It’s frosty with beautiful blue skies here in New York City. Hope it’s wonderful where you are and that you have a great day.
I don’t even know where to start with this new Post story about the ‘controversy’ and coup at FreedomWorks. When I first saw the claims about an ‘armed coup’ led by Dick Armey, I was thinking ‘okay that’s kind of a weird metaphor’. But it turns out it wasn’t a metaphor. He actually led an armed coup. And he may not even have been the bad guy. Read More
Frank Luntz says: “I don’t think the NRA is listening” to the America people. Watch.
Monday morning’s ambush on firefighters in Webster, N.Y. might be the worst — or at least most bizarre — violence to happen in the nation in the days following the Newtown, Conn. school massacre. Now come to find out the New York shooter used the same make and caliber of rifle as the gunman in Connecticut: a Bushmaster semi-automatic .223. We published the history of that rifle last week.
Check out some amazing photos from the year in deep space exploration.
For the life of me I do not understand this. The upshot of the ‘Plan B’ debacle is that John Boehner can’t even deliver Republican votes for his bill, let alone Republican votes for a compromise between Boehner and President Obama. So Boehner simply can’t get anything done. And thus now we have to look to the Senate to break the impasse. Read More
House GOP leaders say Senate has to act on fiscal cliff before they do.
Earlier today I asked whether Dick Armey and the unidentified guy carrying the gun broke DC firearms law during the now-fabled FreedomWorks coup. Well, we’ve been working the story through the course of the day and here’s what we’ve come up with.
The upshot is that if a civilian had done what’s described in the Post story, it would pretty likely be a violation of DC’s very strict gun laws. With some very circumscribed exceptions, you just can’t go around DC with a handgun, concealed or not. Unless you’re a member of law enforcement. Read More