7-22-21 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. John Lott: Despite What Biden Says, Guns Factor in Only a Small Percentage of Violent Crimes

2. Ken Rapoza: Why are Coke, Airbnb Sponsoring Beijing 2022 Olympics?

3. Steve Turley: Europe Revolts Against Vaccine Mandates

4. Daniel Greenfield: Fauci Demands Censorship to Fight Pandemic

5. David Horowitz Reveals 'The Enemy Within'

 

Despite What Biden Says, Guns Factor in Only a Small Percentage of Violent Crimes

By Dr. John Lott

In response to sharp increases in violent crime, Biden stressed again last week that his administration is focused on "stemming the flow of firearms used to commit violent crimes." But critics warn that this "guns first" approach ignores a basic fact – about 92% of violent crimes in America do not involve firearms. Although firearms were used in about 74% of homicides in 2019, they comprise less than 9% of violent crimes in America. The vast majority of violent offenses – including robberies, rapes and other sex crimes – almost always involve other weapons or no weapons at all. [more...]

Why are Coke, Airbnb Sponsoring Beijing 2022 Olympics?

By Kenneth Rapoza, Industry Analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America

Coca-Cola took a lot of heat for being against the Georgia election law that requires voters to present a valid ID in order to vote. But they are sponsoring, happily, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. There’s no voting there. Airbnb proudly plastered its website with Pride Month images in June. They’re sponsoring the Beijing 2022 Olympics. Maybe they can sponsor the Shanghai Pride Parade next month, too. Oh, wait, there is no such thing as the Shanghai Pride Parade. In fact, the mobile messaging app WeChat, owned by Tencent, recently banned accounts owned by openly gay Chinese. Tencent is owned by a billionaire named Huateng "Pony" Ma. Pony can sponsor the Beijing 2022 Olympics. China has plenty of billionaires. It doesn’t need Airbnb and Coca-Cola, once an American icon, now joining a chorus of activists calling the U.S. racist while sponsoring the Olympics in a country that holds tens of thousands of Uyghur Muslims in captivity in China's war on terrorism. Some Uyghur women are sterilized against their will in Xinjiang, China. The State Department calls that genocide. Didn't the mothers of these executives teach them, "You are the company you keep?" [more...] 

Europe Revolts Against Vaccine Mandates

By Steve Turley

The nations of Greece and France are rising up and pushing back hard against their governments' COVID vaccine mandates. In France, President Macron gave a televised address at the beginning of the week announcing new mandatory measures to curb the spread of the Delta variant of the Coronavirus. In the address, he said that the French government was striving to achieve a 100% vaccination rate across the country. To accomplish that goal, beginning in August, France will be mandating what they call 'health passports' - certificates proving that one is either COVID-negative or has been fully vaccinated. Those passports will be required to be shown in all bars, restaurants, cafes, and shopping centers! So here we go. The backlash against the COVID passports has been severe. In terms of seeing how things play out now that we are witnessing vaccine passports coming to the fore in Europe, the obvious question is: what are the prospects for such mandates reaching our shores? [more...]

Fauci Demands Censorship to Fight Pandemic

By Daniel Greenfield

After Biden's spokeswoman boasted that the administration was ordering Facebook to censor some people's speech, Fauci joined the campaign by appearing on CNN to warn about the dangers of letting anyone say whatever they think. "We probably would still have polio in this country if we had the kind of false information that's being spread now," he falsely claimed. Fauci, as usual, is wrong about everything. [more...]

David Horowitz Reveals 'The Enemy Within'

By David Horowitz

Freedom Center founder David Horowitz was the guest recently of the Leadership Institute's Wednesday Wake-up Club Breakfast, and spoke about his new book, The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America. Mark Levin has described The Enemy Within as "a book for all patriots who understand that our country is in a fight for its life." [more...]