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About that California coffee cancer warning… Nevermind

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2018/04/02/california-coffee-cancer-warning-nevermind/

Posted: April 2, 2018

Life is short enough to go without morning coffee and odds are that you're probably going to be struck by lightening, hit by a meteor or a falling Chinese space station or accidentally wind up marrying a Kardashian anyway. … In addition to coffee, acrylamide can be found in potatoes and baked goods like crackers, bread and cookies, breakfast cereal, canned black olives and prune juice, although its presence is not always labeled. … It shows up on the list of potentially toxic chemicals which, if they are contained in food, must be so labeled according to one of California's endless laundry list of propositions designed to ruin everyone's fun…

Rep. Tlaib to committee witness: ‘Why were you winking at one of my colleagues…?’

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/09/24/rep-tlaib-committee-witness-conspiracy-theorist/

Posted: September 24, 2019

"Well the truth for you is very different from the majority of people in this room who do believe that children are being targeted by vaping," Tlaib said. … Porter, I was reading because I want to know more about you and your beliefs, and I respect that we all have different beliefs, but you call yourself a converted conservative and reformed Marxist. … Vaping is a health miracle to me because without it I would probably be on my way to a lung cancer diagnosis," Porter told members of Congress…

AP: 10,000 tanning salons got burned up by ObamaCare

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2016/08/2...p-10000-tanning-salons-got-burned-up-by-obamacare/

Posted: August 22, 2016

That was a deliberate component of the massive social-engineering project of ObamaCare, along with the ability to create mandates for free employer-supplied contraception, mandatory comprehensive-coverage policies where they weren't needed, and so on. … Experts say the industry is overstating the effects of the "tan tax" and that it has been hurt by other factors, too, including public health warnings about the dangers of tanning and the passage of laws in dozens of states restricting the use of tanning salons by minors. … Business owners around the country say the little-noticed 10 percent tax on tanning in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has crippled the industry, forcing the closing of nearly 10,000 of the more than 18,000 tanning salons in the U.S…

Aww: Obama named gun salesman of the year

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/01/16/aww-obama-named-gun-salesman-of-the-year/

Posted: January 16, 2009

Some of this must be driven by media hysteria about the economy; I've read enough stories myself about Depression, ruin, and catastrophe to wonder if I shouldn't be preparing for the Mad-Max-ification of New York City. … Sales are so good that on Tuesday, January 6, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a notice to all federal firearms licensees that "an unprecedented increase in demand for ATF Form 4473" had run supplies low enough that dealers were temporarily given permission to photocopy the form until supplies caught up with demand... … Obama has consistently voted against individual rights to firearms, appointed a re-tread Clinton administration full of gun banners, and made it plain to anti-gun groups that despite what he might say to the contrary, he's on their side…

NYT Tells Greece to Abandon Socialized Medicine?

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2010/05/10/n...ls-greece-to-abandon-socialized-medicine__trashed/

Posted: May 10, 2010

But if they manage to pull out of this by eliminating government run health care, returning all industry to the private sector and moving people back to free market work - as opposed to large quantities of permanent, inefficient government jobs - they may yet provide an education for the rest of the western world. … Among the most significant features of the plan, a Greek government official said, would be a measure making it easier for the government to lay off some of the many thousands of public sector workers, whose low levels of productivity and high wages are a big contributor to Greece's debt problem. … The New York Times, ever a champion of Obamacare during the recent debates, is reporting (from an April 30 article) on some rather compelling advice for the nation of Greece, which is currently teetering on the precipice of collapse…

IG Report: Wait times persist at Phoenix VA, may have contributed to one death

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2016/10/05/ig...imes-persist-phoenix-va-may-contributed-one-death/

Posted: October 5, 2016

During the past two years, the OIG has reviewed a myriad of allegations at PVAHCS and issued six reports involving policy, access to care, scheduling and canceling of appointments, staffing, and consult management. … Of all the open consults at that time, about 4,800 patients had nearly 5,500 consults for appointments within PVAHCS that exceeded 30 days from their clinically indicated appointment date... … A new report by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General finds that staff at the Phoenix VA continue to inappropriately cancel medical appointments and that in one case failure to make an appointment may have contributed to a patient's death…

Leland Yee’s interesting history of cash for votes

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2014/04/06/leland-yees-interesting-history-of-cash-for-votes/

Posted: April 6, 2014

I've been dealing with state level politics for a long time, and I can tell you that there are thousands of state senators around the nation who would give their eye teeth to attract the kind of support that results in a major backer dropping fifty grand on them. … (Well, unless the moniker of your media outlet involves the initials C, N and N, that is.. not to name any names.) And as the LA Times reports, there are more than a few curious votes in Yee's legislative record which, by some amazing coincidence, seem to line up with large political contributions he received. … Ever since the recent revelations regarding California state senator Leland Yee's allegedly somewhat unusual approach to capitalist endeavors - to put it charitably - the media has begun digging more deeply into the elected official's past…

Amish man sues to buy gun without photo ID

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2015/10/28/amish-man-sues-to-buy-gun-without-photo-id/

Posted: October 28, 2015

I certainly don't want to see him be denied his Second Amendment rights, but it's also impractical to just abandon the ID requirements for a gun purchase. … In a suit that brings together the Second Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), an Amish man filed a federal lawsuit in Pennsylvania last week because he wants to buy a gun without the required photo ID — and because getting that photo ID would violate his religious beliefs... … Andrew Hertzler, a man who apparently has no criminal record of note nor any other impediment which would prevent an adult American citizen from purchasing a gun, wants to do just that…

Fast & Furious firings coming: WSJ

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2012/12/05/fast-furious-firings-coming-wsj/

Posted: December 5, 2012

We found that Grindler's reliance on the FBI was misplaced given that it did not have the responsibility to determine whether errors in ATF's investigation led to the weapons ending up at the murder scene or why ATF failed to take law enforcement action against Avila for nearly one year and did so only after Agent Terry's murder. … The managers recommended for termination, according to people familiar with the matter, are Mark Chait, former assistant director for field operations; William McMahon, who oversaw field operations in the Western U.S.; William Newell, former chief of the ATF's Phoenix office; and George Gillett, the No. 2 official in the ATF's Phoenix office. … The Wall Street Journal reported last night that an internal review has recommended firings and demotions for several figures in the Department of Justice involved in the program that sent thousands of weapons over the southern border and into the hands of drug cartels, resulting in hundreds of murders…

ATF pulls license of one particular gun shop

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2013/04/07/atf-pulls-license-of-one-particular-gun-shop/

Posted: April 7, 2013

In fact, while acknowledging that this is completely speculative, if the government had gone in vindictively and yanked their license for no valid reason, I think Riverview would be all the more likely to be screaming to the rafters. … Particularly if it was an honest mistake in their paperwork or a code discrepancy on weapons storage which they will be able to clear up quickly and get their license restored, it would clearly be in their best interest not to go bad mouthing the ATF to reporters. … (Reuters) - The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said on Friday it had revoked the federal license of a Connecticut gun retailer that sold a weapon to the mother of Adam Lanza, who killed 26 people at an elementary school in December…

How Congressional Black Caucus got around McCain-Feingold

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/02/1...ressional-black-caucus-got-around-mccain-feingold/

Posted: February 14, 2010

From 2004 to 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus's political and charitable wings took in at least $55 million in corporate and union contributions, according to an analysis by The New York Times, an impressive amount even by the standards of a Washington awash in cash. … When the Congressional Black Caucus wanted to pay off the mortgage on its foundation's stately 1930s redbrick headquarters on Embassy Row, it turned to a familiar roster of friends: corporate backers like Wal-Mart, AT&T, General Motors, Coca-Cola and Altria, the nation's largest tobacco company. … In the wake of the Citizens United v FEC decision by the Supreme Court, Democrats in Congress have pledged legislative action to restore the rejected components of the McCain-Feingold legislation, claiming that they have a mission to stop corporate influence on elections…

Bloomberg’s ultimate victory: NYC bans e-cigarettes in indoor public places because they look too much like cigarettes or something

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2013/12/20...e-they-look-too-much-like-cigarettes-or-something/

Posted: December 20, 2013

This is, I think, less about preventing people from endangering themselves by using e-cigs than urban progressives affirming their cultural disdain for smoking in all its forms. … That's what makes this Bloomy's greatest triumph: He's a master of precedent-setting baby-step nannyism, and this sets the precedent that behavior that merely resembles disfavored behavior can and should be aggressively regulated. … If you let people do something that may be harmless or even good for them, insofar as e-cigarettes are steering smokers away from a carcinogenic alternative, then other people might be inspired to take up a more dangerous variation of the practice…

You can now buy things from Cuba, traitor

https://hotair.com/archives/noah-rothman/2015/02/13/you-can-now-buy-things-from-cuba-traitor/

Posted: February 13, 2015

"Week after week, scores of women affiliated with the Ladies in White dissident group, most of whom are Roman Catholic, were violently dragged away by state security agents to stop them from attending Sunday morning Mass," the organization reported. … "The U.S. State Department said the import of all goods and services was now permissible except in certain broad categories, which include arms, live animals, tobacco, vehicles, mineral products, machinery, and some textiles and base metals," Reuters reported. … Shortly after the president moved to pursue the unilateral easing of restrictions on trade and travel Cuba, a debate emerged as to whether or not it would be morally prudent for Americans to travel to that communist nation and support its repressive government through American tourist dollars…

Video: Hundreds of flights canceled after fire in Chicago air-traffic center

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2014/09/2...canceled-after-fire-in-chicago-air-traffic-center/

Posted: September 26, 2014

Mystery surrounded the interruption, as authorities reported not only that a fire closed the Federal Aviation Administration control center in Aurora, Illinois, but also that a man was found with self-inflicted wounds there. … A fire in an Aurora, Illinois air-traffic control tower forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights in and through Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports, creating ripple effects throughout the country … Not for the first time either, as Reuters reminds us in this brief report on the disruption in US flights this morning, but this one wasn't an equipment-failure fire…

Report: House contempt vote on Holder scheduled for, er … Thursday

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2012/06/25...contempt-vote-on-holder-scheduled-for-er-thursday/

Posted: June 25, 2012

Presumably, once the contempt vote is held, the next step will be for the House to file a civil suit requesting that the documents be produced and then that'll get bogged down in legal procedure and slip quietly off the radar screen before election day. … By scheduling it this way, Boehner and Cantor are essentially choosing to minimize the pressure on the White House, signaling that they'd rather wrist-slap Holder by sanctioning him at a moment when no one's paying attention than turn this into a true power struggle in the middle of the campaign. … Republican leaders plan to bring the issue to the floor on Thursday, meaning lawmakers likely will vote on contempt charges on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to announce its ruling on the constitutionality of the 2010 health-care reform law…

Chaffetz: Why won’t the White House let us talk to Fast & Furious witness?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2012/04/0...e-white-house-let-us-talk-to-fast-furious-witness/

Posted: April 9, 2012

The person on the other end of the e-mail conversation, Frank Newell, got a sudden case of amnesia about the import of these exchanges when he testified, and if that's all O'Reilly has to add, it would be foolish for the White House to block access to him. … Jason Chaffetz told the Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly on Friday that although a key White House witness in the ill-fated Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking program is willing to testify about what he knows, the Obama administration won't let him appear before Congress. … The House Oversight Committee has requested that the Obama administration make former National Security staffer Kevin O'Reilly available for testimony to explain a series of e-mail exchanges in Operation Fast and Furious in order to determine just how far up the chain knowledge of the operation went in the Obama administration…

ATF gunrunning weapons turning up in Phoenix crime investigations

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/07/0...eapons-turning-up-in-phoenix-crime-investigations/

Posted: July 1, 2011

One of the recovered weapons, a Romarm/Cugir WASR-10 rifle, appeared in an official ATF Suspect Gun Summary document in November 2009, proving agents knowingly allowed the suspicious gun sale, months before the weapon turned up at the crime scene. … In one Glendale police report dated July 2010, police investigators working with DEA agents served search warrants at homes near 75th and Glendale avenues in Glendale, and 43rd and Glendale avenues in Phoenix as part of a "large scale marijuana trafficking" investigation. … The ABC15 Investigators uncovered documents showing guns connected to at least two Glendale criminal cases and at least two Phoenix criminal cases also appear in the ATF's Suspect Gun Database, a sort-of watch list for suspicious gun sales…

Alert the Media, and DHS Urban Legends of Right-Wing Extremism

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/04/1...dia-and-dhs-urban-legends-of-right-wing-extremism/

Posted: April 15, 2009

But there is no mention of any specific plan to kill Mexicans in the search warrant affidavits or any other court document related to the Alabama Free Militia defendants, and the ATF says Nesmith's testimony was misconstrued. … At a May 1 bail hearing, ATF agent Adam Nesmith seemed to testify that the government had evidence of the five militia members plotting a machine-gun attack on Mexican immigrants in the nearby town of Remlap. … I'll be appearing on the Jack Riccardi show this morning at 11:30 am CT. Jack broadcasts out of San Antonio on KTSA 550 AM. The station has an Internet stream, so even if you don't live in San Antonio, you can listen live to the show…

CBS: Don’t forget Grenadewalker, too

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/10/14/cbs-dont-forget-grenadewalker-too/

Posted: October 14, 2011

Most people following Fast & Furious assume that the Obama administration wanted to discredit gun sellers as a means to build support for tougher gun-control laws, which certainly seems to be the only reason to let those guns get into the hands of the cartels -- especially without letting the Mexican government in on the operation. … The implication seemed to be that the State Department was playing on the side of the Zetas while the ATF and DoJ's programs ended up benefiting the Sinaloa cartel, which would be about as inept and incoherent a strategy for stabilizing Mexico as anyone could imagine. … CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, who has reported on this story from the beginning, said on "The Early Show" that the investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)'s so-called "Fast and Furious" operation branches out to a case involving grenades…

Dems to spin Fast & Furious probe into gun-control rally

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/06/3...to-spin-fast-furious-probe-into-gun-control-rally/

Posted: June 30, 2011

Instead of seeking answers from those Obama administration officials who are culpable for a rogue government program that has left cops, soldiers, and civilians dead, the congressman from Baltimore will use his position in order to provide airtime to those who would place blame at the feet of American citizens. … Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the leading Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released a report early Thursday titled "Outgunned," that details how Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents say gun laws need to be tightened for them to fight organized crime along the U.S.-Mexico border. … After yesterday's news of the deal between Senators Pat Leahy and Charles Grassley to get documents and testimony from ATF chief Kenneth Melson on Operation Fast and Furious, it seemed as though Democrats might finally take the scandal of the gunrunning fiasco seriously…

New Jersey jumps on the driver’s licenses for illegals bandwagon

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/12/18/n...jersey-jumps-drivers-licenses-illegals-bandwagon/

Posted: December 18, 2019

When they are investigating possible illegal immigration and checking out suspects, anyone with a valid ID may be assumed to be a citizen and slip through the cracks unless the agents run a full check on them. … It's technically only supposed to apply to "citizens" but as we've seen in other states, mistakes tend to happen and some of the non-citizens inevitably wind up on the voter rolls. … (Remember that in New York, a majority of voters were opposed as recently as this summer but the measure passed anyway.) Recent polling in New Jersey on the subject is incredibly sparse…

A chance of federal pot decriminalization?

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2018/12/18/chance-federal-pot-decriminalization/

Posted: December 18, 2018

I'm personally in favor of decriminalization because we waste far too many resources and throw too many people in jail over a product that's never struck me as being particularly more dangerous than alcohol and probably does less damage to people than tobacco. … "While we are debating criminal justice reform, we need to address the threat of prosecution by the federal government for people in Colorado that are operating legal businesses under state law," Gardner said in a statement. … While many states now allow for the legal sale of either medical or recreational marijuana (and more seem to be on the way, as in New York), sale or possession of the drug remains a serious crime at the federal level…

Gillibrand’s South Carolina event takes a detour

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/02/09/gillibrands-south-carolina-event-takes-detour/

Posted: February 9, 2019

Rather than talking about the agenda she would bring forward if elected, these appearances are simply educating more and more people about the massive flip-flops she's executed on virtually every policy point currently under debate. … Gillibrand's campaign has thus far seemed to consist mostly of late night comedy and cable news appearances where she has been forced to repeatedly apologize for all of the conservative positions she endorsed while serving in the House of Representatives. … Kinnard went on to say that Gillibrand appeared to not have a campaign strategy and was "light years" behind the other 2020 candidates in terms of staffing up and deploying resources in South Carolina…

New Fast & Furious audio: Border Patrol agent killed by F&F weapons was “collateral damage”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2011/09/21...agent-killed-by-ff-weapons-was-collateral-damage/

Posted: September 21, 2011

The second clip, also between Howard and MacAllister, was posted yesterday at CBS and apparently shows MacAllister this time suggesting that the DOJ would have to tell Chuck Grassley to "sit your ass down" if he insisted on calling a hearing and demanding more info on F&F. … But ATF officials are quoted in a Washington Post article and the Spanish language daily La Opinion saying just the opposite -- blaming Lone Wolf for "selling guns to the cartels" with no mention that Howard was operating under the federal government's direction, encouragement and approval. … However, the lawyer representing the Lone Wolf Trading Co. says owner Andre Howard made the tapes only after he suspected he was being lied to, and his language is meant to get Hope MacAllister, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, to implicate herself and her agency in their illegal gun running scheme…

Angry Boehner to Dems: Enough with the “war on women” crap already

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2012/04/27...to-dems-enough-with-the-war-on-women-crap-already/

Posted: April 27, 2012

(So did 13 Democrats or else the measure would have failed.) Obama's threatening a veto but that's pure posturing since Senate Democrats are bound to reject the House proposal in favor of one of their own before it reaches his desk. … And that bring us to Boehner's angry meme-busting rebuttal, which, according to ABC, inspired Maxine Waters, Donna Edwards, Marcy Kaptur, Yvette Clark and a few other women Democrats to actually walk out in fake-outrage. … Remember, Romney sided with Obama on extending the current lower rate a few days ago so the questions for House Republicans were (a) whether they'd go along and (b) if so, how they'd pay for it…

A closer look at the health-care bill

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/06/08/a-closer-look-at-the-health-care-bill/

Posted: June 8, 2009

That may be a big problem, since the bill forsees subsidies for "well over half of all Americans", meaning that the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats want to adopt yet another "soak the rich" scheme. … Without that HIPAA compliance section, which this draft does not include, what restrictions will the government have on demanding personal information on the enrollees? … (A) the name, address, and taxpayer identification number of each individual who is covered under health insurance that is qualifying coverage provided by such person, and…

Quotes of the day

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2012/05/26/quotes-of-the-day-1038/

Posted: May 26, 2012

"If the trends in public opinion continue in the direction they are going, the day is not far away when supporting a prohibition system that causes so much crime, violence, and corruption is going to be seen as a serious political liability for those seeking support from younger and independent voters." … Despite California's failure to pass Proposition 19 in 2010 – which would have legalized recreational use – some state may legalize marijuana soon, perhaps as early as this November, says Robert MacCoun, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, who follows marijuana laws. … I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl…

Officer-involved shooting in Memphis leads to riot, 36 officers and 2 reporters injured

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/06/13/of...emphis-leads-riot-36-officers-2-reporters-injured/

Posted: June 13, 2019

While officers attempted to stop Webber, he reportedly rammed his vehicle into the officer's cruisers multiple times before jumping out with a weapon. … The details of the charges in those warrants was not immediately clear, but Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said the warrants were for "violent felony offenses, from an incident that occurred June 3, 2019, in Hernando, Miss." … Officers with the U.S. Marshal Service's Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force came into contact with Webber, who was wanted on multiple felony warrants as he was getting into a vehicle in the 2000 block of Durham in Frayser on Wednesday…

Police find body in Minneapolis pawnshop which was burned during riots in May

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/07/21/po...ind-body-minneapolis-pawnshop-burned-protests-may/

Posted: July 21, 2020

The site is several blocks east of the shuttered Third Precinct police station, the epicenter of the protests that broke out after Floyd's death May 25 under the knee of a since-fired city police officer. … "The body appears to have suffered thermal injury and we do have somebody charged with setting fire to that place," said Elder, adding that city homicide detectives had taken over the investigation. … Investigators from the Minneapolis Police Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the state fire marshal's division were acting on a tip when they discovered the body Monday morning in the rubble of Max It Pawn, at 2726 E. Lake St., according to Police Department spokesman John Elder…

McAuliffe aide offered job to daughter of Democrat who left VA state legislature

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2014/10/0...aughter-of-democrat-who-left-va-state-legislature/

Posted: October 3, 2014

The governor's spokesman initially denied Thursday that Reagan had made any potential job offers, but he later acknowledged that the call had been made after he was read a transcript of Reagan's message given to The Washington Post. … Puckett's abrupt exit came amid accusations that Republicans had enticed him to leave with job offers for himself and his daughter, triggering an ongoing federal investigation and inflaming partisan passions in Richmond. … Terry McAuliffe's chief of staff left a voice-mail message for a Democrat who was on the verge of quitting the General Assembly in June, saying that the senator's daughter might get a top state job if he stayed to support the governor's push to expand Medicaid, according to descriptions from three people who heard the recording…

Was the FBI complicit in Fast & Furious debacle?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/07/25/was-the-fbi-complicit-in-fast-furious-debacle/

Posted: July 25, 2011

Congressional and law-enforcement sources say the situation suggests the FBI, which operates the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, knowingly allowed the purchases to go forward after consulting with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which initiated Operation Fast and Furious. … However, according to court records reviewed by Fox News, two of the 20 defendants indicted in the Fast and Furious investigation have felony convictions and criminal backgrounds that experts say, at the very least, should have delayed them buying a single firearm. … In the latest chapter of the gunrunning scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, federal officials are refusing to explain how two suspects obtained more than 360 weapons despite criminal records that should have prevented them from buying even one gun…

IRS quest ends as family gives away art work featuring illegal bald eagle

https://hotair.com/archives/marykatharine/2012/12/...gives-away-art-work-featuring-illegal-bald-eagle/

Posted: December 3, 2012

Certainly, this high-profile incident, and the estate taxes required to keep any inherited artwork, are enough to make some collectors and benefactors think twice about investing in art, which is a shame. … In 1988, Rauschenberg himself had to submit a notarized letter stating that the eagle had been killed and stuffed by one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders long before the 1940 law went into effect. … That was the only option available to them to escape the IRS bill, but as Eric Gibson's account suggests in the Wall Street Journal, I'm not sure the government would have stopped after getting $29 million…

Will marijuana legalization be Obama’s legacy?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2014/01/21/will-marijuana-legalization-be-obamas-legacy/

Posted: January 21, 2014

It's fully within the president's power—power that he has happily exceeded when it comes to waging wars overseas and delaying aspects of Obamacare—to start the process to reclassify pot from a Schedule I drug to something more credible (a Schedule I drug is deemed to have a high potential for abuse, no known or accepted use as medicine, and no reliable safe dose). … There are other good reasons to support legalization, among them the increasingly ridiculous resources spent fighting an intoxicant not too different from the legal variety, the corrosive effect that has on civil rights, and the money spent on fighting this arm of the War on Drugs. … "As has been well-documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life," Obama said in a lengthy profile in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine…

Whodunit: Twin Cities Trump supporter’s home torched, tagged with BLM and anarchist graffiti

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/09/2...orters-home-torched-tagged-blm-anarchist-graffiti/

Posted: September 24, 2020

Molla's experience with drive-by surveillance over the past week since hanging the signs tends to suggest the more obvious suspects, ie, Antifa and/or BLM radicals conducting intimidation tactics. … If they're even present here in any significant numbers -- which still hasn't been established -- they'd be more likely to stir things up in the city, not that far outside of where the BLM/Antifa action is. … Dennis Molla had hung large Trump banners on his garage and trailers, and it just so happens that those are where the fire started that could have killed him, his wife, their two small children, and seven dogs…

San Francisco’s fur ban is stupid, but probably constitutional

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2018/03/25/s...franciscos-fur-ban-stupid-probably-constitutional/

Posted: March 25, 2018

This is a destructive decision to private business which changes nothing in the end, but makes the politicians feel better about themselves and wins them a few more votes among the liberal base. … But those limits don't stop state and local governments in particular (thanks in part to what's left of the Tenth Amendment) from restricting all manner of human activities. … This week we saw yet another round of government intrusion on the private sector in San Francisco (where else?) when municipal authorities passed a ban on the sale of "real fur…

The APA has come up with a new definition of “masculinity”

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/01/09/apa-come-new-definition-masculinity/

Posted: January 9, 2019

And in 2007, researchers led by James Mahalik, PhD, of Boston College, found that the more men conformed to masculine norms, the more likely they were to consider as normal risky health behaviors such as heavy drinking, using tobacco and avoiding vegetables, and to engage in these risky behaviors themselves. … The new "Guidelines for the Psychological Practice with Boys and Men" defines "masculinity ideology" as "a particular constellation of standards that have held sway over large segments of the population, including: anti-femininity, achievement, eschewal of the appearance of weakness, and adventure, risk, and violence. … "Traditional masculinity ideology has been shown to limit males' psychological development, constrain their behavior, result in gender role strain and gender role conflict and negatively influence mental health and physical health," the report warns…

DOJ F&F probe: “Pattern of serious failures,” 14 employees up for… sanctions

https://hotair.com/archives/erika-johnsen/2012/09/...of-serious-failures-14-employees-up-for-sanctions/

Posted: September 19, 2012

Contrary to the denials of the Attorney General and his political defenders in Congress, the investigation found that information in wiretap applications approved by senior Justice Department officials in Washington did contain red flags showing reckless tactics and faults Attorney General Eric Holder's inner circle for their conduct. … If it wasn't to shield Holder personally, then it still seems that it was at Holder's request in order to buy him some time to shield his shoddy management of his department, and merely helped to add authority to his uncooperative stonewalling of Congress's attempt to get to the bottom of the obvious wrongdoing that went down here somewhere. … Try to contain your surprise if you can, but it seems that this internal probe of the DOJ, by the DOJ, while condemning the irresponsibility of certain players in the sternest terms, found "no evidence that Attorney General Eric Holder was informed about Operation Fast and Furious, or learned about the tactics employed by ATF in the investigation…

Confirmed: NYC election to be even bigger joke than first thought

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2013/07/0...lection-to-be-even-bigger-joke-than-first-thought/

Posted: July 8, 2013

If it's the former, voters in the city should make it clear that public service is about the public and not the bruised egos of those who broke trust when voters offered it to them earlier. … In a twist of irony, Kristin Davis, the "Manhattan Madam" who admits she supplied Spitzer with escorts, is running as the libertarian candidate for the office Spitzer announced Sunday night he's running for. … With Mr. Spitzer's name recognition and three million Democrats in the city, this should not be a difficult task, but he plans to flood the streets and supermarkets with some 100 signature gatherers starting on Monday…

NYT: Orange County, CA residents have been applying for concealed carry permits in droves

https://hotair.com/archives/erika-johnsen/2014/04/...en-applying-for-concealed-carry-permits-in-droves/

Posted: April 27, 2014

In a notice earlier this month to the firearms industry, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it was temporarily suspending parts of its computerized system to shore up capacity in part to process the required registration and transfer of National Firearms Act covered weapons, which also include silencers, short-barreled shotguns, short-barreled rifles and some explosive devices. … And San Diego county had almost 1,200 applications in March alone, up from their typical 50 applications a month -- and speaking of background-check backlog, the federal government has been overwhelmingly inundated lately, too, right along with the national trend of rising firearms production. … The Ninth Circuit has a well-earned reputation as one of the most liberal courts in all the land, but in February, a three-judge panel struck down the part of California's concealed-carry permitting law that requires applicants to submit a specific reason why they should be allowed to have a firearm upon their person in public…

Labor Dep’t drops regulations banning kids from working on farms other than parents’

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2012/04/26...ing-kids-from-working-on-farms-other-than-parents/

Posted: April 26, 2012

The takeaway from this story is that someone in the Labor Department actually thought the White House would let them construct a "big liberal government clamping down on family farms in the heartland" narrative for the GOP six months out from a presidential election. … The concern was (a) that kids would be barred from doing "hazardous" chores for extended family like uncles and grandparents and (b) that the exemption might only apply to farms that are wholly owned by a child's parents and not farms in which they own merely a share. … "The decision to withdraw this rule — including provisions to define the 'parental exemption' — was made in response to thousands of comments expressing concerns about the effect of the proposed rules on small family-owned farms," the Department said in a press release Thursday evening…

Heroic Duke rape “victim” heroically changes story for 87th time

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2007/01/11...ape-victim-heroically-changes-story-for-87th-time/

Posted: January 11, 2007

Nifong took six months to tell the players' defense attorneys about the other DNA, as required by law — and during that time, Nifong filed a court motion that stated he was not aware of any potentially exculpatory evidence. … Meehan has also said in court proceedings that he and Nifong agreed before the evidence tests were completed that his report should be limited to positive matches between the accuser and the players at the team party where she says she was sexually assaulted last March. … The forensic expert hired by the prosecutor in the Duke rape case says he made a "big error" in judgment by not stating in his report that the only DNA he found on the accuser was from several men who were not on the Duke lacrosse team…

Best transition evah gets notice of Paper of Record

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/08/2...st-transition-evah-gets-notice-of-paper-of-record/

Posted: August 24, 2009

Of more than 500 senior policymaking positions requiring Senate confirmation, just 43 percent have been filled so far — a reflection of a White House that grew more cautious after several nominations blew up last spring, a Senate that is intensively investigating nominees and a legislative agenda that has consumed both... … The New York Times issued a blistering report on the Obama administration, revealing how the executive with no executive experience has failed to hire people for many key positions -- including national security … Partly from criticism from both Hillary Clinton and John McCain at different times in the presidential campaign, the Beltway press seemed to go out of its way to toss laurels to Obama's preparation and ability to "hit the ground running" with his team as soon as he got the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue…

ATF study reveals where criminals in Baltimore are getting their guns

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2018/08/19/atf-study-reveals-criminals-baltimore-getting-guns/

Posted: August 19, 2018

Another intriguing bit of data from the study reveals that the average amount of time from when a gun is purchased to when it was used in either a crime or other event causing the police to examine it, was twelve years. … We also know that the vast majority of guns used in crimes, particularly when looking at the type of gang violence plaguing Baltimore, are not legally owned and registered to the criminals. … A new study from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (which I still maintain would be a far better name for a convenience store) has produced some interesting gun crime data for the state of Maryland…

Former US Attorney admits leaking document to smear Fast & Furious whistleblower

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/11/0...king-document-to-smear-fast-furious-whistleblower/

Posted: November 9, 2011

I can't imagine that Barack Obama relishes the thought of having Holder hanging like a millstone around his neck in the general election next year, but I'm now convinced that he fears a confirmation hearing for a replacement even more. … Former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, who resigned in August, admitted late Tuesday that he leaked a document aimed at smearing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent John Dodson, an Operation Fast and Furious whistle-blower. … His lawyer calls former US Attorney Dennis Burke a "stand-up guy" for finally admitting that he leaked an internal Department of Justice memo to smear a whistleblower in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal…