Category Archives: Multimedia

The Part of the Clackmas Town Center Shooting Story You Probably Missed

Constitution, Culture, Democrats, Individual Rights, Keep and Bear Arms, Media, Multimedia, Political Correctness, Politics, Profiles in Courage, Security

As usual, before many facts were known, before the victims were removed from Sandy Hook Elementary, and probably before the bodies were even cold, people on the Left and the MSM (but I repeat myself) were already calling for more gun control laws. It’s this so-called “gun culture” that is causing this death and destruction we are told.

Allowing people to get a conceal carry permit? That’s crazy talk.

Or is it?

Certain people I have been debating about this issue try to tell me that not a single time a person with a concealed handgun has stopped a mass shooting. This is an uninformed statement to be sure but why? Could it be that the MSM doesn’t always report the full story, especially if the facts don’t support a stricter gun control policy?

Let’s just take another recent shooting for example, the shooting at the Clackmas Town Center. If you read the article from The Detroit Free Press or CNN, or many other articles you would never know that an individual by the name of Nick Meli pointed his Glock .22 at the shooter shortly before the shooter took his own life. Nick Meli was not a police officer but a CCW holder. Here’s the story:

Did Meli stop the shooter from continuing his rampage? We can never know for sure. What is troubling to me is that this is one of the few reports of this individual possibly preventing more innocent people from being gunned down. Report the whole story and let the news consumers draw their own conclusions.

Yeah, there’s no media bias against guns; there’s no agenda here.

Related: Random Acts of Violence Can Be Mitigated But Not Prevented

Stephen Littau
http://fpffressminds.blogspot.com/

Your Incredibly Stupid Progressive Economic Propaganda for the Day

Credit Crisis, Culture, Currency and Monetary Policy, Democrats, Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Economics, Education, Federal Reserve, Fiscal Policy, Multimedia, Occupy Wall Street, Socialism, Taxation, The Contributors, The Welfare State, Theory and Ideas, Unions

There is so much economic ignorance/stupidity in this video (below), I wouldn’t even know where to begin. John Maynard Keynes himself would probably be embarrassed by this video courtesy of the California* Federation of Teachers and narrated by the great economist of our time Ed Asner.

I don’t have much else to say about this video right now, it’s too easy (though feel free to rip it apart here…or defend it). Actually, I am in the planning stages of writing a book that challenges this sort of mentality (I’m shooting for a release date about May 2013). I’m hoping Liberty Papers readers will buy it; I will have discounts for Liberty Papers readers.

And now for your, um…enjoyment[?]: Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale**

WARNING: This is 7 minutes and 50 seconds of your life you will never get back.

*Oh yes, the state of California which is being run by people with this kind of mentality! Yeah, their economic policies have been working great, haven’t they?

**Fairy tale is actually a very good description.

Stephen Littau
http://fpffressminds.blogspot.com/

I, Pencil: The Movie

Economics, Free Trade, Freedom, Liberty, Multimedia, Theory and Ideas

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is working on a film series based on Leonard E. Read’s 1958 essay entitled: I, Pencil in which the author makes the claim “[N]ot a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me [a pencil].” The video below is their animated adaptation of the essay (I, Pencil: The Movie). For those of you who are unfamiliar with the essay, its one of the best explanations of how spontaneous order works IMO. For those who have read the essay, I think you will enjoy this video as well.

Stephen Littau
http://fpffressminds.blogspot.com/

Atlas Shrugged Part II in Theaters This Weekend

Civil Liberties, Credit Crisis, Culture, Currency and Monetary Policy, Economics, Election '12, Energy Policy, Free Speech, Free Trade, Freedom, Freedom of Association, Government Incompetence, Government Regulation, Government Waste, Human Rights, Individual Rights, Inflation, Intellectual Property Rights, Liberty, Media, Monopolies, Multimedia, Occupy Wall Street, Property Rights, Socialism, Strategies For Advancing Liberty, Taxation, The Welfare State, Theory and Ideas, Unions

Atlas Shrugged Part II is opening this weekend. Want to check it out? Follow this link to find a theater near you.

And now, the official Atlas Shrugged Part II trailer:

Stephen Littau
http://fpffressminds.blogspot.com/

Quote of the Day: Small Things Edition

Culture, Democrats, Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Economics, Election '08, Election '12, Government Waste, Hope n' Change, Multimedia, Politics, Quote of the Day, Republicans

[I]f you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

And you know what? It’s worked before, because it feeds into the cynicism we all have about government. When Washington doesn’t work, all its promises seem empty. If your hopes have been dashed again and again, then it’s best to stop hoping and settle for what you already know.

That was then Sen. Barack Obama in 2008. This (below) is President Obama’s campaign in 2012:

If ending the federal subsidy to PBS doesn’t qualify as a “small thing” being used to distract from a failing president’s record, I don’t know what does.

Hat Tip: Jason Pye at United Liberty

Stephen Littau
http://fpffressminds.blogspot.com/
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