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Arkansas Governor to State Police: Open Carry ‘Protected and Allowed’

Arkansas Governor to State Police: Open Carry ‘Protected and Allowed’

by AWR Hawkins29 Dec 20170



Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) sent a letter to Arkansas State Police (ASP) directing them to recognize that the open carry of handguns is “protected and allowed.”

He addressed his letter to ASP director Col. Bill Bryant and said Act 746 of 2013 allows a “person to open carry a handgun so long as there is no intent to unlawfully employ the handgun.”

Hutchinson added:

Further, consistent with Act 486 of 2017, the sole legal act of open carrying a handgun in and of itself will not in revocation of an an individual’s concealed carry license. A concealed carry license or enhanced carry license continues to be required in order to carry a concealed handgun.

He asked Bryant to share the directive with “all appropriate ASP personnel” and “monitor all agency materials for consistency.”

Arkansas Matters reports that Hutchinson’s directive “carries no force of law” but “will have the effect of guiding state troopers” as they interact with armed law-abiding citizens.

ASP director Bryant responded to Hutchinson’s letter by issuing a memo to troop commanders, reminding them that “openly carrying a handgun does not alone provide probable cause for arrest.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at http://ift.tt/2AC36Vm.

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Judge Blocks Arizona’s Ban on Mexican-American Studies

Judge Blocks Arizona’s Ban on Mexican-American Studies

Carlos Galindo protests outside the Arizona Department of Education in Phoenix in 2011. State lawmakers voted in 2010 to ban ethnic studies. (Matt York / Associated Press)

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by AWR Hawkins29 Dec 20170



A federal appeals court judge blocked Arizona’s ban on Mexican-American studies Wednesday, ruling that the state cannot even “audit” districts to see if they are complying with the ban.

The ban on Mexican-American studies was passed in 2010.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Judge Wallace Tashima ruled that the passage of the studies ban was a violation of the constitution. He said the ban was “not for a legitimate educational purpose, but for an invidious discriminatory racial purpose and a politically partisan purpose.”

He also ruled that the state could not withhold funding for school districts that refused to uphold the ban. (It was the threat of losing $14 million in state funds that led a Tucson district to drop its Mexican-American studies in 2012.)

Former Tucson teacher Curtis Acosta celebrated the ruling by tweeting:

In August Tashima had ruled that the ban was unconstitutional but had not taken any steps to halt its enforcement. The new ruling blocks the ban.

While handing down the ruling Tashima was critical of John Huppenthal and Tom Horne, both of whom pushed for the ban as Arizona state superintendents of public instruction.

Tashima claimed Huppenthal and Horne “were pursuing these discriminatory ends in order to make political gains.” He wrote, “Horne and Huppenthal repeatedly pointed to their efforts against the [Mexican American studies] program in their respective 2011 political campaigns, including in speeches and radio advertisements. The issue was a political boon to the candidates.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at http://ift.tt/2AC36Vm.

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The Left Goes Nuts Because Trump Pointed Out Cold Weather Contradicts Global Warming Myth

Donald Trump owns liberals and lives rent free in all of their heads. Like Pavlov’s dogs, he can trigger a hysterical reaction with a simple tweet. Today he rang their bell by pointing out that the extreme cold weather in the Northeast runs contradictory to the liberal narrative that the planet is getting warmer because humans drive cars and eat meat.

Here’s what the President tweeted:

This becomes funny because liberals insist that everything, warm cold or the same, means global warming is real. Hell, Hillary Clinton once claimed that snow proved man-made global warming was a proven science. And speaking of idiots, here’s how liberals were triggered by Trump’s tweet. First we get a sampling of CNN talking heads, trying to prove they aren’t as fake news as their network:

Then we get Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald who watches porno on the Internet with his kids:

And finally here’s some democrats from Congress with their expert take on things:

Hey, DNA testing is science. Does Elizabeth Warren believe in taking one in order to prove that she’s actually a Native American princess?

Just for the record, man-made global warming is not science. It’s a theory that has no hard scientific data to back it up. There isn’t a person on the planet who can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the planet is getting warmer or that man is causing this warming they can’t prove is real. The “science” of climate change is based on computer models with subjective input and fudged data and that’s the complete opposite science.

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The flu shot is largely worthless and possibly dangerous

Every year, the “gubment” cajoles us to get our flu shots.  It’s our civic duty!


The only problem is that studies have shown that the flu shot is either worthless or almost worthless.



On average, past flu vaccines have been about 42 percent effective, though that number can range anywhere from 10 to 60 percent in a given year[.] … [T]his year’s flu shot may not be up to the task.  It is the same formulation that was used during Australia’s most recent flu season – which typically sets a pattern for what the U.S. will face – and it was only 10 percent effective there.


Ten percent!


Dr. Pardis Sabeti, a Harvard professor and infectious disease expert[, says,] “Even 10 percent effective is better than nothing.”


Wow, a Harvard professor says even ten percent is better than nothing!  Far be it from me to challenge a Harvard professor (something I used to do quite frequently), but where does this ten percent figure come from?


Take a study that claimed 67% effectiveness for the flu shot.  One group of 5,103 people got the flu shot, and 49 of those caught the flu (almost 1%).  A control group of 2,549 people took a placebo, and 74 people got the flu (3%).


Based on a statistical analysis of the 1% who caught the flu who were vaccinated and the 3% who caught it when unvaccinated, statisticians concluded by analysis (you can read it here) that the flu shot has “effectiveness” of 67%.


However, most laymen would conclude that most people, whether vaccinated or not, did not catch the flu and that the difference between those vaccinated and those unvaccinated was only 2%.  In fact, due to standard deviations, it is possible that the gap between the vaccinated and unvaccinated is even smaller.


The bottom line is that even if the flu vaccine is effective, it helps a very small number of people.  That still might make it worthwhile to inoculate people if it were 100% safe.  Unfortunately, that’s not entirely clear, according to a scientist at Johns Hopkins:


Although the CDC  implies that flu vaccines are safe … an Australian study … found [that] one in every 110 children under the age of five had convulsions following vaccinations in 2009 for H1N1 influenza.  Additional investigations found that the H1N1 vaccine was also associated with a spike in cases of narcolepsy among adolescents.


Another doctor points out:


The mercury contained in vaccines is such a strong immune depressant that a flu shot suppresses immunity for several weeks.  “This makes people highly susceptible to catching the flu,” he says.  “They may even think the vaccine gave them the flu, but that’s not true – it depressed their immune system and then they caught the flu.”


 Mercury overstimulates the brain for several years, says Dr. Blaylock, and that activation is the cause of Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases.  One study found that those who get the flu vaccine for three to five years increase their risk of Alzheimer’s disease 10-fold.


Those who defend the flu shot point out that when the flu vaccine is made, it’s based on a variation of last year’s flu and that the flu virus mutates, so they will never get a 100% match for next year’s flu.  But from the looks of these statistics, they aren’t coming anywhere close to 100%.  They also claim that even if you do catch the flu, you will catch a less severe version of it if you have a flu shot.  To that I offer a pill that, if taken, will cure most common colds within 1-2 weeks.


Most people get the flu shot and don’t get the flu and then falsely conflate correlation with causation, and then they keep getting the flu shot without questioning the efficacy of it.  Given the marginal, at best, benefit of the flu shot and the possible risk, an inoculation program aimed at everyone, without regard to risk versus benefit, makes no sense.


Ed Straker is the senior writer at Newsmachete.com.


Every year, the “gubment” cajoles us to get our flu shots.  It’s our civic duty!


The only problem is that studies have shown that the flu shot is either worthless or almost worthless.


On average, past flu vaccines have been about 42 percent effective, though that number can range anywhere from 10 to 60 percent in a given year[.] … [T]his year’s flu shot may not be up to the task.  It is the same formulation that was used during Australia’s most recent flu season – which typically sets a pattern for what the U.S. will face – and it was only 10 percent effective there.


Ten percent!


Dr. Pardis Sabeti, a Harvard professor and infectious disease expert[, says,] “Even 10 percent effective is better than nothing.”


Wow, a Harvard professor says even ten percent is better than nothing!  Far be it from me to challenge a Harvard professor (something I used to do quite frequently), but where does this ten percent figure come from?


Take a study that claimed 67% effectiveness for the flu shot.  One group of 5,103 people got the flu shot, and 49 of those caught the flu (almost 1%).  A control group of 2,549 people took a placebo, and 74 people got the flu (3%).


Based on a statistical analysis of the 1% who caught the flu who were vaccinated and the 3% who caught it when unvaccinated, statisticians concluded by analysis (you can read it here) that the flu shot has “effectiveness” of 67%.


However, most laymen would conclude that most people, whether vaccinated or not, did not catch the flu and that the difference between those vaccinated and those unvaccinated was only 2%.  In fact, due to standard deviations, it is possible that the gap between the vaccinated and unvaccinated is even smaller.


The bottom line is that even if the flu vaccine is effective, it helps a very small number of people.  That still might make it worthwhile to inoculate people if it were 100% safe.  Unfortunately, that’s not entirely clear, according to a scientist at Johns Hopkins:


Although the CDC  implies that flu vaccines are safe … an Australian study … found [that] one in every 110 children under the age of five had convulsions following vaccinations in 2009 for H1N1 influenza.  Additional investigations found that the H1N1 vaccine was also associated with a spike in cases of narcolepsy among adolescents.


Another doctor points out:


The mercury contained in vaccines is such a strong immune depressant that a flu shot suppresses immunity for several weeks.  “This makes people highly susceptible to catching the flu,” he says.  “They may even think the vaccine gave them the flu, but that’s not true – it depressed their immune system and then they caught the flu.”


 Mercury overstimulates the brain for several years, says Dr. Blaylock, and that activation is the cause of Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases.  One study found that those who get the flu vaccine for three to five years increase their risk of Alzheimer’s disease 10-fold.


Those who defend the flu shot point out that when the flu vaccine is made, it’s based on a variation of last year’s flu and that the flu virus mutates, so they will never get a 100% match for next year’s flu.  But from the looks of these statistics, they aren’t coming anywhere close to 100%.  They also claim that even if you do catch the flu, you will catch a less severe version of it if you have a flu shot.  To that I offer a pill that, if taken, will cure most common colds within 1-2 weeks.


Most people get the flu shot and don’t get the flu and then falsely conflate correlation with causation, and then they keep getting the flu shot without questioning the efficacy of it.  Given the marginal, at best, benefit of the flu shot and the possible risk, an inoculation program aimed at everyone, without regard to risk versus benefit, makes no sense.


Ed Straker is the senior writer at Newsmachete.com.






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Report: Expect ‘Full Trump,’ Unchained, in 2018

Report: Expect ‘Full Trump,’ Unchained, in 2018

President-elect Donald Trump during a rally at the Giant Center, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, in Hershey, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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by Matthew Boyle29 Dec 2017Washington, D.C. 0



If you thought President Donald Trump was great in 2017, you ain’t seen nothing yet: wait until Trump 2018, a report from Axios’s Mike Allen on Friday morning argues.

Citing multiple sources who have met or spoken recently with the president, Allen reports that those in the know in Washington should expect the “full Trump” in 2018—the president’s upcoming second year.

“If you ask some close to President Trump what worries them most about 2018, it’s not Robert Mueller’s probe,” Allen writes under a headline saying to expect Trump to be “unchained” in 2018. “It’s that establishment guardrails of 2017 come down — and Trump’s actual instincts take over.”

“Next year will bring ‘full Trump,’ said one person who recently talked to the president,” Allen adds.

Allen notes that most of Trump’s major 2017 achievements could have been made by any old traditional Republican, from the tax cuts plan to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and cutting regulations.

“Most of those in his current decision-making circle — even if they’re not mainstream Republicans — are defending mainstream Republican principles like free trade and an internationalist view of foreign policy,” Allen writes. “But top officials paint a different portrait of Trump when it comes to what he really wants on trade, immigration and North Korea — but has been tamped down by skeptical staff and Cabinet officials.”

Privately, Trump is throwing down entirely with the economic nationalist roots of his presidency.

“Trump keeps asking for tariffs — on steel and aluminum, in particular,” Allen writes. “He wants a trade war, and has for many years. His economic and diplomatic advisers persuaded him to delay trade actions in 2017.”

And while 2017 was defined by behind-the-scenes who’s up, who’s down power struggles in the administration and West Wing over which policies would win out, Allen notes that 2018 seems to be heading in the direction of a place where it doesn’t matter which measly globalist advisers are riding high at any given moment.

“Those advisers recognize that the day of reckoning will come in 2018, regardless of whether economic adviser Gary Cohn and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — who advocated restraint — stay or go,” Allen writes.

Allen specifically pointed to a couple of recent Trump comments—one via Twitter and the other via his New York Times interview—on China, where the president ripped China on trade and North Korea.

“China’s hurting us very badly on trade, but I have been soft on China because the only thing more important to me than trade is war. O.K.?” Trump told the New York Times.

On Twitter, he wrote:

Allen says that Trump has trade actions planned next month, too, something that other reports indicate are splitting Trump from GOP leaders. A recent headline in the Hill newspaper read, “GOP frustration rises with Trump on trade.”

The piece from Alex Bolton quotes several Senate Republicans, including Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), who raise concerns with President Trump and his administration’s efforts to put America first on trade.

But Allen notes that while Trump may have delayed acting on some of his economic nationalist instincts in 2017 to appease advisers’ demands, expect him to move forward with or without the useless advisers in 2018.

“Look for Trump to take action on trade in the next month. It probably won’t be next week, so as not to disrupt the afterglow of the tax cut. But nothing is final,” Allen writes, adding, “Trump still wants his wall, and tighter restrictions on legal immigration. He’s a true believer on this stuff, and knows intuitively that it keeps his base stoked.”

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After 1 Year of Trump’s Presidency, Police Death Numbers Are In

The year 2016 was a deadly one for police officers in the United States. It was so deadly, that according to Breitbart News, 2016 “saw more deaths than in the five previous years.” It was also President Obama’s last year in office.

Then Donald Trump became president, and everything changed.

The year Trump took office, 2017, police deaths on duty neared a 50-year low.

According to a report by USA Today, preliminary numbers show that there were 128 deaths in the line a duty; 2013 was the only year with fewer deaths, coming in at 116.

Traffic accidents made up the bulk of the deaths, with 47 in 2017. That’s a 15 percent decline from 2016.

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There’s a lot of speculation regarding the “whys” behind the decline, but the police advocacy group Blue Lives Matter attributes it to a “greater awareness of officer safety.” Blue Lives Matter spokesman Randy Sutton told USA Today that the focus on safety includes “change in how officers approach arrests because of the controversial high-profile shootings over the years.”

In essence, officers are more aware of the potential dangers as they approach dangerous situations.

Breitbart reports that National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund President and Chief Executive Craig Floyd said, “In my 33 years doing this, I’ve never seen (this) amount of awareness given to officer safety and wellness.”

“I think that’s definitely been paying off and will continue to help make law enforcement a significantly safer profession.”

One can’t help but ask, though, does part of the decline have to do with the way police are treated from national leadership? As leadership guru John Maxwell says, “Everything rises and falls on leadership.”

When you compare the leadership of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, you can’t help but notice the stark difference in their attitudes toward police officers.

Remember, Ferguson, Missouri, Michael Brown, and “Hands up don’t shoot” back in 2014? Obama immediately took to his podium and teleprompter then to criticize law enforcement.

The Washington Times reports him saying, “In too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local residents and law enforcement. Too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement — guilty of walking while black or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness.”

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The result?

Rising numbers of police officers “feloniously killed” — up to 66 in 2016. That was “the highest single-year figure since 1997,” according to Breitbart.

Contrast this to just a few days ago, where President Trump paid for the Christmas meals of the military and law enforcement personnel charged with protecting him over the holidays.

Numbers don’t lie, and the truth is, police officers’ deaths have fallen dramatically this last year. As stated earlier, there are a number of factors, but you can’t deny that Trump’s pro-police, and pro-military actions have surely helped this number.

Hopefully, we’ll be able to see this number continue to drop in the coming years, because one police officer death in the line of duty is one too many.

H/T Breitbart

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Trump: Post Office Should Charge Amazon More Money for Delivery

Trump: Post Office Should Charge Amazon More Money for Delivery

AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File

AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File

by Charlie Spiering29 Dec 20170



President Donald Trump believes that the post office should charge Amazon more money for delivering its packages across the world.

“Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer?” Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday. “Should be charging MUCH MORE!”:

The president’s comment on Twitter continued his ongoing frustration with Amazon after they received record profits in 2017.

A 2017 Citigroup analysis revealed that each package from Amazon gets a government subsidy of $1.46.

The modern post office has lost billions of dollars every year, with few options for recovering its debt. From 2007-2017, the post office has lost $65.1 billion.

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NINE YEARS AGO… Al Gore Predicted North Pole Would Be Completely Ice Free by Today

NINE YEARS AGO… Al Gore Predicted North Pole Would Be Completely Ice Free by Today

December 28, 2017
by Jim Hoft

NINE YEARS AGO THIS MONTH—
Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years.

Gore made the prediction to a German audience in 2008. He told them that “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”

“Five Years”

This wasn’t the only time Gore made his ice-free prediction. Gore’s been predicting this since 2007.

According to Al Gore the North Pole should be completely melted by now.

Junk scientist Al Gore also made the same prediction in 2009.

From the video:

Former Vice President Al Gore references computer modeling to suggest that the north polar ice cap may lose virtually all of its ice within the next seven years. “Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years,” says Gore.

In January 2006, Al Gore posited “within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return” and “a true planetary emergency” due to global warming.

Of course, this turned out to be nothing more than complete lunacy.

At least 8 Dire Predictions from the movie never happened – not even close.

This week the continental US is suffering through another deep freeze.

Ed Driscoll found the original Gore video from 2008.

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Trump Is About To Repeal Obama-Era ‘Fracking’ Regulations

Banning Barack, it’s fracking good.

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President Donald Trump’s administration will give a belated gift to American energy producers and repeal former President Barack Obama-era regulations for hydraulic fracturing operations on federal lands.

The Interior Department is expected to publish a repeal of the rule in the Federal Register on Friday, and already the oil and gas industry are celebrating. Producers challenged were locked in court battles over the rule since it was finalized in 2015.

“It was clear from the start that the federal rule was redundant with state regulation and politically motivated, as the prior administration could not point to one incident or regulatory gap that justified the rule,” Kathleen Sgamma, president of Western Energy Alliance, said in a statement.

Interior will publish the repeal of the rule two days after the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an attempt to revive the Obama-era regulation. The court gave Interior until mid-January to repeal the rule.

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NFL’s War On Christmas: Saints’ Kamara Shares NFL Fine Letter For Santa-Themed Cleats

But cops as pigs socks are cool?

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A pair of Christmas cleats recently worn by NFL running back Alvin Kamara will cost him a pretty penny in fines.

The New Orleans Saints secured their first playoff berth since 2013 on Christmas Eve, but its rookie running back clinched a fine from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s league. The athlete, who ran for 32 yards on 12 carries against the Atlanta Falcons, shared an image of his fine letter with Twitter followers on Thursday.

“Tis the season,” he tweeted. “I’ll start the @gofundme later, stay tuned lol.”

Kamara knew the fine was coming, but tweeted an image of the stocking-like shoes on Dec. 23.

“We talkin bout Christmas??!! Lemme show y’all some different flavors. @adidasFballUS #teamadidas #NewSpeed,” he wrote.

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