Three people were injured on Saturday after a 12-gauge shotgun went off while being checked at a North Carolina gun show.
Authorities said at a Saturday afternoon press conference that the shotgun was being unzipped from its case at the security entrance to the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina, when a round of birdshot pellets discharged, hitting three people.
the more damning response to the foolish point that "more people with guns are the best way to stop mass shootings" is found in this 2009 ABC video showing how people with guns, and training, actually react when confronted by something like a sudden, surprise shooting. Watch the results of the experiment --- using some folks with relatively little gun training as well as some who are trained marksmen --- to see how well that whole "if only someone was armed during these shootings they could have stopped the shooter!" argument holds up...
Ads on Google have placed pro-fracking propaganda at the top of Google search results and into the middle of an important discussion on the environmental impacts of fracking. The practice raises important questions about the role of search engines in the new media world.
Last month, a woman was admitted to a hospital in Galway, Ireland. She was 17 weeks pregnant with a wanted child. She was experiencing severe back pain. She was found to be miscarrying the pregnancy.
A week later, she was dead.
Why? Because she ended up in a Catholic hospital, governed by an ethic that even a non-viable fetus doomed to die is more important than a living, breathing 31-year-old woman.
Wow, this is sure to hurt Obama. This is as devastating a blow as Trump's October surprise. Those republicans run a tight ship keeping this secret under wraps till the last week.
In the final days of the campaign in Ohio, the stops have been pulled out in the scramble to eke out a win. And that means one super PAC calling on African Americans to vote against President Obama because Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
Atlanta police officers have formed an unlikely alliance with Occupy activists to save a former police detective and her four grandchildren from eviction.
The U.S. Defense Department has formally declared WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange an enemy on par with al-Qaida, according to documents that an Australian newspaper said Wednesday it had obtained under freedom of information laws.
Anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly has taken to her blog to call for the resignation of Republican political operative Karl Rove over remarks he made about U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin “We should sink Todd Akin. If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts!”
Schlafly has reacted furiously to Rove’s statement, calling it “incredibly offensive and dangerous.”
Because of course we all know that we should only talk about murdering abortion providers.
“Let’s talk about your polling,” Benson said. “What do you think the unemployment rate is among blacks? In Detroit, it’s probably 40 percent. If the unemployment rate is that high, why is it that they are so optimistic about their future and the future of their children?”
Benson paused, heard no reply, and answered his own question.
“Subsidization.”
“It’s a generational apathy,” Miller said, “and they keep getting more and more (apathetic) because they don’t have to work. If they sleep all day and free money …”
Following by Keith Humphreys’s eirenic suggestion about how Obama should play the candidate tax issue in a high-minded way, I’ve made an instructive little table comparing the federal income taxes of the Obama and Romney households since 2000.
As I've been reading the discussions concerning how appropriate or inappropriate the NCAA punishment for Penn State's pedophilia scandal was, I couldn't help thinking its putting the cart before the horse. The foundational issues weren't being addressed, the inordinate power of football and basketball on campus, the protection of both staff and players from normal scrutiny, the hero worship of star players and coaches.
