The big news topic the last twenty-four hours has been the takeover and standoff of a remote gas station in the Algeria-held Sahara desert, 1000 miles from the capital. France has launched a bombing raid in a rare case where Algeria has granted France permission to enter its airspace. Al Qaeda affiliated rebels were said to have taken a number of hostages yesterday and the Algerian government wants no part in that. Some of those hostages may be already dead (and the numbers of those are supposed to be large) but some hostages have escaped and others are still said to be held by the armed rebels.
Again, digby nails it with the falsity of the 'Quickdraw' theory. Most often you'll have wannabe heroes who will shoot less accurately than cops... meaning less than 18% accuracy rate...
Meanwhile back in the states, digby finds what amounts to the original reason we have a second ammendment. As Thom Hartmann says it was to allow repression of ... wait for it... slave insurrections.
Again, digby nails it with the falsity of the 'Quickdraw' theory. Most often you'll have wannabe heroes who will shoot less accurately than cops... meaning less than 18% accuracy rate...
this guy should get the mendax prize on msnbc for saying 'Reagan supported gun control only in later years', i.e. after he was shot or after he got alzheimer's. The reality is he pushed for and got it as Gov of CA in the '60's, when Black Panther's insisted on being able to walk the halls of the statehouse in Sacremento with loaded automatic weapons...
Also via digby, creationism in schools is a nationwide movement
So is rigging districts to maximize republican wins in Pennsylvania this week. They already did that in Kansas.
'Break the law once and get a bailout. Do it twice and get a subsidy.' IRS seems to help out banks with that foreclosure mess. Even in USNews.
I can't watch this anymore today. But Sen. Al Franken has a petition up to reverse the Citizen's United case
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