Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party

A liberal who’s been mugged, it’s said, becomes a conservative.  But what does a conservative become when he’s mugged by a corrupt, politically driven justice system?  Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book, Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party answers that question.  D’Souza now views the Progressive movement as a criminal enterprise designed to pull off the biggest heist in world history -- effective control of the enormous wealth created by America’s entrepreneurs.

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The mysterious case of $54 million VA spent on prosthetics in $24,999 payments

The payments couldn’t help but catch the attention of the top procurement official at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Employees in the purchasing department of a VA hospital in the Bronx had used government purchase cards like credit cards at least 2,000 times to buy prosthetic legs and arms for veterans. --Each time they swiped the cards, it was for $24,999. That was precisely one dollar below VA’s charging limit for purchase cards.

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NRO: What Closing the Gun-Show Loophole Won’t Do

National Review, 1/16/2013 (Hat tip: J. Sinclair and John H. Detweiler) - Author, Clayton E. Cramer claims that, "It is an article of faith that closing the “gun-show loophole” would make America a safer place." He adds, "This might seem surprising, and at first glance, it is. Except for one little detail: Criminals appear not to buy guns at gun shows, because guns are expensive. It is so much cheaper to steal guns instead." Cramer presents details on gun theft as related to recent mass murders in the U.S. Read more at NRO...

Mr. Cramer teaches history at the College of Western Idaho. His most recent book is My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill (2012). Read More......