If you missed hearing it live, click here for the archive of tonights (Sunday 12-30-12) Making Sense with Steve Leser - Week in Review

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lesersense/2012/12/31/making-sense-with-steve-leser--week-in-review

1. A special message from me on Republican Strategy and whether the GOP is up to something

2. An update on the economy and the Fiscal Cliff

3. The Gun Argument continues

That and our trademark Hall of Fame and Shame!

Join us for Making Sense with Steve Leser at 7pm EST tonight regarding Republican strategy in 2013, Fiscal Cliff and the Gun Debate continues!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lesersense/2012/12/31/making-sense-with-steve-leser--week-in-review

1. A special message from me on Republican Strategy and whether the GOP is up to something

2. An update on the economy and the Fiscal Cliff

3. The Gun Argument continues

 

That and our trademark Hall of Fame and Shame on tonight’s show!

Newspaper in lower NY State publishes list of registered gun owners.

The Journal News, which serves Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties published a map where you can see all of the gun owners in Westchester and Rockland counties and promises to add Putnam when that data is complete.

Many gun owners in those counties are up in arms, but the information is public and available to all. What do you think?
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http://www.lohud.com/interactive/article/20121223/NEWS01/121221011/Map-Where-gun-permits-your-neighborhood-

The map indicates the addresses of all pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties. Each dot represents an individual permit holder licensed to own a handgun — a pistol or revolver. The data does not include owners of long guns — rifles or shotguns — which can be purchased without a permit. Being included in this map does not mean the individual at a specific location owns a weapon, just that they are licensed to do so.

Data for all permit categories, unrestricted carry, premises, business, employment, target and hunting, is included, but permit information is not available on an individual basis.

To create the map, The Journal News submitted Freedom of Information requests for the names and addresses of all pistol permit holders in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam. By state law, the information is public record.

Listen to the Archive of Sunday 12-23-12's edition of Making Sense with Steve Leser - Newtown/NRA/Guns, Fiscal Cliff and more!

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In this issue I discuss:

1. New Developments in the aftermath of the Connecticut shooting including the NRAs response and the negative backlash it created.

2. An update on the fiscal cliff.

3. And then did the Iowa Supreme Court just issue a blatantly sexist ruling?

Tonight 7pm EST on Making Sense with Steve Leser

1. New Developments in the aftermath of the Connecticut shooting including the NRAs response and the negative backlash it created.

2. We will have an update on the fiscal cliff.

3. and then did the Iowa Supreme Court just issue a blatantly sexist ruling?

That and our weekly sense and nonsense hall of fame and shame, tonight at 7pm. Link following shortly.

Hey NRA Head LaPierre - When you are too far right for the NY Post...

...you are a nut. Specifically...

Boehner pins responsibility for avoiding ‘fiscal cliff’ on Obama, Democrats

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/boehner-pins-responsibility-for-avoiding-fiscal-cliff-on-obama-democrats/2012/12/21/5aa6bbb0-4b77-11e2-b709-667035ff9029_story.html

Republicans have an internal struggle and cannot agree amongst themselves which plan should be in place to avoid the fiscal cliff, so Boehner blames... Obama. Of Course.

Boehner cannot get a bill to be accepted by the Republican members of the House of Representatives. A majority of Americans already think the Republicans are too crazy and extreme. This isn't going to help.

"Only 'A Good Guy With A Gun' Can Stop School Shootings" Says NRA Executive VP Wayne LaPierre

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/21/167785169/live-blog-nra-news-conference

WRONG! The over 300 million good people who are not NRA members will eventually succeed in getting guns off of our streets and THEY will stop school shootings, not vigilantes with guns.

While more police isnt necessarily a bad idea, a better idea is to get rid of as many guns as possible.

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Saying that last week's mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., could have been prevented or stopped if there had been armed, trained security personnel on site, officials of the National Rifle Association on Friday called for Congress to appropriate funds to put police officers in every American school.

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said Wayne LaPierre, NRA's executive vice president.

The NRA also said it is launching a "National School Shield" training program to help — at no cost — schools train security personnel and develop security plans.

And, NRA officials blamed the news media for focusing on what they view as the wrong issue — guns — rather than violent video games and the nation's mental health care programs.

Republican Party Too Extreme, Majority Of Americans Say: Poll

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/republican-poll_n_2337757.html

For the first time, a majority of Americans now say the Republican Party is too extreme, according to a poll released Thursday by CNN/ORC. Fifty-three percent of people, including 22 percent of Republicans, said the GOP's views and policies have pushed them beyond the mainstream.

Barack Obama - Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2012!

http://poy.time.com/2012/12/19/person-of-the-year-barack-obama/

 

 

 

 

"But his 5 million-vote margin of victory out of 129 million ballots cast shocked experts in both parties, and it probably would have been higher had so much of New York and New Jersey not stayed home after Hurricane Sandy. He won many of the toughest battlegrounds walking away: Virginia by 4 points, Colorado by 5 and the lily white states of Iowa and New Hampshire by 6. He untied Ohio’s knotty heartland politics, picked the Republican lock on Florida Cubans and won Paul Ryan...’s hometown of Janesville, Wis. (Those last two data points especially caught the President’s interest.) He will take the oath on Jan. 20 as the first Democrat in more than 75 years to get a majority of the popular vote twice. Only five other Presidents have done that in all of U.S. history."

The "Guns for protection against potential out control govt" argument doesnt work for me

If those in the government and military ever decide that the Constitution is irrelevant and that it/they is/are willing to do whatever to the people to have power, each of us owning an AR-15 would not help.

An AR-15 is not going to protect me from a drone, or a howitzer, or a helicopter gunship, or an fight...

er plane/bomber, or nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. An out of control government could decide to use WMD against pockets of resistance. Guns will not help us.

I think we have to look at the fall of the Soviet Union. Even an empire that many in the US considered the epitomy of evil simply gave up power in the face of popular will. And guns had nothing to do with it.

President Obama's Complete Speech At Interfaith Vigil In Newtown, Connec...

In case you missed it here is the Sunday 12/16 edition of Making Sense with Steve Leser regarding the Connecticut tragedy and the actions of the Michigan GOP

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This episode concentrated on two issues

1. The tragedy in Connecticut and the right to keep and bear arms.
2. The actions of the Michigan governor and state legislature and the surrounding issues of proportional representation and the war on women and unions.

Tomorrow, Sunday 12/15 on my radio show at 7pm EST, the Connecticut tragedy and the GOP actions in Michigan

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lesersense/2012/12/17/making-sense-with-steve-leser--week-in-review

This episode will concentrate on two issues:

1. The tragedy in Connecticut and the right to keep and bear arms.

2. The actions of the Michigan governor and state legislature and the surrounding issues of proportional representation and the war on women and unions

The Homophobic American Family Association's Brian Fischer Gave his reasoning for why he thought God did not protect the Connecticut children

Warning: The remarks are extremely upsetting.

 

Watch President Obama Address the Newtown, Conn. School Shooting

Millionaires Win - Single moms lose under Republican's Plan

Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale

This is the video everyone is talking about!

As unions get weaker, middle class income goes down. Thats what Republicans want.

Steve Leser's Support of Unions (4 Video playlist)

In Solidarity with the workers in Michigan, here are a number of my pro-Union appearances on TV

Froomkin: Campaign Coverage in 2012 missed...the radical right-wing, off-the-rails lurch of the Republican Party, both in terms of its agenda and its relationship to the truth

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-froomkin/republican-lies-2012-election_b_2258586.html

But according to longtime political observers Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, campaign coverage in 2012 was a particularly calamitous failure, almost entirely missing the single biggest story of the race: Namely, the radical right-wing, off-the-rails lurch of the Republican Party, both in terms of its agenda and its relationship to the truth.

Mann and Ornstein are two longtime centrist Washington fixtures who earlier this year dramatically rejected the strictures of false equivalency that bind so much of the capital's media elite and publicly concluded that GOP leaders have become "ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition."

The 2012 campaign further proved their point, they both said in recent interviews. It also exposed how fabulists and liars can exploit the elite media's fear of being seen as taking sides.

Rep Joe Burton (R-Tx) Chairman of House Energy and Commerce Committee) "Greenhouse Gasses are Good"

http://fora.tv/2012/12/05/Legacy_of_the_Clean_Air_Act_Looking_Back_Moving_Forward

Rep Barton: "carbon dioxide is irrelevant to the Clean Air Act"... "it’s not dangerous at all because it’s “a necessity for life.”... "...greenhouses ...because they create life, so greenhouse gases are good. There’s a reason that you build things called greenhouses, and that’s to help things grow,”

See from about minute 39 on (Note, you may need to click on "Watch Full video" in the lower right portion of the video window):


Legacy of the Clean Air Act: Looking Back, Moving Forward from National Journal on FORA.tv

Making Sense with Steve Leser - Political Commentary 12/04 | Blog Talk Radio

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In case you missed it live, click here to listen to the archive of Tuesday night's (12-4-12) episode of 'Making Sense with Steve Leser'

- Today's special topic, what does my entry into politics have to do with the Florida Recount?
 And a strange loophole that may affect the Fiscal Cliff negotiations.

There was a time when Republicans had a healthy attitude towards Middle Class workers and Organized Labor. But you have to go back to the 1950s to see it

Check out this gem from a 1956 Labor day flier from the National Young Republicans.

 

Benghazi vs. Iraq and Afghanistan

"It's a terrible thing that 4 people died in Benghazi. I only wish certain republicans were as outraged about the thousands who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan."--Dave (aka The Pragmatic Progressive)

I agree with Dave.