Fox News thinks the $1 trillion platinum coin would have to be made of $1 trillion worth of platinum, which would weigh a lot, don’t you know. Watch.
We’ve now had a clarification from the CEO of the firearms instruction company in Tennessee who says he’s going to have to “start killing people” if President Obama issues an executive order tightening gun control legislation. He now says he’s not planning on killing anybody “unless it’s necessary.”
On the Hagel, non-controversy, this from the Israeli daily Haaretz …
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told Jewish leaders in New York on Thursday that President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, is a “decent and fair interlocutor who believes in the natural partnership between Israel and the United States.”
Brian Beutler on the humble origins of the $1 trillion platinum coin idea.
Proponents of more gun regulations are trying to shift the terminology from “gun control” to “gun safety.”
Gun Appreciation Day Leader: If Blacks Had Guns, They Would Not Have Been Slaves
Gun control advocates: Background checks are a higher priority for us than an assault weapons ban.
FTC Chair defends Google settlement in exclusive interview with TPM.
Conservative Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey (R), who happens to be an ob-gyn, now says former Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) was “partly right” when he talked about “legitimate rape.” We’ve posted the audio of Gingrey’s new remarks here.