GO TO the White House website and you’ll see the continued push for gun safety, here and here. The hastag on Twitter is #NowIsTheTime. Senators Manchin and Toomey got the job done in the Senate, with their legislation online. Speaker Boehner initially threatened this week to only “review” the gun measure, because of the Hastert [...]
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How Blue Dog Democrat Joe Manchin Turned Into a Hero on Gun Safety
Sens. Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey will unveil a bipartisan deal to expand background checks for commercial gun sales at a press conference Wednesday morning. [...] The deal would close the so-called gun show loophole, requiring that background checks are conducted on all commercial gun sales in the country, according to a fact sheet of [...]
News Desk: Senator Jay Rockefeller to Retire
THE DEMOCRAT from West Virginia will announce he won’t run in 2014 today. In an interview with POLITICO, Rockefeller — the chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and one of the most senior Senate Democrats — said he had been wrestling with the question of whether to run again since October but had [...]
Top Story — Insane Nation: Background Checks, the NRA, and Beyond
“Guns were her hobby,” said Dan Holmes, the landscaper of Nancy Lanza’s sprawling yard here on the edge of town. “She told me she liked the single-mindedness of shooting.” [Washington Post - Newtown school shooter’s mother collected guns, was loath to let people inside home] WHEN I gave an interview back in 2008 to The [...]
News Desk: President Obama, Campaigning in Ohio, Speaking Some Truths Worth Remembering [Video]
SANDY PUNCHED the east coast in the gut, with 22 dead being reported in Staten Island so far, New Jersey and New York getting the worst of it, while West Virginia and other areas got pummeled, too. No one escaped nor’easter Sandy if she passed through where you live. Now, it’s the last weekend after [...]
Chicago, You Have A Problem, So Does Boston
TWENTY PERCENT OF DEMOCRATS voted “no preference” in North Carolina’s presidential vote. In a state where Pres. Obama and the Democrats are dropping tens of millions of dollars to have their convention, these numbers out of North Carolina last night are sending chills down Democratic spines. It comes after Obama’s reelection launch in Richmond, Virginia [...]
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