Feel Safer: Easier to Get Parole, Harder to Buy Bullets

Debra J. Saunders

"Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic Legislature have a unique plan to enhance public safety in California. They have reduced the state prison population from close to 150,000 in 2010 to 113,000 now by downgrading what crimes put an offender in prison. Now they are pushing a ballot measure that would enable repeat serious and violent offenders to qualify for early release -- to further reduce the state prison population. No worries, though, because they also are passing laws that make it harder or costlier for everyone to buy guns and ammunition." . . .

How the World Fell Out of Love with Obama

What do they mean, "the world fell out of love with Obama"? Why do we keep hearing how his popularity in America is above 50%? Does the world see things about Obama that we cannot?

Politico
"In countries key to the president’s legacy, people express profound disappointment in a man from whom they expected great things."

. . . "But peace did not arrive in Obama’s time. Obama’s standing in much of the world seemed to sag each year as he struggled to fulfill his promises. America, after all, still has troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the Middle East, revolutionary movements, including ones Obama overtly backed, have largely fizzled or bred violent anarchy. And Russia has ignored Obama’s warnings and asserted its influence in former Soviet states, sometimes at the point of a gun. Many saw in this picture a naive president and a United States of diminished standing. In Jordan, confidence in Obama fell from 31 percent in 2009 to 14 percent last year, the Pew surveys show. Some 86 percent of Britons expressed confidence in Obama in 2009; in 2015, it was 76 percent. Even in Kenya, where Obama has family ties, confidence in him stood at 80 percent in 2015, down from the mid-90s his first two years. The numbers don’t suggest deep antipathy toward Obama, but the heady infatuation that accompanied his arrival in office has changed into pervasive disappointment."

A radio documentary of our interviews with dozens of citizens in those and other nations airs this weekend. In each country, we discovered a palpable sense of discontent with the now gray-haired American leader.

Obama and Race Relations

Police Swipe at Obama Over Tensions

“The man responsible for the murders [in Dallas] was Micah Johnson, but having said that, I do think the president by his inaction has contributed to a climate where these things can happen,” William Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, which represents about 240,000 law enforcement officers, said Sunday. “This president and his administration absolutely do not have our back and make our jobs more dangerous.”

How has electing Obama twice helped race relations in America?

"Hours before the murders of five police officers in Dallas, Texas, President Obama was again spouting false claims about racism by the police. He sees racism whenever there is any disparity in outcomes, no matter what the cause.

"Obama and others inflame passions, but take no responsibility, and instead use events to push for more gun control. Yet, shouting racism can endanger the lives of police officers. The Dallas police chief tells us one of the shooters “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”

"After the Trayvon Martin case, there were numerous cases around the country of blacks attacking whites and invoking Martin’s name.

"Let’s not forget that NYPD cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were executed by a black man who was angry about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

"Obama and his administration spoke out repeatedly on the Martin and Brown cases. They repeatedly claimed racism was involved, but in fact there’s no evidence of that in either case."

What caused Obama to comment on the Dallas murders this way?

#CIVILWAR: When the Commander-In-Chief acts as the de facto head of a terror group called #BlackLivesMatter

As Obama Heads To Dallas, Fed-Up Americans Have Just 5 Words For Him

"Americans all over the country are sick and tired of his rhetoric that further divides our nation, and they are making it clear. Many share the sentiments of one Dallas resident, who tweeted these five words: “We don’t want him here,” and their message was met with a lot of “amens.' ”

Beyoncé Tells Her Disciples To, ‘FIGHT Police’ – Hours Later, COPS Murdered   Pictured with Obama here:

Moments of class from the Dallas massacre

Cop Says There Were Unnoticed Heroes From Dallas Shooting Who Deserve Praise

Fire and Rescue on the scene at the Dallas ambush (Source: CNN)

. . . "The message from Officer Rushing’s page, which was later posted to the Fort Worth Police Officer Association’s Twitter page, read, “Fire did NOT get enough credit…they were moving with us in ambulances toward Market St toward the gunfire. Every single time we told them to get out of the shooting zone the driver would just keep yelling, ‘Just tell us where they are,’ referring to our downed Officers.” . . .

Beautiful memorial to fallen DPD officers 

NFL star brothers condemn cop massacre and say Muhammad Ali would have called people to stand together against racism

. . . "He described killer Johnson as a ‘nut job’ who saw fit to kill innocent people in response to an emotional frustration.

 ' ‘He became a sick individual’ he added.

"The Ashab network were meeting in Dallas today to pray for peace. "

Heroic mother who acted as human shield for her son says she saw cops shot in front of her that she pledged to march against
"Taylor said she saw two officers get shot - one she believes was killed
As one cop slumped he had warned the mom-of-four 'He's got a gun, run'"
More on this lady here: 

 Mother Shot in Dallas Massacre: The Police ‘Were Really Heroes for Us’

. . . “ 'That officer jumped on top of me, and covered me, and my son,” she tearfully relayed. “There was another one at our feet, and there was another one over our head. And there were several of them lined against the wall over there and they just stayed there with us.' ” . . .

David Limbaugh- Hillary: Guilty as Not Charged

Townhall

"It's no mere academic question: Do we believe in the rule of law anymore? Are we a nation of laws or of men? 

"The cherished idea of the rule of law in our system is about everyone's being subject to the law in equal measure. The law, including criminal law, applies even to our political leaders.

"Both members of the American power couple known as the Clintons have escaped accountability all of their adult lives, so it comes as no shock that Hillary Clinton is once again being allowed to skate, even though the head of the very body tasked with investigating her ­­ the FBI ­­ has detailed precisely how Clinton did in fact break the law. FBI Director James Comey laid out, with specificity, how Clinton violated our national security laws, but then he proceeded to explain that he was nevertheless declining to refer Clinton for federal prosecution." . . .

Democrats, Have You No Shame?

Bruce Bialosky

. . . "George Will has decided to abandon the party of which he was a member for 52 years.  Though I don’t agree with his rationale, he took a stand because he disagrees with the stances of the Republican nominee.  Though he may disagree with Trump on more than a few issues, he disagrees with Clinton on virtually every issue.  But it isn’t just issues as much with Clinton as it is her moral standing.  Do you see any Democrats leaving their party over their soon-to-be nominee?  No, because Democrats have no shame. " . . .

How Many People Have To Die Because Of The #BlackLivesMatter Movement? (Cartoon update)

legalinsurrection.com

“ 'Pigs In A Blanket, Fry 'Em Like Bacon!” – Chant at a #Blacklivesmatter protest in Minnesota “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” – Chant by "Million Marchers" in New York City "

Townhall  

"The whole Black Lives Matter Movement is pure crap designed to help liberals get their names out there and to increase black turnout in elections for the Democratic Party.

"It’s a movement funded by liberal white Americans like the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation and supported primarily by privileged black liberals that does nothing but produce a bigger body count.

" For whatever reason, black Americans have always had a more hostile relationship with the police than other groups. Maybe that comes from the bad old days of the civil rights movement when the police weren’t always fair to black Americans. Maybe it comes from the sky high crime rate in black America which insures that percentage wise, more black Americans profit from criminal activities or know people involved in regularly breaking the law than people from other races. Perhaps it’s just a “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” problem? Did police hostility cause black Americans to become more distrusting of law enforcement or did hostility by black Americans cause the police to become more distrustful? If that hostility and distrust ceased on one side, would it disappear on the other side, too? Whatever the reason for it, it exists and the Black Lives Matter movement has greatly exacerbated it for its own purposes. " . . .


Dallas Patrol Cars Sit in Memorial to Slain Officers   "Flowers, signs and flags adorned two patrol cars that were parked outside of Dallas police headquarters as a memorial to the five officers slain and seven wounded in Thursday's sniper attack. Photo: Getty"

How the Dallas shootings unfolded

Limbaugh Predicts Summer of Violence Will Scorch Political Conventions

Just Wait for the Conventions, Because This Violence Is Not Over

"... this is not the end of anything ..."

Western Journalism  "The violence that left Dallas reeling in horror and America in shock has not yet reached its crescendo, talk show host Rush Limbaugh warned Friday.

“ 'I think everybody better come to grips with the fact that this is not the end of anything here,” Limbaugh said, saying the prediction was one he would rather see not happen, “but it’s going to happen anyway at this point.”

“ '.. the next target is going to be the Republican National Convention. And then possibly after that the next target the Democrat National Convention, because there’s going to be huge numbers of people in both places and there’s going to be lots of cameras.  And the media is going to be both places,” Limbaugh said, referencing the way that demonstrations in Chicago in 1968 utterly disrupted the Democratic National Convention and ultimately subsumed the convention narrative." . . .

Of course, Mr. Farrakhan made this pronouncement before Dallas:

"The Blaze posted some of what Farrakhan said:

“When you are willing and not afraid anymore to pay the price for freedom — don’t let this white man tell you that violence is wrong,” Farrakhan said. “Every damn thing that he got, he got it by being violent — killing people, raping and robbing and murdering. He’s doing it as we speak, and then he has the nerve to come and tell us that violence and hatred won’t get it. Don’t buy that!”

Speaking about white people as one entity, Farrakhan proclaimed, “He is worthy to be hated.” He also claimed that “God hates,” and man is no better than God.

"Steven H. Ahle noted: “Just hours before five police officers were killed and six more injured, noted racist posted a racist rant on social media calling for violence against whites.  You may remember that Obama and his church bestowed a lifetime achievement award to Farrakhan.”

"No wonder ISIS and al Qaeda celebrated the shootings while calling for more attacks…"

Emphasis mine, TD

Americans Scoff At Obama’s Plan To Visit Dallas In Wake of Tragedy

Talk Stupidly and Carry a Big Mouth

Western Journalism   "President Barack Obama’s decision to cut short his European trip to visit Dallas, where five police officers were killed Thursday night, failed to provide the positive reaction for which the president might have hoped.

“He’ll just continue to divide on racial grounds,” John S. Roberts wrote on Young Conservatives.

"Many voices on Twitter agreed that Obama’s visit was too little too late."
Tweets:

William Griffin @CramRenraff

@AP That's rich; the man whose rhetoric helped spawn the terrorists is going to go to Dallas so he can talk about gun control.

Jenny @Jenny_IDLYITW

.@AP And will require the very law enforcement he helped become targets of #BLM domestic terrorists to protect him... with guns.

The Dallas Massacre

Victor Davis Hanson  . . . "Meanwhile, Minnesota governor Mark Dayton blamed Castile’s shooting partly on “racism,” and President Obama decried “racial disparity in the justice system.” Events in Ferguson and Baltimore, where the facts did not support the instant Black Lives Matter narrative, have shown the imprudence of these sorts of knee-jerk pronouncements."
. . .
"In fact, the Dallas Police Department has evidently been a model for police reform. Excessive-force complaints against the department dropped by 64 percent between 2009 and 2014, and arrests and officer-involved shootings also declined, in tandem with a decline in the city’s murder rate, which reached an 80-year low in 2014."

Republicans slam grinning Obama for politicizing Dallas police massacre as he laughs his way through NATO summit

UK Daily Mail

• "President Barack Obama cheerfully yukked it up with British Prime Minister David Cameron during the NATO summit in Poland while Americans remained in shock after the murders of five police officers overnight 
• "Dr. Ben Carson carped at him for defaulting to gun control arguments
• "Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, whose district includes parts of the Dallas metroplex, complained that Obama was MIA while the nation mourned
• "Former Gov. Mike Huckabee dismissed Obama as a wedge-issue divider for pushing gun control 'at a time of great grief'
• "National Association of Police Organizations chief said there is 'a war on cops, and the Obama administration is the Neville Chamberlain of this war'. "

Remember that Mr. Chamberlain finally had his red line and declared war on Hitler over his invasion of Poland.

More commentary on the Dallas murders

Chuck Todd: Tough to Train ‘Prejudice and Hate’ Out of Police Hearts

"Are Police ‘Prejudice and Hate’ Really the Central Problem, Chuck?"

What else can Chuck say with the master race pimp Al Sharpton sitting by him? 
Oh, as long as we are speaking of Sharpton and the grievance industry:

A Manufactured Divide Ends In, ‘I Want to Kill White People’

"The racial divide in this country, as it exists today, is completely manufactured. It is manufactured by the political and activist class, and for reasons symbiotic to one another.

"Politicians need to divide our nation so as to pit demographic against demographic; in order to create political party “battle lines.” This is how they create an “us against them” scenario. True Statesmen and public servants seek to better the nation in ways that are good for all of the population, not just a sympathetic demographic. That does not exist in our country today. True government of and for the people is dead.

"Activists – mostly products of the victimhood and grievance class – need to divide to define special interest demographics, again to pit “us against them.” It is how they attain power and influence, as well as wealth for their “movements.” This is serious wealth. One need only look at the personal trappings of Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton to understand this." . . .

Hillary plays the race card on Dallas police massacre  "Hillary Clinton has crafted her response to the slaughter of Dallas policemen to exploit racial resentment and shore up her support among African Americans. She needs Obama-levels of turnout and grab about 92% of the votes in order to win. She has had trouble whipping up enthusiasm among all demographic slices of the electorate, but apparently sees black anger at whites as just the thing to motivate voters to turn out, and to quiz their friends, family and neighbors if they have voted on Election Day.

"So Hillary is in effect telling White voters that Dallas is their fault." . . .

Colion Noir on How Not to Fix Inner City Gun Violence
“All these anti-gun politicians have to offer is gun control.”

It’s Hard Not to Politicize Such a Horrible Tragedy  . . . "What’s most maddening are the voices who not only exploit the double standard but attempt to institutionalize it. CNN commentator Sally Kohn can be counted on to offer the least logical, least consistent responses to breaking news on television; everything that happens in the world is further evidence that her political allies are good and her political opponents are bad. She did not disappoint today:"  Read more.

What actor Wil Wheaton tweeted during the Dallas shooting will make your head explode
. . . You want to know what the protestors at the scene were doing while partisan hacks were using keyboards as hate weapons? Thanking the Dallas Police Department for serving them and protecting them, even as their brother and sisters in blue lay dying on the streets." . . . 

Liberalism, as I’ve said time and again, is an ideology of rage and hate.  Unfortunately, liberals like Wheaton prove that assertion correct on just about any given day."

Meet the Leftist Reverend Behind the Dallas 
Black Lives Matter Protest  "The lead organizer of the Dallas protest where snipers opened fire on police officers has made several disturbing comments on his social media. A Breitbart News review of Jeff Hood’s internet footprint revealed regular posts about the apocalypse, violent retribution to police, and Hood even recently posted about the 2013 death of a self proclaimed “social justice warrior” who committed suicide by lighting himself on fire in front of a shopping mall in Texas."