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My Political Parties. National Security › Military Congressional Approval Should the President be able to authorize military force against Al-Qaeda without Congressional approval?

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Domestic Policy › Gun Control Should there be more restrictions on the current process of purchasing a gun? Domestic Policy › Armed Teachers Should teachers be allowed to carry guns at school? Domestic Policy › Drug Policy. Armed Citizens Are Successful 94% Of The Time At Active Shooter Events [FBI] UPDATE 10/28/18: In the original publishing of this report we rounded several numbers poorly or in a way that didn't portray the data as accurately as possible.

Armed Citizens Are Successful 94% Of The Time At Active Shooter Events [FBI]

For example, 75.8% was rounded to 75% and other similar issues. Further, the pie charts displayed in the graphics were not proportionally accurate and were designed more with visibility in mind as opposed to an accurate representation. These issues have all been corrected below. If you would like to download the original data you can still do so via the link below. After seeing John Lott from the Crime Prevention Research Center publish a rebuttal to a recent FBI report on Active Shooter events I decided to dive deeper into the data and do some analysis of my own. The Original FBI Data Source The FBI has published 3 reports that collectively detail active shooter events from 2000-2017.

It is important to note that the FBI has no specific system in place for finding and cataloging active shooter events. Socialism ruined my country, don't let it ruin yours too · Andrei Oghină. 23 Oct 2018.

Socialism ruined my country, don't let it ruin yours too · Andrei Oghină

Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists. Akg-images/NewscomWhen people publicly rage about perceived injustices that don't affect them personally, we tend to assume this expression is rooted in altruism—a "disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.

Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists

" But new research suggests that professing such third-party concern—what social scientists refer to as "moral outrage"—is often a function of self-interest, wielded to assuage feelings of personal culpability for societal harms or reinforce (to the self and others) one's own status as a Very Good Person. C3. Democratic vs. Republican occupations. List of Islamic Terror Attacks. Advocate Libertarian Philosophy with This One Trick! (It's the Socratic Method) Gage Skidmore via Foter.com / CC BY-SAEven before last weekend's big Libertarian Party National Convention in Orlando, Reason has been making note that the horrible general election reality of Hillary Clinton vs.

Advocate Libertarian Philosophy with This One Trick! (It's the Socratic Method)

Donald Trump has prompted people and the media to take a closer look at the most prominent third party in the United States. Kristin Tate. The Panama Papers · ICIJ. Geolibertarianism: Universal Basic Income Derived from Commons Rent - Policy Brainstorming - The Something to Consider Forum. Here's my way-out-there policy proposal, which combines a Georgist take on land ownership with the idea of a Universal Basic Income.

Geolibertarianism: Universal Basic Income Derived from Commons Rent - Policy Brainstorming - The Something to Consider Forum

This is known as geolibertarianism1, and it's a pretty compelling philosophy to me. U.S. Presidents. The Presidents of the United States Keshif (keşif) means discovery / exploration in Turkish. 44Presidents of the United StatesShow All.

U.S. Presidents

The Political Compass. Liberty in Our Lifetime. Project Vote Smart - The Voter's Self Defense System. America’s most popular voting guide for elections, political issues, candidates, and poll data. Did the U.S. Army Distribute Smallpox Blankets to Indians? Fabrication and Falsification in Ward Churchill's Genocide Rhetoric. Thomas Brown E-mail: browntf@hal.lamar.edu.

Did the U.S. Army Distribute Smallpox Blankets to Indians? Fabrication and Falsification in Ward Churchill's Genocide Rhetoric

JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World. Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan. OCTOBER 02, 2013 by MAX BORDERS, JEFFREY A.

Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan

40 maps that explain the world. By Max Fisher By Max Fisher August 12, 2013.

40 maps that explain the world

World History Maps & Timelines. Georgia. The Art of Not Being GovernedThe Art of Not Being Governed. The following table is reproduced from "Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control," Prometheus Books, New York (2001), p 289. The "Injury" columns measure "whether the victim suffered any kind of physical injury. 'Loss' refers to whether the victim lost any property during the crime. Finally, a signficant recent improvement in the NCVS allows analysts to separately identify injuries inflicted after the victim engaged in some form of self-protection ('post-SP injury').

George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984. How Government Regulations Made Healthcare So Expensive. Guest Post: The U.S. Offers Obamacare to Those Who Don’t Remember When Markets Controlled Medical Costs By Mike Holly “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” declared philosopher George Santayana.

The U.S. “health care cost crisis” didn’t start until 1965. Figure 1: An Indexed Comparison of Health Care Inflation and Consumer Price Index in US from 1935 to 2009 (Source: US Census 2013) Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman wrote that medical price inflation since 1965 has been caused by the rising demand for health-care coupled with restricted supply (Friedman 1992). The majority of policymakers support either monopolization (e.g. typically Republicans) or nationalization (e.g., typically Democrats). Since the early 1900s, medical special interests have been lobbying politicians to reduce competition. Frédéric Bastiat - Bastiat.org - We debunk economic fallacies since 1845. A pro-liberty approach to lawmaking.

State Symbols of Georgia. Americans - Like Nazi Germans - Don't Notice That All Of Our Rights Are Slipping Away. Americans Are Acting Like Slowly Boiling Frogs In the classic history of Nazi Germany, They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer writes: “What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security.

And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it. Magazine / fall 2013. Last December, when Adam Lanza stormed into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, with a rifle and killed twenty children and six adult staff members, the United States found itself immersed in debates about gun control. U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time. Constitute. GA - Election Results - Waterfox. Index of Economic: Promoting Economic Opportunity and Prosperity - Waterfox. GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD - Waterfox. Theo Spark - Waterfox. Why I Despair - Charles C. W. Cooke - National Review Online - Waterfox. Project Vote Smart - The Voter's Self Defense System - Waterfox.