I offer for debate: The only legitimate purpose of a firearm is to equalize the odds while you await the police.  It will have a mandatory trigger lock, and someday a palm print activated safety.

Therefor, if you feel the need (or have the greed) to wipe out unarmed mammals, use a Bow.

All firearms to be licensed.  You may possess a revolver.( plus  a speed loader if you need it, and only one.)

We will amend the constitution.

Yes, we are coming for your guns, and we shall have them.

We hear tough talk from Prez (not for the first time...) vowing that any attempts by John Boehner to leverage a fiscal bargaining position by demanding concessions as a quid pro quo for raising the debt limit are non starters.

With fear and trembling we turn towards the second term agenda.

Let's pretend that Obama has learned a thing or two besides how better to fake feisty.

These are a few of the several crucial pivots off the recent election that will give some hope for a new House majority in 2014, failing which we will continue deadlocked and stymied.

Prez, your mission should you choose to accept it: Lock in the components of your coalition, bring them directly to bear upon specific House repugnants rendered vulnerable by votes forced upon them over the next two years.

When the subject of our impending Afghan exit is discussed, it is common to lament the wretched condition to which the women of that country will be abandoned. On the Pakistani side of the Durand line, the same or worse oppression obtains.