Schools having kids arrested for a doodling of a glove on fire. When a 16-year-old New Jersey boy doodled in his notebook on Tuesday, December 18, he probably didn’t expect to be arrested by the end of the day. However, when school officials saw the sketches, which they state appeared to be of weapons, and […]
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Not intending hard enough is the meaning of “ineffective” to those who value only intentions. As 2012 comes to a close, the 112th Congress is set to go down in American history as the most unproductive session since the 1940s. According to a Huffington Post review of all the bills that hit President Barack Obama’s […]
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Schools having children arrested, charged, and suspended for making the shape of a gun. With his hand. State police investigated a report of a 13-year-old Tamaqua Middle School seventh grade student who made a gesture with his fingers in reference to a gun while pointing at fellow students. It’s been less than a week since […]
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If you’re serious about curbing gun violence, there is something for which you can advocate. No, it isn’t more stringent gun control laws, or “assault weapon” bans, or more mental health screening, or posting armed cops in every school, or censoring violence in the media, or any of the other knee jerk nonsense spouted by […]
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Miguel Bloombito: Uno Ringo to que rule todos all, Uno Ringo to que findo them, Uno Ringo to bringo todos all Y en el darko stop y frisko them
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Get rid of the media, not guns. The Telegraph: But in general, when we think of US firearm violence, we don’t think of domestic shootings or robberies-gone-wrong, even though they make up far, far more of the steady background crackle of gunfire in the States. We think of the high-profile but low-incidence cases of a […]
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We need to look at objective reality by the numbers, not what we want to believe. Even before Portland and Newtown, we saw a former student kill seven people at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif. We saw gunmen in Seattle and Minneapolis each kill five people and then themselves. We saw the midnight premiere of […]
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A peek under the mask of Women’s Health™: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), whose name is often mentioned as a potential 2016 presidential candidate, penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that calls for contraception to be made available over-the-counter. If women could buy birth control without a prescription, he argues, employers […]
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I wasn’t aware that not subscribing to thought pre-approved for you was a sign that you couldn’t be black (enough). Robert Parker on RGIII: I’ve talked to some people in Washington, D.C. Some people in [Griffin’s] press conferences. Some people I’ve known for a long time. My question, which is just a straight, honest question, […]
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How do you form a global consensus? Forcibly evict all who disagree.
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