Oops… A child found a loaded gun in a Tillamook movie theater during a junior high school field trip Wednesday morning to see “The Hobbit.” Tillamook Police Chief Terry Wright said it was a small, semi-automatic weapon with a round in the chamber and the safety off. Had the student picked up the weapon and […]
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New Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Stricter Gun Laws
A new Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey conducted on behalf of Daily Kos and SEIU has found strong support for stricter gun laws, spanning partisan and geographic lines. An overwhelming 92 percent of respondents support requiring a criminal background check before all gun purchases, and at least 63 percent support banning the sale of both […]
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Fox Sports Speaks the Truth on Handguns
On the tragic murder/suicide committed Saturday by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, Fox Sports writer Jason Whitlock says what most politicians are too cowardly to admit: Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from […]
Posted inElection 2012
GOPers Finally Coming to Terms With Mitt Romney’s Unexpected Defeat
So, lets say you’re a despondent Republican who’d been lulled into a false sense of Mitt Romney’s inevitability by a misplaced trust in the math wizardry of Dean Chambers, the man behind UnSkewedPolls.com. How do you come to terms with Romney’s unexpectedly crushing defeat? By buying into Chambers’ latest endeavor, of course: BarackOFraudo.com (love that […]
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Whites Only
I’m guessing gun store owner Cope Reynolds wouldn’t have the balls to advertise a “Whites Only” policy at his Southwest Shooting Authority in Pinetop, Arizona. But that’s pretty much what he did when he bought an ad in the local paper stating the following new policy: “If you voted for Barack Obama your business is […]
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The Time Has Come for National Vote-by-Mail
In his victory speech, President Barack Obama made a point of calling out the inexcusable mess that is election day throughout much of the nation: “I want to thank every American who participated in this election … whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time. By […]
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It’s Not Just the Business Model That’s Killing Print
Sullivan’s got some interesting thoughts on Newsweek’s decision to cease print publication. But the line of Sullivan’s that stood out for me was this: “When we read online, we migrate to read people, not institutions.” Yeah, sure, daily newspapers have a business model problem. But it’s more than just that. They’re not giving readers the […]
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Romney Loses Pennsylvania
As Sarah briefly mentioned in GMN, a Pennsylvania judge today largely upheld the state’s tough new voter ID law, but imposed a temporary injunction against implementation of its most crucial provision, assuring that Pennsylvanians will be able to vote in this November’s general election without showing a state issued photo ID. The injunction only applies […]
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This Man Wants to Be President
Mitt Romney, via the Los Angeles Times: “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real […]
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Now If They Could Just Figure Out a Way to Speed Up Baggage Claim
Yay for science! In a nondescript hangar at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, a team of aerospace engineers has been putting the finishing touches on a lightning-quick experimental aircraft designed to fly above the Pacific Ocean at 3,600 mph. A passenger aircraft traveling at that speed could fly from Los Angeles to […]
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Guns, Germs and Idiots
Writing in a New York Times op/ed, author Jared Diamond takes Mitt Romney to task for mischaracterizing the thesis of his book Guns, Germs and Steel: It is not true that my book “Guns, Germs and Steel,” as Mr. Romney described it in a speech in Jerusalem, “basically says the physical characteristics of the land […]