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By Raul Hilberg
E.J. Dionne
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By David Sirota — After more than a week of residual buzz from radio host Alex Jones’ now-famous meltdown during a CNN discussion of gun control, it is worth taking a deep breath and considering the spectacle’s two big lessons, especially now that the White House is pushing Congress to debate firearm legislation.
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Michelle Obama’s social media foray and word on Karl Rove’s future at Fox News.
Posted on Jan 17, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Jamie Dimon’s “punishment” for a massive trading loss and Jimmy Kimmel spoofs the gun control debate.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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President Obama launched the country’s biggest push on gun control in decades Wednesday, rolling out wide-ranging plans that include 23 executive actions.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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The National Rifle Association is facing criticism for a new ad that drags President Obama’s two daughters into the gun control debate. The controversial video says the president is an “elite hypocrite” because he doesn’t support the powerful gun lobby’s proposal to put armed guards in schools across the country.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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Michael Saechang (CC-BY-SA)
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New York legislators took just two days to pass a new gun control law, making it the first state in the union to do so in response to the school massacre in Connecticut last month.
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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By Derek Lazzaro — Recent mass shootings have rightly sparked a national debate about gun control. Unfortunately, like so many political debates, this one has been loud, divisive and lacking in substantive analysis or reasoned compromise.
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 12, 2013
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“Vice President Biden is asking the president to bypass Congress and use executive privilege, executive order to ban assault rifles and to impose stricter gun control,” says James Yeager of Tennessee weapons training company Tactical Response. “I’m telling you that if that happens, it’s going to spark a civil war, and I’ll be glad to fire the first shot.”
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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The vice president pledged Wednesday that the White House will take action on gun control in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
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By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica —
Following the mass shooting in Connecticut, the Obama administration and lawmakers around the country have promised to re-examine gun control in America. Here’s a look at what’s happened legislatively in states where some of the worst shootings in recent U.S. history have occurred to see what effect, if any, those events had on gun laws.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the company that would rather pay a daily $1.3 million fine than fund contraceptive coverage and a news magazine’s accidental posting of an obituary of an ex-president who is still alive.
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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Many Dutch citizens are attempting to “de-baptize” themselves to protest Pope Benedict’s anti-gay marriage declarations; a national database of gun owners may have helped prevent the Newtown shooting; and although the media insist the president is giving in to the Republicans’ demands to make cuts to Social Security, Obama’s been trying to reduce it all along. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — How fitting that Dan Quayle, a bumbling excuse for a vice president of the United States, should end up as a top executive of a $20 billion private equity firm mired in controversy.
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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“You know that line, ‘guns don’t kill people, people kill people?’ It’s true, so far as it goes,” writes Ezra Klein on The Washington’s Post Wonkblog. “But in the United States, when people decide to kill people, or kill themselves, they typically reach for a gun.”
Posted on Dec 27, 2012
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New reports are surfacing that Dick Armey, a former House majority leader, attempted a power grab of the tea party organization FreedomWorks before eventually leaving the group.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — While the final funerals for the victims of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre have been held, gun violence continues apace, most notably with the Christmas Eve murder of two volunteer firefighters in rural Webster, N.Y., at the hands of an ex-convict who was armed, as was the Newtown shooter Adam Lanza, with a Bushmaster .223 caliber AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the late Sen. Daniel Inouye’s last political wish and the worst pundit predictions of this year.
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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Yet another mass shooting has taken place, this time claiming the lives of two firefighters who were responding to a blaze at a house in a suburb of Rochester, N.Y., early Monday morning. (UPDATED)
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker’s personal connection with gun violence and the surprising information revealed by the FBI’s internal records on the Occupy movement.
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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During a Sunday morning appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Wayne LaPierre doubled down on his much-maligned proposal to have armed guards in American schools.
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Dec 22, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The myth of NRA power, the fiscal “obstacle course” and your guide to surviving apocalypses real and imagined.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The myth of NRA power, the fiscal “obstacle course” and your guide to surviving apocalypses real and imagined.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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A writer suggests children be taught to “gang rush” shooters; studies show a slight shift in Americans’ attitudes toward gun toting; and it seems the lesson Israel has to offer on gun policy is education, not control. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including speculation about actor Ben Affleck’s political future and Rachel Maddow’s sounding off on the government’s weak gun regulation efforts.
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why conservatives think Hillary Clinton’s faking a concussion and Time reveals its 2012 Person of the Year.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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