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The media are either doing PR for the gambling industry or they dont want anyone considering the possibility that Paddock was using gambling to launder money.

NBC News reports, with a straight face: Las Vegas gunman earned millions as a gambler. A Los Angeles Times article is headlined, In the solitary world of video poker, Stephen Paddock knew how to win. The story says that Paddocks gambling was at least a steady income over a period of years.

I dont know all the ins and outs of Paddocks life, but thats a lie.

How do reporters imagine casino owners make a living? Any ideas on how all those glorious lobbies, lights, pools, and fountains are paid for? How do they think Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn became billionaires if gambling is a winning proposition for people like Paddock and therefore, by definition, a losing proposition for the casinos?

The media think about money the way Democrats do. They have absolutely no conception of where it originates.Those casino owners sure are generous!reporters think to themselves. Economist Thomas Sowell is always ridiculing journalists for not understanding basic economics. It turns out, they dont understand the spreadsheet of a lemonade stand.

The New York Times explained that the top video poker machines pay out 99.17 percent. Thats great that Paddock was only losing cents on the dollar (if true), but its stilllosing.The Times quickly explained that he could have more than made up his losses with all the comps the free rooms, meals and 50-year-old port that costs $500 a glass, as his brother Eric said.

Gamblers who are beating the house are not given $500 glasses of port. Refer to the profit/loss spreadsheet. And yet, according to his brother, Paddock was treated like royalty by the casinos. Which means he was losing.

Apart from outright theft, the only way to have an advantage over the casino is by card-counting. Thats not cheating and it doesnt guarantee a win. It merely allows the gambler to make a more educated guess as each card is played, thereby tilting the odds ever so slightly in his favor. Still, if the casinos suspect a customer is counting cards, he will be promptly escorted off the premises.

And counting cards only helps with blackjack. Paddocks game of choice was VIDEO POKER. Thats a computer! Its programmed to ensure the house wins. Not all the time, but at least often enough to make casino owners multibillionaires. Anyone who plays video poker over an extended period of time will absolutely, 100 percent, by basic logic, end up a net loser.

So why are the media insistent that Paddock was getting rich by playing video poker?

I dont know what happened and, apparently, neither do the cops but its kind of odd that we keep being told things that arent true about the Las Vegas massacre, from the basic timeline to this weird insistence that Paddock made a good living at gambling.

The most likely explanation is that the reporters and investigators are incompetent nitwits. But the changing facts from law enforcement and preposterous lies from the press arent doing a lot to tamp down alternative theories of the crime.

Among the questions not being asked by our wildly incurious media:

Why would Paddock unload 200 rounds into the hallway at a security guard who was checking on someone elses roombeforebeginning his massacre?

How can it possibly take eight days to figure out when the alleged shooter checked into the hotel?

Why was Paddock wearing gloves if he was about to commit suicide?

Have any other solitary mass shooters ever had girlfriends?

If Paddock wasnt making money on video poker and he wasnt why would he be cycling millions of dollars through a casino, turning every dollar into, at best, 99 cents?

Maybe Paddock enjoyed video poker. But if the allegedly serious media are going to keep telling us he was making a living doing it, theyre just begging us to say that losing a percent or two on millions of dollars doesnt make sense as an investment strategy, but it does make sense as a money laundering operation.

And the probable illicit business requiring money to be laundered that leaps out at us in Paddocks case is illegal gun sales. If true, it would not only explain the arsenal in his hotel room, but also raises the possibility of either an accomplice or different perpetrator altogether.

If this were a movie script, a terrorist would go to Paddocks room on the pretense of buying guns, kill Paddock, commit the massacre, put his gunshot residue-covered gloves on Paddocks dead hands and slip out of the room when the coast was clear.

According to the all-new timeline given by the Las Vegas police pending a third revision this is at least possible. The hallway was empty, except for a bleeding security guard down by the elevators, for at least two minutes after the shooting stopped. The stairwell was clear for more than half an hour. It also explains the gloves.

Theres no evidence for any of this, but on the other hand, theres no evidence for the version the media are giving us. At least the movie script version doesnt require us to pretend that Paddock was making millions from video poker.

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Here's a look at some of the protests in the Berkeley, Calif., area in recent months. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)

BERKELEY, Calif. Ann Coulters speech at the University of California at Berkeley was canceled. But the debate and hostility that were unleashed by the controversy over the conservative commentators planned event continued here Thursday.

Demonstrators who participated in other recent violent clashes on Berkeleys streets began gathering at a city park and on campus Thursday to fight for free speech or to protest hate speech. Many were geared up with helmets, shields and padding for a confrontation at the park, just blocks from the campus and Berkeley High School. And the possibility of violence caused authorities to turn out in force.

But the conservative and liberal activists mostly spent the afternoon shouting at one another, physically divided by a police line on opposite sides of the street. A total of seven people were arrested by campus and city police and a number of weapons were confiscated, but there were no reports of injuries or property damage.

Campus police arrested one person for allegedly carrying a knife on campus, and another person who was charged with violations including delaying or obstructing a police officer in the course of duty, false identification to a police officer and wearing a mask to evade police.

There were a couple of intermittent skirmishes, said Officer Byron White of the Berkeley Police Department, but mostly it was relatively peaceful, with speakers talking at demonstrations.

Naweed Tahmas, a junior who is a member of the Berkeley College Republicans, said the campus was blockaded Thursday afternoon and that he could see police officers on every corner, with helicopters hovering overhead. He said that it is unfortunate that just the threat of unrest could lead to the cancellation of a conservative speech there.

Berkeley will continue to be a liberal echo chamber unless the university can ensure that conservative speakers can speak on campus, Tahmas said.

Rallies on campus were peaceful as of about 4 p.m., but anxiety increased as right-leaning activists and curious locals waited for Antifa an antifascist group and other left-leaning protesters to arrive. They braced for violence: Many were wearing helmets and goggles and carried pepper spray.

As evening approached, it appeared that large crowds of far-left activists and antifascists didnt show upto shut down the conservatives rally, as they have done repeatedly in recent weeks. The antifascist groups in the area have stopped posting on public forums as authorities in Berkeley and elsewhere have begun focusing attention on them and their violent responses to conservatives.

Rallies remained peaceful in the early evening, but with tension.

On social media, many in the anarchist and antifascist camps pointed to Coulters cancellation as proof that their use of violence as a tool works.

But by 6 p.m. some protesters lingered, but the demonstration had mostly died down.

After the protest, the Berkeley Police Department reported five arrests. Those identified were: Mark Wilder, 52, of Irving, Calif., charged with carrying a concealed dagger; Donque Addison, 28, of Oakland, Calif., charged with resisting arrest; and Stephen Hall, 48, of Oakland, Calif., for attempting to incite a riot and violation of probation. A juvenile whose name was not released was arrested for alleged possession of a controlled substance, and a not-yet-identified person was arrested for allegedly resisting arrest.

Many at the rally carried American flags, but some also boresymbols of the alt-right, a small, far-right movement that seeks a whites-only state. Several at the conservative rally carried flags showing Pepe the frog, an Internet meme that has been appropriated in the past two years by the alt-right. A number of people also draped themselves in a green Kekistan flag, another meme that has been popular among the far right.

Karissa Healy, a 47-year-old massage therapist from Berkeley who was working in a makeshift medical tent and wearing a shirt that said Deplorable and Proud, said she started protesting in Berkeley after the Milo Yiannopoulos rally in February, which escalated to violent mayhem.

The Milo riot threw me over the edge, Healy said. I saw those college kids being tear-gassed and attacked just for wanting to hear someone speak. This is not the America we want for our kids.

Police kept left-leaning protesters separate across the street. The protesters shouted, Hell, no! Trump has got to go! and accused the free-speech rally attendees of being neo-Nazis and interlopers from other cities whohad descended on liberal Berkeley.

Dozens of police officers deployed across campus, and officers were posting signs on Sproul Plaza, at the center of campus, with a list of prohibited items, such as baseball bats and projectiles. Police kept antifascist protesters away from the rallies.

A coalition of conservatives and far-right groups held a free-speech rally at Berkeleys Civic Center Park. The park has been the site of two violent clashes in recent weeks, when many of the same conservatives brawled with far-left anarchists and others trying to halt the event.

Rally is ON! Lets show these Commies the Right will not be silenced. We were once warriors and WARRIORS AGAIN WE WILL BE!! Kyle Chapman, a San Francisco Bay-area man who participated in at least two of the previous rallies that grew violent, wrote on Facebook ahead of the event. Chapman became a hero to some conservatives after a video of him breaking a wooden signpost over the head of a far-left protester at a Berkeley rally went viral.

Coulter said in an email to the Associated Press that she was considering a visit to one of the events Thursday but did not elaborate.

Im not speaking. But Im going to be near there, so I might swing by to say hello to my supporters who have flown in from all around the country, Coulter said in the email. I thought I might stroll around the graveyard of the First Amendment.

Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart writer whose appearance on campus in February sparked riots and who plans a free-speech week there in the fall, wrote on social media that all roads lead to Berkeley.

Kiara Robles, a 26-year-old gay Trump supporter who works at a bitcoin company, said she was disappointed to be attending a rally instead of a Coulter speech.

I wanted a vigil, she said. I wanted something more symbolic, but the guys wanted something else.

Among the leftists, the International Socialist Organization held an Alt Right Delete news conference on campus, saying it hoped to oppose the very real threat posed by the political right wing, which is growing emboldened from the White House to the streets of Berkeley.

Members of the group said they are offended by how Coulter and others are co-opting free speech arguments liberals have made in the past to serve the conservative cause.

Berkeley, home to the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, has become the center of a pitched battle in recent months. Antifascist and anarchist protesters turned a crowd of students protesting Yiannopoulos into a violent mob, breaking windows and setting fires, and police advised university officials to cancel his speech. When they did and protests continued, President Trump raised the threat of pulling federal funding for the public university.

[How Berkeley has become the battleground of the far left and the far right]

In recent weeks, protests in the city of Berkeley have led torepeated violent clashes.

When student groups invited Coulter to speak, university officials tried to postpone the event until the fall because of safety concerns, then reversed course and asked her to come next week, when they could provide a safer venue for her speech. Berkeley College Republicans and the national Young Americas Foundation filed a lawsuit saying the school had violated their right to free speech. On Wednesday, Coulter announced the speech was canceled.

[Ann Coulter speech at UC-Berkeley canceled, again, amid fears for safety]

Many people responded with anger about threats to free speech.

[Milos appearance at Berkeley led to riots. He vows to return this fall, for a full week of events.]

[Trump lashes out at UC-Berkeley after violent protests]

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Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter says marijuana is destroying the country.

She was speaking at Politicon, a nonpartisan political event over the weekend.

Coulter, who has a history of making very controversial -- and some might say offensive remarks went off when she was asked whether or not weed should be legal.

"You can legalize all the drugs you want when there isn't a welfare state. No marijuana makes people retarded, especially when they're young."

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 23: Ann Coulter, left, is interviewed for One America News Network on Wednesday October 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. Coulter is promoting her new book, 'Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican'. (Photo by Matt McClain/ The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Jimmie Walker and Ann Coulter during 5th Annual TV Land Awards - Arrivals at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, CA, United States. (Photo by Barry King/WireImage)

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Political commentator and author Ann Coulter arrives at the premiere of 'Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!' at iPic Theaters on July 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 27: Political commentator, author Ann Coulter attends The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe at Sony Studios on August 27, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 27: Commentator Ann Coulter attends The Comedy Central Roast Of Rob Lowe held at Sony Studios on August 27, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mark Davis/WireImage)

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 27: Ann Coulter attends the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe at Sony Studios on August 27, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)

CORAL GABLES, FL - MARCH 10: Ann Coulter signs copies of her book 'Adios America' at Books and Books on March 10, 2016 in Coral Gables, Florida. (Photo by Aaron Davidson/Getty Images)

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 10: Ann Coulter arrives at the TV Land Icon Awards at The Barker Hanger on April 10, 2016 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/WireImage)

CORAL GABLES, FL - MARCH 10: Ann Coulter signs copies of her book 'Adios America' at Books and Books on March 10, 2016 in Coral Gables, Florida. (Photo by Aaron Davidson/Getty Images)

THE VIEW - Ann Coulter, Alan Alda, and Malcolm Jamal Warner are the guests today, October 16, 2015 on ABC's 'The View.' 'The View' airs Monday-Friday (11:00 am-12:00 pm, ET) on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Heidi Gutman/ABC via Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 10: Ann Coulter speaks during Politicon at the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 10, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Political pundit/author Ann Coulter arrives for the Premiere Of The Asylum's 'Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!' at iPic Theaters on July 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Ann Coulter and Lou Ferrigno arrives at the Premiere Of The Asylum's 'Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!' at iPic Theaters on July 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Political commentator and author Ann Coulter arrives at the premiere of 'Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!' at iPic Theaters on July 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JULY 15: Political Commentator Ann Coulter and actor Evan Henzi attend AN OPEN SECRET Los Angeles Premiere on July 15, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Michael Bezjian/Getty Images for Platform Media Group)

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JULY 15: Commentator Ann Coulter attends the Los Angeles premiere of Amy Berg's 'An Open Secret' at Writers Guild Theater on July 15, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Vincent Sandoval/WireImage)

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 25: Director Matthew Heineman and Ann Coulter attend The Orchard And The Cinema Society Host A Special Screening Of 'Cartel Land' after party at Tribeca Grand Hotel on June 25, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Author Ann Coulter speaks during an address to the 39th Conservative Political Action Committee February 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Ann Coulter speaks during Politicon at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California on July 29, 2017. Politicon is a bipartisan convention that mixes politics, comedy and entertainment. (Photo by: Ronen Tivony) (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

PASADENA, CA - JULY 29: Ann Coulter (L) and Greg Proops speak during their appearance at Pasadena Convention Center on July 29, 2017 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Michael Schwartz/Getty Images)

THE VIEW - Ann Coulter is the guest, Monday, May 1, 2017 on ABC's 'The View.' 'The View' airs Monday-Friday (11:00 am-12:00 pm, ET) on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Paula Lobo/ABC via Getty Images) WHOOPI GOLDBERG, SUNNY HOSTIN, JOY BEHAR, ANN COULTER, SARA HAINES, JEDEDIAH BILA

PASADENA, CA - JULY 29: Ann Coulter (L) and Greg Lewis at Politicon at Pasadena Convention Center on July 29, 2017 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by John Sciulli/Getty Images for Politicon)

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The debate started when Coulter's fellow panelist, Ana Kasparian brought up the racial differences between blacks and whites when it comes to marijuana charges.

Coulter pointed to a study that revealed black people are more likely to lie about their weed use than other races.

However, she didn't say who did the study or any information about the study to back up her claim. Meanwhile, Kasparian said no one should be prosecuted for marijuana possession calling it a waste of our resources.

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Theres a remarkable number of dangling facts about Stephen Paddocks mass murder in Las Vegas, which the media have shown little inclination to investigate. Its almost as if theyre worried that too much investigation will ruin it.

For example:

Who was the woman shouting, YOURE ALL GOING TO DIE! right before the concert? Is any reporter interested in finding out? Probably a random crazy lady, but thats not typical pre-concert behavior.

Why is it taking so long to find out if anyone else went into Paddocks hotel room since he checked in last Thursday? Im perfectly prepared to accept that he was the only one who entered that room, but can we see the surveillance video?

The sum-total of the information we know about Marilou Danley, the woman whos been living with Paddock for years is the following:She was out of the country at the time of the attack. Shes not involved.

Paddock had apparently assembled an enormous arsenal of weapons. Did she know about it? Did he tell her why? Had his behavior changed recently? Why wasnt he with her on her trip? Had they broken up? And why did Paddock recently wire $100,000 to the Philippines?

Within hours of the first indictments in the Duke lacrosse case later, all thrown out the media was bristling with information about the players parents, the homes they grew up in, the ritziness of their neighborhoods, and the tuition at their Catholic high schools. Doesnt any reporter want to ask Danleyanything?

Do we know yet why Paddock broke two windows? What were his recent winnings or losses at gambling?

I dont know if any of this would change the basic narrative. But the media dont know, either, and they seem strangely reluctant to ask. As Sherlock Holmes said: First, you exclude the impossible, and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Our media isnt doing the reporting that would allow us to excludeanything.And then they wonder why conspiracy theories develop.

The medias idea of hard-hitting investigative reporting is to taunt gun-owners and white men. Making snarky political remarks is Job No. 1 of reporters. Apparently, its also the new job description for late-night comics. As long as were looking for jobs that Americans just wont do, maybe we could find some immigrants to tell jokes and report news.

Were getting a lot of smirky, celebratory headlines, like these:

AMERICAS WHITE MAN PROBLEM

HOW AMERICA HAS SILENTLY ACCEPTED THE RAGE OF WHITE MEN

THE WHITE PRIVILEGE OF THE LONE WOLF SHOOTER

While its great that liberals have finally found a mass murder that they dont think can be defeated with a Je Suis Charlie hashtag, theyre either lying or they dont know what theyre talking about. Blacks and Hispanics are extremely well-represented as perpetrators of mass shootings, Muslims are over-represented, and surprisingly, even the usually law-abiding Asians more than hold their own.

Typical Reporter:Yeah, we decided not to go with the mass shootings at the Tennessee church, the Washington Navy Yard, San Bernardino, the Pulse nightclub, Fort Hood, the LIRR, the Carson City IHOP, the Trolley Square Shopping Mall, the Windy City Core Supply warehouse, Virginia Tech, the Binghamton Civic Center, the Hartford Distributors, the hunting tract in Wisconsin, the Appalachian School of Law and on and on and on.

And those are just a few of the famous ones! Its hard to notice whats not there, so its especially annoying that the journalists method of illustrating mass murderers is to assemble pictures of all the mass shooters, but then only show the white guys.

There was one characteristic of white men in abundant evidence at the Las Vegas massacre. Theyre awfully chivalrous, these white male country music fans. Twenty-two thousand people came under sustained, high-powered gunfire and few people, if any, were stomped to death something you cant say for a Black Friday sale at a Long Island mall.

At the Las Vegas concert, men died protecting women, using their bodies as shields and standing up in the middle of gunfire to direct the women to safety. The New York Post reports that one woman said she was running away and a couple of guys said, Hey, come stand behind us, and boom, they went down. Heather Melton has described how she felt her husband, Sonny, being shot in the back, fatally, as he shielded her from the rain of bullets.

Without many facts to go on, the only sweeping conclusion we can make so far is that theres a reason feminism didnt emerge from the country music community.

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In a series of tweets from her official social media account Tuesday, immigration hawk Ann Coulter registered her disappointment with the decision made by President Trump on the DREAM act, an amnesty program for children brought into the country illegally.

Thats great. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump wants COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM! she tweeted about the White House Press briefing after the decision was announced. Exactly what he used to denounce.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued the official policy of the Trump administration Tuesday. While he indicated that Trump would rescind the memo issued by former President Obama implementation the DACA program, he also said it would be delayed for six months.

Trump indicated that Congress would be given a chance to pass a bill enabling DACA, which stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, to continue.

Coulter appeared to respond angrily to the clarification by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders that the administration preferred a comprehensive bill to address immigration rather than a standalone implementation of DACA.

Weird how Huckabee Sanders obsessively attacks congress, she noted. Trumps not going to get out of betraying voters on the wall by blaming congress.

She tweeted with a healthy dose of acerbic sarcasm.

Trumps decision was also slammed by the left, but for opposite reasons. Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the decision was cowardly and praised the DREAMers for their patriotism. Former President Obama also excoriated the decision in a long Facebook post issued Tuesday.

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