Obama Unveils Assault on Gun Rights

Using young children as cheap propaganda props, President Obama unveiled his deeply controversial anti-gun proposals on Wednesday amid a series of false claims about having public opinion on his side. Among the most extreme, aside from some two dozen executive decrees he signed, was the announcement that the administration would push for an even more draconian so-called "Assault Weapons Ban" purporting to criminalize popular semi-automatic firearms. Restrictions on magazine capacity as well as mandatory "universal background checks" that could obliterate gun shows and private firearm sales are also at the top of the agenda.

France Bombs Mali While Backing Jihad Elsewhere

Despite openly supporting self-styled Jihadist "revolutionaries" seeking an Islamic theocracy in Syria, and Libya before that, the new socialist French government, with help from other Western powers, has also just launched a series of military attacks against Muslim rebels who seized control of northern Mali. The controversial operations, ironically, are being taken under the guise of fighting Islamic extremism. Meanwhile, Islamists in the region have vowed retaliation, saying the French attacks were killing civilians and promising to strike "at the heart of France."