Officials say four people are dead, including the gunman, and 14 are hurt in a massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.
Update: An Army official said at a news conference there was “no indication” of ties to terrorism in the shooting.
This from a conservative film-maker and contributing writer for Breitbart.com, in response to today’s shootings at Fort Hood …
If there is even one more act of Muslim terrorism, it is then time for Americans to start slaughtering Muslims in the streets, all of them.
— Patrick Dollard (@PatDollard) April 2, 2014
Usually even the most sociopathic individuals quickly take these sorts of tweets down once the blow back starts. In this case, no.
Meanwhile, latest reports suggests the shooter had no apparent ties to terrorism and was being treated for mental illness and evaluated for PTSD.
Charles Koch lashes out at attacks on him and his “vision” for America.
Seth D. Michaels argues that millions more could be helped by Obamacare were it not for governors like Rick Perry.
Yesterday’s ruling may not have completely gutted campaign finance reform, but Sahil Kapur reports that John Roberts may be laying the groundwork for doing that eventually.
Tea party Senate candidate state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) seems to get caught with white nationalists a lot.
There is a level of vilification that is not appropriate in politics. Having someone make fun of your name does not reach that high threshold.
We can have some fun with billionaire Charles Koch’s Perkinsesque cri de coeur about attacks on him, his political giving and his “vision for a free society” as he puts it. But it is in line with, part of, the Perkinsonian vision of contemporary American political economy in which the extremely powerful nonetheless feel embattled and threatened. I see it as part of the larger story I wrote about here as the “brittle grip.”
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The US Agency for International Development secretly set up a self-described Twitter service for Cuba to spawn a “Cuban spring.”
The store (Guns Galore) where Fort Hood shooter Ivan Lopez apparently bought his gun was the same store where Nidal Hasan bought the gun used in the 2009 massacre there.