Posted in Bush, Conservatives, Constitution, Culture, Politics, White House, gun control, guns, presidency, shooting on April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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clipped from harpers.org
The leading newspaper in the Spanish-speaking world, Madrid’s El Pa’s, puts the blame squarely on the National Rifle Association and reproduces a photograph of Charlton Heston brandishing a rifle. “[C]ontrol measures,“ writes that paper, ”are systematically challenged by an abusive interpretation of the Second Amendment—which was written before there was a National [...]
Posted in Bush, NRA, Politics, gun control, guns, presidency, shooting on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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So there are rules in place that scrupulous gun dealers are supposed to follow. The fact that state and federal background checks turned up no problems speaks volumes to the enforcement level of even the weakest gun laws in the known universe. This is extremely problematic. Not only are we loathe [...]
Posted in Conservatives, Culture, atheism, beliefs, bigotry, prayer, religion, theism on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is an annotation of Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen? – News Bloggers
Dinesh D’Souza exposes his bigotry and, frankly, his stupidity as he slams atheists in this posting. In part he states: “Notice something interesting about the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings? Atheists are nowhere to be found. Every time there [...]
Posted in Agamben, Bush, Conservatives, Constitution, Fascism, Politics, Postmodernism, Radical, White House, abortion, beliefs, bigotry, religion on April 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, upheld the national ban on a midterm method of ending pregnancies sometimes referred to as partial birth abortion. The decision clears the way for states to pass new laws designed to discourage women from having abortions.
Of course President Bush could not keep silent on this [...]
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