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Friday, January 10, 2014

OLD NEWS MAKES NEW WORLD ORDER & OLEG'S MORAL DILEMMA





SNIPPETS BRINGS YOU OLD NEWS YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD ABOUT

 

 

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"A gleaming vision of the technology school of the future was unveiled Thursday 


as Mayor Bloomberg officially signed over 12 acres of prime Roosevelt Island property for an innovative graduate-level college and tech start-up hub.


Under the terms of the deal, Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology - which joined forces to create the Cornell Tech school - will lease the site just south of the Queensboro Bridge for the next 99 years."

Click here to read more from The New York Post!

                   


ROOSEVELT ISLAND IS CONNECTED TO MANHATTAN VIA CABLE CAR!


   

 

From Nazareth to Bethlehem: 

Getting Ready for

Christmas Celebrations

 

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The Israel Ministry of Tourism is working in cooperation with the Church and the Palestinian Authority to facilitate Christmas celebrations for tens of thousands of faithful expected for the holiday season. 75,000 visitors are expected to arrive in Israel for the Christmas period, 25,000 of them pilgrims.

It is anticipated that about 2 million people will have visited Bethlehem in 2013 (almost double the 2012 figure of 1.18 million).

 

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Forbes: Canada, Israel And Switzerland Are America's Top Innovation Partners

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"Despite the perennial myth of the lone genius, the fact remains that innovation depends on cooperation. And as technology becomes ever more complicated, improving that research requires larger and larger groups working together - including groups working across national borders. US-Israel.

In an attempt to quantify that transnational cooperation, the US-Israel Science & Technology Foundation (USISTF) has created a "U.S.-Israel Innovation Index" to measure bilateral research and development between the U.S. and other countries. "

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OLEG'S MORAL DILEMMA!

America's Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil

Conversations between my shoulder angel and my shoulder devil often turn into heated arguments, at which point I have to interfere and break up the fight.

The angel represents conscience; it usually sits or hovers near the right shoulder. The devil represents temptation and sits on the left because (I looked it up in Wikipedia) the left side traditionally represents dishonesty or impurity.

Obviously, moral dilemmas haunt political systems as much as they do individual citizens.

As if that weren't enough, my shoulder angel and devil have recently begun to speak with the voices of American presidents...

America's Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil - Jefferson vs. Obama - Healthcare - 'Government big enough to give all you need is also strong enough to take it away' - Thomas Jefferson; 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan' - Barack Obama

America's Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil - Jefferson vs. Obama - Tyranny - 'When the people fear the government, that's tyranny; when the government fears the people, that's freedom' - Thomas Jefferson; 'They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices' - Barack Obama

If you have had similar experiences, share them in the comments and use this blank if you like.

America's Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil cartoon
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/america-s-shoulder-angel-vs-shoulder-devil-t12802.html

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​NOW THAT AMERICA'S EXPERIENCED THE FULL FURY OF GLOBAL WARMING WITH THE ARCTIC BREEZE THAT HAS DESCENDED ON US, WE REVIEW SOME OLD NEWS MAKING A NEW WORLD ORDER​



       

NOW BE NICE. YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE TO LAUGH AT THE FOOLS TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT AWAY.




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WHAT YOU SEE IN THE SECOND ILLUSTRATION IS NOTHING!
                                SINCE DECEMBER 2012 TO DECEMBER 2013 THE ICE GREW BY 50%.
THIS GROWTH HAS WIPED OUT THREE DECADES OF LOSS.
    
  
NOTE THE GROWTH SINCE 1979                                                  



DECEMBER 2013 JERUSALEM

                                  DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES! REALLY!


                             
NORTH AMERICA? THE ONLY ANOMALY HAPPENED WHEN JIMMY CARTER WAS PRESIDENT!


NASA PHOTO 2011

NASA satellite reveals January had fifth largest snow cover in past 45 years

Saturday, February 26th, 2011 3:01am MST
NASA satellite imagery reveals that at one point in January 2011 the nation saw its fifth largest snow cover extent. Click the image for a larger view. (NASA)

NASA satellite imagery reveals that at one point in January 2011 the nation saw its fifth largest snow cover extent. Click the image for a larger view. (NASA)

How much snow has fallen this season in Colorado all depends on where you are.  The high country has continued to see snowfall far in excess of normal while here on the Plains we remain mostly dry.  For the nation, a new NASA satellite image reveals that 71 percent of it was covered in snow at one point last month.

The new image (right), taken by NASA's Terra satellite using its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), reveals a snow covered contiguous United States in January.  http://tinyurl.com/nxud4qk







NASA Announces New Record Growth Of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent

Researchers have measured a new record for sea-ice extent in the Antarctic. Why the white splendour is extending there while it is rapidly disappearing in the Arctic is a mystery.

Antarktis: Die Ausdehnung des Meereises (weiß) hat am 22. September einen Rekord erreicht. Die gelbe Linie zeigt den Median der Jahre 1981 bis 2000. Schelfeis ist grau dargestellt.

Antarctica: The extent of sea ice (white) reached a record on 22 September. The yellow line shows the median of 1981 to 2000. Ice shelf is shown in gray.

Whenever the ice at the North and South Pole is mentioned, it is mostly in the context of melting ice triggered by global warming. However, the sea ice in Antarctica – in contrast to that in the Arctic – has proved to be remarkably robust. New measurements have now confirmed that. As the U.S. space agency NASA announced, the sea ice in the Antarctic has extended over an area of ​​19.47 million square meters at the end of September. That is the highest since measurements began in 1979.

Early-Season Arctic Blast Hits the US | Video - ABC News

Weather hits Antarctic ship rescue bid

Arctic freeze hits US Midwest with record low temperatures …

The result is based on data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) on board of the Japanese satellite "GCOM-W1″. "The winter maximum has been a record for on the second consecutive year" said Walt Meier, a meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. However, he stressed that it is by no means a rapid growth: The now measured maximum extent is only 3.6 percent above the average maximum extent of 1981 to 2010. "This year, the ice edge extends therefore only 35 kilometres further out to sea than in an average year," Meier said.

Moreover, the mere extent of sea ice does not necessarily say something about the volume of the ice, because that also depends on the thickness of the frozen layer. And the vast majority of the Antarctic ice mass is located on the Antarctic continent – and there the ice has decreased in recent years as a whole, particularly in West Antarctica.

But why the sea ice is increasing is a mystery. Scientists suspect that a change in the air currents could explain to a great extent the increase in Antarctic sea ice in recent decades. Other speculations are that ocean currents carry cooler surface water to the Antarctic or that the melting water, which flows through massive channels in the ice, decreases the temperature of the surface sea water.

Translation by Philipp Mueller

See full article at Spiegel Online, 21 October 2013

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GRANDPA - YOU, READING THIS! WHAT WILL YOU TELL YOUR GRANDCHILDREN?

We were all supposed to be dead by now, fried to a toasty potatolike chip. Or doomed to die with the polar bears. It was to be a soggy end for the most beautiful planet in the cosmos and for all the passengers riding on it. The global alarmists never quite got their story of fright and fear straight, whether by now we would be fried or frozen.

First they warned of global warming, and when they needed a new narrative "global warming" became "climate change." They finally settled on something they could prove because the climate does, in fact, change. First it rains, and then the sun comes out. Then it rains again. Rain, sun, rain, sun, drip, drip and dry. The narrative is ever new.

Only 13 years ago (and 13 is the unluckiest of the numbers, which is pretty scary, too), a scientist at the climate-research unit of Britain's University of East Anglia predicted that "within a few years' time" a snowfall would be "a vary rare and exciting event. Children just aren't going to know what snow is."

That was then, and this is now, and Britain is huddled against predictions that 2013-14 will be one of the coldest and wettest winters in a very long time. "Worst winter for decades," cried the Daily Express. "Record-breaking snow predicted for November." And so it came to pass.

The global-warming hysteria grew quickly after that early prediction of a scarcity of snow. Certain scientists with more ambition than sense saw opportunity lying close at hand. With the falling snow could come falling grants to pay for learned papers. Learned academics have learned that a feverish alarm, served with a dollop of hysteria, can move the learned nonsense out of the faculty lounge and into the newspapers and onto television screens. And not just in Old Blighty, whence the scam originated.

James Hansen, whose career at NASA gave him the credentials to be taken seriously even when he didn't sound serious, predicted that in the decade after 2020 the average annual temperature would rise by 9 degrees, with more heat to come. Soon we would be boiling like lobsters.

Mr. Hansen, in an op-ed essay in The Washington Post, blames everything on "climate change" — the European heat wave of 2003, the Russian heat wave of 2010, catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year. To discount his view of what's at stake — a climactic version of hope and change — "would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills."

The admiration Mr. Hansen and his like-minded colleagues have for themselves is as breathtaking as their contempt for all who disagree with them. The more their scam crumbles, the louder they shout its particulars.

Mr. Hansen says he started speaking out about climate change again, after a period of relative reticence, because he did not want his grandchildren to say, "Pa, you understood what was happening, but you never made it clear." Now that events are making it clear what a scam global warming really is, those grandchildren are more likely to say, "Pa, why did you tell all those fibs and stretchers for so long?"

Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.

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NOVEMBER 2013 CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY​


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EXPLANATION:

Hot weather proves it's MAN MADE Global Warming
Mild weather proves it's MAN MADE Global Warming
Freezing weather proves it's MAN MADE Global Warming
No Climate Change means it's MAN MADE Global Warming

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln was caused by a hot summer and...you guessed it.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

DEMOCRAT ECONOMICS PROFESSOR AT QUINNIPIAC SAYS:



Sex, Love & Money


Two women talking…..
-Tell me, what is sex?
- Sex is when you dress up, go to a bar flirt with a guy, he buys you drinks.
You go to bed and he leaves some money on your table.
- And what is good sex?
- Good sex is when you dress up, go to a bar flirt with a guy, he buys you drinks.
You go to bed, you actually enjoy it, and he leaves lots of money on your table.
- And what is love?
- Love? That's a Jewish invention to avoid leaving money on the table.

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JUST THE FACTS  MA'AM!                      

            

                             

A study by Mark Gius, an Democrat economist at Quinnipiac University, shows states with restrictive concealed weapons laws had higher gun-related murder rates, and that assault weapons bans had no real impact on murder rates at the state level.

"These results suggest that restrictive concealed weapons laws may cause an increase in gun-related murders at the state level," Gius wrote in his summary.

Results that will not be well received by gun control advocates.

The study, published in "Applied Economics Letters," set out to "determine the effects of state-level assault weapons bans and concealed weapons laws on state murder rates."

Gius further summarized:

Using data for the period 1980 to 2009 and controlling for state and year fixed effects, the results of the present study suggest that states with restrictions on the carrying of concealed weapons had higher gun-related murder rates than other states. It was also found that assault weapons bans did not significantly affect murder rates at the state level.

"Specifically, the study shows that less restrictive concealed carry laws save lives, while gun control can endanger them," AWR Hawkins wrote in a review for Breitbart News.

In response to critics, who claim that study's abstract is insufficient to draw accurate conclusions, Hawkins pointed out that Breitbart News obtained the entire study, adding that "the more we read the more support we found for Gius' claims."

Hawkins is a military historian who holds a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University

              


http://tinyurl.com/jvp4kb6

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The 30th Harbin International Ice & Snow Sculpture Festival - Opening Ceremony
HARBIN, CHINA


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AUTOSAVE THIS LONG TERM PLAN!

    



Shevat 5, 5774, 1/6/2014

US-Brokered Deal 'Just the First Stage' in Israel's Demise


Senior member of Mahmoud Abbas' party reiterates his organization's stance: destroy Israel 'in stages'.

By Ari Soffer


As US-brokered talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) continue, amid pressure for further territorial concessions by Israel, a senior Palestinian Authority official has told Syrian TV that any agreement will simply be the "first stage" in eradicating Israel altogether.

Abbas Zaki posted a clip of the interview - which was promptly translated and circulated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) - onto his Facebook page.

In response to concern expressed by the interviewer that any US-imposed deal would be "deficient", insofar as it would "only" require Israel to cede Judea and Samaria, a smiling Zaki urges calm.

"You can relax. We find ourselves united for the first time. Even the most extreme among us, Hamas, or the fighting forces, want a state within the '67 borders [sic]. Afterward, we [will] have something to say, because the inspiring idea cannot be achieved all at once. [Rather] in stages," he responded.


                     

Zaki is a senior member of the central committee of Fatah - the Arab nationalist party which dominates the PA, and is headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

The strategy to eradicate the Jewish state "in stages" via a combination of terrorism and diplomacy, as opposed to in a single military conquest, has been voiced by many PA officials in the past, who note that Israel cannot be destroyed in one fell swoop.

Palestinian Media Watch has exposed a string of such statements by senior officials in the past, casting serious doubt over the viability of the Obama administration's recent attempt to impose a solution to the conflict.

Earlier this year, in a speech attended by Mahmoud Abbas, the PA's Religious Affairs Minister explained that any treaties with Israel should be viewed as another "Treaty of Hudaybiyyah" - a reference to a "temporary" deal signed by Islam's founder Muhammed, which was promptly broken as soon as the Muslim armies were strong enough to achieve victory.


                            

In another interview in 2011, Zaki was even more explicit:

"While the agreement is on the borders of June 4, the President [Mahmoud Abbas] understands, we understand, and everyone knows that it is impossible to realize the inspiring idea, or the great goal in one stroke," he explained to Al Jazeera.


However, he continued, an agreement which would see the destruction and ethnic-cleansing of Jewish

communities in Judea and Samaria would itself prove strategically fatal for the Jewish state in the long-run.


"If Israel withdraws from Jerusalem, if Israel uproots the settlements, 650,000 settlers, if Israel removes the (security) fence - what will be with Israel? Israel will come to an end.

"If I say that I want to remove it from existence, this will be great, great, [but] it is hard. This is not a [stated] policy. You can't say it to the world. You can say it to yourself."


                                       

GOT IT? Do you still want Israel to remove its security fence?
Do you still think the security fence, keeping the Israeli "terrorists" inside Israel is a bad idea; and keeping all those gentle peace lovers with the bomb belts out a bad one?

If you do, on what grounds?


MAYBE AN 8 MI. WIDE COUNTRY
composed of 6/10th of 1% of the Mideast
IS TOO MUCH LAND FOR THE JEWS
and 99.4% is too little land for the Arabs?


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media excursions




via RON           -         THE SEXIEST JEWISH WOMEN UNDER 40


33. Yael Bar Zohar
       3. Moran Atias       30. Dianna Agron
    

YAEL BAR ZOHAR      MORAN ATIAS - YOU WILL HEAR A LOT ABOUT HER!      DIANNA AGRON


                                ESIE GINZBURG - PROFESSIONAL IDF SOLDIER

                 2. Esti Ginzburg

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CNN'S MEA CULPA FOR MSNBC


What the wingnut liberals on Reliable Sources said about MSNBC:

MSNBC was:

Demonizing the Republicans
Smug and Condescending
Beyond the Pale
Just bad TV
Junk
Out of touch with reality
Insensitive
Totally partisan
Lacking objectivity

No comparison to FOX News they said - not the opposite of FOX as they often said before to justify MSNBC's idiocracy - simply a different breed.

MSNBC is the joke network, not a news network. It has had the lowest ratings even with GE and Microsoft funding for over a decade. The last time CNN has been number one was in 2001. MSNBC never came close to being Number 2 - they are losers - a monumental failure as are the people who watch it. Moreover:

These comments came from a bunch of leftwing Democrats on a panel - all agreed with each other, it's that obvious! They also know that Benghazigate is a serious issue. Yet, they continue the canard that the media does not have a liberal bias - in the light that 93% of the media participants polled admit to a liberal bias and 68% of that group admitted to having REPEATEDLY financed the political campaigns of liberal politicians. How many of the 93% feared admitting to political contributions do you think?

The CNN panel of ultraliberals insisted that MSNBC's hosts are "well-educated."

AL, SERIOUSLY!
       


Implying I guess that the two Pulitzer Prize winners on FOX, Charles Krauthammer and George Will are functional idiots?


    


Meanwhile to date CNN has failed to apologize for or inform it's viewers of the facts behind its throwing a presidential election the current incumbent was clearly losing. CNN was campaigning for the incumbent DURING the process leading up to the election and even on election eve! Why is that so? Because...

                      Inside every liberal is a tyrant clamoring to get out.


     

FROM MONTEREY CALIFORNIA

Circulating the net these days.....


What ObamaCare is Really About

I'm a 54 year old consulting engineer (working in CA) and make between $60,000 and $125,000 per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not there are work projects out there for me.

My girlfriend is 61 and makes about $18,000 per year, working as a part-time mail clerk.

For me, making $60,000 a year, under ObamaCare, the cheapest, lowest grade policy I can buy, which also happens to impose a $5,000 deductible, costs $482 per month.

For my girlfriend, the same exact policy, same deductible, costs $1 per month. That's right, $1 per month. I'm not making this up.

Don't believe me? Just go to www.coveredca.gov , the ObamaCare website for California and enter the parameters I've mentioned above and see for yourself. By the way, my zip code is 93940. You'll need to enter that.

So OK, clearly ObamaCare is a scheme that involves putting the cost burden of healthcare onto the middle and upper-income wage earners. But there's a lot more to it. Stick with me.

And before I make my next points, I'd like you to think about something:

I live in Monterey County, in Central California. We have a large land mass but just 426,000 residents - about the population of Colorado Springs or the city of Omaha.

But we do have a large Hispanic population, including a large number of illegal aliens, and to serve this group we have Natividad Medical Center, a massive, Federally subsidized county medical complex that takes up an area about one-third the size of the Chrysler Corporation automobile assembly plant in Belvedere, Illinois (see Google Earth View). Natividad has state-of-the-art operating rooms, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour emergency room, and much more. If you have no insurance, if you've been in a drive-by shooting or have overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where you go. And it's essentially free, because almost everyone who ends up in the ER is uninsured.

Last year, 2,735 babies were born at Natividad. 32% of these were born to out-of-wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were Hispanic. Less than 20% could demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71% listed their native language as Spanish. Of these 876 births, only 40 were covered under [any kind of] private health insurance. The taxpayers paid for the other 836. And in case you were wondering about the entire population - all 2,735 births - less than 24% involved insured coverage or even partial payment on behalf of the patient to the hospital in exchange for services. Keep this in mind as we move forward.

Now consider this:

If I want to upgrade my policy to a low-deductible premium policy, such as what I had with my last employer, my cost is $886 per month. But my girlfriend can upgrade her policy to the very same level, for just $4 per month. That's right, $4 per month. $48 per year for a zero-deductible, premium healthcare policy - the kind of thing you get when you work at IBM (except of course, IBM employees pay an average of $170 per month out of pocket for their coverage).

I mean, it's bad enough that I will be forced to subsidize the ObamaCare scheme in the first place. But even if I agreed with the basic scheme, which of course I do not, I would never agree to subsidize premium policies. If I have to pay $482 a month for a budget policy, I sure as hell do not want the guy I'm subsidizing to get a better policy, for less that 1% of what I have to fork out each month for a low-end policy.
 
Why must I pay $482 per month for something the other guy gets for a dollar? And why should the other guy get to buy an $886 policy for $4 a month? Think about this: I have to pay $10,632 a year for the same thing that the other guy can get for $48. $10,000 of net income is 60 days of full time work as an engineer. $48 is something I could could pay for collecting aluminum cans and plastic bottles, one day a month.

Are you with me on this? Are you starting to get an idea what ObamaCare is really about?

ObamaCare is not about dealing with inequities in the healthcare system. That's just the cover story. The real story is that it is a massive, political power grab. Do you think anyone who can insure himself with a premium policy for $4 a month will vote for anyone but the political party that provides him such a deal? ObamaCare is about enabling, subsidizing, and expanding the Left's political power base, at taxpayer expense. Why would I vote for anyone but a Democrat if I can have babies for $4 a month? For that matter, why would I go to college or strive for a better job or income if it means I have to pay real money for healthcare coverage? Heck, why study engineering when I can be a schlub for $20K per year and buy a new F-150 with all the money I'm saving?

And think about those $4-a-month babies - think in terms of propagation models. Think of just how many babies will be born to irresponsible, under-educated mothers. Will we get a new crop of brain surgeons and particle physicists from the dollar baby club, or will we need more cops, criminal courts and prisons? One thing you can be certain of: At $4 a month, they'll multiply, and multiply, and multiply. And not one of them will vote Republican.

ObamaCare: *It's all about political power AND BUYING VOTES.
So are OPEN BORDERS!


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Detroit police chief James Craig says more citizens should be armed

Detroit's police chief has a solution to help drive down crime in one of the nation's most dangerous cities: arm more citizens.James Craig made the comments at a police press conference Thursday, when he announced a 7 percent drop in violent crime in 2013, The Detroit News reported. Although urban police typically favor gun control, Craig said his views evolved after working in Los Angeles and Maine, where concealed weapons permits are more easily obtained.

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January 3, 2014 11:00 AM
New York's Fact-Free Gun Ruling
Most of New York's new gun-control laws have been upheld — on a totally dubious basis.

New York's new gun-control law, the so-called SAFE Act, largely survived its first federal-court challenge on this past Tuesday. The more than 1,140 New Yorkers it's made felons will remain so. But even the testimony of the state's own expert witness failed to show that the law will cut crime.

The judge in this case is William M. Skretny, chief federal judge for the Western District of New York. His decision upheld the state's gun-registration requirements and ban on assault weapons, but he rejected the seven-round limit for magazines, deeming it arbitrary.

The decision relied heavily on testimony by George Mason University criminology professor Chris Koper, who argued "that the criminal use of assault weapons declined after the federal assault-weapons ban was enacted in 1994, independently of trends in gun crime." Judge Skretny wrote in his opinion: "Because New York's regulations are tighter than those in the federal ban, [Koper] believes, quite reasonably, that the affect [sic] will be greater."

But Koper's two studies on the 1994 federal assault-weapons ban don't support his claims. The first study, with Jeff Roth for the National Institute of Justice, found that "the evidence is not strong enough for us to conclude that there was any meaningful effect [of the weapons ban]."

Seven years later, in 2004, Koper and Roth conducted a follow-up study with fellow criminologist Dan Woods, covering a much longer period after the law. They concluded, "we cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation's recent drop in gun violence. And, indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence."

To make the court ruling even stranger, given Koper's argument about what effect the ban will have on New York, no evidence was considered on the effects of state law, even though this has been studied by other researchers such as myself. At that level, again, absolutely no benefit is found on crime.

More embarrassing is the judge's reliance on Koper's claim that "a [large capacity-magazine] is arguably the most functionally important feature of most [assault weapons], many of which have magazines holding 30 or more rounds." Any gun that can hold a magazine can hold one of any size. That is true for handguns as well as rifles, implying that virtually all semi-automatic guns are so-called "assault weapons." But a magazine, which is basically a metal box with a spring, is trivially easy to make and virtually impossible to stop criminals from obtaining. Even if someone didn't have access to some simple machine tools, the proliferation of 3D printers make it so anyone can produce them.

Judge Skretny also failed to examine other aspects of the law. For example, he concludes that "SAFE Act's requirement that ammunition sales be conducted 'face-to-face' does not unduly burden interstate commerce." But in New York, going through a federally licensed firearms dealer to get a background check on ammunition purchases reportedly adds $85 in costs to the average purchase; there are also the time costs involved in having to drive to a physical store. And these costs fall hardest on the very people who most need guns for protection — poor blacks who live in high-crime urban areas.

Or take his claim of public-safety benefits from registering guns. Not a single study is cited showing that registration reduces crime. Whether in Canada, Hawaii, Chicago, or Washington, D.C., police seem unable to point to a single violent crime where registration has helped their investigation. During a recent deposition, D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier said she couldn't "recall any specific instance where registration records were used to determine who committed a crime."

The judge's reliance on the left-wing Mother Jones magazine to buttress claims about mass shootings is almost comical. Even liberal academic James Alan Fox described the data collected by the magazine as relying on "questionable motive-based selectivity" and criteria that are "not necessarily applied consistently."

Hopefully an appeals court will be more careful with the evidence. Courts should prevent people from exercising "fundamental rights" only when there is clear evidence that restrictions actually benefit public safety.

— John Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author of More Guns, Less Crime (University of Chicago Press, 2010).


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