Editors’ Blog - 2013
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01.10.13 | 12:39 pm
Umm … Time for a Site Scrubbing

Gun Training CEO who threatens to “start killing people” over possible Obama gun control executive order lists phony firearms training credentials on his website.

01.10.13 | 1:21 pm
Platinum LOLs

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.

01.10.13 | 4:34 pm
That’s a Relief

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.”

01.10.13 | 5:45 pm
Perspective

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.”

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01.11.13 | 2:00 am
It All Started With A Comment On A Blog

Brian Beutler on the humble origins of the $1 trillion platinum coin idea.

01.11.13 | 4:09 am
On Language

Proponents of more gun regulations are trying to shift the terminology from “gun control” to “gun safety.”

01.11.13 | 4:41 am
Woah

Jay Rockefeller won’t seek reelection to the Senate.

01.11.13 | 5:55 am
Where The Focus Is

Gun control advocates: Background checks are a higher priority for us than an assault weapons ban.

01.11.13 | 7:12 am
FTC Chair Defends Google Settlement

FTC Chair defends Google settlement in exclusive interview with TPM.