Over 99% of US Flights Have No Air Marshal; Thanks Chertoff

CNN reports that less than 1% of American flights have a Federal Air Marshal (FAM) aboard. Hmmm . . . $720 million sent to Michael Chertoff for the FAM program for just this fiscal year. Where did the money go? (Do you feel safer now?)

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Gun statistics you seldom see

Now for an article from one of my favorite Orange County Register reporters Gordon Dillow.

It was the sort of incident that never makes it into the official crime statistics – that is, an incident in which a crime may have been prevented by a firearm.

It happened earlier this month in Irvine. Police were looking for a man suspected of raping an 18-year-old woman in her home. As the cops searched, the fleeing suspect, a 27-year-old L.A. gang member, tried to hide by breaking into another home. Inside, the homeowner, a man who had recently undergone defensive firearms training, heard the commotion, grabbed a handgun and confronted the suspect.

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Solar trumps shade in California prosecution of tree owners

The Santa Clara County district attorney pressed criminal charges against Richard Treanor for the shade his redwoods cast on the solar panels that Mark Vargas uses for 100 percent of his home’s power.

Have you read about this insanity?

Global Warming Claims Unsupported by Facts

According to the author of the Times story, H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research institute in Dallas, says the IPCC's policy recommendations are based on flawed statistical analyses and procedures that violate general forecasting principles.

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FBI boosts training in Islamic 'sensitivity'

MORE INSANITY!!!

Weeks added to required 'enrichment' program:'We all need to learn and understand each other'

The FBI believes its agents still aren't sensitive enough to Muslims and their culture, so the bureau has extended by "a few weeks" its Islamic cultural "enrichment" training program, WND has learned.

During a recent outreach event at a Washington-area mosque, FBI officials also reassured a large turnout of concerned Muslims that the bureau is not profiling Arabs and Muslims for terrorism, and has made investigating alleged "hate crimes" against them and other minorities "the second-highest priority in the criminal division of the FBI."

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Shariah comes to Old Crimson:

Looks like Old Crimson has knuckled under to the demands of Muslim women students, egged on no doubt by CAIR, to press for separate gym hours at Harvard. The policy went into effect on March 4th.The venerable student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson is none too happy but some Muslim women are.

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Walmart Openly Price Fixes -- for Muslims !

The Walmart in Dearborn Michigan openly agrees not to price-compete with local Muslim stores. This is "price fixing" very illegal! They don't price fix for local hardware stores or shoes stores or ANY kind of stores ANYWHERE. Except in this one case. Call your Congressman. Sue for discrimination. This is illegal !!!!OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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