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Posted on 07/03/2007 12:53:50 PM PDT by JWR_Editor
On the other hand Scooter Libby is, or used to be, a Republican.
And conservatives are smarter and kinder that libs and felons in gerneral, though they do not know it. Envy and greed destroy the left and many foolish people.
Felons Smarter Than Liberals (Ann Coulter Early Bird Special Alert)
Posted by goldstategop
On News/Activism 07/04/2007 12:08:18 AM PDT · 26 replies · 1,416+ views
Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 07/03/2007 | Ann Coulter
Studies show: Felons smarter than libs
Posted by JWR_Editor
On News/Activism 07/03/2007 12:53:50 PM PDT · 21 replies · 879+ views
JewishWorldReview.com ^ | July 3, 2007 | Ann Coulter
Felons Smarter Than Liberals (Ann Coulter Early Bird Special Alert)
Posted by goldstategop
On News/Activism 07/04/2007 12:08:18 AM PDT · 26 replies · 1,416+ views
Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 07/03/2007 | Ann Coulter
Studies show: Felons smarter than libs
Posted by JWR_Editor
On News/Activism 07/03/2007 12:53:50 PM PDT · 21 replies · 879+ views
JewishWorldReview.com ^ | July 3, 2007 | Ann Coulter
Sorry for the double double post post.
Being a fairly hard core conservative this took a while to soak in but there are several aspects of the American society that are nearly identical to those of the Nazis. It scares the begees outta me what a LOT of folks are not batting an eye about.
I knew we were in BIG trouble when the The Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban of 1996 that prohibits anyone convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence offense from buying or owning a gun was passed AND IT WAS EX POST FACTO!!!
United States Constitution
ARTICLE 1, Section 9
Unbelievable.
Just in time for the Fourth of July, John Lott, author of the groundbreaking 1998 book More Guns, Less Crime, has released another amazing book: Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t. This book provides studies and analysis proving that your every right-wing instinct is based on sound economic analysis.
To wit:
— Women shouldn’t vote: “What changed ... that explains the growth of government? The answer is women’s suffrage.”
— Fox News Channel isn’t conservative: “Even employees of Fox News, which is widely regarded as a conservative channel, donate 81 percent of their contributions to Democrats.”
— Public schools are government re-education camps: “(P)ublic education was actually designed to spread government-approved values.”
— Nothing good has come from abortion: “(A)bortion, in fact, increases crime.”
— Felons vote Democrat: “Remarkably, it looks as if virtually all felons are Democrats.”
To make your flights even more enjoyable this summer, consider this interesting incentive system described by Lott: “To receive disability benefits due to job-related stress, air traffic controllers must present a well-documented stressful incident — a collision or close call — that has caused a deterioration in their performance. Unsurprisingly, when it became easier to file for disability, flights suddenly started experiencing more ‘close calls.’”
Say, wouldn’t it be even more stressful, deserving of a greater disability payment, if the near-miss involved an Iranian Air jet?
Lott shows that there are pretty clear answers to what lowers the crime rate, what increases the crime rate and what doesn’t have any effect at all. Despite their popularity as explanations for the remarkable drop in crime in the ‘90s, the aging of the population and the enforcement of quality-of-life crimes both had virtually no effect.
What did work was higher arrest and conviction rates, concealed-carry laws and the reinstitution of the death penalty. “Generally, the studies found,” Lott writes, “that each execution saved the lives of roughly 15 to 18 potential murder victims.” So basically, there’s a much bigger death penalty for having no death penalty.
Meanwhile, gun locks and gun self-storage laws lead to more deaths, for the obvious reason that if the owner can’t get to his gun in time, the beneficial effect of having a gun is lost. Lott also shows that crime skyrocketed in cities that implemented affirmative action policies that lowered allegedly “biased” and “irrelevant” tests for cops.
Speaking of crime, there’s even something for Paris Hilton in this book! Lott says that “when we analyze the overall consequences a criminal faces after conviction, we find a surprising result: Rich criminals face disproportionately high penalties.”
The Los Angeles Times recently did an analysis of jail sentences for Hilton’s precise offense: i.e., driving with a suspended license after being arrested for drunk driving. The majority of these offenders served four days, exactly what Hilton got — until she was returned to prison. By serving her full 23 days, Hilton served more time than 80 percent of people arrested for the same offense.
In addition to losing their reputations, their inheritances and generally their spouses, according to Lott, wealthy felons also earn less money post-conviction than poor defendants. Not relative to their prior salaries, but in direct comparison. “Amazingly,” Lott says, “after controlling for a variety of social and demographic factors, wealthier ex–convicts on average earn a lower salary after their conviction than poorer ex-convicts.”
Let’s hope so. Felons are usually Democrats. As Lott notes: “Michael Milken, Martha Stewart and Leona Helmsley share something in common besides being convicted felons — they are all Democrats. While their wealth sets them apart from the typical felon, their party registration is the same as most former convicts.”
I believe this point was subtly highlighted when Willie Horton told the press in 1988 that of course he supported Michael Dukakis for president. “According to academic studies,” Lott says, “from 1972 to 1996, on average, 80 percent of felons would have voted Democratic. An overwhelming 93 percent ostensibly would have voted for Bill Clinton in 1996.”
This is not because, as you might imagine, blacks have high crime rates and also happen to be overwhelmingly Democratic. Lott compares the voting patterns of felons and nonfelons, controlling for race, age, education level, religious habits, employment, age and country of residence. Wholly apart from all these factors, felons were still more likely to vote Democratic. Indeed, in the 2004 election, Lott says, felons in Washington state “voted exclusively for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.”
With so many felons being Democrats, the party might want to think about changing its mascot from a donkey to a jailbird.
Needless to say, Democrats are neurotically obsessed with restoring the right to vote to felons. But the ex-cons themselves rarely express any interest in regaining this particular right. What ex-cons want is the right to own a gun. “Felons,” Lott says, “who frequently live in poor, high-crime neighborhoods, want to be able to defend themselves.”
So the evidence is in on that one, too: Preferring the right to bear arms to the right to vote (for choice), convicted felons have a superior value system to liberals.
Hey! Who’s the babe on the left?????
Anyone of anything is smarter than a lib.
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Another picture for the collection. Thank you.
IMO, I think the government grew in leaps and bounds during the Wilson administration. I point to several things that occurred on his watch that contributed to the growth of governemnt - amendments 16 through 19. Income taxes, direct voting of Senators, prohibition, and women voting.
Immediately on taking office (March 4, 1913) Wilson called Congress into special session (the regular session did not begin until December). The first business was the revival of the income tax, as authorized by the 16th Amendment. Congress remained in session for nearly a year and a half (the special session was practically continuous with the regular session), producing, in addition to the income tax, the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, and the Clayton Antitrust Act. Of course this was peacetime, contrary to the libertarian myth that growth in government is caused by war.
Thank you for the info. Concerning prohibition, I do know that Wilson’s Secretary of the Navy was a non-drinker and during his tenure, he banned all alcohol from ships. And I wonder if his signing onboard women sufferage had anything to do with his ill health and his wife basically running the office. Just a thought.
In my various interactions with people on the left -
everyone from the slightly left leaning, to the serious elitist, to the flaming moonbat.
To a person, they dismiss the effect of “incentives” on human behavior.
Social programs invariably produce MORE of the social problem that they are trying to address - conservatives know why, “liberals” blame it on lack of funding.
Artificial price ceilings cause shortages. (gas, housing)
Artificial price floors cause surplus. (unemployment)
Add to that, public educatin was made mandatory, by law, long before women received suffrage.
educatin = education
unintentional irony :)
I agree.
Wilson has always been my touchstone for where the feminization of government began.
Everything I've ever read about his personal life has screamed "Momma's Boy," to put it as simply as possible.
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