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“The Politics of Paranoia”: A Constant Stream Of Desperate Drivel By The...
Out-of-control federal government. An immediate and immense Muslim threat. Gun grabbing, national registries and eventual mass confiscations. Tyranny. The politics of the political right have become...
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“Congressional Responsibility With No Accountability”: Why The Green Lantern...
At today’s press conference, President Obama spent a fair amount of time pushing back on what some of us are calling the “Green Lantern Theory of Presidential Power.” This theory — which seems to hold...
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“When Policy No Longer Has Value”: Pat Toomey’s Candor Sheds Light On The...
When Senate Republicans last week killed expanded background checks on firearms purchases, they were taking a political risk. After all, it was only four months after a massacre at an elementary...
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“There Are No ‘Absolute’ Rights”: Limitations Are Both Possible And Necessary
Every time I write a column on guns, the howl arises that I am talking about a right that is enshrined in the Constitution, buddy, and I better watch myself. The howl then transmutes into an extended...
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“An American Epidemic”: Reporting On Surging U.S. Suicide Rate, Media...
The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans, and especially among the middle-aged men, soared from 2000 to 2010, according recent findings from the Center For Diseases Control and Prevention. There...
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“Unstable Lawmakers”: Five Worst Ideas From Texas’ Tea Party Government
It’s no surprise that in the state that gave us personalities like Representative Ron Paul, Governor Rick Perry, and Senator Ted Cruz, legislators have proposed more than their fair share of outrageous...
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“A Renegade Chop Shop”: Five Reasons Ronald Reagan Couldn’t Make It In...
Former Senate Majority Leader and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole slammed the state of the Republican Party over the weekend, telling Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that the GOP should...
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“He’s Still An Idiot”: Will Rick “Oops” Perry Do It Again?
As soon as Rick Perry uttered his infamous “oops” during the Republican presidential primary, most Americans likely figured the Texas governor’s political career would soon fade to black. Even before...
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“Gun-Crazy Business Models”: Beretta USA Teaches Us How Not To Run Your...
We often think of business leaders as hard-nosed pragmatists, guided by dollars and cents with little regard to emotion. But the truth is that corporate executives are human just like the rest of us....
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“Enemies Of The State”: How Do We Prevent The Death Of The Next Trayvon Martin?
Say what you will about the jury’s decision to acquit George Zimmerman, the fact remains that Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, 17-year-old teenager, is dead. He was doing what many teen boys do every day —...
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“The Notion Of The Shiny Object Theory”: Conservative Firebrands Want Scalps,...
Ornery first-term Republican senators and bomb-throwing conservative activist groups are locking horns again with the Republican establishment. Tea Party firebrands want to defund Obamacare by...
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“Dudley Brown’s War”: The 2016 GOP Presidential Primary Is Going To Be A...
Chances are, unless you’re a Colorado political insider, you’ve never heard of Dudley Brown, the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners or the National Association for Gun Rights. But Dudley, as he’s universally...
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“It’s All Academic Governor”: Chris Christie’s Debate Phobia Won’t Win Him...
“We are not a debating society. We are a political operation that needs to win.” Thus did Chris Christie offer one of the most pregnant statements yet in the ongoing Republican argument over the...
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“Undermining His Own Brand”: Chris Christie Is Afraid Of Competition, His...
If we were making a list of the reasons New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) will struggle to gain national support from his party’s right-wing base, we’d have plenty to work with: The Republican base is...
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“Following The Will Of The People, Sometimes”: For Some Politicians, Public...
When the Founding Fathers sought to form a country for the people and by the people, one of the central components was to establish a representative government – to create a legislative body that...
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“The Madness Continues”: Navy Yard Shooting Hits Home Amid Complacency Of Our...
Washington was under siege Monday, with SWAT teams racing through the streets and military helicopters circling overhead. Not immediately threatened, however, was the complacency that allows our...
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“How Many More Times?”: Probably Many, Many More In The Imaginary America Of...
As our understanding (if that word doesn’t overstate what we can ever comprehend of such events) of yesterday’s shootings at the Washington Navy Yard improves, we’re seeing a depressingly familiar...
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“Is America Crazy?”: Just Another Manic Monday
Is America crazy? Twelve people killed at a secure naval installation virtually on the front porch of the federal government, eight others hurt, the shooter shot to death, and it’s just another manic...
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“The Case For Gun Liability Laws”: Guns Are The Only Consumer Product In...
Knives. Automobiles. Cold medicine. Alcohol. Cigarettes. Coffee. What do these items have in common? They’re all held to a higher safety standard than firearms. Because of product-liability law,...
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“Imaginary Armies Of Voices”: The “American People” Who Only Exist In Ted...
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz spoke seemingly endlessly about Obamacare yesterday and today, repeatedly demanding that Washington listen to “the American people.” But to which people exactly is Cruz...
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