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To: bentway who wrote (702551)	3/5/2013 3:44:23 AM
From: TopCat	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1582327

"But progressive policies are "disastrous" for the poor, Brooks asserts, leading to everything "from welfare-induced dependency to failing schools that continue to trap millions of children." Free enterprise is the path out of poverty......." Yep...I agree.

To: bentway who wrote (702551)	3/5/2013 10:58:26 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582327

COLORADO DEM TO RAPE SURVIVOR: A GUN WOULDN’T HAVE HELPED YOU AGAINST RAPIST BECAUSE ‘STATISTICS ARE NOT ON YOUR SIDE’ Mar. 5, 2013 4:29am Jason Howerton2194.4K172 135 Rape survivor Amanda Collins bravely spoke about her horrific attack during a Monday legislative hearing concerning Colorado’s proposed ban on concealed firearms on college campuses. She explained how she wished she would’ve had a firearm to defend herself from her rapist, which could have possibly prevented the attack from occurring. After calling her story “unsettling,” Democratic state Sen. Evie Hudak quickly went after Collins, saying “actually, statistics are not on your side, even if you had a gun.” “You said that you were a martial arts student, I mean person, experienced in taekwondo, and yet because this individual was so large, was able to overcome you even with your skills, and chances are that if you had had a gun, then he would have been able to get that from you and possibly use it against you,” she added. Hudak claimed that for every one woman who used a handgun to kill someone in self-defense, 83 were murdered by them. “Respectfully senator, you weren’t there,” Collins said before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. “Had I been carrying concealed, he wouldn’t have known I had my weapon; and I was there. I know without a doubt in my mind at some point I would’ve been able to stop my attack by using my firearm.” [iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RgXsCnrYZGY" width="620"][/iframe] Always handy with the facts, radio host Dana Loesch provides some data on firearms and self-defense: According to the FBI, Americans use firearms in self defense 2.1 million times annually. Cases where firearms are used criminally amount to 579,000. Seventy percent of those cases are carried out by criminal repeat offenders. Barrett and Democrats would seek to punish those protecting themselves rather than the criminals. [iframe src="http://tap2-cdn.rubiconproject.com/partner/scripts/rubicon/emily.html?rtb_ext=1&pc=9386/16462&geo=na&co=us" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="NO" width="0" height="0" style="height: 0px; width: 0px;"][/iframe] There is a war on women, and it’s coming from the left to turn women into victims. Note this (bold my emphasis): In the vast majority of those self-defense cases, the citizen will only brandish the gun or fire a warning shot.In less than 8% of those self-defense cases will the citizen even wound his attacker.Over 1.9 million of those self-defense cases involve handguns.As many as 500,000 of those self-defense cases occur away from home.Almost 10% of those self-defense cases are women defending themselves against sexual assault or abuse.Further, Loesch notes that one in four collegiate women report experiences that fit the legal definition of rape and one in five woman are raped during their college years. “See, Amanda Collins was overpowered, disarmed, and left to be a victim. By Nevada lawmakers. Not her rapist. Just what Hudak said would happen, though not exactly,” Loesch writes. Democrats were apparently unconvinced by Collins’ testimony and the Judiciary Committee approved the campus concealed carry ban along with six other gun control proposals. All seven gun control bills are scheduled to be debated on the Colorado Senate floor on Friday. Some of the other bills included, “assault weapons liability” (making “assault weapons” manufacturers and retailers responsible for crimes), a high-capacity magazine ban, required background check fees, gun restrictions for domestic violence offenders and universal background checks. Colorado is the same state where lawmakers have proposed using ballpoint pens, rape whistles and safe zones as an alternative to people defending themselves with a gun. Additionally, the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs advised women to urinate and vomit on an attacker.

To: bentway who wrote (702551)	3/5/2013 11:12:04 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1582327

20 great moments in liberal bigotryby EDITOR on JANUARY 14, 2010 ihatethemedia.com Do not make the mistake of thinking Harry Reed’s recent comment that President Obama might be electable because he’s light-skinned and doesn’t have a negro dialect is an isolated event. In fact, there are so many inappropriate liberal comments that we’re thinking of opening The Liberal Bigot Hall of Fame to honor the best of the best. Each of the following liberal icons would get a nice brass plaque featuring their face and most bigoted quotes. Of course, Robert Byrd (D-WV) was a unanimous first round selection into the Hall. Price of admission: Adults $10 Children $5 Blacks, Jews, Indians and any other minorities not allowed. And now, without further delay, here are 20 remarkably bigoted comments made by liberals. “You’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.” - Senator Fritz Hollings Blacks and Hispanics are “too busy eating watermelons and tacos” to learn how to read and write.” - Mike Wallace “In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and [there] were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master … exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell’s committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.” - Harry Belafonte “A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.” - Spike Lee referring to Clarence Thomas “Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” - Robert Byrd “I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state …. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia …. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va …. I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities.” - Robert Byrd “I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” - Lyndon B. Johnson “You fcking Jew b@stard.” - Hillary Clinton* ‘Hymietown.’ - Jesse Jackson describing New York City “Jews — that’s J-E-W-S.” - State Senator Bill McKinney explaining why his daughter Cynthia lost in 2002 “Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.” - Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years.” - Louis Farrakhan “White folks was in caves while we was building empires… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” - Rev. Al Sharpton “The white race is the cancer of human history.” - Susan Sontag These negros, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they’ve never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. - LBJ “I am not going to use the federal government’s authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.” - Jimmy Carter I mean, you’ve got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” - Joe Biden (referring to Barack Obama)