Could not spend 6 hrs on course due to #sequester MT @markknoller Pres Obama spent about 4 1/2 hrs at the golf course and is now back at WH.— Tom Pich (@pichtom) April 06, 2013 To demonstrate that he feels the nation’s economic pain over sequestration cuts, President Obama earlier this week announced that he… Read more »
In the aftermath of the Aurora movie theater shooting, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough outrageously linked mass shootings with Autism Spectrum Disorders (like Asperger’s Syndrome), was sharply rebuked, and issued a lame, off-air non-apology. In the months since the Newtown shooting, it appeared as though he’d learned his lesson, as he held his tongue while… Read more »
An unhinged Chris Matthews exploited another tragedy on Wednesday, connecting the pro-Second Amendment views of Ted Cruz and other Republicans to the shootings of two prosecutors in Texas. The Hardball anchor began by dredging up failed Senate candidate Sharron Angle's three-year-old reference to "Second Amendment remedies." Matthews connected, "If that was frightening enough for you,… Read more »
A group of 1,500 Mexican vigilantes arrested the Tierra Colorado police chief this week and took over the town. The vigilante group said the chief was working with local drug gangs. The AP reported, via The Westerner: Hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast… Read more »