Father of Newtown victim appears at NRA school violence event, applauds new NRA proposal.
And the Jon Stewart Jon Stewart defends the Egyptian Jon Stewart (aka Bassem Youssef).
A bracing, weird, fascinating and horrifying look at a year in the life of the NRA through 16 covers of their flagship magazine. Definitely give this a look.
Last Friday I did a post on how social conservatives are now complaining that they are now in a threatening climate where it’s no longer acceptable for them to say that homosexuality is wrong or that the law should discriminate against gays. It’s an odd or ingenious victimization jujitsu in which the opponents of equality claim they’re losing their rights to call gays sinful or gross or weird.
There was a good example of this this afternoon on Fox. Watch after the jump … Read More
Yet more suggesting those assassinations of the prosecutor and DA in Kaufman, Texas are the work of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
Remember the guy who’s suspected of assassinating the Colorado prisons chief just after being released from prison? Turns out he was released four years early because of a clerical error.
If you listen to the cable chat shows, you hear that Marco Rubio is the key player who is required to make immigration reform happen. Only that’s almost certainly not true. Immigration reform was pretty clearly going to happen without Rubio’s involvement, albeit quite possibly more painfully for the GOP. And even on top of that reality, at least so far, Tea Partiers in the House have ended up being considerably more flexible on the issue than many folks would have anticipated. Rubio’s not the one who’s going to make reform happen. If anything, he’s made himself the one best positioned, if he chooses, to kill it. Read More
Along the lines of turning the GOP ship off the 2012 course, lots of reasons why it might not be that easy. TPM Reader RY points to one key reason …
It’s revealing to note how often RNC members make news by uttering nutty, culturally anxious remarks. I’m sure TPM could call up a large number of such stories it has posted during the Obama years. (It might be an interesting exercise to do just that.)