Less than a week ago, Democrats eviscerated President Trump for “politicizing” the New York City truck attack. That was an attack with a clear cause (Islamic terrorism) and clear solutions (increased monitoring of internal threats, increased vetting of immigrants from countries with known terrorism issues, and increased military action against terrorist groups overseas).

On Sunday, at least 26 worshipers were killed at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. There was no clear cause for the shooting, at least as of Sunday night, and — unlike what Democrats might like to think — no clear solutions to prevent it.

In fact, as of the early hours of Monday morning, we didn’t even have all the facts with regard to alleged shooter Devin Patrick Kelley and his background or how he was stopped, although early reports did credit an armed resident with chasing the 26-year-old shooter off, according to Fox News.

That didn’t stop former President Barack Obama from “politicizing” the incident — you know, that thing Democrats suddenly think is very, very bad — on Twitter.

“We grieve with all the families in Sutherland Springs harmed by this act of hatred, and we’ll stand with the survivors as they recover,” Obama wrote Sunday night.

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“May God also grant all of us the wisdom to ask what concrete steps we can take to reduce the violence and weaponry in our midst.”

We grieve with all the families in Sutherland Springs harmed by this act of hatred, and we’ll stand with the survivors as they recover…

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 6, 2017

May God also grant all of us the wisdom to ask what concrete steps we can take to reduce the violence and weaponry in our midst.

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 6, 2017

There’s plenty of weasel-room in there for Obama to say he was just suggesting that it was time to “ask what concrete steps” we could take, so let’s unpack this one for all of its hypocrisy.

We’ll focus on the second tweet, since there’s nothing prima facie offensive about it — at least not without the second tweet, which makes it clear he’s using bodies not yet cold in the morgue to appeal to America’s emotions.

Obama talks about “concrete steps.” In his world, this means legislation. Unfortunately, reactive legislation (especially involving firearms) has a history of ending up badly. Furthermore, given an almost total paucity of facts, we don’t know there’s a single piece of legislation that could have stopped Sunday’s massacre.

That fact goes unsurprisingly unmentioned by the president. I’m sure he meant to mention it, but Twitter being what it is, it’s hard to pack everything into 140 characters and something had to go.

It’s the final sentence that’s the pièce de résistance of weasel-wording: according to Obama, the measures should be meant to “reduce the violence and weaponry in our midst.”

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Now, nobody wants more violence. (Or, well, nobody sane wants more violence.) However, Obama then sneaks in a causal link — it’s the “weaponry in our midst” that causes the violence and therefore must be reduced.

He provides no evidence for this, probably because there isn’t a whole lot of it. In fact, if Barack Obama was in the habit of reading his own FBI’s reports on crime, he would have found that the “assault weapons” so often scapegoated in the aftermath of tragedies like this kill less people than knives or even hands.

This is the reason why conservatives get weary of Democrats politicizing shootings. They do so usually without the benefit of facts, using specious logic that could be debunked if they looked at any of the pertinent statistics and studies that have been compiled.

That’s the difference between “politicizing” an Islamist terror attack and politicizing a mass shooting. One is simply an issue of stating facts too many people would wish to ignore. The other involves ignoring the facts and instead placing the blame on our constitutional rights.

H/T The Daily Caller

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The “good guy with a gun” who reportedly shot and wounded the alleged gunman at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday has been named in media reports as Stephen Willeford, 55, a local plumber.

The Daily Mail reports that a local resident claims Willeford managed to shoot the alleged gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, between the plates of the body armor that he was wearing. Willeford is described as a plumber and motorcycle enthusiast with no military experience but with excellent aim.

According to an eyewitness interviewed by KENS 5, Willeford stopped the gunman by firing at him with his own rifle from outside the church, then by pursuing him afterwards:

Our neighbor, he’s a very good guy, a very big Christian, he’s the nicest man on the planet, he’ll do anything for anyone around here. We’ve known him for years. He’s childhood friends with my dad. He … came with his [gun], and he took cover behind a car, and he shot the guy, I’m not sure if it was inside the church or the guy was coming out, but if it wasn’t for him, the guy wouldn’t have stopped. And then that’s when the guy got in his vehicle and drove off. And our friend shot through the window at him, trying to get him again, and then he apparently crashed down the road.

He added: “If it wasn’t for our friend … there might have been more lives lost.”

Local law enforcement officials reported that the gunman dropped his weapon after being shot at by the “local citizen,” i.e. Willeford, whose name has not been officially confirmed.

According to numerous media reports, Willeford flagged down local Johnnie Langendorff, and the two pursued Kelley in Langendorff’s truck until Kelley drove off the road. He was found dead in his vehicle, though it is not yet clear whether he took his own life or had been wounded earlier by Willeford.

Johnnie Langendorff and girlfriend Summer Caddell (Facebook)

Both Willeford and Langendorff are being hailed as heroes for confronting the gunman.

Critics on social media argue that the “good guy with a gun” did not prevent the gunman from killing 26 and wounding dozens more.

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An Egyptian immigrant, convicted paedophile, and serial rapist will have his jail term in the UK reduced because he is deaf and cannot hear the television in his cell or chat to other inmates.

Imprisonment was said to be “isolating” for Egyptian national Gamal Demian, 51, who is also mute, and claims he cannot watch entertainment or communicate with other people.

He was sentenced to 20 years after raping and sexually assaulting three girls as young as eight. But appeal judges slashed the term to 18 years after hearing that he was struggling with life behind bars.

Egyptian national Gamal Demian, 51, moved to the UK from Cairo in 2004. (Credit: Facebook)

According to The Sun, his barrister Judith Benson said: “His isolation because of his deafness within the prison is increased in comparison to an ordinary prisoner.

“He is unable to watch TV or partake in any other media of that sort. His life essentially consists of a period of time in workshops where he is able to have minimal communication.

“Save for that, he has no means of communication or passing time.”

According to the Express, Ms. Benson added: “Each day in prison is going to be so much more burdensome and difficult” and argued the rapist had a more boring time in jail because of his disability.

The migrant and Egyptian national moved to West London from Cairo in 2004 and worked in a High Street shop. He was jailed last October at Kingston Crown Court in southwest London.

On top of his jail term, he will serve a further three years on an extended licence as he is considered “dangerous”.

At the Court of Appeal, Judge Adele Williams said disability should not automatically result in a shorter term. But she added: “We are persuaded some reduction is appropriate.”

Saudi officials announced on Monday that they would seek to limit imports of uranium to generate nuclear energy by developing a domestic extraction program to foster “self-sufficiency in producing nuclear fuel.”

While the Saudi government has not expressed a desire to create nuclear weapons, it remains publicly concerned that regional rival Iran may be developing nuclear weapons in violation of international law, and Saudi officials in the past have not dismissed the possibility of developing nuclear weapons if necessary to defend against a nuclear-armed Iran.

“Regarding the production of uranium in the kingdom, this is a program which is our first step towards self-sufficiency in producing nuclear fuel,” the Saudi official in charge of the atomic energy, Hashim bin Abdullah Yamani, said on Monday, according to Reuters. Yamani was speaking before an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference in Abu Dhabi, according to Reuters.

The outlet notes that, while Yamani discussed domestic production of uranium, he did not mention any desire to launch uranium enrichment programs in Saudi Arabia. Most uranium is stable and must be enriched to extract the radioactive isotopes used for nuclear energy programs—and nuclear weapons. Yamani did state categorically that the harvesting of uranium domestically was meant “to introduce nuclear power for peaceful purposes.”

“The IAEA also has been requested to conduct an integrated review of our nuclear infrastructure during the second quarter of 2018,” he added.

In a separate report on Tuesday, Reuters reported that Saudi Arabia had sent official requests to international nuclear reactor builders for more information on commissioning the construction of reactors to be used in new plants. Reuters cited an “industry source” who told the outlet, “Saudi Arabia has just sent the request for information to various companies and it is being examined.”

A nationwide overhaul of energy infrastructure is part of what the Saudi regime calls “Vision 2030,” a plan to bring the nation into the 21st century with the development of giant infrastructure developments and industrial projects. On Tuesday, Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi, a columnist for the Saudi newspaper al-Arabiya, described the 2030 program as featuring “mega projects” that “are about the ‘wow factor’—futuristic ideas, dreams, creativity, entertainment, technology and modernity.” Reuters noted in its report that Saudi Arabia’s plan proposes “building some 17.6 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2032, the equivalent of about 17 reactors.”

Vision 2030 is a pet project of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has taken on a prominent role as the leader of the “modernization” of the country. Bin Salman has made said in public statements that he does not see modernization as merely economic. Last week, he said the purpose of the 2030 plan was to create “a tolerant country with Islam as its constitution and moderation as its method.”

Mohammed bin Salman explicitly referred to a “moderate Islam that is open … to all religions,” a marked shift from the decades that Saudi Arabia has spent investing in fundamentalist Wahhabi Sunni Islamic ideology.

The Kingdom appears to be endeavoring to position itself as a reasonable cooperative partner against the increasingly belligerent and expansive Iran, and its overtly peaceful nuclear ambitions are rekindling old concerns that the Saudis may be seeking to prepare in the event of Iran’s successful development of a nuclear weapon.

That concern has been around for years. In 2015, amid the development of what would become the Obama Iranian nuclear deal, rumors circulated that Riyadh had reached out to at least one nuclear-armed ally, Pakistan, to inquire about the purchase of a weapon. Pakistan denied the reports.

A month later, an unnamed Saudi official told the Washington Post that the passing of the Iranian nuclear deal “would give a green light to his own government to start a nuclear energy program.”

Saudi officials never announced the launch of such a program despite the ultimate passing of that program. A year later, however, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir asserted that Riyadh would do “whatever we need to do in order to protect our people” in response to a question on Saudi Arabia’s nuclear ambitions.

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt issued a new directive on Tuesday that will end the conflict of interest from agency science advisers who receive EPA grant money.

EPA administrator Pruitt said, “Whatever science comes out of EPA, shouldn’t be political science. From this day forward, EPA advisory committee members will be financially independent from the Agency.”

Pruitt’s new rulemaking stipulates that no member of an EPA federal advisory committee (FAC) can receive an EPA grant. Pruitt explained at a press conference on Tuesday that science advisers that currently receive EPA grant money will have to choose whether to continue receiving the grant or serve as an agency adviser.

“You have to choose either grant or serve on the board. You can’t do both,” declared Pruitt.

The EPA calculates that over 20 members of three of EPA’s 22 FACs, including the Science Advisory Board (SAB), Clean Air Scientific Committee (CASAC), and the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), received over $77 million in direct EPA grant funding while serving on these committees.

The administrator’s new directive will also seek to increase the agency’s “state, tribal and local government participation,” increase geographic diversity, and promote new ideological diversity that will come from different geographic and government entities. Pruitt chided the previous EPA administration, which he argues failed to represent the American West and Midwest.

“Strengthening independence from EPA, increasing state, tribal and local government participation, and adding geographic diversity and fresh perspectives will improve the integrity of EPA’s scientific advisory committees,” explained Pruitt.

During a press conference on Tuesday, Pruitt said that he “looks forward to ensuring that independence and integrity is maintained” for the agency’s science advisers.

Reporters asked Pruitt whether the EPA would also have safeguards over agency science advisers that receive grants from private industry. Pruitt explained that the EPA can only control agency grants, however, he added that the EPA ethics board would ensure that there would not be any conflicts of interest coming from advisers who receive industry associated grants.

At the press conference on Tuesday, House Science, Space, and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) said, “Americans can thank Administrator Pruitt for advancing sound government, and sound science.”

Administrator Pruitt has sought to unshackle America’s energy markets through repealing many Obama-era practices. Pruitt repealed the Clean Power Plan, one of Obama’s signature environmental regulations; the Clean Power Plan tried to cap carbon emissions from power plants. Pruitt also ended the agency’s “Sue and Settle” practice that allowed the EPA to create regulation through litigation.

Scott Pruitt’s actions fall well within President Trump’s agenda to unravel Obama’s environmental legacy and pursue an America First policy of “energy dominance.”

Two Austrian classrooms, in Villach and Klagenfurt, consist of children purely from migrant backgrounds and not a single child speaks German as a first language.

The two classrooms are the first in the Austrian school system to have classes where none of the children speaks German as their native language. The 14 students in Klagenfurt speak some German as a second, or even third language, but in Villach four of the 18 students in the class speak no German at all, Kronen Zeitung reports.

Country Chief Executive Peter Kaiser said the decision to have the migrant children all in the same class was in order to make it “easier to organise additional language support”, but stressed that the decision was not the norm. He added that the eventual goal would be to transfer the children into classes with German-speaking children.

The move comes not long after a report which stated that there are currently more Muslim children enrolled in state primary schools in Vienna than there are Catholic children showing changing demographics among the younger age group.

Islam has become the fastest growing religion in Austria, due to higher than average birth rates and mass migration which have greatly increased the number of Muslims in the country.

The stress of mass migration on the school system has also led to conflicts among the teaching staff and school administrations. Last year, an Austrian teacher was reprimanded when she suggested that migrants were dragging down the school system.

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She referred to the migrant children as a “lost generation” saying: “There are children who were born in Vienna, whose parents have already lived in Vienna for many years, but who have been brought up in their mother tongue for the first six years, barely know a word of German, haven’t read any picture books or watched German language TV. That means if they come to school they begin with language acquisition.”

The teacher complained that many of the children could only speak in fragments of German and had difficulty with even basic arithmetic.

The rise in the number of Muslims in Austria has also led to the creation of Islamic schools which some have warned may be spreading the ideas of radical Islamism.

Last year it was reported that an 18-year-old Chechen young woman had worked at an Islamic kindergarten as a volunteer and had later attempted to join the Islamic State terror group fueling fears that other Islamists may have been operating in the schools.

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