Watch: Hillary Takes Two Tumbles in India

Watch: Hillary Takes Two Tumbles in India



While in India Monday for the  India Today Conclave, Hillary Clinton tripped two times while going down a flight of stairs, requiring the help of two men to complete the trek.

Per Daily Wire, Clinton was visiting Jahaz Mahal in Dhar’s Mandu when she attempted to take the stairs.

The 2016 Democratic nominee has struggled with stairs and walking in the past. In 2016, she collapsed while leaving a 9/11 memorial ceremony and had to be carried into a van — she was later diagnosed with pneumonia.

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Delingpole: Britain Says ‘Yes’ to Jihadists, ‘No’ to Free Speech

Delingpole: Britain Says ‘Yes’ to Jihadists, ‘No’ to Free Speech



This letter shames Britain.

It’s illiterate (“Your boyfriend have in his possession” and “insight” where it means “incite”), it’s at once pompously officious and sloppily amateurish, and it’s written by someone who clearly has no grasp of basic details like when and when not to use capital letters (“London Hyde park” and “the Leaflets”).

Yet on this barely educated jobsworth’s say-so, author and activist Brittany Pettibone has – with her boyfriend, Austrian Identarian Martin Sellner, and, subsequently, Canadian citizen journalist Lauren Southern – been declared persona non grata in the U.K.

Clearly, this jobsworth was only obeying the orders of someone well above his pay grade. Presumably, responsibility for this decision goes right to the top – at least as far as Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

If so, Amber Rudd has some serious questions to answer.

The obvious one concerns double-standards:

Yes. Good question.

Current U.K. immigration policy appears to work like this:

It’s apparently okay to let an estimated 425 ISIS terrorists back into the country after their jaunts to the killing zones of Iraq and Syria.

But it’s apparently not okay to let in three campaigners whose only crime is to speak out on behalf of the silent majority, which has had just about enough of all this cultural enrichment and who would like their governments to do more to protect them from it:

And isn’t there something deeply sinister about that phrase claiming that Pettibone, Southern, and Co. “bear a serious threat to the fundamental interests of society”?

Not so long ago, it used to be considered “fundamental” to the “interests of society” that Britain was a country which defended freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. That’s why, for example, we have this place mentioned in the letter called Speakers’ Corner, where anyone can go to have their say, however “right” or “wrong” their opinions.

No more, apparently. Let history note that this happened on the watch of a Conservative government.

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Masters of the Universe: Facebook Tells Publishers It Will ‘Minimize the Bad’ and ‘Promote Quality’

Masters of the Universe: Facebook Tells Publishers It Will ‘Minimize the Bad’ and ‘Promote Quality’



Facebook Head of News Product Alex Hardiman expressed the company’s plans to “redefine its relationship” with news publishers in an effort to “minimize the bad” and “promote quality” during a panel at the South by Southwest film festival.

CNN reports that during a panel discussion at the South by Southwest film festival, Facebook’s head of news product, Alex Hardiman, stated that the social media platform was working on “redefining its relationship” with news publishers. Hardiman stated that the company was working on developing products for the platform that would benefit news publishers and promote accurate journalism. “As we are making the shift to quality, everything is on the table,” Hardiman said. “We’re having active conversations with a lot publishers, academics, and experts in the space.”

Hardiman stated that Facebook aims to “minimize the bad” and “promote quality” on the social media platform’s news feed. CNN’s Brian Stelter surprisingly criticized the platform telling Hardiman that at times it felt like Facebook failed to understand how the news business works and suggested that Facebook consider paying publishers directly for their journalism. Hardiman claimed that the company’s recent algorithm update, which prioritizes posts from family members on the site above posts from publishers, was not solely responsible for publishers going out of business. Publisher LittleThings shut down recently citing the algorithm change as the cause of many of their issues. Hardiman claimed that publishers who blame Facebook for their issues are likely “abusing the system” in other ways.

Hardiman repeated a sentiment expressed by Facebook’s Head of News Partnerships, Campbell Brown, saying that the company now planned to prioritize news publishers by trustworthiness. “For us, we historically within Facebook did not distinguish between different types of news, and that was problematic,” Hardiman said. “Flattening the news meant you couldn’t always tell the difference between something that was trusted and credible, versus something fraudulent.”

Hardiman stated that Facebook was working on a number of initiatives to help publishers monetize their content on the platform and had invested $3 million in a publication accelerator program which the company describes as a “three-month pilot program in the United States to help metro newspapers take their digital subscription business to a new level.” Stelter noted that $3 million is a very small investment for Facebook, which hit $13 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Hardiman was asked about the upcoming midterm elections and what Facebook was doing to prepare themselves for them “We’ve got our work cut out for us,” but “we’re making good progress,” said Hardiman.

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Nolte: Disney Bigots Strip ‘Wrinkle in Time’ of Christianity and It Bombs

Nolte: Disney Bigots Strip ‘Wrinkle in Time’ of Christianity and It Bombs



The trailer for director Ana Duvernay’s A Wrinkle In Time looks awful — empty and bloated. According to Rotten Tomatoes, most mainstream reviewers of the Disney flick, those predisposed to give a black, female director like DuVernay every benefit of the doubt, found the movie to be a diet of empty calories. Thanks to alternative media, the reason for this might come from Disney’s decision to strip Wrinkle of its central theme — Christianity.

Writing at Insider, Kim Renfro says the “movie really suffers” from the decision to “ditch the book’s explicit Christian references.” She found the movie “incomplete” and says that the “biblical inspirations could have (and should have) been replaced with a more cohesive plot that carried the film to its final climax.”

Even the left-wing Vox explains that the book was “deeply informed by its author’s [Madeleine L’Engle] Episcopal Christianity” which “the new Disney movie has excised.”

The film’s screenwriter, Jennifer Lee, laughably explained this removal as “progress.”

“I think there are a lot of elements of what she wrote that we have progressed as a society and we can move onto the other elements,” Lee told an interviewer last month, adding that making the film Christian would be exclusionary in a film that wanted to celebrate “diversity” and “inclusion.”

At Pajamas Media, Tyler O’Neil found the erasure of Christianity detrimental to the movie’s storytelling. What had been a book that delivered real depth became an empty act of New Age political correctness that says practically nothing.

“As it turns out, the New Age spirituality does not adequately replace L’Engle’s vision, and stories really do have more power when they are inspired by God,” O’Neill writes. “Without the Bible grounding of the deep themes … the fantasy novel becomes a coming-of-age tale about embracing yourself, rather than trusting a power greater than yourself. When Disney excises God from the equation, the spiritual elements give way to a worship of self.”

Reese Witherspoon and Storm Reid in A Wrinkle in Time Disney, (2018)

Oprah Winfrey and Storm Reid in A Wrinkle in Time (Disney, 2018)

Despite the star casting of Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon, not to mention Disney’s second-to-none publicity machine, A Wrinkle In Time opened to a pretty dreadful $33 million. Moviegoers were not thrilled with the movie either, giving it a fairly week grade of “B,” according to CinemaScore.

Another bizarre element to the film’s marketing was the decision to champion the movie’s racially diverse casting, which makes no sense in a world where racial diversity has been happening in movies for decades. Besides, no one goes to the movies to look at skin color. We are looking to be transported, thrilled, and emotionally moved.

Generic “spirituality” in the form of New Age psychobabble adds up to nothing. Even secular moviegoers can enjoy Christian themes because those themes are universal, something that informs the human condition way beyond the practicing Christian.

By stripping Wrinkle of those themes, and by extension that emotional depth that comes with those themes, and focusing instead on something as shallow and silly as skin color, Disney not only produced a stinker of a movie but the rare box office flop.

Normal Americans do not care about skin color. We are over it and see no reason to celebrate something as middle-aged as “diverse casting.” Christianity, however, is timeless.

Moreover, to remove Christianity from the movie, most especially when it is so integral to the original story, is not an act of inclusiveness, but rather another bigoted and hostile act from an increasingly provincial and small-minded entertainment industry.

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Expert: Erdogan Regime Considers Christians, Jews ‘Enemies of the State’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian government has deemed members of religious minorities, such as Christians and Jews, “enemies of the state,” an analyst tells Breitbart News, echoing the U.S. State Department.

“The religious minorities in Turkey, like the Christians, Jews, and a few others, suffer from unequal treatment. … The religious minorities are believed to be enemies of the state,” Dr. Y. Alp Aslandogan, the executive director of the Alliance for Shared Values, a non-profit group that promotes bringing people from different backgrounds together, told Breitbart News. “So the association with them becomes a crime. So those religious minorities, those citizens themselves, are pushed into enemy status.”

“That’s what all religious minorities suffer from — the Armenians, the Christian Orthodox, and the Jews, among others — they suffer from this kind of stigma,” he added.

In the latest U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report, the American government acknowledged that discrimination against Christians and other religious minorities intensified in Turkey following the failed coup attempt of July 2016.

State reports that following the rebellion seeking to depose Erdogan, the president of Muslim-majority Turkey:

Some foreign citizens, including several individuals with ties to Christian groups, faced detention, residency-permission problems, or denial of entry to the country under the state of emergency powers following the attempted coup. The government continued to prosecute individuals for ‘openly disrespecting the religious belief of a group.

Several foreign Christian missionaries were subjected to deportation, and cancellation of valid residency permits without notice. The government provided limited explanation or justification for such actions. The government denied any anti-Christian motivation underlying these actions.

Breitbart News also spoke with Emre Celik, the president of the Rumi Forum, an organization dedicated to intercultural and interfaith dialogue, about the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in Turkey under the Erdogan administration.

“Erdogan’s bigotry against Christians goes against the very fabric of Islam’s respect towards the ‘People of the book’ – a Quranic term for Jews and Christians – and does not comply with the very fundamental principle of democracy that people of different faith backgrounds need to be treated justly and with respect,” Celik told Breitbart News.

“It’s unfortunate that prejudicial and polarizing language is being used for political gain and has become commonplace in Erdogan’s Turkey – against Christians and numerous other minorities,” he continued.

Consistent with Celik’s remarks, Dr. Aslandogan told Breitbart News that Erdogan and his allies use association with religious minorities as a form of attack against their political opponents.

“There has been hate speech and defamation against religious minorities from the ruling party. When they want to attack their enemies, they openly associate them with religious minorities,” explained Aslandogan. “They accuse religious minorities as trying to undermine progress.”

“Erdogan, for instance, attacks his enemies by referring to them as the pawn of Israel or the pawn of the Jews or the pawn of the Catholics,” he also said.

Echoing the State Department, the executive director for the Alliance for Shared Values also noted that the lack of legal standing for religious minorities in Turkey prevents them from owning territory, rendering them a landless group.

“They don’t have a legal standing, so they cannot officially function as a legal entity. They can only exist as community foundations, so that creates difficulties for them because they cannot exist as legal entities. Therefore, they cannot own property either,” he told Breitbart News.

“During the formation of the Turkish Republic, many of the lands of the religious minorities were confiscated, and although Erdogan took some steps to restore those lands to the religious minorities, he later made a U-turn,” he added.

Breitbart News spoke to Aslandogan and Celik after they participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Newseum in Washington, DC, on March 5.

In remarks prepared for the event, Aslandogan pointed out that President Erdogan is seeking to become the “caliph” of the Muslim world.

Currently, “non-Muslim minorities” in Turkey “suffer various forms of discrimination,” he stressed during the March 5 discussion.

Open Doors, which tracks the mistreatment of Christians across the world, records that out of 50 countries, Turkey is the 37th-worst nation for persecution against followers of Jesus Christ. It notes:

Religious nationalism has grown to new heights. President Erdogan has strengthened his position, trying to transform Turkey from a secular state into a Sunni Muslim one. Leaving Islam for Christianity is considered a betrayal of the Turkish identity, Islam, and the family.

Christians have no access to state jobs and experience discrimination in private employment, especially where employers have ties to the government.

According to Open Doors, 187,000 Christians are in Turkey.

The State Department, which places the estimated number of Christians at nearly 300,000, notes that the Christians belong to a plethora of denominations, including Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, Syrian Orthodox Christians, Russian Orthodox Christians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, various Protestant denominations, Chaldean Christians, and Greek Orthodox Christians, among others.

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Dems Say It’s ‘Racist’ For Trump To Call Maxine Waters Dumb. It’s Not. She Really Is Dumb.

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump unloaded on his political opponents at a rally in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The Commander-in-Chief laid into Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, who calls for Trump’s impeachment about once an hour, stating that she is a “low IQ individual.”

“Maxine Waters, a very low IQ individual, ever see her? You ever seen her?” slammed Trump. “‘We will impeach him! We will impeach the president!’ But he hasn’t done anything wrong. ‘It doesn’t matter, we will impeach him!'”

“She’s a low IQ individual. You can’t help it. She really is,” added the president.

Reflexively, Waters and a chorus of Democrats called Trump’s remarks “racist.”

“He has been name-calling. He’s been saying all kinds of things. And I certainly expected him to come out with some racist remarks about me. So, he did exactly what I expected him do,” Waters said on MSNBC, playing the victim.

Former Obama speechwriter John Favreau posted a now-viral tweet stating the same: criticism of Waters’ intelligence (or lack thereof) is “racist.” Period.

But this has nothing to do with Waters’ race, and everything to do with the congresswoman’s own words and actions. Waters is not smart; she actually incredibly dumb, often unhinged, dripping in conspiracy theories, and over-emotional, as proven by countless asinine comments by the Democrat.

Here’s some proof:

Waters claims Russian President Vladimir Putin is invading North Korea. Yes, North Korea.

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Waters says she was once a millennial. (No, she wasn’t; that’s not how it works.)

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Tinfoil hat Waters claims the Russians sabotaged her speech at an urban housing event. They didn’t.

Daily Wire’s Joseph Curl reports on what actually happened (an “internal routing error”):

“RT, which is Russian television, absolutely interfered with a speech of mine on the floor of Congress and blocked me out for 10 minutes,” she yelled.

“They don’t play. They mean business,” Waters said.

Waters was citing an incident last January when C-SPAN briefly showed RT on its internet feed. The public access network said the problem was created by an “internal routing error.”

In promotion for abortion at the 2004 March for Life, Waters said: “I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.”

(We don’t really need to explain this one.)

Waters suggests President Trump will eventually be impeached for “Russian collusion,” citing Trump calling Hillary Clinton “cooked” and chanting “lock her up” at Putin’s behest. (Did she provide evidence? Nope!)

“I really do believe that much of what you saw coming out of Trump’s mouth was a play from Putin’s playbook,” she said. “I think that when you saw him absolutely calling Hillary crooked, the ‘lock her up, lock her up,’ all of that was developed. I think that was developed strategically with people from the Kremlin, with Putin.”

Waters claims she never called for President Trump’s impeachment, after continuously calling for President Trump’s impeachment (very loudly and publicly).

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Waters claims President Donald Trump and genocidal North Korean dictator “Kim Jong Um” are one in the same. The Daily Wire reports:

“I said that he should be impeached and they said ‘Don’t use that word,'” Waters said. “‘Don’t say anything about impeachment. The Republicans will only use this against us’. Democrats, I don’t care what the Republicans say, I say impeach 45! …”

“My gun is bigger than your gun. My rocket is more powerful than your rocket. And, on and on and on. All’s I see is two heads of state Donald Trump and Kim Jong Um, (sic) both who have questionable agenda’s and questionable health.”

And the list goes on.

So, no, it’s not “racist” to call someone who happens to be black “a low IQ individual” because of their past objectively stupid comments. Race has nothing to do with it. And to suggest otherwise without evidence casts Waters as some victim of her skin color.

Who’s really the racist here?

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Censorship: Twitter Blocks Trump’s 2020 Slogan as “Sensitive Material”

“Keep America Great!” That’s the 2020 campaign slogan Donald Trump unveiled during a rally in Pennsylvania this weekend.

It’s catchy. It conveys the message Trump wants to get across to voters — namely, that he’s turning the country around, both culturally and economically. It’s pithy. It beats “Make America Great Again, Again.” It fits well on a hat.

And, according to the folks at Twitter, it’s “sensitive material” and you shouldn’t be seeing it.

In yet another case of the most censorious social media platform in all of the Democratic People’s Republic of Silicon Valley deciding they’re the only ones who decide what political speech you can see, multiple reports on the social media site claim the slogan was blocked as “sensitive material” when conservative media icon Matt Drudge tried to tweet it out.

Here was the photographic (well, screenshotographic) evidence from Breitbart Deputy Political editor Amanda Lee House.

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And, other images seemed to indicated that this wasn’t just limited to a single tweet.

In fact, as Breitbart pointed out, this was part of a larger pattern involving censoring any tweets that linked back to Drudge or his website.

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Breitbart News recently reported on Twitter filtering tweets from President Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr. The filter appears to be triggered whenever anyone (including the President of the United States) retweets the Drudge Report,” Breitbart noted.

“Users navigating to the official account of the Drudge Report, will find that all tweets from the account that contain URLs are hidden behind the same “sensitive content” warning message. When the President — or anyone else –retweets the account, their tweets are hidden too.”

Now, keep in mind that this only happens when you have your sensitive filter on. However, there are plenty of institutions — schools and libraries come to mind — that have sensitive filters on their browsers.

And, rest assured, these filters aren’t exactly going after ThinkProgress.

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It’s become increasingly clear that conservatives need to fight a battle against social media, which has so clearly allied themselves against a) free speech and b) conservatism. In the battle for the hearts and minds of America, it’s imperative that we make sure our voices are heard by these behemoths.

If not, our ideas will be socially engineered out of existence — no matter whether they work or not.

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Ever Wonder Who’d Win a 2nd Civil War? This Colonel Did the Math and It’s Brutal

Two world wars and a protracted conflict in Vietnam and the American Civil War still remains the bloodiest war in our country’s history. An estimated 620,000 men lost their lives in places with names like Antietam, Gettysburg, Shiloh and Vicksburg — all in the name of ending the great evil that was slavery.

Back then, of course, the Democrats treated Dixie as if it were their fiefdom. When they lost control of the White House in 1860, they were livid. This time, they hadn’t lost it to the tepid, elitist Whig Party but the upstart Republicans, who had agitated for an end to slavery. By the time Abraham Lincoln took office in March of 1861, seven Southern states had seceded, and four more would eventually join the Confederate States of America.

Four years later, the South laid in tatters, slavery as an institution had been destroyed, and the secession had been a failure. Lesson learned, right?

Well, it may be a century and a half later, but the Democrats haven’t learned their lesson well enough. In fact, after Trump’s election, there were plenty of liberals talking about a civil war.

Sure, slavery may not be involved, but there’s a different kind of culture war being perpetrated — and Townhall.com contributor and retired Col. Kurt Schlichter thinks the Democrats would suffer the same ignominious fate they did a hundred and fifty years ago.

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“It’s obvious that the central tenet of the Democrat Party platform is now hatred and contempt for Normal Americans. Taking their cue from the elites in Europe and Canada who are stripping dissenters of their free speech rights and religious freedoms, the leftist elite is moving to solidify its hold on power here with the eager assistance of tech companies and the moral support of the Fredocons who yearn to return to pseudo-relevance as the ruling class’s slobberingly loyal opposition,” Schlichter wrote, referring to social media companies cracking down on conservative publishers and personalities.

“In California, the leftist government is practically firing on Fort Sumter. And nationally, these aspiring fascists are especially eager to disarm Normal Americans – doing so would be an object lesson in who’s the boss, as well as solving that frustrating problem of the Normals having the ability to resist.”

“Do I think there will be a civil war? No, but there could be,” Schlichter wrote.”Civil war is unlikely, but never underestimate Democrat stupidity and hatred. The Schlichter family learned that lesson a century and half ago, the last time the Democrats decided to try to impose their hatred of basic human rights on the rest of the country, when an army of Democrats burned our family hometown.

“Oh, they paid for it. And they would pay again. Democrats are 0-1 in insurrections, and if they went for another round, they would be 0-2. It’s a matter of terrain, numbers, and morale.”

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Schlichter said that those “who think history began when Obama was elected, don’t understand the dangerous game they are playing when they talk about how they want to impose their brown shirt vision upon red America.”

If they want to go to war over guns, or over rights, or over any other issues, Schlichter notes that in terms of territory, the Democrats actually control very little of it.

“Let’s talk terrain and numbers. Remember the famous red v. blue voting map? There is a lot of red, and in the interior the few blue splotches are all cities like Las Vegas or Denver,” Schlichter says.

“That is a lot of territory for a counter-insurgent force to control, and this is critical. The red is where the food is grown, the oil pumped, and through which everything is transported. And that red space is filled with millions of American citizens with small arms, a fairly large percentage of whom have military training.”

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Now, the likelihood of this is almost nonexistent. However, with Democrats talking Calexit or attempts at imposing a popular vote in the stead of the Electoral College, things could get awfully hairy. But there’s one last issue Schlichter notes: that of commitment.

“The Democrat threat to peace is based on its policies designed to deprive Normal Americans of their right to speak freely, to worship freely, and to defend themselves and their rights with firearms. Make no mistake – millions of Normal Americans are willing to risk death to defend those rights,” he writes.

“In fact, many swore to do so when they entered our military and law enforcement. But who is the leftist big talker willing to die to impose the fascist dream of censorship, religious oppression, and disarmament on Normal American citizens? Is the screeching SJW at Yale going to suit up in Kevlar? Is the Vox columnist going to grab a M4? Is the Hollywood poser going to switch her gyno-beanie for a helmet?”

Well, no, probably not. Then again, Civil War II: Electric Boogaloo also isn’t likely to happen at all. But the next time a Democrat starts talking tough about conflict, show him Col. Schlichter’s brutal article. And then give him a change of underwear.

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White House Unveils Plan to Prevent School Shootings

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The Trump administration announced on Sunday its plan to address school safety in the wake of last month’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead.

The administration’s proposal would implement or call for the implementation of a number of immediate reforms meant to address school safety and reduce gun violence. Most prominently, the White House is backing funding for firearms training for school officials, including teachers. A similar proposal, which expanded the number of armed officers in schools, was implemented by the Obama administration in the months following the mass shooting in Sandy Hook, Conn.

The administration also has backed gun violence protection orders, which create a due-process-supported way for officials to temporarily seize the guns of a potentially dangerous individual. Also known as gun violence restraining orders, the proposal has earned the backing of conservatives, who see it as a way to curb the threat of those who raise red flags while respecting the Second Amendment and avoiding more general bans.

Legislatively, the administration is calling on Congress to pass two bills to enhance gun and school safety. The Fix NICS Act, a bipartisan proposal led by Sens. John Cornyn (R., Texas) and Christopher Murphy (D., Conn.), would implement much-needed changes to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), allocating hundreds of millions of dollars to induce state and local law enforcement to submit more of their records to the system. The Stop School Violence Act, another bipartisan proposal shepherded by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah), would reauthorize grants to states to support evidence-based training and tools to help reduce school violence.

Other proposals include additional funding for the nation’s faltering mental health infrastructure, and a full review of the FBI’s tip line. The tip line has come under scrutiny in recent weeks, after it was revealed that someone had contacted the line regarding the Parkland, Fla. shooter’s gun ownership and his desire to kill people.

In addition to its immediate proposal, the White House announced the formation of a commission on school safety. Jointly chaired by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the commission will consider bigger-picture concerns. These, Politico reported, will include consideration of Obama-era guidance on school discipline, the impact of video games on violence, and the effects of press coverage of mass shootings.

The White House’s proposal is the latest action by the Trump administration meant to address gun violence. Last month, President Donald Trump instructed the Department of Justice to implement new regulation to ban bump-fire stocks, which can be used to increase the rate of fire of semi-automatic weapons. Federal gun crime prosecutions continue to rise under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, with a 23 percent increase between the second quarter of 2017 and the second quarter of 2016.

The proposal did not include some of the gun control proposals the president championed during a televised meeting with top lawmakers. The new plan omitted a proposal to ban gun ownership for those under 21 years old, expanding background checks to sales of used guns between private parties, confiscating guns from certain people with mental health issued before applying due process protections, or a ban on certain semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15. Those proposals were praised by gun control groups in the wake of the meeting and panned by the National Rifle Association.

Within a week of the televised meeting, the president and National Rifle Association announced they had held a private meeting in the Oval Office. The NRA said the meeting went well, and the president had expressed his support of the Second Amendment and due process rights.

“Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!” Trump tweeted on March 1.

“I had a great meeting tonight with @realDonaldTrump & @VP,” Chris Cox, a top executive at the gun rights group, tweeted the same day. “We all want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people. POTUS & VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don’t want gun control. #NRA #MAGA”

The NRA did not comment on the White House’s new proposal.

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Dem Congressman Calls DeVos ‘Dumber Than a Bag of Hammers’

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Congressman Jared Huffman (D., Calif.) tweeted on Monday that if President Donald Trump wanted to meet someone with an “IQ problem,” he should meet “rich, white and dumber than a bag of hammers” Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

“Dear President Trump, if you want to meet someone who has an actual IQ problem (as opposed to just being black), meet your Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Rich, white and dumber than a bag of hammers,” Huffman tweeted.

Huffman included video of a recent “60 Minutes” interview with DeVos. In the interview, she appeared to struggle to answer questions about her home state of Michigan, a place where she was a vocal advocate for school choice.

Huffman’s tweet comes days after Trump, during a campaign event in Pennsylvania, attacked fellow Californian Rep. Maxine Waters as having a “low IQ.”

“Did you ever see her? Did you ever see her? ‘We will impeach him. We will impeach the president,'” Trump said in reference to Waters’ frequent calls to impeach Trump.

“She’s a low IQ individual,” Trump said. “You can’t help it.”

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