How I Wish we Were Wrong Last Week

July 10^th 2016 Newsletter

  In this business you know when you hit a nerve as the emails and sometimes phone calls will flood in.  Generally you don't hear a whimper when the stories aren't controversial.   Last week's crop of emails was no different believe it or not, only one two sentence email accusing us of anti police bias was received so the vast majority of our reader were not shocked or upset about our article stating that more police killings would be coming as we had reached a tipping point.

  Sadly that turned out to be true, the morning news brought us the details of the Baton Rouge shootings where a rather disturbed black man from Kansas City traveled to Baton Rouge to kill and wound police officers.  Three dead, three wounded, with one or more facing life threatening injuries.  This guy was also ex military, hopefully not the panty snatching pervert that the Dallas shooter turned out to be according to news stories.  But the guy wasn't well prepared and you have to wonder how he racked up the deaths given that he was walking down the side of a road carrying a rifle and wearing a mask.

Richardson Exposes Turnpike Authority Secrets

Gary Richardson to Speak at Southside Republican Club August 9th

 Tulsa attorney and former gubernatorial candidate Gary Richardson will speak about the corruption of the Turnpike Authority that the Southside Oklahoma City  Republican Club on the 2nd Tuesday of next month,  August  9^th. 

  Doors open at 6:30 pm, program starts 7 and ends around 8pm.  More time for mingling til 8:30.

Soft on Crime, Does it Work?

   Here in Oklahoma we have seen former Speaker Kris Steele and Oklahoma County D.A. David Prater fall on their faces with the JRI program back in 2013 but like the committed liberals they are they simply renamed the campaign and set to work implementing the same programs under an different name.  It doesn't help that the Justice Department is pressuring local and state public safety systems to do the same, claiming the disparate impact on minority communities.  Attorney General Loretta Lynch warned municipal and state judges earlier this year that they would face the loss of federal funding if they don't ease up on fines and arrest warrants against poor and indigent minorities.  Lynch urged community service or "amnesty days" that allowed outstanding warrants to be cleared for nominal fees.

   Failure to comply will trigger discrimination investigations according to Lynch in her "guidance" letter to local court systems.   Enforcing outstanding warrants for failure to pay fines and court fees will have a "disparate impact" on African-Americans according to Lynch, because they are arrested or fined at an "disproportionate" rate compared to whites.

Insurance Cameras

Last session we saw the insurance traffic camera make its way through the process  as a way to project some dollars to pseudo balance the budget but do these systems work and will the income actually be generated and liability insurance rates increase?

  The camera systems belong to a private third party company that gets the lion's share of the profits from the tickets.  The cameras will scan license plates of passing cars and try to match them up to the state database of insurance policies.  They private company has no background of successful systems implemented so far and of course the percentage of uninsured drivers was vastly inflated in order to generate support for the scheme.  Generally around 12 to 14% of the drivers will have lapsed insurance, usually because they cancel the policy after getting their car tags.

CAIR Loses a Decision on a Major Fraud Case

  CAIR recently lost an appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, reversing a trial court's dismissal of a fraud case brought against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The ruling allows the fraud case to go to a jury trial.   Last year Judge Paul Friedman, a federal judge overseeing the five year old lawsuit, dismissed a fraud case where hundreds of Muslim and non Muslim clients were defrauded by CAIR and an alleged attorney hired by CAIR.

  The case revolves around CAIR hiring a fake attorney who failed to provide proper legal service in hundreds of cases, the fake attorney's main purpose of course was to threaten litigation against anyone that stood in CAIR's way or was trying to expose the group. CAIR of course is a Muslim Brotherhood front group as found by the Holy Land Foundation (HLF)trial, leading the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office to refuse to cooperate with them.  HLF was found to have raised money for terrorists groups and several top level CAIR executives were convicted of terror related crimes.

Election Results

 …were interesting to say the least.   Democratic Rep. Donnie Condit barely survived with a half point victory over his challenger.  Bridenstine thumped his two opponents by almost 81%  despite some serious RINO cash spent on trying to take Bridenstine down.  Steve Russell survived an attempt by Frank Volpe by a huge margin; then again Volpe was a bit of an odd character and didn't exactly inspire confidence.  The rest of the congressional races went as expected when you have a wealthy and entrenched incumbent being challenged by a poorly funded opponent.

  Senator Rob Standridge survived handily despite a RINO attempt at taking him down but Senator Ron Sharp, one of the worst of the RINO liberal senators barely squeaked out a win, less than 4% margin.  Senator Bryce Marlatt survived, a hell of a thing that a drunk can survive a primary election.  Senator Nathan Dahm survived a RINO attempt, winning by around two thirds.   Paul Blair and Adam Pugh head into a runoff election in August with both candidates bringing in over 45% in the primary election.    RINO senator Corey Brooks was defeated by just over 1% of the vote.  Senator Kyle Loveless won a 5% victory despite a heavily financed attempt to oust him due to his conservative voting record.

The True Face of the Muslim Society

  It is difficult enough when something happens to a small child, worse when it happens to a small girl child, and almost unimaginable when it happens to a small handicapped girl.  Ours is a civilized society for the most part but  there are those among us that are willing to pump hundreds of thousands of new "immigrants" into our society for political reasons, to expand their base of voters, or for cheap labor for their restaurants, motels, construction sites, or factories.  Of course the labor isn't cheap once you figure in the vast increases needed for welfare and schools.

   But it is the other costs of pumping tens of thousands of barely civilized "people" into a civilized and orderly society that costs us the most.  Last week we saw the story of the five year old handicapped girl in Twin Falls Idaho, sexually assaulted, urinated on, and filmed by the 14 year old instigator of the attack.  Initially the local authorities and immigrant advocates covered up the fact that all three of the young boys were immigrants and Muslims from Sudan and Iraq. The boys, 7, 10, and 14 years old were from about 300 "refugee" families settled in the area by the U.S. government.