Earlier this week we reported how Chipotle felt obliged to ask its customers not to bring guns to chipotle restaurants. Seems like a reasonably enough request to most of us. And it’s been preceded by similar requests by various other chains like Starbucks and others.
Now the top pro-gun group in Texas pushing the demand for “open carry” firearm rights and trying to get people to show up at various restaurant chains with long guns is deciding it may not be such a hot idea after all.
If you’ve read Ta-Nehisi Coates harrowing essay on the case for reparations, we’re discussing it here in The Hive (sub.req.).
Earlier this week Rep. Ted Yoho’s (R-FL) 2012 comments surfaced. “I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote,” he told a cheering audience.
Alexander Keyssar, Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network, weighed in on the multitude of reasons why Yoho (pictured, right) is just plain wrong:
Sahil Kapur has a fascinating look at how social conservatives are struggling to come to grips with what appears to be their inevitable defeat on gay marriage and likely gay equality in general. One scholar at Heritage is reduced to arguing for what amounts to an anti-gay marriage ‘surge’, to win the hearts and minds of Americans before traditional America is overrun and social conservatives are fighting for seats on the last copters out of Sodom.
Mitch McConnell says he’s definitely going to repeal Obamacare. But Kentucky’s extremely successful Obamacare health insurance exchange? McConnell now says that isn’t connected to Obamacare.
In the debate around the possibility of including “trigger warnings” on content in college courses, it’s worth reading the words of Jade E. Davis over at Cafe, who teaches at UNC-Chapel Hill:
There was a day in a course where we were discussing race, media, popular culture, and educational attainment. There were black students in the classroom. I was at the front of the class, and in the middle of class discussion, a student said, “Well, all the black students are here because of affirmative action.”
Never mind that we were at one of the best public universities in the country, a school that can pick and choose who they admit from a group of top candidates across ethnicities. The assumption was still that those students — and even I — did not belong in the classroom space. There was no warning. The trigger was pulled. This is the experience the New York Times piece missed.
There is still an experience of race, of poverty, of out of place-ness for so many students that come up in classes all the time without any warning.
As you can see, the story of “Constitutional Clayton” Kelly and his break-in at a nursing home where Sen. Thad Cochran’s ailing wife lives got a lot more complicated today. No fewer than three additional people – one a board member of the area Tea Party group – have been charged as co-conspirators in Kelly’s crime. You can find some imbecile who thinks it’s a good idea to do almost anything. It’s a little harder to imagine how you get four grown men, all apparently sane, to think something so crazy was going to be a good idea. But a number of you have asked me: Quite apart from the morality of it, just how did they think this was a good idea? What were they even trying to accomplish?
So, let me strap on my night-vision crazy goggles and join me after the jump for an explanation.
Two more arrests in that bizarro scheme to photograph the dementia-suffering wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in her nursing home bed. One of the new arrests: the vice chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party.