UPDATE 2 Make that: 5 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Shows on Gun Appreciation Day UPDATE: Via Think Progress: 4 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Shows On Gun Appreciation Day. Today is Gun Appreciation Day. I’ll admit it sounds a bit odd to me, to “appreciate” a gun, but then, we treat other [...]
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CBS/NY Times Poll: 92% of Americans Support Universal Background Checks
Ninety-two percent of Americans favor background checks for all potential gun buyers, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll. – 9 in 10 back universal gun background checks IF YOU want to know what a minority looks like, how lonely the N.R.A. is on their extremist stance on gun safety, the latest CBS/New [...]
Obama’s Actions on Guns Laid Out, While Extremist Republicans Talk Impeachment
As President, I’m committed to doing my part. That’s why I signed 23 executive actions giving law enforcement, schools, mental health professionals, and the public health community the tools they need to help reduce gun violence. These actions ranged from strengthening our background check system, to helping schools hire more resource officers and counselors if [...]
‘The Pentagon as a Global NRA’
A quick thought regarding gun ownership and regulation as related to the role of the U.S. in the global arms trade. This has long been a part of the national conversation (if what we usually do can be called something that thoughtful), but with all the familiar arguments about gun regulation being made again, it’s [...]
Top Story — Obama Moves Forward on New Gun Safety Measures *Updated*
A new federal assault weapons ban and background checks of all gun buyers, which President Obama is expected to propose on Wednesday, might have done little to prevent the massacre in Newtown, Conn., last month. The semiautomatic rifle that Adam Lanza used to shoot 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults complied with Connecticut’s assault weapons ban, [...]
Top Story — New York Times: Obama to Announce 19 Separate Actions on Gun Safety **Updated** [Video]
President Obama will unveil his gun violence proposals at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at the White House, according to people who have been briefed on the event. [Politico] THE POWER of the presidency is about to be exercised by Barack Obama. He’ll collide with right wing extremists in the Congress on gun safety, as well as [...]
Top Story — The N.R.A. is a Minority Group, 87% of Americans Want Universal Background Checks
“There is an emerging set of recommendations — not coming from me but coming from the groups we’ve met,” Biden said. “There is a surprising, so far, a surprising recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks.” These recommendations were not only about “closing the gun show loophole,” he said, “but total universal background [...]
Gitmo, Eleven Years and Counting
Today is the 11th anniversary of the day the first prisoner arrived at the United States’ military prison at Guantanamo Bay. As reported by, among others, Mary Shaw at Intrepid, two days after taking office in 2009, President Obama. … issued an executive order calling for the Guantanamo prison to be closed within a year, [...]
Top Story — History is Made as 20 Female Senators Sworn In
THE 113th Congress was sworn in with 20 female senators, Republicans and Democrats, which makes history. “I think that until we get to 50, we still have to fight because it’s still a problem,” Boxer said. “I think this class as you look around, Republicans and Democrats. … I think that because of this new [...]
Goldman Sachs Bailout King Blankfein to Powwow with House Republicans, While Obama Rules Out Social Security For Now
GOLDMAN SACHS bailout king CEO Lloyd Blankfein is headed to Capitol Hill to push his ideas for the fiscal cliff scheme in person. The guy who advised that the Social Security “retirement age has to be changed” in an interview with Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes recently, is headed to a meeting with House Republicans [...]
Top Story — Sen. Patty Murray: If No Revenue from Republicans, Let Tax Cuts Expire, Start Over in 2013
“If the Republicans can’t see their way to significant additional revenues targeted toward the people who are best off and targeted toward passive income and other things like that, then we’re better off going over the cliff and readdressing this with a better Congress in January,” Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said. “And we would have [...]
AFP: Congress, Obama Set to Resume ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Talks
Congress, Obama set to resume ‘fiscal cliff’ talks (via AFP) Congress returns from its week-long Thanksgiving holiday on Monday, as lawmakers and President Barack Obama try to avert a looming fiscal crisis that could send the entire US economy plunging into recession again. Officials in Washington are hoping to find a way to avoid what [...]
Petraeus and the Media He Manipulated
THE STORIES from national security writers now pouring forth aren’t half of what we should be reading. However, considering people are still lauding Colin Powell after his spectacle at the United Nations selling the Iraq war, with President Obama having unloaded a campaign ad on his behalf, nothing surprises me anymore. The whole sorry affair [...]
Filibuster Reform Should Begin with Congress Respecting the Voters’ Wishes
THERE SHOULD be cautious optimism on this, but it’s still good foreshadowing about what might happen, even if what Reid is saying is somewhat of a head fake. “I do” have plans to change the Senate rules, he added. “I have said so publicly and I continue to feel that way … I think the [...]
News Desk: Florida Becomes Voting Disaster 12 Years After 2000
WHAT’S IT going to take for our Congress and this country to make voting the right it’s meant to be? It’s unfathomable that Governor Rick Scott and other Republicans are getting away with what’s going on, which includes trying to stop people from casting a vote. From the Miami Herald : What began Sunday morning [...]
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