"I absolutely believe he has no right to be lecturing the rest of us. Gun control's not going to solve this." -Bobby Jindal speaking about the Oregon shooter's father to ABC's News Leave it to Bobby Jindal, the GOP's least charismatic and most desperate Presidential candidate ...read more
Retired brain surgeon and current Republican presidential runner-up Ben Carson has been making a whole lot of noise this week, mostly about his own Oregon shooting self-fanfic, but some of it regarding his run-in with a gunman at a Popeyes restaurant. While Carson insists that ...read more
Ben Carson is taking a lot of heat over comments he keeps making about the Oregon shooting, but it's starting to look like he's completely incapable of saying anything normal. By now, you've probably seen one of the many examples of Ben Carson explaining how if he was ever up ...read more
Retired brain surgeon Dr. Ben Carson loves to tell people how he would have rushed the Oregon mass shooter, instead of "cooperating" and just letting him shoot everyone like the real-life victims did (except they didn't). The guy literally cannot stop saying it, and laughing ...read more
“I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.” -Dorothy Dix There’s an eerily familiar sound of silence in the halls and walls of Congress. This lack of noise means ...read more
In a movement that purports to be inclusive, tolerant and progressive, liberalism is often anything but. Sadly, some of the left's biggest obstacles don't come from the far right, but uncompromising idealists who insist their rigid interpretation of political correctness must be ...read more
In the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon last week, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani predictably joined other Republicans in slammingPresident Obama for his impassioned remarks on the need to take political action on gun control. ...read more
Update: Here's the Jeb Bush "stuff happens" remark that President Obama was asked about: https://youtu.be/2DLmEhbXMtA And here's President Obama's reaction: https://youtu.be/xcvb8xgz9Ro Opening remarks on resignation of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: ...read more
(Chris Mintz, pictured above) In the midst of a terrible tragedy, a truly heroic act of defiance, bravery and selflessness can come to define the mass shooting in Oregon this week. Forget the rage and violence of Chris Harper Mercer - another tragic figure consumed by hate and ...read more
UPDATE 2018: In the wake of the Parkland shooting and the #NeverAgain movement, I have revisited this article and wondered whether my pessimism was well founded. Like all mass movements throughout history, no one can predict when and where they will arise -- but this time it ...read more
On Thursday morning, our nation suffered the latest in a never-ending series of mass shooting tragedies when 26 year-old Chris Harper Mercer opened fire at the Umpqua Community College campus in Roseburg, Oregon, killing 10 and injuring 7. As is usually the case with these (now ...read more
