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By Andy Borowitz
By Erik Larson
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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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According to anti-feminist and backward-thinking author Charlotte Allen, the killing spree in Newtown, Conn., could have been avoided if only another man had been there and the setting hadn’t been so “feminized.”
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Politicians are still terrified of the NRA, even though analysis shows that the organization’s power is greatly exaggerated.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Politicians who are too craven or stupid or ideologically rigid to finally move forward on gun control will have the blood of future victims on their hands.
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an update on Hillary Clinton’s health scare, why a pizza chain founder is suing the Obama administration and what Stephen Colbert is doing with the rest of his super PAC money.
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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By Bill Blum — As a result of a grotesque confluence of cultural iconography celebrating the virtues of an armed citizenry, political cowardice in the face of pro-gun lobbies like the NRA, and a judiciary that has redefined the meaning of the Second Amendment, we have become a nation bereft of effective gun control, reduced to waiting for the next firearm fueled massacre.
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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By Juan Cole — Why do U.S. cable news networks intensively cover these mass shootings, making it the only story for a day or two and prying into every detail of them, when they aren’t interested in preventing them from happening again through banning semiautomatic weapons?
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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By Marian Wright Edelman —
Once again we are faced with unspeakable horror from gun violence and once again we are reminded that there is no safe harbor for our children. How young do the victims have to be and how many children need to die before we stop the proliferation of guns in our nation and the killing of innocents?
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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How does one explain the massacre of 20 children at a school in Connecticut? Madness? A society that values gun rights ahead of human life? No. The answer, according to former Arkansas governor and Fox News commentator Mike Huckabee, is the secularization of schools.
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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Former Bush administration White House press secretary Dana Perino offered up the piece of victim-blaming advice Wednesday while discussing the recent deaths of NFL player Javon Belcher and his girlfriend.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry says that the killing of Jordan Davis is not the killing of Trayvon Martin or Emmett Till, but a sad reminder that in America, “They need not wield a weapon to pose a threat. Because, if you are a young, black man, who you are is threat enough.”
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
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A new dimension is emerging in the battle between gun enthusiasts and their less-thrilled opponents. A 3-D printer, which is exactly what it sounds like, has been used to make parts for a firearm. The composite gun works, and the plans are available freely online.
Posted on Oct 5, 2012
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After a March court decision overturned a systemwide ban on guns, the University of Colorado on Wednesday decided to allow concealed-carry permit holders to bring them almost everywhere on its Boulder campus.
Posted on Sep 15, 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: There’s a reason one particular handgun keeps showing up at mass shootings: It works. Also: Paul Ryan and life after journalism.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: There’s a reason one particular handgun keeps showing up at mass shootings: It works. Also: Paul Ryan and life after journalism.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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By Joe Conason — The political salience of the Aurora tragedy extends beyond the usually sterile argument over gun control.
Posted on Jul 27, 2012
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Aislin, Cagle Cartoons, The Montreal Gazette —
Posted on Jul 26, 2012
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Jul 25, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Talk about power: The gun lobby barely had to say a word before the media sent advocates of saner gun regulation shuffling off in defeat.
Posted on Jul 25, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — James Holmes, the alleged shooter in the massacre in Aurora, Colo., reportedly amassed his huge arsenal with relative ease. Some of these weapons were illegal as recently as eight years ago.
Posted on Jul 25, 2012
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Photo by Flickr user Sean (CC-BY-ND)
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In reaction to the deadly shooting spree in Aurora, Colo., Americans are stockpiling their own arsenals. Sales are up across the land, from Georgia to California.
Posted on Jul 25, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — When that next atrocity comes, we’ll tell each other we’re shocked and stunned, knowing full well we should be neither.
Posted on Jul 24, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — For all the dysfunction in our political system, a healthy pattern usually takes hold when a terrible tragedy seizes the nation’s attention. Unless the tragedy involves guns.
Posted on Jul 20, 2012
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The bowels of the Internet can be a scary place, as evidenced by a site called The Armory—a no-questions-asked, anonymous weapons-supply store.
Posted on Jul 19, 2012
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Fortune magazine has dug into the Fast and Furious scandal to expose political distortions and popular misconceptions.
Posted on Jun 27, 2012
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By David Sirota — There are troubling consequences that come from the particular kind of export economy we’re building.
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
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Photo by Smarterlam (CC-BY)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Mayors have filled the void left in state legislatures, Congress and the White House by moderates, liberals and many conservatives who ought to know better but are too petrified by the NRA to confront it.
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Olle Johansson, Sweden —
Posted on Apr 3, 2012
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Tom Janssen, The Netherlands —
Posted on Apr 3, 2012
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