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This article is posted to point out the absurdity of "The Left's" constant call for more gun control. Here we have a 25 year old, arrested 25 times, AS AN ADULT, convicted of four felonies, one of which was a gun violation. AND WE NEED MORE GUN LAWS. Give me a break. Seems to me you already have all the tools you need to keep idiots like this off the street, but if you aren't going to even open the tool box there isn't much hope. But, then again, the whole agenda is not to disarm these thugs, it's to disarm law abiding gun owners.
Chicago News
A convicted felon was charged with shooting a Chicago Police officer during a foot pursuit late Wednesday in the Rosemoor neighborhood on the Far South Side.
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Anthony Woodridge, 25, was charged with felony counts of attempted first degree murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated battery by discharge of a firearm, according to Chicago Police.
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Johnson explained Thursday that Woodridge had been arrested 25 times as an adult, and convicted of four felonies. Most recently, he was convicted of possessing a handgun as a felon on parole and sentenced to nearly five years in prison last June.
“This guy was sentenced to four and a half years in June of 2016, and we haven’t even completed 2017 and he’s out, back on the streets doing the same things he was convicted of,” Johnson said. “What message does that send? It tells them we’re not serious.”
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Johnson stressed the need to pass “more commonsense gun laws” to give police and citizens “the tools to be safe.”
By Larry Alton
With so much in disarray, President Trump had his work cut out for him entering office. However, he promised to make the VA a focal point, so it’s fair game to hold him accountable and see how he’s doing. And if you cut through all of the media noise and BS, you’ll see that he’s actually making some headway. Here are just a few examples of small wins and steady steps in the right direction:
- With so much corruption in the VA, Trump signed into law legislation that paves the way for the firing of employees who engage in misconduct. It also helps protect the whistleblowers. In what Trump once called “the most corrupt agency in the United States,” these new standards have already led to the firing of a whopping 1,163 employees and suspension of an additional 387 (as of early November).
- In May, the White House proposed a 6 percent increase to the VA budget, which included an increase of $13 billion for the “choice” program that allows veterans to opt for private healthcare coverage.
- One of Trump’s campaign promises was a private hotline to the White House to field complaints 24/7. While it’s been a bumpy road, the administration has followed through on this promise with a soft launch.
- In August, Trump signed legislation to give veterans an additional $3 billion for educational assistance over the next decade. Forever GI, which is actually a combination of more than a dozen different bills, allows spouses and children of service members killed on duty to qualify for scholarships (or have tuition reimbursed. Full Story....Here
By M.D. Kittle
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin’s infamous John Doe investigation was more sinister and politically driven than originally reported.
A Wisconsin Attorney General report on the year-long investigation into leaks of sealed John Doe court documents to a liberal British publication in September 2016 finds a rogue agency of partisan bureaucrats bent on a mission “to bring down the (Gov. Scott) Walker campaign and the Governor himself.” Full Story....Here
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 has been the Year of the Rooster. Myself, I’ve decided to designate it the Year of the Headless Liberal Chicken. I don’t mean that to be insulting … or, all right, I guess I do, a little. But my heart goes out to liberals, seriously.
At this point, the amount of utterly baseless, contradictory propaganda, mass hysteria, and just flat out insanity the ruling classes have demanded they swallow is more than any human mind, no matter how medicated, could possibly handle. Is it any wonder so many of them of lost it and started seeing Nazis and Russians coming out of the woodwork? Just consider what the average liberal has been forced to try to cognitively reconcile since the tragic events of last November …Full Story....Here
by HEATHER WILHELM
Wealthy blue-state foes of the GOP tax bill face a harsh look in the mirror.
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Ah, yes. Thank goodness for people like Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Brown, the New York Times editorial board, and other blue-state stalwarts, whose No. 1 concern is to fight this pernicious money grab by a sinister, well-organized, and garishly wealthy elite! But hark, New York Times: What have we here? Why, it’s an analysis from your own news pages, dated December 5, with a doozy of a headline: “Among the Tax Bill’s Biggest Losers: High-Income, Blue State Taxpayers.” Full Story....Here
By Richard Rail
#NeverTrumps are having a time trying to force-fit Donald Trump into the usual categories of president. He's ideological, or he's pro-business, or he's pro-military or populist or what have you. They completely miss the central point of Donald Trump's presidency, which is to get rid of all the government blocks; bottlenecks; you-can'ts; oh-buts; restrictions; impediments; and, oh yeah, corruption that get in the way of people getting ahead in their lives. He knows all about it because he has had to deal with these roadblocks in his own businesses. Full Story....Here
MOUNT PLEASANT Badger Meter has announced plans to move from 30-35 jobs from Scottsdale, Ariz., to Racine County.
The company plans to close its Scottsdale location and move the jobs to its existing plant, at 8635 Washington Ave., in Mount Pleasant, by March 31.
The state's passage of a right-to-work law in 2015, which prohibits contracts that require even non-union workers to pay union dues, played a part in the business's decision to move jobs here.
We probably would not have brought those jobs to Wisconsin if it was not a right-to-work state, Meeusen said. Full Story....Here
Thanks to years of extremely bad public policies, the federal higher education programs dump tens of billions of dollars a year in grants and aid, only to produce an ocean of debt and millions of graduates ill-suited for the workforce. House Republicans are set to introduce a sweeping reform plan that would start to repair this wreckage.
The House Republican reform plan, previewed by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, would revamp the student loan program by among other things capping loans, putting colleges on the hook for defaults, and removing various Obama-era loan forgiveness programs. Community colleges would also get more funding to better coordinate courses with job requirements, and the bill would expand apprenticeship programs. Full Story....Here
