“These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be.” – President Barack Obama THE nerd prom was held last night, otherwise known as the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, with President Obama throwing out quips, jokes and a few clunkers. Conan [...]
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NRA Poised to Defeat Manchin-Toomey and American Majority?
The National Rifle Association hasn’t budged, and it warned supporters of the compromise Senate bill — authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) — that the group would remember their vote when they are next up for reelection. – Gun control bill in peril THE AMERICAN majority want background checks on [...]
Democratic Failure to Reform Filibuster Lets NRA Gun Extremists Take Out Caitlin Halligan
There are four vacancies on the D.C. Circuit court. The nomination of Sri Srinivasan, Obama’s deputy solicitor general, has not yet gotten a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee. In his first term, Obama did not get a single nominee onto the court. Overall, eighteen of Obama’s judicial nominees are currently awaiting confirmation. [Washington Post] [...]
Sen. Leahy Announces Bipartisan Gun Trafficking, Straw Purchasing Bill
Gun regulation mostly has been out of the headlines in the last few weeks. In part, that’s due to sequestration, and probably to the fact we’ve managed a few weeks without another mass shooting incident (though of course the “normal” murder by guns continues). Less coverage might also be related to the fact that the [...]
Queer Talk: Chris Hayes Says He Won’t Attend CPAC if GOProud is Banned
This is actually about more than Chris Hayes invitation to be on a CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) panel, and his refusal to do so unless the conservative LGBT group, GOProud, is invited. It should also include the fact that while GOProud isn’t welcomed, the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre is. CPAC, along with the Republican Party [...]
Wayne LaPierre, Before Universal and “Mandatory, Instant Criminal Background Checks” Before He Was Against Them
“You really think that the president’s children are the same kind of target as every other school child in America?” “That’s ridiculous and you know it, sir.” – Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday THE N.R.A. has never looked worse than when Chris Wallace, the last person you’d expect to take on LaPierre, revealed the sniveling [...]
Without Weapons, Wayne LaPierre Shoots Blanks
THE PRIZE in the current gun safety and control debate has always been universal background checks. It is the mother of all wins that nothing else matches, because absolutely nothing hits the target of gun violence more directly. Senator Dick Durbin took it to the N.R.A.’s LaPierre, who couldn’t figure out how to regroup. Mark [...]
Gabby Giffords Speaks, NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Forced to Listen
“Thank you for inviting me here today. This is an important conversation for our children, for our communities, for Democrats and Republicans. Speaking is difficult, but I need to say something important. Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. It will be hard but the [...]
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 [...]
You’re a Crazy Gun Nut If… Piers Morgan Edition [Video]
WHEN YOU have your own show you get your own platform. Sticking your neck out and speaking your mind against the horde is one of the most American of traits. It’s just very few people are willing to do it and incur the wrath of the wingnuts, as well as take the economic hit that [...]
Wayne LaPierre on “Meet the Press,” What Ugly Looks Like
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Well, I think he’s so extreme and so tone deaf that he actually helps the cause of us passing sensible gun legislation in the Congress. Look, he blames everything but guns: movies, the media, President Obama, gun-free school zones. You name it, and [...]
NRA’s LaPierre Calls for Congress to Fund Armed Police in America’s Schools
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” – Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association CEO [Full Remarks] WHAT IF Adam Lanza had been confronted inside Sandy Hook Elementary School by armed security guards? That’s where the NRA began its defense today. In his televised press [...]
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