Perhaps this is an example of how well the current system actually works: A Virginia district court found Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho to be “mentally ill” and an imminent danger to others,” according to a 2005 temporary detention order obtained by ABC News. Virginia Tech police say Cho was taken to a nearby psychiatric […]
And all other drugs for that matter. With the debate over gun control front and center again, we are constantly hearing that we can not ban guns because so many would be here illegally. Well isn’t that the same thing that happens with drugs? Why are we wasting billions of dollars fighting a loss cause? […]
Why do they hate our seniors? The Senate blocked legislation on Wednesday that would let the government negotiate Medicare drug prices. Democrats couldn’t muster the 60 votes needed to bring the bill up for a vote. Under the Medicare drug benefit, private insurance plans negotiate with drug makers over the price of medicine for their […]
Think Progress has the dirty: 10 out of 15 countries believe “that the United States cannot be trusted to “act responsibly in the world.†The new PIPA poll also finds that majorities in 13 out of 15 publics polled say the United States is “playing the role of world policeman more than it should be,†[…]
And how that escalation is working: BAGHDAD — Four large bombs exploded across Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 127 people and wounding scores as violence climbed toward levels seen before the U.S.-Iraqi campaign to pacify the capital began two months ago. In the deadliest of the attacks, a parked car bomb detonated in a […]
While the gun debate is at the top of the list, another debate is not far behind – violence in movies, TV and music. As people struggle to figure out what happened at Virginia Tech, they now have a source of frustration, one Cho Seung-Hui, a 23 year old South Korean national. Luckily we have […]
My blood boiled yesterday as I started reading right-wing blogs immediately jump on the “give everyone guns” mentality following the shooting at Virginia Tech. Details will still emerging on the deadliest mass shooting in our country’s history, yet the wingnuts figured they had a political card to play here. Michelle Malkin had a post immediately […]
Today the number of soldiers killed in Iraq reached 3,308, including 3 soldiers killed today. Also under the radar is the U.K.’s decision to drop the phrase “war on terror”: The British government has stopped using the phrase “war on terror” to refer to the struggle against political and religious violence, according to a Cabinet […]
But that doesn’t stop the venomous Michelle Malkin from starting a campaign against firearm bans. Families are just now finding out that they have lost a loved one in this tragedy. The mourning process has not even started yet, but that doesn’t stop the right from trying to find a way to politicize something so […]
Republicans HATE Jon Stewart. They feel like he is some liberal God, so they always attack his show saying the viewers are “uneducated” or “not informed”. I have heard this same old line on FOX time and time again. Well let’s look at the numbers in a new poll that has just been released by […]