Sarah Palin today released a video on Facebook expressing her grief and outrage over Saturday’s shootings in Tucson. She also explained her rhetoric and hit back at those who have suggested that the level of political discourse in the country is, in part, to blame for Jared Lee Loughner’s unhinged rampage. “We know violence isn’t [...]
This written statement was just handed to reporters outside the Loughners’ house, that of Jared and his parents, in Tucson: This is a very difficult time for us. We ask the media to respect our privacy. There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish that there were, so we could [...]
Just caught up with what Ed Schultz said about me on last night’s show. I wouldn’t continue this dialogue–I agree with Ed about a lot of things, especially the impact of financial oligarchs on our economy–but it seems to me that he’s reinforcing my original point here: that cable doesn’t do complexity well. And to [...]
With the help of one of the authors of the study I cited yesterday, Jeffrey Swanson of Duke, and a psychiatrist friend who teaches at a major university and has treated patients with psychosis for close to 20 years, I have tracked down some other articles on the subject of environmental influence on people with [...]
It’s been 20 years since a U.S. Secretary of State traveled to Yemen, and Hillary Clinton’s appearance today in the capital city of Sana’a vividly underscores the Obama administration’s fast-growing concern, as detailed by John Brennan last month, about the threat Yemeni-based al Qaeda operatives pose to America. (The Christmas Day 2009 “underwear bomber” originated [...]
Andrew Sullivan makes some good points in response to David Brooks’s belief that psychosis, not politics, was the casus berserkus of the shooting–although I tend to stand closer to Brooks in this matter. To keep things in perspective, however, it’s important to state the obvious: We don’t know anything yet. We may have some clues [...]
It is possible that the latest violence will spark a resurgence in interest in stricter gun control measures. But the long range trends, despite the shootings at Columbine and Virginia Tech, is hard to mistake. The simple fact is that less and less Americans have been calling for more gun control, with little variation, since [...]
Sometimes, the silence says it all. And so, in a city that runs on rhetoric and bombast, the only moments that really mattered Monday were the ones when no one said a thing. The President stood with his wife, their heads down before the South Lawn, flanked by hundreds of White House staff, from the [...]
