have a valid basis to sue someone, you absolutely can threaten to do so. A threat to sue, when based on legitimate legal grounds, is typically seen as part of legal negotiations and not inherently unlawful. //
Extortion or Coercion
Making a threat to sue with the intent to extort, coerce, or harass the other party can lead to legal consequences. Ensure your threat is based on seeking a legitimate legal remedy.
Defamation
Publicly threatening to sue or making defamatory statements about the other party can result in a defamation claim against you. Keep communications private and factual.
"Look, there's no accidental monopoly. They are a ruthless competitor." //
Most of our customers, you know, we still have new customers, but there's a tremendous amount of returning customers. And if you look at it from their point of view, even if someone turns up with a rocket that is half the price, really the reliability of Electron and the precision of it, it's hard for someone to move onto a new platform. Now, I don't I don't mean that to sound arrogant at all. It's just that price is not the number one thing. It's important, but it's just not the number one thing anymore. I mean, we're inserting to an accuracy of 400 meters at this point. So that's almost good enough to rendezvous straight off the rocket. //
We sold over 22 launches this year, and next year is looking even better. There is a definite demand that small launch has, and a capability that small launch gives. We have just so many customers now that absolutely rely on Electron. They've designed their constellation or their spacecraft around Electron. It does things that you just can't get on other missions. I think a lot of people compare Transporter (SpaceX's rideshare missions on the Falcon 9 rocket) to Electron and dedicated launch, and there is no comparison. Transporter can do it for free for all we care, because the customer who is coming to Electron really needs instantaneous launch, the right inclination or orbital plane. If we just stopped doing Electron, there would be a whole lot of people with nowhere to go. There's been a market built up around the product, and it continues to grow. //
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"We have a saying here at Rocket Lab that we have no money, so we have to think." It is, of course, the re-stating of another famous New Zealand knight of the realm, Sir Ernest Rutherford, who memorably said "We haven't got the money, so we'll have to think".
More than a hundred years after Rutherford made the statement in the context of nuclear physics, it's a delight to see that same drive and determination shine through at Rocket Lab.
It takes time. Normal people know transformation doesn't happen overnight. //
For 30 years, Argentines faced rising food prices every week.
Every week for 30 years.
Well, the libertarian free-market economist President Javier Milei has steered Argentina in the correct direction because, for the first time in 30 years, the country did not experience food inflation. //
Milei is obviously on the correct path. He is also the first Argentine president not to pass a new law in his first six months in office.
To put it bluntly, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are cannibalizing the entire federal budget. //
CBO increased the estimated budget deficit for the current fiscal year by $408 billion and the 10-year budget deficit by nearly $2.1 trillion. //
The (bloated) spending bills passed in March added nearly $1.3 trillion to the 10-year deficit, as higher spending this fiscal year leads CBO to assume (not incorrectly, in most cases) that spending will continue at those higher levels in the future.
Spending on Medicaid and Obamacare subsidies will increase deficits by $511 billion in the coming decade, in large part because more people will continue signing up for “free” coverage. The budget office also noted that “the recent surge in immigration [has] made more people than CBO previously estimated eligible for” Obamacare subsidies, accounting for an increase in projected enrollment. //
To put it bluntly, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are cannibalizing the entire federal budget. Unless and until Congress stops the “Mediscare” rhetoric and gets serious about reforming these programs, our financial situation will continue to get worse. And Lord help the next generation if we don’t wake up and come to our senses sooner rather than later.
The Biden administration pressured federal agencies to ignore vaccine safety protocols to fast-track its Covid shot mandates.
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One of Trump’s White House lawyers now openly confirms he was secretly working against him to stop the DOJ from investigating 2020 election fraud
This is the Deep State in action to remove Trump
They wanted zero federal investigations of 2020 election fraud & got their wish
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Former WH lawyer confirms he, behind Trump's back, organized threats of mass resignations to successfully thwart Trump from appointing an acting attorney general (@JeffClarkUS) who would seriously investigate 2020 election. https://politi.co/3Txnk93. //
Plans are no doubt underway for the second Trump administration. Those plans rightly include cleaning house of anyone who might be tempted to undermine that administration in any way. Democrats will call it "revenge." But Donald Trump will be able to quote one of his predecessors and say, "I won." //
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🚨WE ARE DECLARING WAR ON THE DEEP STATE
The Left is having a category 5 meltdown over this.
Here's what we're doing, and why we're doing it:
Our investigators at the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) are currently working on building a list of rotten bureaucrats at the… Show more
10:11 AM · Jun 24, 2024 //
Democracy is where the people rule, via their elected leaders, not where the bureaucrats rule. //
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So the head of a federal government employees union (the most unconstitutional thing I’ve ever heard of) is saying that firing unelected bureaucrats is seeking to undermine democracy. Democracy being a system of government based on people voting on leaders and political issues. Once again I think that we overestimate the factual knowledge of the opponent. While they may be possessed of great base cunning and shrewdly manipulative with the aid of their vile media accomplices, they somehow seem to think that democracy is a system of government controlled by democrats. This is a remarkably idiotic thing to say and I can’t believe that the evil union head doesn’t know better. We are tasked with persuading or counteracting a vastly ignorant group of “voters” who vote due to government pressure and government largesse.
One of the participants suggested recategorizing “concerning” behavior as a public health matter to make people more comfortable with coming forward.
In another press release, AFL discussed how the group labeled supporters of former President Donald Trump as “domestic terrorists.” In one instance, a participant described “indicators of extremists and terrorism” to be members of the military or “religious.”
The group asserted that there exists a “political backdrop” to supposed threats of domestic terrorism. It said that most of this threat “comes from supporters of the former president” and that “people have attacked the government and its institutions for the last six years.” //
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2 hours ago
If the answer was "military and religious", the question must have been "Who will be least willing to bend the knee to our rule"
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What happened on Sunday goes beyond protesting. This, and not moms going to school board meetings to demand that they be included in decisions about their children's education, is domestic terrorism, as defined by the FBI:
"Domestic Terrorism for the FBI’s purposes is referenced in U.S. Code at 18 U.S.C. 2331(5), and is defined as activities: Involving acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; Appearing to be intended to: Intimidate or coerce a civilian population; Influence the policy of government by intimidation or coercion; or Affect the conduct of a government ... //
What occurred Sunday is also not an isolated incident; since the November 2023 murder of a Jewish man, Paul Kessler, in nearby Thousand Oaks by pro-Hamas agitator Loay Alnaji during a so-called protest there have been violent demonstrations throughout Southern California by a coordinated group of terroristic, antisemitic thugs. Alnaji's Muslim Student Association group at Moorpark College proudly attends some of these intimidation rallies around Los Angeles, and we know that there is coordination going on nationwide. That makes this a federal issue that should be vigorously investigated by the US Department of Justice, but they're instead worrying about prosecuting pro-life grandmas who protest outside abortion clinics and doubling down on political intimidation by continuing to work to identify and indict Americans who were exercising their First Amendment rights on January 6. //
The public must know who has been calling the shots and who's been telling law enforcement officers to stand down and allow domestic terrorism to flourish. If it's been politicians calling the shots, that practice must end. Police chiefs need to know that they have the authority to do their jobs without political interference, and the Jewish community needs the reassurance that they will be protected.
While American Airlines and Southwest Airlines have used all their lobbying might to try to get the federal government to shut down competitor JSX - because JSX offers a product that consumers prefer to their own - the origin of the fight against JSX stems from the big pilot union. And it wasn't even JSX they were really concerned with. //
That triggered the Air Line Pilots Association, which fought hard to make it more expensive and take longer to become a pilot. They didn’t want an expansion of flying outside of rules meant to limit the supply of pilots.
To go after SkyWest Charter – which fully complies with current rules, but DOT has simply sat on the application for no valid reason – they had to go after JSX which is a bigger scheduled charter operation. There are others, like Contour, but they saw the space growing.
Once the union started going after Dallas-based JSX, they were able to get Dallas-based Southwest Airlines and American Airlines on board for the fight. //
Nonetheless, the FAA plans to issue regulations cracking down on part 135 carriers and then investigate whether there are actual safety issues. This is a solution in search of a problem, because no one wants to talk about the real reason lobbyists have been pushing this.
There is simply no legitimate safety concern with JSX operations.
To get specific, the Bureau of Land Management shows that 3,377 permits were issued in 2023, supposedly outpacing the 2,507 that Trump's admin approved in its third year in office. This would bring the total number of permits approved to 9,522, leaps and bounds over the 6,541 permits approved by the Trump admin. This was heralded as a victory by press outlets like Politico, despite them all being eco-warriors in every other situation.
But the real numbers were revealed later when technical errors they blamed on the Trump administration were fixed according to the Beacon:
The spokesman added that the agency couldn't vouch for the data from the Politico report in January. And he noted the "online reporting tool can be interpreted in various ways."
BLM's online system was undergoing a system outage at the time of this report.
In February 2023, meanwhile, BLM quietly revised separate figures, lowering the number of unused fossil fuel drilling permits it had approved. The agency changed that number from 9,000 unused permits to less than 6,700, blaming the error on a Trump-era technical change.
The actual number from the Trump administration was 10,795. I'm not a mathematician, but that seems a far larger number to "less than 6,700."
Earlier this month, a handful of teenagers were charged with felonies for leaving marks on an LGBT mural that was painted on the road. In fact, there's a rash of these kinds of vandalizations happening all over the nation and each one is treated like a massive hate crime by Democrats and activists.
So holy is the LGBT cause to the left that they're willing to go above and beyond to make you accept it.
So, you'll pardon me if I'm not too moved by complaints from the left, the LGBT activist community, and elected Democrats when they clutch their pearls and run to their fainting couches over the Ten Commandments being displayed in school. //
Let's be real here. These activists aren't mad about religious symbols going up in schools. They put theirs up in schools every chance they get. They preach the word of queer activism to children as young as four, and try to hide it from parents if they know there would be backlash about it. These people are zealots.
Their issue with the Ten Commandments is that these laws come from a rival religion. One they hate more than any other, despite it being a religion that allows for these people to live, work, and commit their sin without worrying about being murdered, tortured, or imprisoned for it. Hilariously, they'd much rather show their support toward religions that would do horrendous things to the LGBT community if their dominance was established here in the West, but they don't like talking about that.
“We did this repeatedly, at the highest levels and I want to make things clear — we did this behind closed doors. We received various explanations, but the basic situation has not changed. Certain shipments trickled in, but the bulk of the munitions was left behind,” he said.
“After months during which the situation was static, I decided to make it public,” Netanyahu said. “I did this based on years of experience and knowing this step was essential to release the bottleneck. I anticipated it would involve personal attacks against me both from within and without,” Netanyahu said. “I’m willing to endure personal attacks for the sake of Israel’s security,” he added.
There are things we take for granted until, one day, we are made to realize how unique they are. For atheist and historian Tom Holland, a trip to the war-torn Iraqui town of Sinjar gave him a different perspective on one of the most commonly accepted symbols of our culture: the Christian cross. //
If we take a deeper look at the fundamentals like Holland did, there can be no comparison. Holland was working on a book about the impact of Christianity on history when he was invited to visit Sinjar, a town that had been held captive by the Islamic State for two years. When he arrived with the film team, they encountered destruction beyond belief.