By Nathan Barton
Oh, please, are we surprised? That she LIES? Breitbart reports that Clinton’s claims about gun violence at the last Dem Prez Debate are grossly exaggerated. Here is the tally: she said 200 children dead in the last month: truth, 70 children and teenagers killed by guns. Many teens due to gang violence. She said, 3000 people killed by guns in the last month: truth, about a thousand. She claimed 21 “mass shooting” (four or more killed) in the past month: apparently there have been two. AP reported this, but few if any “mainstream media” or “fact-checkers” bothered to report this. Why? Personally, I WISH it was because they just figure she’s always lying (like all politicos), but it is because of bias and hoploclastic mindsets in the media. If a GOP candidate had claimed there were 600 murders by border jumpers in the last year, and it only turned out to be 200, well, the headlines would be bold indeed. But for Clinton to lie is just politics as usual – “not worth reporting.” Continue reading
The Price of Liberty 
Battle of Paris: More questions
By Nathan Barton
The Battle of Paris continues, with the French security forces attacking and killing people claimed to be part of the “sophisticated conspiracy” resulting in the Friday the 13th attacks.
(By the way, how many people recall that the modern Friday the 13th superstition comes from the dastardly and unprovoked attack and suppression of the Knights Templar by French King Philip “the Fair” (NOT!) beginning with “raids” on Friday, 13 October 1307 (a year after he expelled all Jews from France), in which hundreds of Templars were arrested and their possessions (and the money on deposit with them belonging to thousands) were seized, followed by torture and ultimately execution. Seven hundred years of blowback?) Continue reading →