Hillary Clinton Has Made $5 Milllion in Speaking Fees Since Leaving Office
Posted: May 22, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: $5 million, Andrew Johnson, Campaign Legal Center, Hillary Clinton, Jones, McGehee Arkansas, Mother Jones, United States Department of State 3 CommentsMother Jones’s Andy Kroll’s report via NRO‘s Andrew Johnson:
Hillary Clinton has raked in nearly $5 million for her various appearances and speeches since leaving the State Department in February 2013, even though many of her more than 90 appearances have been unpaid. Her usual speaking fee is approximately $200,000 per appearance.
“This is a great way for a company to get access to her, to hear what she’s thinking, to be remembered if and when she does run for office, and to help her grow that nice little nest egg that she and her husband have been intent on building.”
— Campaign Legal Center policy director Meredith McGehee told Mother Jones…
A Reddit Gun Lover Has A Hilarious Present For Anti-Gun Mother Jones
Posted: March 1, 2014 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, Science & Technology | Tags: 3-D, 3-D printing, AR-15, Conde Nast, Giun-control, Gun rights, Guns, Humor, Lower Receiver, Mother Jones, Reddit, WarFairy Leave a comment
One gun lover at reddit decided to 3D-print his own homage to Mother Jones: a homemade lower receiver for an AR-15-style rifle, complete with serial number. And just for kicks, he made sure the serial number matched the phone number for the main office at Mother Jones. The redditor even printed the Mother Jones logo on the receiver.
Hey, pay us some attention or your car will be stolen!
Posted: February 27, 2014 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Arctic, Global warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Matthew Ranson, Mother Jones, murder, Robbery, United States Leave a commentClimate Change Will Cause Rape and Murder and Assault and Robbery and Larceny and Make People Steal Your Car
Charles C. W. Cooke writes: This, from Mother Jones, is what people who are losing the argument look like:
Study: Global Warming Will Cause 180,000 More Rapes by 2099
Global warming isn’t just going to melt the Arctic and flood our cities—it’s also going to make Americans more likely to kill each other.
That’s the conclusion of a controversial new study that uses historic crime and temperature data to show that hotter weather leads to more murders, more rapes, more robberies, more assaults, and more property crimes…
[See also Don’t Blame Climate Change for the California Drought]
[VIDEO] ‘The Last Round You’ll Ever Need’
Posted: January 27, 2014 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense | Tags: .45 ACP, Ammunition, Daily Caller, Firearm, Giuseppe Macri, Guns, Handgun, Home invasion, Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Radically Invasive Projectile, Self-defense Leave a commentNew copper bullet EXPLODES on impact
Anything with a name like “Radically Invasive Projectile” will undoubtedly interest loyal punditfromanotherplanet readers. Including firearms enthusiasts, pyrotechnics hobbyists, law enforcement officials, reformed home-invasion hobbyists, concerned part-time burglars, probation officers, ballistics video aficionados, women sharpshooters, men sharpshooters, gun-haters, gun-lovers, anxious Mother Jones readers, NRA members, Huffington Post crybabies, gun grabbers, gun store clerks, retired military personal, security guards, teachers, and elected officials. And, well, folks who enjoy watching stuff blow up. In concrete. Or gelatin. In slow motion.
[Deals on Shooting Supplies and Fireproof safes at Amazon]
The Daily Caller‘s Giuseppe Macri reports:
G2 Research’s Radically Invasive Projectile (R.I.P.) copper-tipped bullet makes a stunning explosive mess in the company’s new promotional video, and it’s hard to image the effect on people being much prettier.
Mother Jones Promotes Violence: Stealth Assault on Rights of Gun Owners
Posted: December 12, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, Self Defense, The Butcher's Notebook, U.S. News | Tags: Gun control, Maryland, Maryland Senate, Mother Jones, National Rifle Association, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Second Amendment Foundation, Takoma Park Maryland 1 Comment
Photo: Greg Henry/Shutterstock; Crosshair: Ivsanmas/Shutterstock
Hannah Levintova‘s breathlessly-alarmist article begins:
“This past spring, strangely similar pieces of mail started arriving at the offices of city attorneys in 28 Maryland communities. The tersely worded letters, many dated March 26, warned each town that some of its firearms laws were illegal and needed to be repealed immediately. Takoma Park‘s letter claimed that ordinances against carrying unlocked guns and possessing or selling guns in public places “grossly” exceeded state law and should be taken off the books, “out of respect for the rule of law.” All of the letters warned that failure to comply would put the towns “at risk for a lawsuit.”
This reflects the wishes of the community, as well as the concerns of gun-rights advocacy groups. What do the actual residents of Newton prefer? In Newtown, Gun Permits Surge After Shooting. Residents Cite Desire for Protection, a Rush to Buy Before Tighter Rules Kicked In. And not just in Newton. Thanks in part to these ‘activist gun groups”, more citizens in the U.S. have taken gun-saftey classes–and primarily, more women–than ever before.
If “strangely similar pieces of mail” warn Newton city attorneys against violating laws, that suggests that the activist opposition to activist gun-grabbers is well organized. Perhaps Mother Jones would prefer that Newton violate those laws, and that Newton residents should be even more restricted from protecting themselves.
“Once in a blue moon we get these kinds of letters from activist organizations,” says Ryan Spiegel, vice president of the Montgomery County chapter of the Maryland Municipal League and a member of the Gaithersburg city council. What felt different this time, he says, was the coordination—and the timing: Just a month earlier, the Maryland Senate had passed some of the country’s toughest gun control measures in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
Yes, the timing is relevant. The Maryland Senate‘s bowing to pressure from anti-gun groups, and exploiting Newton’s tragedy, does not sit well with many of the residents of Newton, who have to live with decisions made in haste by misguided or cowardly lawmakers.
Note: the “toughest” gun-control measures are firmly in place in the American cities that suffer from highest rates of crime, murder, and violence. While regions with less-restrictive gun laws, and higher numbers of legally-armed citizens, benefit from lower crime, murder, and violence in their communities. Even the U.N. confirms it. This is not only true in the U.S., it’s true worldwide.
Revealed: How the FBI and DoD missed Nidal Hasan
Posted: August 27, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: al Qaeda, Awlaki, Department of Defense, FBI, Fort Hood Massacre, Hamas, Jihadist, Mother Jones, Muslim Extremism, Nidal Hasan Leave a comment
“Politically Sensitive”
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack conducted by Army Major Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in November 2009, news surfaced that Hasan had conducted correspondence by e-mail with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the time, the FBI insisted that the e-mail contacts were “fairly benign.” As late as last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller insisted that investigators “took appropriate steps” in dealing with the correspondence. According to an internal report obtained by Mother Jones, though, the correspondence alarmed investigators enough to demand action — which the Defense Department declined out of concern for its political sensitivity. Read the rest of this entry »