Eugene Volokh, for arguing that we should arm public school teachers.
Shorter Verbatim Jeff Goldstein: "Obama, silent about union violence in Michigan, immediately reacts to Connecticut school shooting."
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The phrase "you don't think something like that would happen here" is always uttered by white reporters about mass shootings in white neighborhoods, and the implication is that "you" would "think" something like that would happen black or brown people in the inner city. Only it...
Mike Huckabee.
Shorter Ace of Spades: We could prevent mass shootings by laughing at the perpetrators' tiny penises.I'm not sure how many lobes of my brain I need to excise in order.
One of many relevant facts: 2. Eleven of the 20 worst mass shootings in the last 50 years took place in the United States. Time has the full list here. In second place is Finland, with two entries. All a big coinky-dink, I'm sure. I also...
At what point do we start holding the National Rifle Association morally responsible for all these shootings? At what point do we get over our idiotic national love of guns.
Jonathan Rauch (via Sullivan) makes the familiar argument that for the constitutional challenge to Prop 8 to succeed would really be a strategic loss. This is wrong, and if.
But there's always 2016! I'm pretty sure "I'm not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something" is already the header for the women's issues section of the Republican platform.
I'm not saying an interview on Barbara Walters means a whole lot here, but Obama saying he would not go after Washington and Colorado for legalizing marijuana is a good.
Well, the Republicans got their trophy. There are two points that should be made about this episode. First, the attacks on Rice were a classic baseless Republican smear job, based.