2% of Counties Account for 51% of U.S. Murder Rate

The United States can really be divided up into three types of places. Places where there are no murders, places where there are a few murders, and places where murders are very common. In 2014, the most recent year that a county level breakdown is available, 54% of counties (with 11% of the population) have no murders. 69% of counties have no more than one murder, and about 20% of the population. These counties account for only 4% of all murders in the country. The worst 1% of counties have 19% of the population and 37% of the murders. The worst 5% of counties contain 47% of the population and account for 68% of murders.

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Even within the Counties with the murders, the murders are heavily concentrated within areas of the larger cities within the counties. Cities for the most part with strict gun control, run by Democrats and with heavy minority populations.

Here is a color map from the 2010 census which gives the US ethnic population area break down. It's very telling. My own home state of Louisiana is also considered a high homicide state, but most of those murders are heavily concentrated in the St. Roch neighborhood, Elysian Fields Avenue between Brother Martin High School and I-610 and along Old Gentilly Rd, all in New Orleans. 

With an estimated 350 million guns in the United States, we don't have a gun control problem. What we have is a culture, a moral and a democrat politician problem.

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I Don't Think Saul and His Buddies Ever Dreamed This Would Happen

"Alinksy Works For Us Now" - MOTUS

Saul Alinksy's "Rules for Radicals," published at the height of the counterculture movement, has long been required reading for community organizers on the left worldwide. It inspired activists with the labor movements, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter as well as the European communist movement in France and Spain.

A young Ma Clinton wrote her senior thesis on Alinsky and fawningly corresponded with him.  Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is like Antifa's Quran. They tend to follow his rules explicitly and inflexibly. But recently Alinsky has drawn a less likely group of devotees. The Right.  

So, Why Not turn them back against them?

"The Left is now getting massively out-Alinskyed, and the hilarious thing is that this band of withered hippies, unemployable millennial safe-space cases, and unlovable, unshaven libfeminists don’t even know it," wrote columnist Kurt Schlichter recently in TownHall.

"Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. You yelled 'Follow me!' and led a movement that had previously been dominated by doofy wonks and bow-tied geeks over the top in a glorious bayonet charge against the paper tiger liberal elite."

The whole idea of having Trump/free speech rallies in Berkeley is of historic nature. In 1968 the free speech movement happened in Berkeley to support communism. Now it is happening again in 2017 to support anti-communism / pro American ideals, in hostile territory.

Though most of Alinsky's keyboard warriors on the left continue to claim to eschew violence and laud, as he did, the passive resistance techniques of Mahatma Gandhi and the Civil Rights movement. His writings are not necessarily inconsistent with the antifa's embrace of recent street battles. "The future does not argue for making a special religion of nonviolence," he wrote. "It will be remembered for what it was, the best tactic for its time and place."

I have a feeling it's gonna be a Long Hot Summer....

Tips For The Rookie From The Master

Springer Done This

Judge Who Blocked Executive Order on Funding for Sanctuary Cities Worked on Immigration Cases For Obama Justice Dept.

Obama's Judicial Appointments Are Politicizing the Courts
And Rotting It From the Inside Out

WJ -The federal judge who on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at denying federal funding to sanctuary cities raised money for former President Barack Obama in 2008 and worked for the Obama-era Justice Department on immigration-related cases. According to Public Citizen, U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick III, who in 2008 was still an attorney in private practice, was a bundler for Obama, raising more than $200,000 for Obama. Public Citizen also reported that Orrick gave $30,800 to the Obama campaign.  Orrick did not remain in the private sector very long after Obama took office. In 2009, he joined the Justice Department. There, Orrick oversaw the Office of Immigration Litigation. In 2012, Orrick was nominated to his current post. He was confirmed a year later.

In its reporting on Orrick, the Washington Examiner noted that during Orrick’s confirmation hearing, he said he would remove himself from “cases involving issues, policies or initiatives developed by the Obama administration” in which he was involved at the Justice Department. Leon Fresco, who succeed Orrick at the Justice Department, was asked about any conflict between the Trump order and Orrick’s past. “In one way, if there’s a lawsuit about a Trump-era executive order then the record is confined to the Trump-era and he does not have to recuse himself,” Fresco explained. “But in the other way, because he was an employee of the DOJ Civil Division, and a lot of who would be litigating this were his colleagues and there was discussion of these matters while he worked there, then he would have to recuse himself.”

At Orrick's confirmation hearings he told the Senate Judiciary Committee he supported the concept that the federal government was supreme in issues related to immigration. “It is important that the country speak with one voice on immigration." He lied. He is also the same judge that blocked the release of the embarrassing and very telling videos of Planned Parenthood's Murder Inc., granting the injunction requested by the National Abortion Federation. 

Obama Warns Young Inspiring Leaders: Be careful With Those Selfies

Barky, speaking before a group of young adults in Chicago Monday, warned aspiring politicians to be careful of what pictures they take of themselves, and said if there were pictures of some of his activities while in school, he may not have been elected president.

"It is true that if you had pictures of everything I had done when I was in high school, I probably wouldn't have been president of the United States. So, I would advise all of you to be a little more circumspect about your selfies, and what you take pictures of.....Just a suggestion."

We all know Barky was a notorious pot head in high school and probably pictures of other rumored more lascivious activities still not admitted to are buried deep under wraps. But he failed to tell the crowd to also be careful what images get taken after you do get elected. There will always be someone watching.......

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Entire Senate Summoned to Briefing at White House

According to Politico, all 100 members of the Senate chamber have been summoned to meet at the WH for a private briefing with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joe Dunford and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on the situation involving North Korea. Whether or not for security reasons, no congressional staffers will be allowed in the members' briefing.

The Administration has expressed mounting concern over North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, and its threat to the United States and Asian allies.  Fox News reports U.S. commercial satellite images indicated increased activity around North Korea’s nuclear test site, while Kim Jong un has said that the country’s preparation for an ICBM launch is in its “final stage.” The USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group has been ordered to sail to waters off the Korean peninsula in response to mounting concern over the North's nuclear activity. In it's usual bluster, North Korea said on Sunday it was ready to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military might.

I think this meeting may be a clear signal to Little Kim he's pushed his luck, and about to find out he's not dealing with appeasing push-overs like Bill Clinton or Barky Obama.