The 2nd Amendment doesn't just deter criminals. It also gets rid of leftist college professors.
If only conservatives had known this all along, the NRA would have gotten twice as much support. Over at the University of Kansas, some leftist profs are leaving in a huff. "You won't have us to kick around America for your impressionable teenagers anymore."
The effect may not be what they intended.
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Repeat it in all other campuses. Can we be certain these lefty professors are really leaving? The lefty Hollywood crowd always threatens to leave the country when things don't go their way but they never do.
[38North.org] Size Matters Therein lies my insignificance.
This is an instance where size does matter: the larger the nuclear explosion, the larger the affected area. While technical reports and papers on EMP from nuclear detonations are mostly classified, there is a paper by D. Hafemeister of California Polytechnic Institute that provides sufficient detail to derive a simple rule of thumb on the relationship between affected distance and nuclear device yield. The paper makes some simplifying assumptions:
The detonation is spherically symmetric (which may not always be the case);
The Earth’s magnetic field is not accounted for;
Prompt gamma rays account for 0.3 percent of the total energy of the explosion and are emitted within the first 10 nanoseconds of detonation;
About 0.6 percent of the prompt gamma rays produce relativistic electrons that constitute the E1 component of the EMP; and
The electric field damage threshold is 15,000 volts/meter or higher in the E1 component.
Plugging in the numbers and presuming these assumptions are appropriate, the rule of thumb is surprisingly simple: D = Y, where D is the maximum damage distance expressed in kilometers and Y is the yield of the blast in kilotons. So, a 20 KT bomb detonated at optimum height would have a maximum EMP damage distance of 20 km; a 1 MT (1,000 KT) bomb would damage out to 1,000 km. The largest North Korean test to date has been estimated to be about 20 KT.
Conclusions
Considering the physics behind EMP and the status of North Korea’s nuclear program to date, doomsday headlines in the press regarding the North’s potential EMP threat are grossly overstated.[4] North Korea’s nuclear tests have not yet demonstrated sufficient yield to cause damage to large areas through EMP. Moreover, with only a limited arsenal, it would not make sense for the North Koreans to conduct nuclear tests simply to develop EMP weapons. Dunno.
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EMP ? Bring it. Perhaps they will finally resume the proper motoring speed and stay in their lane. I survived Y2k, Michael Jackson, Starbucks, and Barry Soetoro. I am determined to survive NORK EMP.
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Miniaturization is the key. Our nuclear capable Samsung Galaxy S8+ app could take out an entire first floor Nordstrom's men's section and neighboring Starbucks.
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"Hacking" into our infrastructure with Chinese assistance is more of a real threat than this. Its easier, quiet, deniable, cheaper and gets the job done.
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Detonation in a seaport, probably underwater to kick up the most radioactive crud, on the Pacific coast scares me a Lot more than the EMP-Godzilla that keeps returning from oblivion every few years.
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Absolutely right, Magpie.
Prepositioned atomics in the bay at Busan, home of the ROK navy and US Navy command
can compromise a US carrier group, the ROK Navy, poison South Korea's second largest city
and will severely impede deployment and resupply logistics for the US Forces SK.
Seoul is the imagined strategic first strike but it can be taken out with artillery.
The gateway to the world port of Busan feeds and defends the nation.
h/t Instapundit
...my concern isn't with supporting populism per se. I am no fan either of the National Front (FN) or of Ms. Le Pen. My overwhelming interest is, quite simply, in standing up against the Islamization of Europe.
Yes, I wish Le Pen had more sensible views on the French welfare state; I wish her party didn't have such an ugly history. But there were two choices in this run-off election, and only one of them was promising to strive to keep France from becoming overwhelmed by Islam.
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Young women, stand up to that statue
And "fascists" who try to un-hat you!
Because you're empowered
And never a coward,
You'll smirk as the Muslims dispatch you.
Because you'll definitely stand up to them when the time comes... right? Cue Ben Franklin.
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Michael Van Der Galien (who wrote the column that inspired Bawer's response) is a Muslim convert who never chooses to share that fact with his readers.
[TheBaffler.com] A few weeks back in Manhattan, hundreds of socialists, communists, anarchists, and even few decent “small-d” democrats shuffled into the unlikely venue of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (ironically, best known as a “cop school”) for Left Forum 2015. If you aren’t up on your radical political symposiums, Left Forum evolved out of the now-defunct Socialist Scholars Conference, which was re-founded in 1981 after the original Socialist Scholars Conference petered out in the 1960s. The SSC grew into the largest, most prominent leftist summit in the United States, though nationwide university cuts eventually curtailed both budget and staff for the event. By 2004 it was renamed Left Forum, and it still commands a big draw: This year’s confab boasted 1,300 speakers and four hundred events under the salient title of “No Justice, No Peace: Confronting the Crises of Capitalism and Democracy.” Yeah, because democracy is a crisis. Jesus.
At its best, Left Forum remains a reassuring beacon of cameraderie and ambition. In addition to seasoned journalists, organizers and academics, it usually snags a few big public intellectuals, like Noam Chomsky, David Harvey, and Angela Davis, while also peppering the bill with high-profile activists like Harry Belafonte and Michael Moore. The organizers sometimes even lure the odd political success story, most recently Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council member and open socialist. Generally, both speakers and attendees are smart, friendly, and often quite young and good-looking (if I do say so myself).
At its worst, however, Left Forum is Comic Con for Marxists—Commie Con, if you will—and an absolute shitshow of nerds and social rejects. There are bitter old codgers that will harangue you about a thirty-some-years-old internecine grudge, and there are politically unsophisticated kids with Che Guevara t-shirts and Adbusters subscriptions. There are sanctimonious Trotskyists, ridiculous Maoist Third-Worldists, condescending horizontalist anarchists, smug social democrats and a glut of ardent adherents to similarly esoteric ideological traditions, all competing for the title of Most Insufferable Anti-Capitalist. Left Forum is notorious for grueling Q&A sessions, often with nary a “Q” to be found. People like to demonstrate how many books they’ve read (or worse, have written and self-published) in embarrassing displays of pretension and/or machismo, and cynicism is frequently substituted for insight.
But the grumps and the brats, the blowhards and the sectarians, the narcissists and the pessimists—all of these people are bearable to me, some even charming. No, the worst part of Left Forum is the crackpots, the paranoiacs, the hysterics, and all the other truly dysfunctional personalities attracted by the conference’s most infamous policy: no panel submission will be rejected. It's good to know that the Left has problems, too.
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Leftism does seem to be based on NPD.
The idea that you can benefit people better than they can themselves is the height of arrogance and a total impossibility.
[Washington Examiner] President Trump said Wednesday that people will thank him for firing former FBI Director James Comey, because Comey had ruined the FBI's reputation.
"Comey lost the confidence of almost everyone in Washington, Republican and Democrat alike. When things calm down, they will be thanking me!" Trump tweeted.
[DAWN] "YOU can’t clap with one hand," one of the rapists in the notorious Delhi gang rape case had famously said after being convicted of rape and murder. This man, along with five others, had been found guilty of taking a young woman to the back of a Delhi bus one night in December 2012. The men raped the young woman inflicting injuries that were so terrible that the doctors, including those in Singapore, where she was sent for treatment, could not save her. A few weeks after the incident -- after she had identified her assailants and given her statement -- she succumbed to her injuries.
Last week, the Supreme Court of India upheld the death sentence handed out by a lower court to five of the men who had raped her. (One escaped the sentence as he was a juvenile at the time of the crime. He spent three years in a correctional facility.)
It was an unusual move, according to experts; lower courts in India routinely hand out death sentences but many if not most are overturned on appeal based on some technicality such as shoddy investigation by the law-enforcement authorities. So it was expected it would be the same in this case, some detail or procedural provision invoked to show ’mercy’ to the men. The fact that this did not happen signifies that the highest court in India saw it necessary to uphold the worst possible punishment in a case so grotesque that it saw hundreds of protests across India and headlines around the world.
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Thought these guys would be hung by now. The hanging was supposed to be "immediate", i.e. without delay.
[DAWN] WHO fits the definition of ’jet-black’ terrorist better than Ehsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... , the former spokesmen and a key commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain, and subsequently of the TTP splinter group Jamaatul Ahrar
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The 2nd Amendment doesn't just deter criminals. It also gets rid of leftist college professors.
EMP ? Bring it. Perhaps they will finally resume the proper motoring speed and stay in their lane. I survived Y2k, Michael Jackson, Starbucks, and Barry Soetoro. I am determined to survive NORK EMP. 
