Where’d Trump Get His Homicides Up 17% Stat? from the Washington Post

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

WP: More people were murdered last year than in 2014, and no one’s sure why

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Have you noticed the flurry of op-Ed’s and think pieces about how the crime isn’t really bad? Funny, for the last couple of years I remember multiple liberal politicians and media talking about how out of control gun crime was and how we need gun control. But now that cops are getting killed they hasten to say how crime isn’t really that bad compared to 40 years ago, etc.

* Trump made some good points on immigration.

The number of police officers killed in the line of duty has risen by almost 50% compared to this point last year. Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.

Lastly, we must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place.

Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.

But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens. My plan is the exact opposite of the radical and dangerous immigration policy of Hillary Clinton. Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration. Communities want relief.

Yet Hillary Clinton is proposing mass amnesty, mass immigration, and mass lawlessness. Her plan will overwhelm your schools and hospitals, further reduce your jobs and wages, and make it harder for recent immigrants to escape from poverty.

* Right after Trump’s speech, a male PBS commentator said Trump was stretching the truth by citing the 17% murder rate increase because the 17% increase only applied to 50 cities (!) and not suburban or rural areas.

The PBS journalist also said it was a dark, doom and gloom type speech. I’m sure most of the country thought it was glorious.

* I blame clickbait “news” sites like Buzzfeed for the decline in headline quality over the past few years. I’m so sick of “X event happened; here’s why” (which the above WaPo headline is an form of) and “Person did Action; here’s what happened”.

The running joke South Park did last season about the blurred line between ads and actual news was spot on.

* I don’t think there is today such a thing as a “centrist” Democrat. The entire US congressional membership strike me as a bunch of far left wacko open borders commie extremists. Tim Kaine rates an “F-” with NumbersUSA on immigration issues. So do his VA amigos Warner, Connelly, and Beyer. “F-”. They would import all of Latin America into the US over the weekend if they could get away with it, and put as many whites (themselves excluded of course) into unemployment as possible. Kaine is a far left Spanish-speaking nut job who dreams of turning to the US into Latin America Norte. “Centrist” to me implies that he might at least a little America First or a smidgen of patriotism in his DNA. He doesn’t.

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Facebook Suspended My Ability To Post For 24 Hours

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Facebook suspended my ability to post for 24 hours yesterday morning because I reposted Ricky Vaughn suggesting hashtag #freethefaggot regarding Milo, who was banned from Twitter. Milo refers to himself as the dangerous faggot.

The only other time Facebook removed something I posted was this photoshopped picture of Donald Trump pointing a gun out of his car and saying, “Get in faggot. We’re making America great again.”

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From Breitbart: Suck It Up Buttercups: Dangerous Faggot Tour Returns To Colleges In September

Triggered social justice warriors and cowering college administrators were breathing a sigh of relief. They thought it was all over. They were wrong.
Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos, the Dangerous Faggot himself will be returning to America’s campuses in the fall semester in a tour that promises to be bigger, badder, and more dangerous than ever.

Milo is already confirmed to appear at 26 campuses this fall, with more schools signing on every week. Be sure to keep an eye on the tour page for updates. Students interested in adding the most memorable speaker their university will hear from this year (or in some cases for all time) can contact the tour manager for more information.

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Steve Sailer: Look What Happened Last Time Liberals Took Over Criminal Justice: The 1960s

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

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Steve Sailer writes: But take a look at the single most dominant notable feature of the graph: the huge increase in murders in the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s when liberals took charge of the criminal justice system:

Wow.

It might make you think twice about the new Abolish Mass Incarceration conventional wisdom whose rise has coincided (perhaps not coincidently) with the 17% increase in homicides seen in the 50 biggest cities in 2015 over 2014.

COMMENTS:

* I would love to see a similar graph for attempted murders (shootings, stabbings, etc) per 100,000 males aged 15-35. The picture would not look so rosy then, especially in comparison to the early 1900′s when a much larger percentage of the population consisted of young males and differences in medical care and evac, etc. meant that you were much more likely to die when shot.

* It may be new to millennials, but the conventional wisdom for the last four decades been that the spike in crime from c. 1965 to c. 1971 coincided with the institution of Great Society welfare programs that underwrote mass migration of the rural poor to inner cities.

What’s new here?

On the other hand, it might be worth a second look so that we can find less boring, more sophisticated causal explanations.

For instance, a typical movie in 1965 was ‘The Sound of Music.’ In 1971, ‘The French Connection’. In between those two points, movies steadily became more and more violent, starting with a ‘A Fistful of Dollars.’ People must have streamed out of movie theaters, increasingly surly and worked up, resulting in the spike in crime.

More seriously, this is the third time in three weeks that I’ve scoured the nets in vain for an article I saw that correlated the number of young black men swept up and incarcerated from the streets of New York City with the drop in crime rates during the Giuliani administration. Anyone?

* I remember reading some amazing facts about incarceration in Kansas in the 70s in Bill James’s book Popular Crime. It began with murderers being considered for parole after seven years. From there, the possibility of being released on parole became an automatic right if the convict had done nothing wrong in prison. But the craziest part was that the period spent awaiting trial was counted as time served – even if the murderer had been out on bail. So if a killer could get bail and delay his trial for as long as possible, serving four years for murder would be a realistic prospect.

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Steve Sailer: Whatever Happened to All Those Violent Trump Supporters We Were Warned About?

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: It’s hard to remember all the media manias that have come and gone in attempts to derail the Trump candidacy. For example, the Great Six-Pointed Star Crisis of early July 2016 is already largely forgotten.

It’s hard to remember now after so much leftist violence, but one of the biggest coordinated press campaigns back in the late winter was the idea that Trump rallies were loci of “violence.” Thus, when there was mob violence at a Trump rally in Chicago in March, it was widely blamed initially by the press and politicians on Trump and his violent supporters. Of course, that was 180 degrees backward.

So how did Trump’s convention in Cleveland turn out? Did Trump’s cossacks sack Shaker Heights? Or did that not actually go through the formality of taking place?

COMMENTS:

* Trump’s supporters tend to be tough looking, blue collar white men. Lots of bikers, truckers, cops, firefighters, and ex-military types. They’re ready for violence and capable of winning fights, but they’re not really anarchic or lawless. They’re sort of like guards, not rioters.

Up until the 90s, there were lots of urban working class neighborhoods full of these types. Their neighborhoods tended to be relatively safe and minorities were often too scared to move in.

Lots of them used to be hardhat Democrats. Since the mid 90s, they’ve been economically and racially marginalized by both parties. Trump seems to really appeal to them.

They’ve never been much into racial guilt or acting deferential to minorities. They’ve beat up some rowdy black protesters who tried to disrupt Trump rallies.

* Hats off to Trump and [Stephen] Miller. I was totally blown away. Trump’s obvious sincerity when describing the murders of Americans by illegal aliens and the effects on their families was very impressive and touching. A truly great and historic speech in my opinion. Also the perfect setup for Hillary’s BLACK LIVES MATTER heartless hatefest scheduled in Philadelphia. It’s on now, and I couldn’t have asked for a better kickoff.

* Was there ever a time that it was against the law for non-citizens/foreign interests to own sizable/ shares/control over national media generators? Imagine Japan having editorial control over or even owning part of the LA Times prior/ during WWII.

Why is Carlos Slim allowed to own a sizable interest in the NY Times as Mexico continues to aggressively mass carpet-bomb us with strategic, sporadically virus-laden, biological warheads, with threats of sending even more if politicians don’t do his/Mexico’s bidding?

* The political geeks can’t figure out why Peter Thiel would endorse Trump, but it makes sense given their German connection. Germans like Thiel’s and Trump’s extended families, along with Scots like Trump’s mother, have a long history of valuing the United States as a second home and a refuge from the Old World. German Americans’ proprietary orientation towards this country leads them to treat it as an asset that needs careful management to maintain its value.

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ADL: Thank you @NBA for taking a stand for all of us! #LGBT

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Yahoo: Without any movement by state legislators in North Carolina to change newly enacted laws targeted at the LGBT community, the NBA on Thursday decided to pull the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte.

“Our week-long schedule of All-Star events and activities is intended to be a global celebration of basketball, our league, and the values for which we stand, and to bring together all members of the NBA community – current and former players, league and team officials, business partners, and fans,” the league said in a released statement.

The NBA is focused on the New Orleans’ Smoothie King Center as the host for All-Star Weekend and the All-Star Game on Feb. 19, league sources told The Vertical.

For now, there are still other cities trying to lure the All-Star Game, sources said.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver had threatened to move All-Star Weekend out of Charlotte unless a discriminatory North Carolina law aimed at the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community was changed – and time to do so ran out because of the logistics and planning the NBA needs to run its marquee midseason event, league sources said.

The issue is centered on North Carolina’s House Bill 2, a law that mandates transgender people use public restrooms corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificates. The law also omits LGBT people from North Carolina’s anti-discrimination protections, forbids local governments from widening LGBT protections and excludes all forms of workplace discrimination lawsuits from North Carolina state courts.

“While we recognize that the NBA cannot choose the law in every city, state, and country in which we do business, we do not believe we can successfully host our All-Star festivities in Charlotte in the climate created by HB2,” the league said. “… We look forward to re-starting plans for our All-Star festivities in Charlotte for 2019 provided there is an appropriate resolution to this matter.”

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