Brazil’s president-elect plans decree allowing wider gun ownership | Reuters

Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday he plans to issue a decree allowing all Brazilians without criminal records to own firearms, welcome news to many core supporters who want him to loosen Brazil’s strict gun laws.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-guns/brazils-president-elect-plans-decree-allowing-wider-gun-ownership-idUSKCN1OS0HN

As we head in the opposite direction

Fair Is Fair – Taki’s Magazine – Taki’s Magazine

With a little effort and imagination, Scotland could become the first country in the Western world where as many women as men commit homicide, and where there are as many female victims as male.
— Read on www.takimag.com/article/fair-is-fair/

An interesting take on guns and homicide

What Might Homer Say to Us About Leadership? ~ The Imaginative Conservative

True leadership is not something you do, but someone you are. The men of your age put on leadership as if it were a suit of clothes. It is, in fact, a type of character: or at least it should be… (imaginative letter from Homer by Louis Markos)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/12/homer-leadership-louis-markos.html

This is one of the best commentaries about leadership I have ever read.

FBI and DOJ Used Phony Unverified Steele Dossier to Spy on Trump – Shutdown Uncovers Multiple Illegalities with its Use

FBI and DOJ Used Phony Unverified Steele Dossier to Spy on Trump – Shutdown Uncovers Multiple Illegalities with its Use
— Read on www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/fbi-and-doj-used-phony-unverified-steele-dossier-to-spy-on-trump-shutdown-uncovers-multiple-illegalities-with-its-use/

Another twist to this story is that Chief Justice Roberts was supposed to be monitoring the FISA Court when all of this illegality was being perpetrated. Somebody needs to be impeached and it isn’t Trump.