Don’t like the baby, but the line is brilliant. President Control? You betcha. It’s We The People, not I The Government, mein fuhrer.
Too many liberals and some conservatives claim that you have to respect “the office of the president.” So let me give these office-lovers a clue. 1.Respect is for Individuals, not Offices. I may like the guy at the DMV, I do not like the DMV. 2. Presidents are known as public SERVANTS, not public masters. … Read more
So “Silicon Valley luminary Ron Conway”, Mr. Big Shot investor in Google, Facebook, and Twitter, has decided to join the anti-gun debate. “He convinced a colleague, Jim Pitkow, to join the search for high tech answers. Pitkow, a Web entrepreneur, had worked with Facebook and the Demi and Ashton Foundation, using technology to fight child … Read more
Francis Wilkinson spent $17 buying gun magazines and his conclusion based on the ads he saw was that “everybody’s white.” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-30/guns-are-for-white-people.html “There are pictures of guys with guns, gals with guns, animals with guns, ammo with guns and guns with guns. Curiously absent are pictures of black people with guns, brown people with guns or … Read more
So a bunch of mathematicians who admit they don’t have enough data decided to mess with our Second Amendment. “It’s time to bring a scientific framework to this problem,” said Dominik Wodarz, the lead author of a new paper published in the journal PLOS ONE. “Can we design a rational way to argue about guns?” … Read more