NC Renegades

The Justice Department has announced that it will begin releasing 6,000 “nonviolent” inmates from federal prisons starting at the end of this month. Welcome to the era of de-incarceration. At a conference named for former New York Mayor David Dinkins (who presided over the city at a time of runaway crime), Hillary Clinton decried the number of Americans behind bars and declared, “It’s time to change our approach. It’s time to end the era of mass incarceration.”

In this, she is joined by Bernie Sanders and other Democrats, and also by Charles Koch, who wrote recently that “Overcriminalization has led to the mass incarceration of those ensnared by our criminal justice system, even though such imprisonment does not always enhance public safety. Indeed, more than half of federal inmates are nonviolent drug offenders.” Sen. Rand Paul has called mass incarceration “the new Jim Crow.” And Carly Fiorina suggested during the last debate, “We have the highest incarceration rates in the world. Two-thirds of the people in our prisons are there for nonviolent offenses, mostly drug-related. It is clearly not working.”

Not exactly. The U.S. does have the highest incarceration rate in the world (that is, among nations that list these data honestly), but the assertion that most of the people incarcerated are there for nonviolent crimes is false. Advocates for de-incarceration often cite the number of federal prisoners who committed nonviolent drug offenses. This is highly misleading. Of the 2.2 million inmates in America, only about 200,000 are federal prisoners.

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Another shooting at a college campus occurred this past week and the same rhetoric we hear every time there is a senseless shooting came spewing out: guns are bad and we need gun safety laws. Not ways to tighten up background checks, or scan medical records for psychiatric disorders—but gun safety laws.

What exactly is a “gun safety” law? Gun safety is all about how to safely handle a firearm—how to properly load, unload, secure, and fire it. Once again our Harvard-educated president has difficulty articulating what it is that he actually wants or is against. One thing is certain, he doesn’t want more gun safety laws (of which there are none I am aware of), but rather, he wants gun control laws.

The U.S. ranks third in the world in gun related murders, but, if we leave out the murders committed in Detroit, Chicago, Washington, DC, and New Orleans, we are fourth from the bottom! In the president’s mind stringent gun control leads to less violent crime—but these four cities have the most rigorous gun laws in the nation. That really exposes his flawed logic!

No doubt what the president and others of his ilk want is to take firearms out of the hands of lawful citizens—they of course won’t admit such, but that is nevertheless their ultimate goal. This is masked by wanting more restrictions, making it much more difficult to purchase a firearm. We already have a waiting period, unless one has a concealed carry permit, and a background check is required—what more do we need?

Perhaps some people missed the incongruity of the shootings—they occurred in a “gun free zone.” The college campus was so gun free that even the security officers at the school were not allowed to carry a firearm. I don’t know what their instructions were—perhaps just to shout “This is a gun free zone, you can’t kill people here!” A gun free zone may seem like a utopian place to the liberal mind, but either the gunman couldn’t read or perhaps finding a place gun free only meant in his mind he could kill others with no possible chance of opposing gunfire. Continue reading →

The warnings are getting louder.  Is anybody listening?  For months, I have been documenting on my website how the global financial system is absolutely primed for a crisis, and now some of the most important financial institutions in the entire world are warning about the exact same thing.  For example, this week I was stunned to see that the Telegraph had published an article with the following ominous headline: “$3 trillion corporate credit crunch looms as debtors face day of reckoning, says IMF“.  And actually what we are heading for would more accurately be described as a “credit freeze” or a “credit panic”, but a “credit crunch” will definitely work for now.  The IMF is warning that the “dangerous over-leveraging” that we have been witnessing “threatens to unleash a wave of defaults” all across the globe…

Governments and central banks risk tipping the world into a fresh financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund has warned, as it called time on a corporate debt binge in the developing world.

Emerging market companies have “over-borrowed” by $3 trillion in the last decade, reflecting a quadrupling of private sector debt between 2004 and 2014, found the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report.

This dangerous over-leveraging now threatens to unleash a wave of defaults that will imperil an already weak global economy, said stark findings from the IMF’s twice yearly report.

The IMF is actually telling the truth in this instance.  We are in the midst of the greatest debt bubble the world has ever seen, and it is a monumental threat to the global financial system.

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Linus waits for a mythical pumpkin to bring him a Republican candidate who will beat Donald Trump for the GOP nomination. And then what? The system is broken and tyranny reigns independently of party affiliations.

Stand up and throw off your beliefs in a corrupt system. Our founding principles were put forth using Judeo-Christian principles by a moral people. Put your faith where it belongs with Sacred honor.

David DeGerolamo

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has somehow managed to find time and surplus budget to fight a new battle along with their old standbys of preventing criminal background checks, preventing verification of American citizenship, striking down job-related competency testing, or disciplining any employee who isn’t a straight white male.

Specifically, the EEOC is launching an investigation to prove that the “War on Women” is actuallybeing fought in Hollywood, where women aren’t being allowed to direct enough feature films.

The EEOC has sent letters to 50 female directors asking them to share any stories they might have about workplace discrimination or unfair treatment. Although rather than making it a formal inquiry, Hope n’ Change thinks it would be easier to just gather the ladies in a wine bar and keep the Chardonnay flowing while they vent.

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