[Huron Daily Tribune] SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California's policy of withholding weapons for 10 days from buyers who previously purchased a gun and clear a background check before the state's waiting period is a reasonable safety precaution that does not violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court decision that found the law was unconstitutional when applied to existing gun owners and people with concealed-weapons permits who pass the checks before the 10-day waiting period.
U.S. District Judge Anthony Ishii said in his 2014 ruling that the state's goal of implementing a cooling-off period to prevent impulsive acts of violence will not deter those who already own a gun.
But 9th Circuit Judge Mary Schroeder said the waiting period makes sense, for example, for someone who already owns a hunting rifle but may want to buy a larger-capacity weapon that will do more damage when fired into a crowd.
"A 10-day cooling-off period would serve to discourage such conduct and would impose no serious burden on the core Second Amendment right of defense of the home," she said.
h/t Instapundit
A new video of U.S. celebrities urging electors to vote against President-elect Donald Trump was made by an organization whose website was registered in a foreign country, despite its accusations that foreign influence was to blame for Trump’s victory in the presidential election.
...According to a search on ICANN WHOIS, a website that provides public access to data on registered URL names, UniteForAmerica.org was created on Nov. 26 with internet service provider Tucows Inc., located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Instapundit: "Canadians are attempting to subvert the results of our election" doesn’t actually sound any crazier than anything else I’ve read in the last five weeks or so.
[GP] Arizona Electoral College member Sharon Giese spoke with "FOX Business Network on Thursday to discuss the upcoming vote on Monday.
Geise said she is receiving thousands of emails and calls from Hillary supporters telling her to change her vote on December 19th when the electors meet.
Sharon Geise: I’ve had tons. Ever since right after the election it started. Like one day I had 12,000. And it is unreal. Today I probably, it’s probably less today I’ve had maybe 2,500 or so, but I woke up this morning and there were over 1,000 emails there.
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The left knows it cannot alter the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. What appears to be happening is an attempt to derail the Electoral College process for future elections.
[Reuters] U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced two appointments to the National Security Council on Thursday: retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg as chief of staff and executive secretary, and former Fox News Channel analyst Monica Crowley as senior director of strategic communications.
Ms Crowley doesn't use her PhD in international affairs from Columbia socially, it seems, nor flaunt her membership in the Council on Foreign Relations.
Kellogg served in the Vietnam War and has worked in the private sector since retiring from the Army in 2003, said a statement by Trump's transition team.
The statement said Crowley is a foreign affairs and political analyst for the Fox News Channel, but a Fox News spokeswoman said Crowley's contract had been terminated.
The two will serve under Michael Flynn, a retired general Trump earlier named as his national security adviser.
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The statement said Crowley is a foreign affairs and political analyst for the Fox News Channel, but a Fox News spokeswoman said Crowley's contract had been terminated
[DAWN] GUJRAT: The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi Bench on Thursday accepted the bail plea of Chaudhry Shahid, the father of Samia Shahid, a Brit of Pak origin who had been killed for honour allegedly by her former husband and other family members at her native village near Dina back in July last.
The court ordered the applicant to submit the surety bond of Rs200,000 for his release as bail was granted for insufficient evidence by the prosecution.
Samia’ father and Chaudhry Shakil, ex-husband, were in the Jhelum jail for the last few months.
Police enjugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! them in the light of the forensic evidence that had proved that she was strangled after being intoxicated.
The Mangla police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else of Samia’s murder against five members of her family -- parents, ex-husband, a sister and a cousin -- on the report of her second husband. Her mother and sister are yet to be arrested as they fled to the UK.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: The federal government has issued special permits to three princes from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to hunt the internationally protected migratory bird, houbara bustard, in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... during the hunting season, it was learnt on Thursday.
According to sources, the hunting permit holders include the governor of Tabuk and two sons of the former King of Saudi Arabia, the late Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud. Residents of colder Central Asian regions, houbara bustards migrate every year to spend winters in a relatively warmer environment like Pakistain.
Sources said Prince Fahad bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the governor of Tabuk, was allocated Awaran district and Noshki (not Noshki city) and Chaghai district (excluding the northwest).
Prince Mansoor bin Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and his brother Prince Mishal bin Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud were allocated Layyah district in Punjab.
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[DAWN] Pak Moslems, who form one of the largest adult Moslem populations globally, have 3.8 years of schooling on average, a recent Pew Research Center study found.
Released on Tuesday, the study stated Moslems tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling. Jews, on the other hand, it said, are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world.
The report's findings were based on data collected from 151 countries, which according to Pew, represented 95 per cent of the 3.6 billion people in the world who were over the age of 25 in 2010.
It focused on adherents of five major world religions such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism as well as those who identified as being religiously unaffiliated.
Researchers did not measure the quality of education the adherents had received. Instead, they focused on the number of years the adherents had spent while enrolled.
Theism, gender gap and education
The Moslem gender gap in educational attainment worldwide has narrowed, the report found.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... it also stated that Moslem women around the world lagged behind Moslem men in average years of schooling by a year and a half (4.9 years vs 6.4 years).
It further stated that Moslem gender gaps were larger than the gaps for non-Moslems. Globally, non-Moslem men on average had 8.7 years of schooling compared with 7.7 years for women.
Researchers did not find any educational gender gap among Jews.
Education and religion
Conrad Hackett, the lead researcher, told The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that the study found there was a connection between education levels and the number of people who described themselves as having no religious faith.
"The higher the level of education in a country, the larger the share of people with no religion tends to be," he said.
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How much schooling do you need to set off a suicide vest?
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Interesting how NPR spins (what appears to be) the same research - Hindus and Muslims in the United States are a pretty elite segment of the global Hindu and Muslim population.
And - The disparity in schooling levels between Hindus and Muslims worldwide and those in the United States may be diminishing, however. The Pew study found education for Hindus and Muslims is improving around the world, with especially notable gains for Hindu and Muslim women.
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Well, when you keep blowing up your schools and stick to only "holy" texts and days of rage... this is what you get.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Huron Daily Tribune] SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California's policy of withholding weapons for 10 days from buyers who previously purchased a gun and clear a background check before the state's waiting period is a reasonable safety precaution that does not violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
[Reuters] U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced two appointments to the National Security Council on Thursday: retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg as chief of staff and executive secretary, and former Fox News Channel analyst Monica Crowley as senior director of strategic communications.
[DAWN] GUJRAT: The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi Bench on Thursday accepted the bail plea of Chaudhry Shahid, the father of Samia Shahid, 
[DAWN] KARACHI: The federal government has issued special permits to three princes from 
