In another post, commenter rmarin makes the argument: According to an IANSA report published in 2006, gun-related incidents result in 300,000 fatalities and one million injuries worldwide every year. Many of those guns come from the U.S. Mexican authorities reported that 80 percent of guns in the country came from the U.S., 50 percent of [...]

Lawrence Korb’s fascinating and depressing diary of a recent visit to Iraq, via Kevin Drum. ps–I’ve been told by several Congressional sources that troops intended for Baghdad are being diverted to Diyala and other trouble spots…which makes the counterinsurgency plan even more difficult to implement in the capital. From Reader Anonymous: To clear up a [...]

Who knew? Tommy Thompson tells Politico he was farmatert.

Katie Rooney with an update on campaign responses to the Virginia Tech murders. All of the presidential candidates with events scheduled today have either canceled or postponed them and most have released public statements regarding yesterday’s fatal shootings on the Virginia Tech campus. Here’s what the candidates have to say about the worst shooting in [...]

The last time we checked in with NRO’s John Derbyshire, he was expounding on his own hypothetical bravery regarding Iranian hostage-takers. Today, we learn that he also is completely fearless in imaginary domestic scenarios as well: Spirit of Self-Defense [John Derbyshire] As NRO’s designated chickenhawk, let me be the one to ask: Where was the [...]

Rush Limbaugh on Hillary Clinton: If you have fallen for the notion that the Clinton machine is sort of upside down and discombobulated and doesn’t quite know what’s going on here, you are falling for more myths from the media, which is designed to make it look like she has real competition so that she [...]