Dave Weigel, at Slate: Tonight, for the first time, the state of Hawaii is not represented by Daniel Inuoye. The 88-year old senator entered politics in the 1950s, joining the territorial legislature, and waiting for statehood. When Hawaii became the 50th state, Inuoye ran for, and won, its sole seat in Congress. He was representing the state when a kid named … Read More
Who Is John Lott?
When the Ol' Perfessor aka Glenn Reynolds aka "Instapundit" wrote an op-ed for USA Today (aka McNewspaper) about how we should get rid of gun-free zones, his first witness was author William Burroughs, whose weaponry expertise is limited to shooting his wife in the forehead while drunk. His second witness was gun "expert" John Lott. If you watch the 24 hour … Read More
Five States Where It Is Harder To Get An Abortion Than It Is To Get A Gun
1) ARIZONA: When it comes to gun regulations and restrictions, Arizona is one of the most lenient states in the country. In fact, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired undercover agents last year to demonstrate just how easy it is to purchase firearms in Arizona without being subjected to a background check. But Arizona also passed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the … Read More
Kudos
Sen. Joe Manchin, NRA stalwart, stating the obvious: "I just came with my family from deer hunting," Manchin said on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe." "I’ve never had more than three shells in a clip. Sometimes you don’t get more than one shot anyway at a deer. It’s common sense. It’s time to move beyond rhetoric. We need to sit down and have … Read More
To The Editors Of The Rock Hill Herald, in Rock Hill, Carolina?
What's the matter with you people? Are you tone-deaf?
To The Editors of The New Republic
So, basically,what you're saying here is that mass killings of children is the price we pay for the "benevolent protection of the Second Amendment". I disagree. And I think there is much we can do without running afoul of the Second Amendment. But if you're really going to draw a line in the sand, you've got a fight coming. And … Read More
Reflections On Newtown
As last Friday's horrible events sink in, and get incorporated into the longer string of horribles that this nation must endure, I share the following disjointed thoughts: 1. Mike Huckabee is a douchebag. Mike Huckabee on Fox News (of course), saying that we shouldn't be surprised that "schools become a place of carnage" when we have "systematically removed God from our … Read More
Breaking: School Shooting In Connecticut
Again? RT @hartfordcourant: #Newtown groups of students, some crying being escorted away from the school — Michael van Poppel (@mpoppel) December 14, 2012 BREAKING — Newspaper says a child, apparently seriously injured, being carried from Newtown, CT elementary school — Michael van Poppel (@mpoppel) December 14, 2012 Elementary #school #shooting in #Newtown, CT.Responders on scene are reporting several injured.Will update … Read More
GOP Gets Its Scapegoat
Susan Rice is now the latest victim of the baying hyenas in the modern Republican Party: U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from the list of candidates for secretary of state Thursday afternoon, ending a weeks-long fight with Republicans over statements she made on television talk shows shortly after the attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. … Read More
The Judge Should Run For Senate
From the AP … A Southern California judge is being publicly admonished for saying a rape victim "didn't put up a fight" during her assault and that if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body "will not permit that to happen."
Worse Than Watergate Even If We Don’t Know The Facts
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has no idea what happened in Benghazi but he does know that it’s worse than Watergate and the Iran-Contra scandal times 10. Here’s King from a Washington Times article published on Wednesday: “I believe that it’s a lot bigger than Watergate, and if you link Watergate and Iran-Contra together and multiply it times maybe 10 or so, you’re going to … Read More
RIP Ravi Shankar
I'm not a big fan of the sitar, but this guy was a pioneer and you gotta respect that. He died yesterday at the age of 92.
Lie Of The Year
Politifact judges Romney Jeep ad "Lie of the Year". And they also did a reader survey for biggest lie of the year. First place went to Rush Limbaugh, for his comments on health care being "the largest tax increase in the history of the world." Many readers commented that they voted not for that particular statement, but because they think … Read More