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President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday spoke for the first time since Trump was sworn in — a much anticipated talk about future relations between two world powers with a complicated history, including recent reports that Putin and Russia worked to influence the 2016 White House race on behalf of Trump.

Jordan Candler · Jan. 24, 2017

The editors at USA Today were caught disseminating a pejorative headline that readers, assuming they actually clicked through for the story, could determine almost immediately was fake news. The piece was about a weekend shooting at a Texas mall, including the actions of a good guy with a gun. But that’s not the impression USA Today gave. Nor was it accidental.

The front-page headline incredulously declared, “Shopper who shot suspect did not have carry permit.” Once you clicked through for the details, the editors offered a slightly different, albeit still misleading, version: “Texas mall: Shopper who shot suspect not allowed to carry.” All but a few “constitutional carry” states require gun owners to obtain a license to pack heat outside the home. And the USA Today headline gives the impression said shopper was not legally sanctioned by the state to carry a firearm in public. Except that’s not true at all.

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Liberals think that what they like should be mandatory and what they don’t like should be banned. As has been said, liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. In most cases the things they want banned are not things they engage in, they just don’t want you to be able to do them. It’s not good for you. It’s too dangerous. It might hurt someone’s feelings. And since you don’t have the good sense to listen to me, we will impose a law to forbid you from doing it. Look at all these wonderful things government is going to do for you. But even though it is so wonderful we can’t convince you to do it voluntarily so we are going to pass another law mandating it. They want to play the adult and treat you as the child. But the Democrats are not your mothers and the Republicans are not your fathers and government doesn’t know best. Age res proprias tuas is Latin for mind your own business and was Ben Franklin’s preference for our national motto. Good advice in any language.