Support for banning them reaches a twenty-year low.
Part of the problem is that the nimrods who want to ban them can’t even consistently explain what they are, or understand what a semi-automatic gun is. And you’re a complete numbskull if (like Barack Obama and Josh Earnest) you imagine that terrorist attacks are going to make us more eager to be disarmed.
But they want a president who will make ISIS afraid of us:
President Obama has seemed increasingly ill-suited to the recent shift in the public’s mood. He suggested at a press conference in Turkey that all his critics offer in the fight against ISIS is tough talk. What he seems to be missing is the majority of Americans who want not only tougher talk but tougher actions to follow. Instead, President Obama keeps offering a measured, slow-and-steady approach that many military experts and even supporters of his administration say is failing and insufficient.
It’s not just the President’s actions that don’t suit the current mood, it’s also his bloodless tone. It was noted by many observers that the only time he seemed truly upset when speaking about the bloodbath in Paris was when discussing Republicans. That’s a fight the President’s emotions seem to be engaged in, the one with ISIS terrorists is one he has been downplaying from the beginning.
Recall that two years ago the President was referring to ISIS as the JV team. And in a major address on ISIS last September he suggested ISIS was only an imminent threat to the region. More recently he claimed that threat was contained. The President always seems to be a day late and a dollar short when it comes to dealing with ISIS.
Going to have to wait at least a year for that, barring some Democrats in the Senate growing some testicles.
And then there’s this: Trumps plan may be dumb, but Obama’s laid-back do-nothing plan is even dumber. The most surprising thing about that one is the source.
Mr. Steyn goes to Washington.
As appalling as the Democrats’ behavior was, I suspect that part of the reason Cruz got little support from his fellow Republicans is that he pisses them off so much.
…isn’t Donald Trump. He lives in the White House.
Yes.
Americans don’t like it. Not even Democrats. And with good reason.
There are many good people who are Muslims, but Islam is a problem. We are not at war with Muslims, but Islam is at war with us, and has been since it was founded, thirteen-hundred years ago.
[Update a few minutes later]
After the latest mass murder, CAIR’s push for sharia rolls on.
[Update a few more minuts later]
More from Andy McCarthy: Is Islam a religion?
I’d say no. It’s a totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion. Which may be one reason that, unlike other religions, the Left seems to have an affinity toward it.
[Friday-afternoon update]
The hidden reason Americans dislike Islam. They know military people who have first-hand experience with it:
Yes, they were in the middle of a war — but speaking from my own experience — the war was conducted from within a culture that was shockingly broken. I expected the jihadists to be evil, but even I couldn’t fathom the depths of their depravity. And it was all occurring against the backdrop of a brutally violent and intolerant culture. Women were beaten almost as an afterthought, there was a near-total lack of empathy for even friends and neighbors, lying was endemic, and sexual abuse was rampant. Even more disturbingly, it seemed that every problem was exacerbated the more religious and pious a person (or village) became. I spent enough time outside the wire and interacting with tribal leaders to get a sense of the reality around me, but the younger guys on the line spent weeks at a time living in the heart of the local community. I remember one young soldier, after describing the things he’d seen since the start of the deployment, gestured towards the village around us and said — in perfect Army English — “Sir, this s**t is f**ked up.”
Yup. There are millions of good Muslims, but Islam is a big problem, and has been for over a millennium.
…and it’s on life support:
…let’s recap. Obamacare has depressed job growth, costs are escalating at a higher rate, barely a dent has been made in the numbers of uninsured, and insurers are either exiting the markets or failing altogether. Under any other circumstances, a program that failed on its promises so badly would have all sides moving quickly to repeal it and work on a replacement. Don’t bet on that outcome from this White House and its dwindling number of Democratic supporters on Capitol Hill. They will surely try to sell us the illusion of competence and success.
Because they’re as delusional about it as they are about the war.
Hell, it’s a whole beautiful state of losers:
Later, at the site where world leaders are meeting to negotiate a climate pact outside of Paris, Brown urged a small crowd to “never underestimate the coercive power of the central state in the service of good.”
“You can be sure California is going to keep innovating, keep regulating,” the Democratic governor said. “And, shall I say, keep taxing.”
Texas beckons. I just hope the transplants don’t ruin it there, too.
I suspect that Leon Panetta feels the same way. In fact, almost anyone involved in national security probably does.
Obama is full of merde about Hillary’s email crimes.
I think everyone is assuming that Hillary won’t be indicted (or at least that the FBI won’t recommend that she should be) because it is simply politically unthinkable. Well, maybe, with Lynch in charge, but if she fails to indict for all of the obvious crimes, you can count on a steady drip of leaks right up to elections day. Maybe with Comey resigning in protest a month or so before the election. I’ll bet that the FBI now has all of the deleted emails, and I’ll bet there’s a lot in there, including obvious quid pro quo with regard to the Clinton Foundation, and perhaps a lot of clear payoffs from inimical governments.
[Update a while later]
COmey: “We don’t give a rip about politics.”
That should make the Democrats very nervous.
An eighteen-year-old community-college student is suing it over its “free speech zone.”
Good for her. The entire country is a free-speech zone.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Nat Hentoff notes that the ACLU has been ignoring the campus-speech issue. The ACLU has always been very selective about which civil liberties it defends.