Month: December 2012

I don’t feel like writing about anything today in light of the unspeakable tragedy that occurred this morning in Connecticut. What is there to say? Who could pull the trigger on a five year old? It’s sickening....

I can’t think of a worse mass-killing that has ever occurred in this country. It is beyond my capability to even imagine what might drive a person to murder elementary school children.

I’m beginning to think that, simply by standing pat, the president really is going to dismantle the modern Republican Party. I agree with Jon Chait that Obama isn’t doing this out of meanness or spite, but I think he...

. Update1: Devastation by parents as number of children killed may top 10 20. Witness said hundred rounds fired. School principal and teacher among those killed. A whole class of kids unaccounted for. Fears for the worst. Gunman...

In another stunning legislative maneuver, Michigan Republicans passed a bill last night (attached as an amendment to an appropriations measure) that provides Michigan grocery store clerks may refuse to accept Food Stamps (under...