Trump Doubles Down: Won’t Risk ‘Slippery Slope’ for Gun Rights

Trump Doubles Down: Won’t Risk ‘Slippery Slope’ for Gun Rights

While talking to reporters Wednesday, President Trump doubled down on his intent to avoid a “slippery slope” for gun rights.

An unidentified reporter asked Trump what is happening in the push for background checks.
Trump responded, “We have a lot of background checks right now, gun owners can tell you that, others can tell you that. There are certain weaknesses, we want to fix the weaknesses. I think that will happen, let’s see what happens.”
Trump added, “I’m concerned that no matter what we agree to, when we get there, the Democrats will say, ‘Oh, now we want this and we want [that].’ You know it’s a slippery slope, and that’s what, actually, your gun owners and a lot of other people are concerned with.”
On August 20, 2019, Breitbart News reported Trump pledging he will not allow Americans’ gun rights to be swept away on the “slippery slope” of gun control.

Well, it's about time!  I was a bit concerned with all of that "red flag law" talk.   We don't need any such thing.  Those laws infringe on rights, and do nothing to actually prevent crime.  They are about taking guns, based on nothing but hearsay, and that's flat out wrong.  People need to not be so willing to toss away freedom for an illusion of safety.

Donald Trump Cancels Federal Student Debt for Wounded Warriors

Donald Trump Cancels Federal Student Debt for Wounded Warriors

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum effectively canceling federal student debt loans for America’s wounded warriors on Wednesday.

“Veterans who have made such enormous sacrifices for our country should not be asked to pay any more, rather it is America who owes our heroes a supreme debt of gratitude,” he said.
The president spoke to the AMVETS Convention in Kentucky on Wednesday, announcing his decision and signing the document.
Trump said the memorandum would effectively cancel the federal student debts of thousands of wounded American veterans.
According to the White House, the memorandum orders Secretaries of Education and Veterans Affairs to expedite totally and permanently that disabled veterans have their Federal student loan debt discharged with minimal burdens.
Trump also touted his administration’s accomplishments for America’s military veterans.
“After years of neglect, we are fixing the heartbreaking failures from the last Administration at the Department of Veterans Affairs,” he said. “America must never abandon our heroes in their hour of need.”
He said that wait times in Veterans Affairs hospitals had been slashed by 33 percent, and touted more VA accountability, allowing bad employees to get fired.
“Now when somebody mistreats you or mistreats people in the VA, we know what happens right?” he asked. “It’s called ‘You’re fired!'”
Veterans in the audience applauded and cheered after Trump said that over 7,600 faulty veterans affairs employees were fired from the system
“They’re gone, they’re fired,” Trump said.
Veterans also cheered Trump’s announcement that he had cut the amount of opioid drugs being prescribed by Veterans Affairs hospitals.
“Get a pain killer that’s not addictive,” Trump said. “And we’re closer than you think.”
Trump also spoke about preventing veteran suicides, suggesting that the government work to obtain a new nasal spray dose of fast-acting anti-depressant medicine to people experiencing suicidal thoughts.
The drug, Spravato, produced by Johnson and Johnson, was recently approved by the federal government.
“They’ve done so well in this country and they’ve made so much money, I think they should give it to us for free,” Trump said, referring to the pharmaceutical company.

Now this is one reason we love this president!  One reason we didn't like the previous one.  This guy cares about the military!  Great move, sir,  truly a great move.  Vets need a lot more decent treatment. 

Trump: ‘Very Seriously’ Looking at Ending ‘Ridiculous’ Anchor Baby Policy

Trump: ‘Very Seriously’ Looking at Ending ‘Ridiculous’ Anchor Baby Policy

President Trump says he is “very seriously” looking at ending the current policy of birthright citizenship in the United States, whereby hundreds of thousands of U.S.-born children to illegal aliens — often referred to as “anchor babies” — are rewarded with American citizenship every year.

While speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Trump said his administration was reviewing an executive order to end the “ridiculous” birthright citizenship policy.

“We’re looking at that very seriously — birthright citizenship. Where you have a baby on our land, you walk over the border, have a baby, congratulations the baby is now a U.S. citizen,” Trump said. “We’re looking at it very, very seriously.”

“We are looking at birthright citizenship very seriously,” Trump continued. “It’s, frankly, ridiculous.”

Nearly a year ago, Trump promised that he was readying an executive order to end birthright citizenship, but the issue has been stalled since October 2018. To date, the U.S. Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that the children of illegal aliens must be granted birthright citizenship, and many legal scholars dispute the idea.

The children of illegal aliens, after being granted birthright citizenship, are able to anchor their illegal alien and non-citizen parents in the U.S. and eventually are allowed to bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country through the legal immigration process known as “chain migration.”

Today, there are at least 4.5 million anchor babies in the U.S., exceeding the annual roughly four million American babies born every year and costing American taxpayers about $2.4 billion every year to subsidize hospital costs. Every year, about 300,000 anchor babies are born in the country and as of June, there has been an average of about 124,000 anchor babies already born this year.

The sanctuary state of California is home to at least 1.2 million anchor babies under the age of 18, as Breitbart News reported. This is roughly twice the total population of Wyoming. The total of anchor babies under the age of 18 in ten U.S. states is more than four times the population of Boston, Massachusetts.

In total, there are now an unprecedented 62 million immigrants and their U.S.-born children living across the country, as Breitbart News has previously reported. As of 2017, there were 17.1 million U.S.-born minor children of immigrants in the country.

The U.S. is nearly alone in granting birthright citizenship to the children of foreign nationals and, specifically, illegal aliens. For example, the U.S. and Canada are the only two developed nations with birthright citizenship. On the other hand, countries such as France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, and Germany all have either outlawed birthright citizenship or never had such a policy.

Most recently, Breitbart News reported how pregnant migrant women are waiting in shelters in Mexico with the hope that they will be granted asylum in the U.S. to secure American citizenship for their children.

He really needs to do this NOW.  Immediately.  Most nations in the world do not offer citizenship in such a fashion, and we should not, either.  It's ridiculous.  These people are invaders, annd you don't reward invaders.  You remove them.

Kindergarten Student Allegedly Sent to School with Cocaine

Kindergarten Student Allegedly Sent to School with Cocaine

Two people in Louisiana were arrested Tuesday after they allegedly sent a five-year-old kindergarten student to school with cocaine.

A school resource officer in Slidell, Louisiana, found the child with what police say is a large amount of white powder and crack cocaine, WGNO reported.
A teacher initially spotted the student holding the white powder bag which police say contained cocaine. When the officers searched the boy, they also found two more bags of crack cocaine.
Authorities say the five-year-old did not know about the drugs.
Police then obtained a search warrant of the child’s home and discovered more narcotics. Investigators later determined the narcotics were being concealed in the child’s clothing without the child noticing, KNOE reported.
Police arrested Angelica Stanley, 23, and Ellis Cousin, 51, on multiple charges, including narcotics and marijuana possession with the intent to distribute as well as child cruelty.
Police say that officers took proper steps to ensure the child’s needs were met. It was unclear whether his parents were involved in the situation.
Authorities did not reveal which school the child attended.

If they sent the kid to the school that way, it's a safe bet someone there was supposed to be collecting those drugs.  They need to do some investigating.  Sick, to use a child that way!  Sounds like enough to be fatal to small kids.

Yale Computer Scientist David Gelernter Abandons Darwinism

Yale Computer Scientist David Gelernter Abandons Darwinism

Renowned Yale computer scientist

David Gelernter

claims that he is abandoning Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Gelernter, who formerly served as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, published a column earlier this year detailing his move away from evolutionary theory. The column, which was titled “Giving Up Darwin,” provides Gelernter’s arguments against Darwinism.

Read the rest at the title link.  Nice to see someone being sensible about the issue, fo a change!  More and more scientists are wising up to that flawed theory.  

LA City Council Bans Sleeping in Vehicles Overnight amid Homeless Crisis

Sleeping inside a vehicle overnight in a Los Angeles residential area is now banned after the city council recently reinstated the ordinance.

“The law also forbids living in a vehicle within a block of a park, school or day care. Tickets for violating the rules start at $25 for a first offense, $50 the second time and $75 after that,” according to a report by NPR.
The report also states that residents have complained that vehicle encampments cause parking shortages and sanitation issues in their neighborhoods.
However, Mel Tillekeratne, executive director of a nonprofit group for homelessness named The Shower of Hope, called the law “stupid.”
“This law … is going to directly contribute to these people being on the street,” the director said.
On June 4, Breitbart News reported that the number of homeless grew 12 percent over the last year, with numbers reaching almost 59,000 of those living on the street in Los Angeles.
Data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority “revealed that nearly three-fourths of the homeless population, which includes 58,936 people, are sleeping in cars, tents, and other make-do shelters,” the report said.
On June 27, California’s Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, signed a state budget that “inludes an historic $1 billion investment” to remedy the “homelessness epidemic across the state.”
However, on July 2, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the homeless crisis in his city was “decades in the making,” adding that “I welcome federal involvement in helping us solve homelessness.”
On July 19, Dr. Drew Pinsky said Los Angeles is in danger of an outbreak of bubonic plague due to the surge in homelessness and problems with rodent infestations, Breitbart News reported.
“And if you look at the pictures of Los Angeles, you will see that the homeless encampments are surrounded by dumps. People defecate there, they throw their trash there, and the rats just proliferate there,” he said, adding, “I have a government that is ignoring the basic needs of human civilization.”

 So, they have close to sixty thousand people homeless, many living in thei vehicles, and their "solution" is to make it illegal for these people to sleep in those vehicles?  At least in residential areas?  So, people are supposed to camp out in commercial areas, instead?  How does that improve things, again? 

Instead of making it a crime to be poor, maybe they could do something about the ridiculous cost of living there, and do something about sanitation issues, and oh, yeah, the rodents, for which they have literally no management program?

New Jersey Woman Accused of Torching Man’s House for Ignoring Booty Call

New Jersey Woman Accused of Torching Man’s House for Ignoring Booty Call

A New Jersey woman allegedly torched a man’s house after he invited her over for late-night sex and fell asleep before she came to see him.

Authorities arrested Taija Russell, 29, on Tuesday in connection with the fire that destroyed the man’s home in Woodbury this month, the Cherry Hill Courier-Post reported.

Police say Russell sent several angry text messages to the sleeping resident before she bought lighter fluid, a lighter, and matches at a nearby gas station at around 4 a.m. August 4.

A review of the victim’s phone also showed eight missed calls from Russell along with text messages that read, “You wasted my money to come out here,” “U smoked,” “I see you wanna die,” and “I swear to god I hope you die,” according to NJ.com.

Russell allegedly set the fire outside the only doorway to the man’s home and then fled as the flames engulfed the home, according to the probable cause statement for her arrest.

The victim, who has not been publicly identified, awoke at 4:30 a.m. to find his front entrance ablaze, blocking the sole exit to his smoke-filled residence.

Despite the hurdle, the man managed to escape the fire by removing a window frame and climbing through its opening, police said.

The man, who was “covered head to toe in soot and ash,” ran to the nearest police station wearing nothing but a t-shirt to announce that his house was burning, according to the probable cause statement.

Firefighters then responded to the blaze and were able to save the man’s dog.

“The residence and its contents were completely destroyed,” says the probable cause statement, adding that the fire was ruled an arson.

Police say the victim was taken to a local hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation and first and second-degree burns.

Russell is being held at the Salem County Correctional Center on multiple charges, including attempted murder, aggravated arson, endangering/creating a risk of death, and criminal mischief, NJ.com reported.

 So, because a guy fell asleep, she decided to murder him??  Now that's way too entitled.  Something seriously wrong with people, if they can think this way.  Sin nature in all of us, yes, but this is ridiculous.  No conscience, no concern for anothe human being at all; just ticked off because her own gratification was not possible?  How utterly depraved!  Gives a whole new meaning to safe sex, doesn't it?