Month: April 2013

FBI Briefer Thread

The FBI is about to tell us at least some of what they know and the state of the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing. Hopefully, once the briefing is over, we will be able to make some intelligent speculation about...

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Sanford & Sons

Disgraced former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is running for Congress in the state’s first district. It’s doubtful that anyone would really care, except that he is running against comedian Stephen...

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The Real Scandal

I am not going to post the language of the Leahy Amendment. You can read it for yourself. It increased the penalty for purchasing a gun on behalf of a felon or someone who is insane or someone who is subject to a restraining...

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NRA Liars and Congressional Cowards

President Obama cast off his “No Drama Obama” garb, and became the fiery leader of hope and change that Americans first elected in 2008. At a speech in Hartford, Conn., the President, frustrated by Republican...

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Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant

A West Fertilizer Co. plant near Waco, Texas, that had over 50,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia on hand, one of the ingredients used to make the ammonium nitrate in used by Timothy McVeigh to make his truck bomb, exploded last...

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