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They still believe "More guns" are the answer: Having been a judge and reviewed photographs of these horrific scenes and knowing that children have these defensive wounds, gun shots through their arms and hands as they try to protect themselves, and, hearing the heroic stories of the principal, lunging, trying to protect, Chris, I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids. Self defense is so important in life, and you have to defend yourself whenever someone tries to attack you at all costs. But there are other defense mechanisms than more guns as well, and people, amazingly, have survived despite being at the clear disadvantage of "you can't bring a knife to a gun fight." When knows if Principal Dawn Hochsprung having a gun would have lead to j...

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy "I think we come back to the entitlement question. The Democrats should actually be in favor of certain kinds of progressive entitlement reform, it's not actually that big of a give..... One of the big concerns is doing too much fiscal austerity too soon in 2013. The more that you did in the form of, say, social security, one of the things with Social Security, which can be phrased in gradually over time, the lighter the load imposed in 2013." - Peter Orszag Personally, I like Erza Klein, especially after meeting him once in person. He's genuinely a nice guy overall for sure, and we know how intelligent he is from exploding onto the scene with consistent diligence on budgets at The American Prospect. Most people would probably say the same about Peter Orszag genuinely as a person. Nice guy who is definitely quite a personality for a lot of wonk people who aren't able to be pers...

Photo from Kasandra Perkins In just my opinion, the coward that was Jovan Belcher was in full control of what he was doing in tragically killing the mother of his daughter Kasandra Perkins. And he knew in his moment of rage that what he did was so regrettable later on that he decided to take himself out instead of face the consequences of his horrific and sad action. He feared and knew that he would lose the football life that he loved due to just that one moment of incorrigible behavior and could not live with his life changing decision in prison for many years to come. What's also telling is how drunk and party oriented Belcher was during the season and 48 hours prior to the game. Would Belcher even place himself in this position of hard social living if the Chiefs were actually not as awful as they have been this season? Some guys around the NFL definitely party during the season, whether after the game or even before the game. The great Lawrence Taylor has doc...

From Sir Keith Boykin, "All of these people saying we have to cut the deficit, now when it comes to the fiscal cliff, we're afraid of cutting the deficit." (The key moment from 5:01 to 5:05).  

He most certainly did . RICKS: I think that Benghazi generally was hyped, by this network especially, and that now that the campaign is over, I think he's backing off a little bit. They're not going to stop Susan Rice from being secretary of state. SCOTT: When you have four people dead, including the first dead U.N. ambassador -- U.S. ambassador in more than 30 years, how do you call that hype?  RICKS: How many security contractors died in Iraq, do you know? SCOTT: I don't. RICKS: No. Nobody does, because nobody cared. We know that several hundred died, but there was never an official count done of security contractors dead in Iraq. So when I see this focus on what was essentially a small firefight, I think, number one, I've covered a lot of firefights. It's impossible to figure out what happens in them sometimes. And second, I think that the emphasis on Benghazi has been extremely political, partly because Fox was operating as a wing of Republican...

Here is a segment when a real journalist and truth teller gets simply tried of having the generic "conversation" of "both sides have their story" and takes journalism to where it should always be: Pure truth-telling. Ali Abunimah was sick and tired of Zionist propaganda amalgamated with the real full tales of Gaza pain, and told it like it was. This is a prime example of why news conversations can only be meaningful with people that would acknowledge simple facts first instead of trying to "balance" the discussion. I really couldn't feel bad for Ahmed here because this is the type of news segment that regularly happens on cable news and needs to not occur on an online news channel that wants to keep it fully real all the way. Unless they just want "a conversation." Anybody can have "a conversation." All news organizations instead should have conversations that start with acknowledging key facts before it begins. A...

And our one sided storytelling from cable news........ And how it is fairly covered: And let's use a snark photo to highlight the discrepancy:  Another another one: And yet, we always report from our centrists with the Zionists, even reckless fools like Netanyahu, getting all the headlines and treatment first and foremost. It really is embarrassing. 

A story quickly becoming a national one sadly is the story of Kimberly Young. Now Kimberly was basically a few months older than me, and I can sort of relate to her story. But what was her story? As the title suggests, it is a sad one. Especially when I have to use the words "was" instead of "is." From KYpost.com , via the incomparable TPM and its LiveWire . Young, just like me, was a recent college graduate. And just like her, I have no health insurance at this point because of being a freelance journalist at this point. For those who can't here or see the report on the KYpost link, here is the basics of the story. Young, who was reportedly a very healthy young lady, contracted the swine flu (H1N1) somehow, someway. Now Young was working a bunch of jobs after she graduated from Miami University (the Ohio one) in December 08. Those places she was employed through, including this one, didn't provide something very crucial to what every employee should be giv...

The report from ESPN McNair's shocking and depressing murder may lead to some evoking memories of how Sean Taylor was murdered over a year and a half ago in 2007. But I think this is a way different case. With that shooting, the murderers who tried to rob Taylor where trying to rob him first before eventually shooting him. They were shocked to see Taylor there at the home, and primarily thought about embezzling whatever possessions he had before reacting to firing at him and tragically ending his life. However, as I said before, the number one initiative for today's murderer was not taking McNair's possessions or anything he had. Rather, killing him was the top, first, and only goal. And it was a goal that they were sadly able to achieve. It hurts my soul, and many others right now of course.

This is the prime example of the corporate media. Instead of trying to inform the public about the history of dealing with deficits, they continue the echo chamber of "This is going to be too much" or "The deficit is getting bigger and bigger and bigger". It is understandable for anyone to be concerned about debt and ask, "How are we going to pay for this?" It's a question that is definitely understandable from any person with rational sense. But I hope that question is coming from those who asked the same interrogative sense about tax cuts, the war in Iraq, and a few other characteristics that I am sure Professor Stiglitz talked about today. Because it would seem hypocritical if it didn't. Nevertheless, whether they were always budget conscience before or not, the narrative of "We don't have this money" or "We can't spend this much on health care because it will automatically exacerbate our deficit even further" is ge...

Mike Wooten is the state trooper who life is ruined forever, all because of his state governor(Photo from google.com) Obviously, since there have been no posts today until now at 8PM Eastern, there will be no agenda set for today. Instead, there will be an alternative to that. A column from The Reel Feel through it's entire length. No highlighted quotes or anything like that. This column, for those readers at the Daily Kos of this site (and I am grateful for you all), may have seen this column yesterday. It is simply about the person who truly despises Sarah Palin like no other. And rightly so. All critics of the trainwreck joke that is Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin have nothing on what Mike Wooten has for the disgust, anger, and rational acrimony he has for her. I don't know what was going on in the life of Wooten before he was a state trooper. I'm far from cognizant on whether the man was a good guy or a jerk before he received that job. And unless you are a member of his...

Photo from CNN's Sara Weisfeldt This story will make most who read this cry. This story is so real, that it had to be placed on TRF as well . Anthony Acevedo thumbs through the worn, yellowed pages of his diary emblazoned with the words "A Wartime Log" on its cover. It's a catalog of deaths and atrocities he says were carried out on U.S. soldiers held by Nazis at a slave labor camp during World War II -- a largely forgotten legacy of the war. It gets deeper: He was one of 350 U.S. soldiers held at Berga an der Elster, a satellite camp of the Nazis' notorious Buchenwald concentration camp. The soldiers, working 12-hour days, were used by the German army to dig tunnels and hide equipment in the final weeks of the war. Less than half of the soldiers survived their captivity and a subsequent death march, he says. It hits your soul: His body shakes, and he begins sobbing. "Sorry," he says, tears rolling down his face. "I'm sorry." And it shows...

From google.com, via Dailykos.com What I wrote over at The Reel Feel today (and yup, that site still exists): Here in Boston, either from fellow students or people in this town, I have sadly been subjected to the terrible feeling of being stereotyped, neglected, underestimated, and indirectly disrespected because of my race despite being a student at a renowned institution. And it hasn't come just from white students or white residents here in Boston, or in New York. I’ve felt that coolness from a variety of different races, from Asian (Southeast Asian, Indian included) to Hispanic to even, well, my own race (if that is even possible). Feeling a little sullen by this, it fuels my passion even more, without even going into full detail of his policies, into the rapture I have for these people to turn around and vote for a black man despite the fact of their egregious treatment of another black man because of my color. It continues..... This is why the most important thing in this ele...