Tuesday, April 25, 2017
NYT Editorial Board Member Attacks NRA for Having Guns in Its Gun Museum
The New York Times ran an op-ed Monday attacking the National Rifle Association's National Firearms Museum and gun owners.
Editorial board member Francis X. Clines wrote in the piece that the Fairfax, Virginia gun museum, which features firearms from every era of American history, represents the worst of America. In particular, Clines was troubled by a display detailing gun use in Hollywood movies.
"There are thousands of ingenious, gleaming rifles and handguns in displays about America's gun-rich history of colonialism, immigration, expansionism and vigilante justice," Clines wrote on page A22 of Monday's Times. "But it is the gallery devoted to Hollywood and its guns and good-guy shooters that best illustrates the power of fantasy now driving the modern gun rights debate."
Clines expressed outrage at a cardboard cutout of John Wayne displayed in the exhibit, referencing it several times in his editorial. He said the cutout, which depicts a gun-toting Wayne with a grin full of "menace," promoted fantasies about killing "bad guys" for American gun owners.
"A poster figure of John Wayne, the mega-hero of Hollywood westerns, offers a greeting here at the gun museum’s gallery door as he holds his Winchester carbine at the ready and offers an amiably crooked grin," Clines said. "The bad guys in the movies never fully understood that the menace behind Wayne's grin (‘Whoa, take ‘er easy there, Pilgrim') meant he was about to deliver blazing fantasies of triumphant gunfire that would...
‘Communism for Kids’ Turns Deadly Ideology Into a Fairy Tale
This newly released book from MIT Press “proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism.”
The death toll from communist regimes in the 20th century is well-documented. One study found that more people were killed under communism than homicide and genocide combined, and only 9 million more people were killed in World War I and World War II combined than under governments of this ideology.
According to the Amazon synopsis, the book weaves a fairy tale of “jealous princesses, fancy swords, displaced peasants, mean bosses, and tired workers.”
It is bewildering why MIT Press would publish a book that cutesies up the political creed that gave the world Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and many more of the world’s most prolific mass murderers. None of these brutal dictators are....
Muslim Professor in Indiana Arrested for Allegedly Fabricating Anti-Islam Attack, Threats
An Indiana State University professor will appear in court Monday for allegedly faking anti-Islam threats and an assault to gain sympathy for Muslims.
Azhar Hussain, an assistant professor at ISU, told law enforcement that an assailant had attacked him on campus on March 24. He said the attacker grabbed him from behind and threw him to the ground. Earlier emails received by the university included anti-Muslim threats directed toward Hussain.
Local police worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the threats—and they said evidence suggested Hussain had sent the menacing emails himself.
Authorities also failed to find any witnesses of Hussain’s purported attack despite interviewing several people who were near the College of Technology offices that morning, where the professor claimed the assault occurred.
“Based on the investigation, it is our belief that Hussain was trying to gain sympathy by becoming a victim of anti-Muslim threats, which he had created himself,” the university’s chief of police told...
Monday, April 24, 2017
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