Pro-gun extremists routinely edit out of the Second Amendment its stated purpose of having “a well-regulated militia” maintain state “security.” The tampering lets them pretend the Founders would be okay with slaughters like the Newtown massacre, as Bill Moyers and Michael Winship…
Category: Right Wing
The Blacklisting of Noam Chomsky
Wisdom in Restraint on Syria
What Mandela Did and Didn’t Do
The 2nd Amendment and Killing Kids
The NRA’s War on America
From the Archive: One year ago, 20 first-graders went off to school in Newtown, Connecticut, some surely thinking about the upcoming Christmas holidays. But they never came home, becoming along with six of their educators collateral damage in the NRA’s…
Israel and the Bedouins
Obama’s Syria Strategy at a Crossroads
Racism Through Rose-Colored Glasses
Neocons Twist Iran’s Anti-Nuke Fatwa
Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler is infamous for palming off his political bias as a dispassionate look at the evidence, a trick that he tried again by promoting a neocon distortion of Iran’s religious renunciation of nuclear weapons, as…