On Abortion: Mexico

Mexico capitol Mexico City, second largest in the world (pop. 18 million). Has legalized early term abortion:

Fred Thompson on Va. Tech

This if from the American Enterprise Institute:

by Fred Thompson

One of the things that's got to be going through a lot of peoples' minds now is how one man with two handguns, that he had to reload time and time again, could go from classroom to classroom on the Virginia Tech campus without being stopped. Much of the answer can be found in policies put in place by the university itself.

Virginia, like 39 other states, allows citizens with training and legal permits to carry concealed weapons. That means that Virginians regularly sit in movie theaters and eat in restaurants among armed citizens. They walk, joke, and rub shoulders everyday with people who responsibly carry firearms--and are far safer than they would be in San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, Chicago, New York City, or Washington, D.C., where such permits are difficult or impossible to obtain.

The statistics are clear. Communities that recognize and grant Second Amendment rights to responsible adults have a significantly lower incidence of violent crime than those that do not. More to the point, incarcerated criminals tell criminologists that they consider local gun laws when they decide what sort of crime they will commit, and where they will do so.

Still, there are a lot of people who are just offended by the notion that people can carry guns around. They view everybody, or at least many of us, as potential murderers prevented only by the lack of a convenient weapon. Virginia Tech administrators overrode Virginia state law and threatened to expel or fire anybody who brings a weapon onto campus.

In recent years, however, armed Americans--not on-duty police officers--have successfully prevented a number of attempted mass murders. Evidence from Israel, where many teachers have weapons and have stopped serious terror attacks, has been documented. Supporting, though contrary, evidence from Great Britain, where strict gun controls have led to violent crime rates far higher than ours, is also common knowledge.

So Virginians asked their legislators to change the university's "concealed carry" policy to exempt people 21 years of age or older who have passed background checks and taken training classes. The university, however, lobbied against that bill, and a top administrator subsequently praised the legislature for blocking the measure.

The logic behind this attitude baffles me, but I suspect it has to do with a basic difference in worldviews. Some people think that power should exist only at the top, and everybody else should rely on "the authorities" for protection.

Despite such attitudes, average Americans have always made up the front line against crime. Through programs like Neighborhood Watch and Amber Alert, we are stopping and catching criminals daily. Normal people tackled "shoe bomber" Richard Reid as he was trying to blow up an airliner. It was a truck driver who found the D.C. snipers. Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that civilians use firearms to prevent at least a half million crimes annually.

When people capable of performing acts of heroism are discouraged or denied the opportunity, our society is all the poorer. And from the selfless examples of the passengers on Flight 93 on 9/11 to Virginia Tech professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who sacrificed himself to save his students earlier this week, we know what extraordinary acts of heroism ordinary citizens are capable of.

Many other universities have been swayed by an anti-gun, anti-self defense ideology. I respect their right to hold those views, but I challenge their decision to deny Americans the right to protect themselves on their campuses--and then proudly advertise that fact to any and all.

Whenever I've seen one of those "Gun-free Zone" signs, especially outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable citizens, I've always wondered exactly who these signs are directed at. Obviously, they don't mean much to the sort of man who murdered 32 people just a few days ago.

Global Warming Lies

This is a documentary about the politics of Global Warming and the lies that are perpetuated by the media about man-caused Global warming. It calls the movement what it is- a new morality. A moral issue that the left can take up and rally behind and still look cool and hip.

Based upon second-rate science and backed by politically ambitious groups and environmental research industries, global warming is, as the documentary puts it "a big business."

It draws different conclusions about the relationship between CO2 and temperature than Al Gore who they convincingly claim is committing a classic example of the logical fallacy, Correlation does not imply causation. Just because CO2 and temperature are linked does not mean that one causes the other, especially that CO2 causes temperature change. In fact, the overwhelming majority of CO2 in the atmosphere is caused by factors completely out of our control such as volcanoes, the ocean, animals, etc.

Watch this. This isn't some fringe crazy loony right-wing conspiracy. It's a group of completely legit scientists who dissent from the popular opinion of man-caused GW.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4340135300469846467&q=global+warming+swindle

This is a crime.

In Ethiopia there are people claiming to have a holy cure for HIV/Aids. There is not much to say about this except that there is a disturbing resemblence in these pictures to the Holocaust.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1258762,00.html?f=rss


Think about it.

Hello anyone

This is a new thing for me.

While I have other blogs that I consider to be a little more personal (neglected as they may be), I have decided to start this one which will be more along the lines of politics, philosophy, science and theology. The issues I encounter daily or not so daily will be posted here for all who would like to weigh in and comment. Stuff I think is important and maybe just interesting will be the premise for this new blog. Enjoy.


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