Zombie Politics

I recently came across this extraordinary piece by Charlie Hoehn , an author, marketing strategist, speaker, and play enthusiast. Hoehn pos...

As is usually the case at this time of year, I catch all of the Best Picture nominations before the ceremony on the last Sunday in Februar...

My home state is reeling this week over the revelations that John David LaDue was planning a Columbine-like school attack. LaDue is yet an...

Alex Hribal went on a stabbing rampage yesterday at his high school in Murrsyville, Pennsylvania and sadly illustrated, once again, that we ...

The silence from the Gun Cult after the SECOND Fort Hood shooting has been deafening and it's now clear why. Military personnel who a...

Check out this story. Three neighbors said a neighborhood meeting was held last Sunday so that Bauerle could talk about his fears about s...

Stunning piece in the Times about the human brain and an NIH study that will help to answer the following questions: How do differences bet...

I think I have overreacted a tad to the somewhat glacial pace of guns and mental health legislation. Take a look at this. The simple fact ...

The release of the report   on Adam Lanza inexplicably finds that there is no answer to the question of why he committed mass murder at Sand...

It always stuns me when conservatives and, in particular, the gun community, make truly thoughtless statements. One such statement popped in...

From a story on the LAX shooter, Paul Ciancia... In a part of the letter, addressing T.S.A. employees, he wrote that he wanted to “instil...

23-year-old Paul Ciancia walked into the LA Airport this afternoon with his assault rifle and started shooting TSA agents before he himself ...

Nearly all of the challenges I face as an instructor are due to poor parenting. Parents do indeed really suck and they are getting worse. Ev...

The incident at the Capitol yesterday involving Miriam Carey  once again illustrates how we are failing on the issue of mental health in thi...

The gun community and the Right are foaming at the mouth again about gun free zones after the Navy Yard shooting. As usual, they aren't ...

As more information comes out about Aaron Alexis, it's becoming very clear that we, as a nation, are falling short in terms of mental h...

It started off as an all too familiar event. A young white male with a history of mental health problems gets into a school and threatens to...

Bill and Tricia Lemmers ought to be given the Congressional Medal of Honor. Why? Because they just prevented another mass shooting. Their ...

There are so many things to love about Peter Brown Hoffmeister's recent piece that was banned from the Huffington Post that I don't...