GOP-controlled legislatures have found a nifty tactic to take control of gun control.
gun control
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal
Did We Strike a Nerve at the NRA?
The gun lobby said our proposal to reduce the supply of hand guns would disarm America. No, it wouldn’t.
Posted inFeatured, Magazine, November/December 2018
A Real Long-Term Solution to Gun Violence
To address one of America’s deadliest problems, start by cornering the market.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Spare Us Your Thoughts and Prayers
Remember when Charlton Heston declared, “From my cold, dead hands!” Thanks to the group he led, there are now, sadly, more pairs of cold, dead hands in Jacksonville, Florida: The authorities in Jacksonville, Fla., said there were “multiple fatalities” at a mass shooting on Sunday at a bar that was hosting a live gaming event […]
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Is it Controversial to be Pro-Children?
Perhaps it’s time for Democrats to run with that one.
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How Republican Extremism Became Normalized
So-called ‘objective media’ gives equal airing to both sides.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Royal Scam: A Press Corps at Its Lowest Point
Seriously, who gives a damn? The attention that American mainstream-media entities are giving to the worthlessness in Windsor Castle today is nothing short of repulsive, an indictment of the Fourth Estate’s fetish for frivolity over seriousness and substance, a worsening of the anti-intellectual trends in American culture. Why are we paying so much attention to […]
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Golden Slumbers: Trumpists Will Never Care About Sex, Lies or Videotape
It might as well not even exist in their minds. Let’s say that somehow, someway, The Tape hit the Internet. Explicit footage of Donald Trump in a Moscow hotel room in the fall of 2013, whooping it up as Russian escorts got their freak on in a most unsanitary manner. Imagine seeing Trump, the leader […]
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Unreliable Sources: Fox News Invades CNN
As if Rick Santorum wasn’t bad enough, did we really need to see former Fox News propagandist Eric Bolling being warmly received by Brian Stelter today? Bolling’s suggestion that Sean Hannity’s rantings are “always within the boundaries of fact” is beyond laughable: ever heard Hannity talk about climate change? Bolling’s suggestion that Donald Trump is […]
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You Know, CNN, You Could Have Had Emma Gonzalez On Instead of Rick Santorum
It was as offensive as it can possibly get. Just one day after the historic March for Our Lives, CNN, bowing down once again to the god of false balance, just had to bring former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum onto the panel of State of the Union this morning to spit all over the children […]
