Mitt Romney Video Ad: These Hands

President Obama believes if you have a successful business, you didn't build it. Someone else did. By someone else, he means the government is responsible. The defining question of 2012 is, "Do you believe citizens make this country great or do you believe the government makes this country great?" Obama clearly is in the government corner.

Aurora Shooter Match Profile Lists Him As Agnostic and Middle Of The Road Politically

ABC's Brian Ross hardest hit...

Rasmussen: Military veterans prefer Mitt Romney 59% to 35%

I am surprised 35% of the military actually prefer Obama.

Via Rasmussen:

Most military veterans don’t like the job President Obama is doing and prefer Mitt Romney in November’s election.

New Rasmussen Reports polling finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters who have served in the military favor the Republican challenger, while 35% support the president.  Five percent (5%) of these voters like some other candidate in the race, but only two percent (2%) are undecided.

North Korea to abandon Military first strategy?

Does the purge of top Military Leader Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho signal hope of reform to impoverished North Koreans? Kim Jong-un may be changing the countries economic course.

(Reuters) - Impoverished North Korea is gearing up to experiment with agricultural and economic reforms after young leader Kim Jong-un and his powerful uncle purged the country's top general for opposing change, a source with ties to both Pyongyang and Beijing said.

The source added that the cabinet had created a special bureau to take control of the decaying economy from the military, one of the world's largest, which under Kim's father was given pride of place in running the country.

The downfall of Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho and his allies gives the untested new leader and his uncle Jang Song-thaek, who married into the Kim family dynasty and is widely seen as the real power behind the throne, the mandate to try to save the battered economy and prevent the secretive regime's collapse. [...]
"Ri Yong-ho was the most ardent supporter of Kim Jong-il's 'military first' policy," the source told Reuters, referring to Kim Jong-un's late father who plunged the North deeper into isolation over its nuclear ambitions, abject poverty and political repression.

Where did an unemployed college student get $15,000 for an arsenal? (updated)

The cost of the guns, ammo and equipment that James Holmes accumulated for his deadly attack was as much as $15,000. Before starting his graduate studies, Holmes worked part-time at a McDonald's. How did he come up with that amount of cash? Was this deadly massacre financed by student loans? Did someone else give him money?

(CBS News) Sources say investigators have found key evidence in dumpsters and trash bins outside of James Holmes' apartment, including a shipping label from an internet ammunition store called BulkAmmo.com.

Investigators also tell CBS News they have recovered a surveillance video of James Holmes picking up approximately 150 pounds of ammunition at a Federal Express outlet in Colorado.

They've interviewed a UPS driver who says Holmes had 90 packages delivered to his workplace on the University of Colorado medical campus.

And sources say over the past several months, Holmes spent about $15,000 as he was putting together his deadly arsenal -- guns, chemicals, explosives, and ammunition.

Update: The University of Colorado says shooting suspect James Holmes had a federal grant to study neuroscience.

Flashback Video: Armed Woman prevents Colorado Church massacre...

The gunman planned a massacre. It didn't work out because of one armed woman.

A couple of clips from the press conference after the shooting at The New Life Church in Colorado Springs. Jeanne Assam was the parishioner that took the assailant down.

In this clip the pastor describes the church's security and Assam describes what happened before she shot and killed the gunman.

Jeanne Assam Saves The Day (2007 video)

Saturday Video: 71-year-old shoots would-be robbers at internet cafe

The best anti-crime tool is a well armed citizenry.


71-year-old shoots would-be robbers at internet cafe



Via YouTube:

Two hooded men, their faces covered, went into a Florida Internet cafe Friday, hefting a baseball bat and toting a handgun. What they couldn't have expected to encounter was Samuel Williams, a fleet-of-foot senior citizen with a gun.

The two suspects, identified by authorities as DuWayne Henderson and Davis Dawkins, went spinning and running after Williams, 71, dropped to one knee and aimed his .380.

Video of the incident at the Palms Internet Cafe in Ocala, Fla., shows two suspects directing patrons, who have their hands raised. Williams, a grandfatherly looking man in billed cap and shorts, stands, then bends briefly to one knee and begins shooting.

The suspects scramble to exit, falling over one another as Williams continues his pursuit....

Rasmussen: 49% believe government programs increase level of poverty...

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Getting something for nothing is very demotivational...

Via Rasmussen:

Nearly half of all Americans believe the government overspends on anti-poverty programs and continue to feel those programs actually increase the level of poverty in this country. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% of American adults think the government spends too much on poverty programs. That's up nine points from 38% in April of last year. Thirty percent (30%) feel the government spends too little fighting poverty, while 15% say the amount spent is about right. (To see survey question wording, click here.)