Month: April 2013

Reading List for Congress Members

My reading project for members of Congress is borrowed from GunCrisis.org. Alabama: Toddler shot in Prichard California: 1-Year-Old Struck by Stray Bullet Released From Hospital California: Two teens dead, two injured in...

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Yanks Mourn Thatcher

But first from The Guardian, George Galloway, MP: “We’re spending £10m on the canonisation of this wicked woman, this woman who laid waste to industrial Britain, to the north, to Scotland, to south Wales....

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Guns Thread

I have to run out to the store but I hear the Senate voted down the background check amendment, meaning that a majority of 54 voted for the background check amendment. I have to admit that I got this one wrong. I had a bout of...

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Sirota Sparks a Conversation

David Sirota’s provocative column that openly hopes the Boston bomber turns out to be a white man is at least worthy of discussion. The right-wing reaction is also interesting. Take Myra Adams, who served on Bush’s...

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