Zombie Politics

Someone asked me in comments a while back just what exactly right to work laws do to a state's economy? Well, here's a pretty good s...

When I arrived at school today, the office staff was buzzing. There was a shooting at a school in New Prague, a city 45 miles south of the T...

The American manufacturing sector has taken a few hits over the last couple of decades but they are still a powerhouse, according to James ...

And that's the end of the mouth foaming over Benghazi...

These days the future of solar and wind power is in doubt in the United States, because fracking has increased the supply of natural gas an...

Here's an interesting piece from a few weeks ago about the Occupy Movement.  While they may appear to have fallen off the map (at leas...

In this Lenten season Sarah Palin has announced that she's writing a book about the war on Christmas . The cynic in me knows that this i...

‘Trained Marine sniper’ threatened to assassinate California Democrat over gun laws “I have 39 confirmed kills in afganistan [sic],” Basha...

Gun Ranting: Good Fun, or Treason? If you hoard weapons for the express purpose of overturning the elected administration, then you are ma...

It will never cease to amaze me how easily the NRA fools people into thinking they are a defender of Second Amendment rights. They're a ...

Here is a piece from the Atlantic that illustrates just how FUBAR even trying to define the issue of gun safety can be. It all started with...

(stomp, stomp, stomp) (SLAM!) Fuck you, Dad! I can have whatever soda I want to have!!! You're not the boss o...

From a Quinnipiac University survey. 92% of respondents support expanding background checks to all gun sales. In households with guns, su...

Here is an op-ed from right after the Newtown shooting that I neglected to note. It's from Larry Allen Burns, the conservative judge wh...

The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery Little did Madison realize that one day in the future weapons-manufacturing corporat...

A Smart Way to Control Guns: Force Owners to Buy Insurance for Them Even better... Forbes contributor John Wasik argues that the idea s...

Here is some research on guns and women done by Harvard. Women in states with many guns have elevated rates of unintentional gun deaths, ...

We need more guys like Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.  In his letter, Robinson says he takes exception to "the handful of ...

This recent cover story in the Christian Science Monitor on gun owners is absolutely fantastic. It's an extensive look at the inside o...

Here is a piece from the Good Reads section of the Christian Science Monitor. The Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut brought a delu...

A recent piece in my local paper shows just how rare self defense shootings are these days in Minnesota. Even though a record number of M...

Here are more facts for the bubble boys and girls that read this blog. Is it ever possible for people on the right to accept that humans h...

After the election I thought that the GOP would shift its stand on immigration in order to garner more Latino votes. But instead of throwing...

Bend man shot by wife's gun improving A Bend woman was cited on assault and reckless endangering charges Thursday after a loaded .22-c...

I have been saving a lot of posts about guns and a recent discussion in comments has led me to the decision to put them all up over the cour...

Here is a link to get the facts straight about Paul Ryan's budget. I feel its important for folks who comment on this to read this. 

Nick Hanauer has come up again in some various conversation I have had and I remembered that I wanted to put his TED talk (repressed for a w...

Here is a great reason why we need to have universal background checks. She was denied a permit to purchase a weapon by her hometown poli...

We certainly shouldn't take lightly the threat from North Korea of late but I can't help but chuckle at this photo. ...

In an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution , Phil Gingrey, a Republican member of the House, repudiated himself on two fronts: wom...

In the last 15 years, the juvenile detention rate has fallen 41 percent. A staggering drop, to be sure, but why? A recent article in my fa...

2012 was the warmest year on record, and out of 33,700 scientist, only 34 say humans are not the cause of global warming. It appears to me t...

Myth #10: We don't need more gun laws—we just need to enforce the ones we have . Fact-check: Weak laws and loopholes backed by the gun...

Even though the organization  is gone, nothing is sure to whip up that perfect stew of anger, hatred, paranoia like ACORN. Like the Soviet U...

Myth #9: More and more Americans are becoming gun owners. Fact-check: More guns are being sold, but they're owned by a shrinking por...

As we celebrate Women on this "International Women's Day" we still need to acknowledge the injustice that's being done in ...

As we get closer to the Easter holidays, you might want to prepare yourself for that crazy uncle at your family gathering who will likely be...

Myth #8: "Vicious, violent video games" deserve more blame than guns . Fact-check: So said NRA executive vice president Wayne L...

Well, it has happened. The government came and got an NRA member's guns. Twice. An NRA official in New York has been banned from owni...

In this clip you will find Bill O'Reilly and Alan Colmes in a heated exchange. We see Alan Colmes give Bill O'Reilly a couple entitl...

The death of Hugo Chavez reminded me that I had to discuss this wonderful piece by Larry Diamond. He discusses how the myth that Global Sou...

Gun advocates split with NRA on background checks For example, the founder of the pro-gun Second Amendment Foundation tentatively backed a...

Myth #7: Guns make women safer. Fact-check: In 2010, nearly 6 times more women were shot by husbands, boyfriends, and ex-partners than m...

The sixth chapter of Joseph Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality is called, "1984 is Upon Us." In this section, Stiglitz detai...

It's always a pleasure to note when my cynicism about red states is proved to be wrong. Interestingly,  this video shows how many differ...

Myth #6: Carrying a gun for self-defense makes you safer. Fact-check: In 2011, nearly 10 times more people were shot and killed in argume...

I need to remind myself more often that patience is all that is required when it comes to nearly all of the issues I gripe about on here. In...

Myth #5: Keeping a gun at home makes you safer.  Fact-check: Owning a gun has been linked to higher risks of homicide , suicide , and ac...

Will Wall Street spurn GOP in 2014? I say they will and it's because the Republican Party draws a good chunk of its numbers from peopl...

Myth #4: More good guys with guns can stop rampaging bad guys. Fact-check: Mass shootings stopped by armed civilians in the past 30 years...