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Monday’s Final Word – HotAir

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Monday's Final Word – HotAir

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Ed: Only. Barely. Satire. I wrote more about this earlier today. 

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Varad Mehta at The Federalist (June 2015): Leave aside that Australia had—and has—far fewer guns and people than we do. Forget the bits about the gun lobby or Australia’s greater urbanization. The crucial point is the final one: Australia does not have a bill of rights, and that, ultimately, is the reason it was able to confiscate guns. Australians have no constitutional right to bear arms, so seizing their weapons did not violate their constitutional rights. Gun confiscation in the United States would require violating not only the Second Amendment, but the fourth and fifth as well, and possibly even the first. Progressives generally have no compunction about breaching the Second Amendment, but one wonders how many others they would be eager to violate in their quest to nullify the second. Civil war and a tattered Constitution: such are the consequences of invoking “Australia.” It is not a model; it is a mirage.

There is an essential mendacity, whether intentional or not, to all suggestions that Australia’s system of gun control is suitable for the United States. Conjuring Australia isn’t innocent. But this trick does serve one valuable purpose: when gun controllers perform it they reveal what they truly desire. An Australian-style gun-control regime, it must be abundantly clear by now, would not only be impractical in the United States, it would be immoral. We would all be better served if American gun-control advocates acknowledged this reality and left their fantasy Down Under where it belongs.

Ed: As it turned out, it didn’t belong there either. Australia disarmed its own citizenry by force, and then failed to step in to offer sufficient protection against terrorists. Be sure to read it all, because the gun-grabbers here have not given up their Land Down Under dreams for the US in the past ten years. 





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Ed: The Australian government and especially PM Anthony Albanese has blamed literally everthing EXCEPT what was truly at the heart of this attack: radical Islam and a disarmed populace. 

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WashEx: Internal Hamas documents, captured during the war in Gaza and analyzed by NGO Monitor, show that Hamas surveilled, intimidated, and controlled international aid nongovernmental organizations in the Gaza Strip. I reviewed hundreds of Hamas’s memoranda, correspondence, and reports in their original Arabic. They demonstrate that the terrorist group mandated high-level “guarantors” — employees at major nongovernmental organizations who were forced to liaise with Hamas, share sensitive internal information, shelve or alter vital humanitarian projects, and channel substantial donor funds to Hamas-provided beneficiaries. The end result: Humanitarian independence in Gaza was erased and replaced with a police state of fear and coercion. 

To optimize this guarantor system, Hamas needed the cooperation of both its members already employed at certain nongovernmental organizations and of other, less supportive liaisons at other organizations. To recruit less enthusiastic nongovernmental organization staffers, Hamas collected intimate personal information that could be used to intimidate or blackmail them. For example, its profile on a prominent international nongovernmental organization’s liaison notes that he exchanged suggestive photos with a colleague. Elsewhere, Hamas logged an nongovernmental organization official’s extramarital affair. In another case, Hamas took notes on what it considered the risqué attire of a female guarantor, commenting derisively that she “leaves her house in exposed clothing that transgresses sharia law.”





For some nongovernmental organizations, Hamas exerted less effort because it already had affiliates placed within the organizations.

Ed: There is no peace possible while Hamas rules Gaza. Period, end of story. 

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Ed: Maybe the EU is starting to figure this out. I’m not yet convinced that they will have the moral fiber necessary to put this realization into practice. 

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i24 News: Amid ongoing US efforts to advance to Phase 2 of the Gaza peace plan, skepticism is rising among member states about the feasibility of the next stages, particularly the prospect of disarming Hamas. President Trump’s envoy, Tom Barrack, visited Israel on Monday as part of the initiative, but officials involved in the plan say progress is limited.

A senior Western source involved in the implementation expressed serious doubts, saying it is unclear whether Hamas will ever relinquish its weapons. “I don’t know if it will ever happen, and if so, when. It is very difficult to see how it will actually be carried out,” the source told i24NEWS.

International teams with experience in disarmament efforts in Sri Lanka, the Balkans, and Northern Ireland have been sent to the Civil-Military Coordination Center under US command. Yet the source said there is “no clear concept of how this is supposed to happen” in Gaza, highlighting the plan’s operational challenges.

Ed: The “prospect of disarming Hamas” is non-existent except by force. The Israelis are the only force that would have the will and the power to make it happen. The sooner that the world recognizes this and lets the Israelis finish the 20-year war in Gaza, the better off everyone will be. Including the Gazans. 





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Ed: Inmates should be housed with others of the same biological sex. Casting these two men as “victims” in any sense after their crimes is an act of deliberate rejection of moral and intellectual integrity. 

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Jonathan Turley: In an age of rage, the loudest lunatic reigns supreme. The sudden rise of Jennifer Welch vividly proves that regrettable fact. Welch is the face of rage, spewing hate-filled attacks to feed a rage addiction on the left. She is also an example of how many on the left call for censorship to combat disinformation, but constitute some of the greatest sources of such false and misleading stories. This week offers another such example. After attacking Charlie Kirk’s widow as a “grifter,” Welch declared that Kirk “justified” his own killing. The basis for that disgraceful claim is a false viral claim that Kirk shrugged off the killing of school kids from gun violence. Despite being repeatedly debunked, liberals like Welch continue to spread the claim. …

Kirk was responding to a question about defending the Second Amendment. He pointed out that this constitutional right is “is there, God forbid, so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government.” However, he acknowledged that  “having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty.” He then responded to the claim that this right is killing people and that it is not worth a single life. Kirk argued that there will clearly always be examples of gun violence and that it is ridiculous to treat the right as invalid if such deaths occur[.]





Ed: Professor Turley writes often about the age of rage. I wonder if we’re not more mired in an age of grift, and that rage is just the bait for grifters who managed to find a mother’s lode of manipulation. 

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Ed: I don’t disagree with Cotton on the lawful and necessary application of military force to stop paramilitary incursions into the US. What I find amusing is that Democrats keep wanting to debate this, and effectively have put themselves in the strange political position of defending drug cartels. 

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WSJ: Ford said Monday it expects to take about $19.5 billion in charges, mainly tied to its electric-vehicle business, a massive hit as the automaker retrenches in the face of sinking EV demand.

The sum is among the largest impairments taken by a company and marks the U.S. auto industry’s biggest reckoning to date that it can’t realize its electric-vehicle ambitions anytime soon.  

Ford, which has lost $13 billion on its EV business since 2023, said it would bolster its lineup of gas-powered vehicles while shifting to hybrid and so-called extended-range electric vehicles that include onboard gasoline engines.

Ed: Let me offer a Mad Men pitch session. “Think about this – personal vehicles for every household, but this time, with independent energy sources that don’t create shortages on the national grids. You know … like having a fuel that can be refilled easily with existing infrastructure. We can use something called an internal combustion engine.” Or to put it more plainly: this is what happens when you spend billions of dollars telling customers what they should want as opposed to listening to what they actually want.





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Ed: California hasn’t figured it out yet, clearly. 

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KSTP: The Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to the federal government, 5 INVESTIGATES has uncovered. …

The data in question is published in the USDA’s State Activity Report. The document lists information on all aspects of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by pulling in dozens of data points reported by all 50 states. 

The State Activity Report from fiscal year 2021 showed SNAP issuance in Minnesota jumped 173.96% from 2020 to 2021.

A screenshot of the table showing the spike was posted to social media by state Representative Pam Altendorf (R-Red Wing) in early November. The post prompted speculation about potential fraud in the program.

Ed: That’s more than just “incorrect.” That’s massively false data. And it came from the Walz administration. 

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Ed: Jewelry and pawn stores have had to regulate access into shops in urban areas for years due to the value of goods inside. Imagine what it means to have to do that with a McDonald’s. Radical leftists have destroyed Minneapolis.





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“Here’s what a fraud investigator in the Attorney General’s office said. She said, There is a perception that I’m quoting now, that forcefully tackling this issue would cause political backlash from the Somali community, which is a core voting block for Democrats”

Seriously, how are Democrats not getting raided and thrown in prison[?]

Ed: It’s a seriously good question. 

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