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*The dust had barely settled on the Senate’s vote to shortstop the GOP filibuster against the compromise deal that some GOP and conservative Democratic senators brokered on the gun control bill before other GOP and conservative Democratic senators began pecking away at it. The deal was to support background checks for private gun sales, and [...]
*There are few things we can always rely on when it comes to Rev. Al Sharpton, an unguarded opinion, slick hair, and a protest of some sort. The MSNBC host and activist publicly vowed to protest against the National Rifle Association after the organization’s president made some interesting comments in lieu of the Sandy Hook [...]
*You knew it was going to happen. It was only a matter of time. The now desperate NRA has launched an ad campaign that targets urban black men. Featured in the ads is a black dude who goes by the name of “Mr. Colion Noir.” He’s referred to as an unapologetic “urban gun enthusiast” and [...]
*The National Rifle Association (NRA) is if anything boundlessly creative when it comes to thinking of new ways to keep its political friends and allies in tow and to win new ones to beat back gun controls. The latest ploy is to grab at more minorities. It announced with much fanfare on its website that [...]
*Second Amendment lunatic, er, advocate and outspoken musician Ted Nugent plans to be front and center at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, tonight. Ol’ Ted isn’t known to be a quiet church mouse on any issue he thinks needs a good strong voice. He’ll be the guest of Texas Tea Party/GOP Rep. [...]
*D.L. Hughley offered an interesting take on how to reach those conservatives who don’t believe in any tougher gun laws, suggesting that we “stop calling them gun deaths… call them really late, late, late term abortions.” Speaking on the Tom Joyner Morning show today, the comedian in his weekly commentary for the show spoke about [...]
*The National Rifle Association has released a new video calling President Obama “an elitist hypocrite” for dismissing the group’s suggestion to put armed guards in schools while his own daughters have Secret Service protection. “Are the president’s kids more important than yours?” the narrator asks. “Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in [...]
*Seems these days a segment of Americans are brushing their teeth with gunpowder and just shootin’ off the mouth! Social media is becoming a shameful cesspool of shameless foul and damaging communication (‘e-mail netiquette’). So much for the phrase, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.’ Cowards and thugs [...]
*The racial hotbed we find ourselves lying in every time a right wing activist opens their mouth is no surprise. We have learned to expect it. Ted Nugent has run his mouth in the wrong direction for a loooong time. He is not a stranger to controversy over his right wing, NRA views. He has [...]
*Discussing the prospects of gun control initiatives prompted by the Newtown, Conn. massacre, a former president of the National Rifle Association drew a comparison between attempts to ban guns and racism. Former NRA president Marion Hammer appearing on an episode of the NRA news show The Daily News on Wednesday. Host Ginny Simone said toward [...]
*The New Year is here. People are gathering up their goals and hopes for 2013. Some have lost their loved ones naturally and others because of tragedy. Sybrina Fulton, mother of slain teen Trayvon Martin, is among those mourning the premature loss of their loved ones. Ten months after Trayvon was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, his mother [...]
*According to Mark Twain there are lies, damn lies, and then statistics. Meaning statistics can skew facts to tell a completely different story. With that in mind, and understanding that I did not authenticate the sources for these statistics, it is noteworthy that: The United States receives more immigrants legally (and illegally) than any other [...]
*Thousands of gun rights supporters are petitioning the Obama administration to consider deporting CNN’s Piers Morgan, claiming the gun control proponent is using his position as a TV news host to target the Second Amendment. “British Citizen and CNN television host Piers Morgan is engaged in a hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution by targeting [...]
*Several hours after a national moment of silence was observed for those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the National Rifle Association made its first public comments about the tragedy, suggesting armed faculty and teachers could have prevented the shootings and calling on every school in the nation to have armed police guards [...]
*This past September the NRA swung into high gear. It posted these blunt action alerts on its website to its tens of thousands of members and backers. “Senator Ben Nelson needs to go.” Outgoing Nebraska Senator Nelson’s alleged sin was that he helped put Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. It reminded its supporters that [...]
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