This is just a small portion of the hardware that the LAPD received this week as part of its gun buyback program. In total, the LAPD received 901 handguns, 698 rifles, 363 shotguns, and 2 rocket...
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Get Serious
Artist - Pat Bagley In other news, Representative Ed Markey announced today that he will run for the John Kerry's senate seat. I've posted this here before but I'm posting it again because it's one...
“The Worst Candidate in History”
Tea Party Nation finally tells us what they really think -- that Mitt Romney was the "worst candidate in history." Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips on Thursday disputed that President Obama...
Moderation
From the department of the unintentionally hilarious. Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is proposing that we arm school principals, and this, he believes, is a moderate position. “This proposal...
Both Sides Coffee
Starbucks has a message for Washington -- both sides need to "come together" to reach a deal to avoid sequestration. The world's biggest coffee chain is asking employees at cafes in the Washington, D...
Four Days to Debt Ceiling
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner dropped a bomb on congress yesterday evening, but there is a silver lining. The United States will hit its borrowing limit on December 31st, according to a just...
Ransom
Artist - Jimmy Margulies In other news, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie announced that he will choose a replacement for deceased Senator Daniel Inouye this week. Regular blogging should resume...
Why Did Dick Armey Leave FreedomWorks?
Because he's batshit crazy. The partnership came to a crashing end when Armey marched into FreedomWorks’s office Sept. 4 with his wife, Susan, executive assistant Jean Campbell and the unidentified...
You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out
Artist - Adam Zyglis No news today. Go have a drink and be merry.
Nativity
Artist - Dave Granlund Two firefighters were killed and two others were wounded today after they were lured into a trap by a gunman outside Rochester, New York. Should we arm firefighters?
Santa Boehner
Artist - Jeff Darcy Wayne LaPierre during his appearance today on Meet the Press via TPM “If it’s crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our schools to protect our children, then call...
Christmas Break
Artist - Dave Granlund This may be the worst Santa Claus ever. He has Billy Bob Thornton beat by a mile. (I highly recommend watching Bad Santa) Blogging by me will be very light over the next...
An Ill-Conceived Reaction
Local Connecticut school and public officials were predictably less-than-pleased with Wayne LaPierre's unhinged press conference yesterday. Teachers, school superintendents, mayors and police chiefs...
“You Get Nothing”
If this account of fiscal cliff negotiations from the Wall Street Journal between President Obama and John Boehner are any indication, the president is a much tougher negotiator than outward...
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From the News Corp. owned New York Post.If even the New York Post says you're a "gun nut" and a "loon," you may want to rethink things.
Fair and Balanced Apocalypse
Artist - Pat Bagley In case you missed it, John Boehner's Plan B failed, he still has no idea what he's doing, and neither does Mitch McConnell. Congress is on recess until after Christmas.
Meanwhile, Over in Crazyville
via Media Matters In an outlandish column for WorldNetDaily, Bradlee Dean suggests that the mass shooting last week in Newtown, Connecticut, was staged in order to aid the passage of the UN Arms...
John Kerry for Secretary of State
President Obama has formally announced his nomination of Senator John Kerry for Secretary of State. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday announced the nomination of U.S. Senator John Kerry to...
NRA Killing Our Kids
I nominate the man who walked right in front of Crazy Person Wayne LaPierra during today's NRA press conference carrying this sign as today's best person. There's little more to say that hasn't...
Plan B
Artist - RJ Matson In other news, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) delivered a letter to Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton protesting the depiction of torture...
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