Jeff Flake: “I’ve always supported background checks.”

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) seemed to be trying to fix his bleak approval numbers today when he told CNN that he was willing to reverse his vote against the Manchin-Toomey compromise that would have expanded background checks on gun purchases. The only catch, he said, was that some small changes had to be made to the measure. Read More

New Pentagon report estimates there are an average of 70 sexual assaults per day involving military personnel.

No one is more alarmed about the federal government’s conspiracy to buy up all the nation’s bullets than Stephen Colbert.