FWIW, I’ve always agreed with Burger on this point. It’s hard not to. I know you’ll find gun-nuts who claim that words like “militia” and “well-regulated” have different meanings today than they did in the late 18th Century, but do …
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Trump Speaks Following Navalny’s Death
When my son was in grade school, I used to take him on three-day skiing trips during Christmas break. Two other fathers brought their kids as well, and we always had a terrific time. Years later, one of the other …
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More Senior Military Warn of the Danger of a Second Term for Trump
Here’s a note from General Wesley Clark. From his Wikipedia page: Wesley Kanne Clark (born Wesley J. Kanne, December 23, 1944) is a retired United States Army officer. He graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, …
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Why the 2024 Election Is So Critical
The idea that Trump’s return to the White House would usher in regressive policies is true, but it’s hardly the worst element of damage that the former president represents to the United States. Perhaps this message should come from someone …
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Interest in Politics
This woman makes an excellent point. I believe the reason some people pride themselves on their lack of interest in politics is that don’t want any association whatsoever–even in their own minds–with some of the country’s scummiest people: Donald Trump, …
Andy Borowitz: Democrats Flip House Seat Held By Former Beatle
The George Santos story offers a bit of comic relief against the backdrop of Trump, Putin, and the rest of the criminality in the world today.
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School Children in Red States Go Hungry, But Who Didn’t See That Coming?
Don Lawrence writes: These 15 Republican “Governors” turned down federal money to feed low-income children in their states when out of school during the summer (8 million children). Readers outside the U.S. may not recognize these states (at left) as …
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Spectacular Fail in the Hunter Biden Case
Obviously they owe the American people an apology. What they also owe, I hope, is a big fat compensatory and punitive damages award when Hunter Biden takes these liars to court and a jury gets to listen to this persistent, …
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Adages on Guns
The NRA and its Second Amendment fanatics have numerous maxims about the value of guns in our society, and one of them is referred to in the meme here.
Guns and Our Kids
As suggested in this cartoon by Erkki Alanen, a consequence of the ubiquity of guns in the United States is that they tend to get in the hands of children. Tragedy often ensues. Of course, there isn’t a goddamn thing …
