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By MATT BARBERSpecial to the Penny Press

Dear candidate for president of the United States:

Congratulations on your decision to pursue a career as leader of the free world. The following exam, while in no way comprehensive, is intended to

assess your basic qualifications and level of occupational competency. Though a failing grade does not automatically exclude you from being elected by low-information voters, hipster millennials, liberal yuppies plagued by white guilt and lesbian feminists with sleeve tattoos, it does strongly indicate that you are better suited for a career in an industry requiring no experience whatsoever and few, if any, measurable skills.

Alternative career paths might

include:1. Community Organizer2. Law professor at the University of Chicago3. Serial bad golfer4. Mom jeans model

INSTRUCTIONS: Circle the correct answer using a No. 2 Che Guevara pencil. You will have eight years to complete this exam.

1. There are how many “states” in the “United States of America”:a. 50b. 57c. π

2. Your philosophy on governance most closely resembles that of:a. George Washingtonb. King George IIIc. Steve Urkelg. b and c

3. Who is more accurately described as “Father of the American Revolution”?a. Samuel Adams

b. Saul Alinskyc. Can we please move on? I have daddy issues

4. Which of the following best describes your college friends:a. Fellow members of the Federalist Societyb. Black Panther militants who “did a little blow”c. “Marxist professors and structural feminists”d. b and c

5. The U.S. Constitution is:a. A “living, breathing document”b. A minor inconveniencec. To be circumvented at every available opportunityd. The supreme law of the land. It both limits the federal government and grants Congress certain enumerated powers. Those powers not expressly accorded the three branches of federal government are left to the statese. a, b and c

6. America:

a. Is the land of the free and the home of the braveb. Is exceptionalc. Is a shining city on a hilld. Needs to be “fundamentally transformed”e. a, b and c

7. Marriage is:a. The union of a man and a womanb. The union of a man and a manc. The union of a man and a goatd. Whatever. I’ve evolved

8. Children are best served when:a. They have a mom and dadb. They are not deadc. They have two moms, two dads and/or a goatd. They are dismembered alive and sucked into a biowaste containere. a and bf. c and d

9. The Islamic State is:a. Jewishb. Christianc. Buddhist

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Penny WisdomThe ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise. —Thomas Jefferson

The Conservative Weekly Voice Of NevadaInside:We ARE At War With Islam—For Over 200 Years

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d. Islamic

10. The Islamic State:a. Are bloodthirsty, demon-possessed monsters who must be stopped at all costsb. Behead Christian babies in front of their parents because of “unemployment”c. “May have legitimate grievances”d. b and c

11. Who dances in the streets when Christians and Jews are beheaded or otherwise burned alive?a. The Amishb. Mormonsc. Muslimsd. Trick question. Mormons don’t dance

12. Coptic Christians are best described as:a. “Egyptian citizens”b. Coptic Christians

13. Jews are best described as:a. Jewsb. “Random people”

14. Which of the following is a serious threat to American citizens?a. Freezing to death from global warmingb. Homophobiac. Income inequalityd. Muslim orthodoxye. Repeal of the Affordable Care Act

15. Which best represents a clear and present danger to U.S. national security?a. The Crusadesb. The Inquisitionc. Michael Savaged. Islamic jihad

16. The founder of Islam was:a. Mosesb. Jesusc. A slave-trading, woman-beheading pedophile named Muhammadd. L. Ron Hubbard

17. Adolf Hitler detailed his plans for world domination and extermination of the Jews in:a. The War of the Worldsb. The New York Timesc. Ladies’ underweard. Mein Kampf

18. Islam details its plans for world domination and extermination of the Jews in:a. The Poky Little Puppyb. The Audacity of Hopec. Dancing Boy Magazined. The Quran

19. The future must not belong to:a. Those who rape womenb. Those who behead childrenc. Those who rape children and behead women

d. “Those who slander the prophet of Islam”e. a, b and c

20. Islam:a. Requires the summary execution of homosexualsb. Stones to death, for adultery, women who have been rapedc. Treats women as chattel to be beaten with impunityd. “Has a proud tradition of tolerance”e. a, b and c

21. Ninety-nine percent of all global terrorism is committed by:a. The Family Research Councilb. Pro-lifersc. The tea partyd. Muslims

22. When interacting with those who wish to lop off your head, it is always best to:a. Get them jobsb. Tell them when and where you intend to attackc. Kill them with kindnessd. Just plain kill theme. a, b and c

23. When negotiating with those who have expressed an interest in raping your women and burning your children alive, the most effective strategy is:a. Catch and releaseb. Appeasementc. To quickly help them achieve room temperatured. a and b

24. When dealing with United States allies it is best to:a. Accuse them of having “spat in our face”b. Spy on themc. Illegally interfere in their sovereign electionsd. Demand they stop hurting Muslims’ fists with their facee. Treat them with respect and immediately come to their aid in times of troublef. a through d

25. Which statement most closely represents your Middle Eastern loyalties:a. I will stand with Israel should the political winds shift in an ugly directionb.”I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction”

Summary:If you responded incorrectly to one or more of the above questions, then, regrettably, you are not qualified to hold office as president of the United States.If you got them all wrong, then you’re probably a gay, Muslim communist.

Matt Barber is founder and editor-in chief of BarbWire.com. He is an author, columnist, cultural analyst and an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. Having retired as an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer, Matt has taken his fight from the ring to the culture war. (Follow Matt on Twitter: @jmattbarber).

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The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To:The United States Department of Justice for finding that there is no reason to go after George Zimmerman despite the political pressure from the clown in the White House to do so. If Treyvon Martin had been a white kid, we never even would have heard the name Zimmerman. This is the sort of thing which gives race baiting poverty pimps like Al Sharpton a reason to exist.

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The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer And A Bouquet of Weeds To:President Obama for his cynical veto of the Keystone XL Pipeline legislation. It is the sort of stunt the American people have become accustomed to but his complete disregard for the needs of the American people when it does not fit his ideology never ceases to amaze us. Face it, the President is a self-centered jerk. www.pennypressnv.com

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Bronx Cheers

If ISIS attacks the United States, it is probable that we’ll be on the sidelines where I live in Northern Nevada. There are two reasons for that. First is that we’re well out of the way and, more importantly, many of us carry weapons and won’t hesitate to shoot back making us the kind of hard target cowards like these clowns avoid.

That knowledge of probability gives us, out here in the Sierra Nevada mountains, a certain clarity when we watch the news and see a President who cannot bring himself to use the words “radical Islam” in that order.

Also when we see Rudy Giuliani suggest—accurately—that we have a President who does not love America.

The Eastern media—even Fox—seems horrified at Giuliani’s suggestion. We’re mostly horrified at the President’s deference to political correctness.

The truth is that America’s Mayor is only saying out loud what a probable majority of Americans—if they were honestly answering a neutral poll question—really believe.

Barack Obama is, perhaps, the least competent, most ideologically driven person who we have ever put into the job. It’s not that he’s mean or wishes America’s citizens ill.

He is simply not equipped for the job.

Monday morning on CBS, the female hosts of the morning show wanted to make the Wisconsin Governor pay for Giuliani’s remark.

Here’s a newsflash ladies:

Walker has won three elections in four years in a primarily blue state and being at the same table with Giuliani when the man who led America’s largest city through 9-11 suggests that Barack Obama is pretty much what you’d expect him to be is not going to hurt the Wisconsin Governor.

Walker’s accomplishments as Governor stand in stark contrast to Obama’s as President and nothing anyone else says about Obama is going to change that.

If you’re a member of a public sector union and you are committed to plundering the American taxpayer, than the odds are you are never going to like Scott Walker. He could bring Mother Teresa back to life during the halftime of a Packers’ game and you won’t change your opinion.

If, on the other hand, you can actually count—which necessarily means you probably didn’t go to a public school in the last 25 years—than you probably appreciate what Walker did for the taxpayers in Wisconsin and would like to see the same principals

applied nationally.

Barack Obama is yesterday’s news.

Sadly, he’s here until January 20, 2017 and we’ll probably have to put up with ISIS until we elect another President which the terror networks are afraid of.

The President and his close sycophants can keep up the fiction that we are not at war with some faction of Islam all they want, but even the mainstream media doesn’t—can’t—buy it.

It simply gets down to an old Richard Pryor line, “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”

What the president doesn’t get is that indeed we are at war with Islam—at least that part of Islam which wants to establish a Caliphate and enslave the rest of us to Sharia law.

That didn’t happen in 2001.

Two hundred years previous to 9-11 we began a war against radical Islam called the Barbary War. The war was fought because President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay the high tributes demanded by the Islamic Barbary States and because they were seizing American merchant ships and enslaving the crews for high ransoms. It was the first military conflict authorized by Congress that the United States fought on foreign land and seas.

In fact, we founded the United States Navy to fight the Islamic pirates and have been fighting them on and off ever since.

The difference was back then, they didn’t attack us in the homeland.

Today, the pirates are not so circumspect.

Back then, they only killed and plundered our merchant marine. Today, we worry about shopping malls.

Today, as back then, the best strategy—even to us in Northern Nevada—is to fight them where they live so they can’t come here. And, Mr. President, they are indeed radical Islamists.

They were scared of President Jefferson, after he kicked their asses. They were scared of President George W. Bush, after he kicked their asses.

They think you are a joke.

And they won’t go away until they either become scared of you or your replacement.

FRED WEINBERG

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OPINIONFrom The Publisher...

We ARE at War With Islam and Have Been for Over 200 Years

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PhD-Standard Monetary Crack UpThe hills are alive with the panic of central bankers. First there was

the fallout from the Swiss National Bank’s decision to unshackle the Franc from the Euro. Then, how much Q Mario Draghi put with his E. It turns out his €60 billion per month program was seen as a “positive surprise.”

In the meantime Bloomberg reported Canada’s central bank “is trying to make sure [Canada] survives an oil price crash,” by cutting its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a point. Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz is trying to stop the bleeding in Calgary where existing home sales slid 25% in December from November and listings rose 36%. Never mind that housing continues on its decade long tear in Toronto and Vancouver, up 71% and 67% since 2005, respectively.

The very same week the Danish central bank, “clearly panicking about the peg of the Danish Krone to the EUR” doubled down “with its second rate cut for the week, this time sending the rate from -0.20% to -0.35%.”

The PhDs running the world’s central banks are scrambling to blunt the forces of economics. No country wants to take its medicine after years of boom and bust-time monetary expansion. The smartest guys and gals in the room are playing hot potato with their currencies.

Back in 2013 The Economist wrote, “Mr Poloz seems a good choice. His expertise and experience look just right for the job. He got his PhD for a thesis on currency movements. Before joining the [Export Development Canada] in 1999 he spent 14 years at the Bank of Canada.”

The Swiss National Bank’s Thomas Jordan earned his doctorate in 1993 writing a thesis on the subject of the European Monetary Union. He spent three years as a researcher at Harvard.

Mario Draghi earned a PhD in economics from the MIT in 1976 with his thesis titled Essays on economic theory and applications. Mr. “Whatever it Takes” was the Financial Times Person of the Year in 2012 and was the 8th most powerful person in the world last year according to Forbes, two places behind Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen.

In 2011 “Super Mario” was said to be uniquely qualified to head the world’s second most important central bank. Thomas White International wrote before he took over, “if his track record is any indication, the ECB could not have found a better person to take on the challenge than Mario Draghi.”

Eurostagnation can’t possibly be his fault.High hopes for central banker skill and prescience have been a constant

since Milton Friedman wrote of Arthur Burns’ appointment as Fed Chair in 1970. He “is the first person ever named Chairman of the Board who has the right qualifications for that post.”

The Burns appointment by Richard Nixon was a turning point in central banking as I describe in “Arthur Burns: The Ph.D. Standard Begins and the End of Independence” a chapter for a book published last year, The Fed at One Hundred, edited by David Howden and Joe Salerno.

Burns was an academic and political operative with zero banking or business experience. He had been plucked from the faculty at Columbia University by Dwight D. Eisenhower to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. This appointment launched Burns’s career in

government and fortunately cleared the way for the acceptance of Murray Rothbard’s PhD thesis The Panic of 1819, which Burns had blocked, despite having known Rothbard since he was a child and being asked by David Rothbard to look out for his son.

Burns was close to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Vice President, Richard Nixon, and when Nixon gained the presidency, the Columbia University professor was tapped to be Fed Chair. Of course, like the Draghis and Yellens of today, Burns was thought to be a brilliant monetary mind. “He understands the monetary system and its relation to the economy at a depth and subtlety that has not been equaled by any past Chairman of the Board,” Friedman gushed at the time.

But more than anything, Nixon’s monetary man craved attention and praise from his superior. “Burns loved to be near the center of government power: he worked very hard at his job and was devoted to the president,” wrote Maxwell Newton. “He was extremely vulnerable to presidential flattery, particularly the flattery of being told the ‘inside story’ or being ‘in the know.’”

However, the president tired of Burns quickly and while the Fed Chair would make a beeline from the Eccles Building to the White House when summoned, Burns’s quality time with his old friend became a rarity.

Burns still supported Nixon at every turn (with one exception) accelerating money supply growth, championing Nixon’s wage and price freeze, tax on imports and various stimulus measures. Burns wrote in his diary. “I assured the President that I would support his new program fully. I could do this readily, except for the gold suspension.”

The Burns monetary expansion led to the stagflation of the early 1980s, with CPI reaching 13.5%. The Fed Chairman insisted his policies weren’t to blame. It was the large budget deficits, “exuberant mood,” and “waves of speculation” that were to blame.

Burns, like his mentor, business cycles economist Wesley Clair Mitchell, placed great dependence on empirical research. From the data, Burns believed he could formulate policies to set the economy on the right path. It never worked out that way.

Central bankers are serving either the executive branch as Burns did, or more often since the financial crash, the big banks and hedge fund community. Burns, reportedly with a straight face, said if the chairman didn’t do what the president wanted, the Federal Reserve “would lose its independence.”

Draghi’s “program amounts to a giant bailout in the form of a big fat central bank ‘bid’ designed to prop up prices in the immense parking lot of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese etc. debt that has been accumulated by hedge funds, prop traders and other rank speculators since mid-2012,” writes David Stockman, who calls the scheme “the greatest heist since Bernanke bailed out Wall Street in September 2008.”

Forty-five years of PhD central banking has brought the world, booms, busts, malinvestment, and inflation which market forces are desperately trying to cleanse. Standing in the way are the wise wizards of money, scurrying about to save their kingdoms and their friends. When their plans fall apart, someone or something else will take the blame.

DOUG FRENCH

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By FRED WEINBERGPublisher

I’ll never be mistaken for a Kurt Busch fan, but his indefinite suspension by NASCAR for allegedly trying to strangle his ex-girlfriend does seem more than a bit thin to me.

As regular readers of this space know, I was, in a previous life, the President of the original official radio station of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and we go back far enough to have broadcast some lesser races from the Bullring in which Kurt and his brother, Kyle, began their careers.

The Busch brothers were—to put it kindly—hotheads. They were extremely competitive, wanted to win and would do just about everything on track, with their considerable driving skills and near the track to accomplish that goal, but the fact is they were not violent with the exception of their mouths. And Kurt famously had his mouth closed by Jimmy Spencer in a confrontation at Bristol. They reserved their special brand of competitiveness for the race track.

Nobody who is close to Kurt (and that does not include me, but I know people well who are) believes for a second that he would do anything close to what he has been charged with by a woman who appears to be a

very sophisticated media manipulator.The first question which the Delaware judge seems to have glossed

over in his ruling is what this woman was doing in Busch’s motor coach at Dover a week after they broke up. The fact is that she was trespassing—at least as we in Nevada define the word. In fact, in Nevada, the owner of the motor coach could have used physical force to eject a trespasser.

Does Kurt have an occasional inability to get along with people?I think that has been adequately documented in his career.Is he a domestic abuser? Not likely.But the PC police have elevated a dispute between former lovers to

what they hope is a career ending blow.More likely is that he has been out-maneuvered by a selective media

campaign which has been helped along by the National Football League’s problems last season which put NASCAR on the hot seat the minute this became public. And since NASCAR has always had a rule book which was continuously variable to fit the whims of its executives and their public relations needs, they played right into this woman’s hands.

I don’t know what this woman’s end game is, but you can make a safe bet the plan has a dollar sign in it.

NASCAR Political Correctness Gone Wild

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With the Budget, the President Calls the Shots

It may not be obvious from the news coverage, but a good bit of Congress’s 2015 agenda just landed on Capitol Hill with a thud. I mean this literally. The federal budget that President Obama recently submitted runs to 2,000 pages.

This is the most important government document produced each year, so its heft is more than physical. The budget is how we decide what share of this country’s economic resources we should devote to government—and how we should spend them. It’s where we set out our national priorities, sorting out how to allocate money among defense, the environment, education, medical research, food safety, public works... You get the idea.

Which is why you saw the political maneuvering begin the moment it arrived. In a press conference after President Obama submitted his budget, House Speaker John Boehner dismissed it out of hand. “The president gave the American people a good laugh yesterday,” he said. Every year, politicians play some variation on this theme. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard a budget declared “dead on arrival.”

Yet here’s what you need to remember: Congress changes only a small portion of the budget. Well over half is mandated spending—interest on the debt, entitlements, contractual obligations of the government. And even when it comes to the roughly 40 percent of the budget that is discretionary spending, Congress never rewrites it wholesale; in general, all but five or ten percent of the White House’s spending blueprint will make it through intact. The President’s budget, in other words, is never “dead on arrival.”

This is not to say that what Congress does will be unimportant. The debate from here on out will be specifically about taxing and spending priorities—about how much money should go to defense, or homeland security, or social welfare—and more generally about who has the best ideas for addressing the country’s needs.

There will be times in upcoming months when it sounds as though our economy’s health depends on what our lawmakers do. The budget, after all, is where the President and Congress can have an impact on the economy. I’m not persuaded, however, that it’s as large as they’d have us believe. For one thing, the Federal Reserve, through its control over the money supply, has its hands on an immensely important economic lever. So do the big banks, major corporations and, most importantly, millions of consumers.

Still, Congress faces important questions. The deficit, which in past years was the focus of furious debate, holds less attention this year because we’ve made so much progress in reducing it. A few years ago, it

amounted to almost 10 percent of GDP; in 2014, it was 2.7 percent. On the other hand, the federal debt—what we owe to creditors who financed our accumulated annual deficits—is higher than it’s been for generations, and we’re not dealing with the hard choices necessary to get it under control. In particular, this means finding ways to control entitlement spending in an aging society. We do not need to panic about our finances, but we can’t afford to be complacent either.

There will be voices in Congress over the next few months urging that we curb spending sharply. In a recovering economy that is still beset with income stagnation, I’d argue that slamming hard on the brakes would be a mistake. Instead, we need to shift our spending toward investment, focusing on areas that generate or underpin economic growth: infrastructure, research and development, education.

Congress used to reign supreme in budget-making. George Washington didn’t even think it was his job to send a budget to Congress, and the president wasn’t legally required to submit one until the budget act of 1921 codified the practice. Now, of course, the President has become the chief budget-maker, and the Congress reacts to—and largely accepts—his proposals. The maneuvering on Capitol Hill over the next few months will, indeed, nudge the country in one direction or another. But our basic course was already set by the time those 2,000 pages hit lawmakers’ desks. LEE HAMILTONLee Hamilton is Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years.

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SpinThe Nevada Policy Research Institute made headlines recently when

we revealed that individuals’ government pensions in Nevada are often higher than their paychecks.

Predictably, our analysis drew a critical response from PERS officials, who took exception to our findings. Yet just as predictable was that nowhere in their response did those PERS officials point to even a single error in our study’s findings. Instead, PERS and its defenders have resorted to furious attempts at spin.

On the other hand, it’s easy to identify an error made by state Sen. Tick Segerblom in his recent letter to the editor published by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, through which the senator enlists himself in PERS’ spin campaign. To wit, Sen. Segerblom writes that the study “offers no information about the methodology used in generating its numbers.”

Of course, anyone who so much as skimmed the analysis would have found the methodology clearly outlined, beginning on page 3.

Sen. Segerblom and PERS officials’ main beef with this study was that the analysis looked just at those government workers who retired from 2011 to 2013 and had at least 30 years of service credit. For those retiring from local government, the average pension was over 100 percent of their final base pay. School district retirees collect 89 percent of their base pay. Police and fire employees rake in over 114 percent of their final base pay as retirement payouts.

What the critics are ignoring is that NPRI limited the study to recent retirees in order not to inflate those percentages. Had NPRI analyzed the pensions of all 30-plus-year retirees in the system, the average pension would have been far greater than their final salary due to the numerous COLA increases older retirees have received. The pensions of 2011-2013 retirees — those included in the study — have yet to be inflated by such cost-of-living increases.

NPRI’s findings echo what a national expert has found as well. The former principal deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Andrew Biggs — a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute — found in 2011 that the average Nevada PERS retiree can expect to receive a pension benefit 55 percent greater than his comparable private-sector counterpart.

Last year, comparing pension benefits in Nevada to those offered in the 49 other states, Biggs found that Nevada PERS leads the nation with the highest average pension benefit for full-career retirees: $64,008 a year. And keep in mind, a full career in government means working just 30 years, not the 45 years or so needed in the private sector.

The reason NPRI’s study looked at just those with 30 years or more of service credit was to discover how pension benefits are distributed among its members.

According to its just-released 2014 PERS actuarial data report, PERS’

48,729 retirees had an average of 20 years of service and a pension of $35,598, which is more than the maximum Social Security benefit available with 35 years of work at 67 years old.

There’s a reason PERS doesn’t want NPRI pointing out how unevenly that average is distributed.

PERS’ 10,357 full-career retirees now have pensions of $64,913 and begin collecting their income-replacement-level pensions immediately, even if they “retired” in their 40s. Those with less time in service have to wait until their 60s.

What those two statistics and the findings of NPRI’s recent study reveal is the inequity in the current system. PERS provides a windfall for those who make it to the 30-year mark at the expense of the vast majority of PERS retirees who work fewer than 30 years and receive disproportionally smaller benefits than their full-career counterparts. Indeed, local government employees who work for less than five years receive nothing at all. They can’t even roll over their “share” of retirement contributions.

Sen. Segerblom and PERS officials are defending a politically favored elite — the less than 1 percent of Nevadans who will work for government for 30 years and receive those exorbitant pensions.

NPRI, on the other hand, favors pension reform, like moving to a hybrid system, which would help the people — the 99 percent, if you will, including teachers, police officers and nurses — who won’t make it to 30 years of service. And it would protect taxpayers, too. ANDY MATTHEWS

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Commentary: Andy Matthews

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Fiore Said Bullet to the Head Makes Rapists Dead

Liberals are having a veritable cow after the New York Times printed the following quote by conservative Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R-Clark) with regard to the reintroduction of her campus carry bill…

“If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them. The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.”

Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick (D-Clark) was pretty close to being the first out of the door from the Home for the Perpetually Offended…

“It is beyond unfortunate that Michele Fiore’s response to sexual assault on campuses is a Rambo like mentality. … To claim that sexual assault is only happening to ‘young, hot little girls’ and that arming people can alleviate this problem is a false narrative. As a mother of five daughters, and the only female leader in the Nevada legislature, I am offended.”

Oh, puh-lease. As the father of a two young daughters myself, I’m even more offended that Ms. Kirkpatrick is offended!

And Fiore never said “only” young girls on campus are being sexually assaulted. THAT’S a “false narrative.”

On the other hand, it’s a fact beyond dispute that young women on campus are being sexually assaulted. Indeed, back in 2007 a dirtbag named James Biella brutally raped UNR student Amanda Collins in the campus parking garage. Collins was prohibited by law from carrying her lawful concealed weapon on campus that night and was completely defenseless.

Biella subsequently kidnapped, raped and murdered another young woman, Brianna Dennison.

Biella is now in jail. He should have gotten a bullet in the head. And yes, had Ms. Collins been armed the night she was raped, that could very well have “alleviated that problem,” Rambo-style or not.

Of course, when liberals work themselves into froth and begin pontificating with high dudgeon over something politically incorrect said by a conservative, most conservatives start apologizing all over the place and check themselves into some sensitivity class.

Not our Michele. Here’s the decidedly unapologetic statement she released as the left unleashed its fury on Fiore…

“That may not be the most eloquent way to phrase it; however, I stand wholeheartedly by that sentiment because I want every citizen, whether they’re on a college campus or not, to have the right to defend him or herself from sexual assault.

“So I ask, what’s your point? Are you opposed to the right to self defense or are you arguing that rape is the new normal of attending college?

“I stand with the people of Nevada and will always defend and protect our rights to self defense.”

No wonder so many liberals so despise her.No wonder so many conservatives love her.

CHUCK MUTH(Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a conservative grassroots advocacy organization. He can be reached at www.MuthsTruths.com)

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