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Open Letter to the President: Re Resolution of Fiscal Cliff

Dear President Obama I always credit you with saving this nation's bacon from falling into the abyss of a New Great Depression at the beginning of your first term. I also really like what you did for marriage equality and the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. And most recently, your initiatives on gun control. In most other regards, however, you are the third term of the Bush/Cheney White House: You gave an umbrella to the war criminals of the previous administration; you exchange the policy of torture with drone assassination which are proving as fine tuned and precise as brain surgury with a baseball bat. [On that note, some advice. The people who engineered 9/11 (World Trade Center edition) were our FRIENDS once upon a time. They were the mujahadeen trained and armed by the CIA against Russia. Osama bin Laden and even Sadam Hussein were OUR creatures at one time. How do you see this working out, killing their children and blowing up wedding parties, in 20 years tim...

Moral Hazard pt 2: Open Letter to Wayne La Pierre

After the Newtown Massacre of Innocents, I have followed your statements with interests Mr LaPierre. Never before have I heard the argument that the only way to put out a fire is to throw more wood on top of it. Color me AMAZED. Amazing too is your assertion that the ONLY thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Maybe you've been seeing spree shootings in some parallel dimension. Here in this universe it is usually a jammed chamber followed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, if the shooter isn't tackled by would be victims when he's reloading that stops a bad guys. Obviously, being forced to reload more often would give victims more chances to disarm their attacker, though you deny that point. Maybe logic works differently in that other universe you and other gun rights activists see so clearly. Everyone else has to live and be killed in this world. It was interesting how absolutely agnostic you were regarding the gun show loop-...