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#Newtown: ‘Exotic Weapons’? Nope.

Posted on | December 18, 2012 | 13 Comments

Today on the Endless Gun Control Telethon that is MSNBC — I Watch, So You Don’t Have To™ — a guest on Morning Joe referred to the Newtown shooting as exemplifying the problem caused by “exotic weapons.” This demonstrates the problem caused by common ignorance.

Adam Lanza’s weapons were a Bushmaster .223-caliber semi-automatic, a type described by the New York Times as “the most popular rifle in America, according to gun dealers,” as well as two 9-mm pistols (Glock and Sig Sauer) and a shotgun of unknown make.

These are not “exotic weapons” by any definition.

It has been reported that the shotgun was found in the deranged gunman’s mother’s vehicle, which he drove to the school after shooting her in the face, and that the main weapon he used in his massacre was the Bushmaster, using 30-round magazines. Here’s a headline:

 Assault weapons in the cross hairs
— Law.com

Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Californication) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Corruption) are vowing legislation to bring back the (absurdly misnamed) “assault weapons ban.”

We will leave aside the biggest aspect of the misnomer (i.e., semi-automatic rifles are not “assault weapons”) and focus instead on the “ban” part of this rhetorical delusion. The Bushmaster was NOT banned under the law Democrats want to bring back.

What we are dealing with here — amidst the chaotic cacophony of frenzied liberal noise — is another one of those “do something” episodes that occasionally afflict the media/politics nexus. The follies that result from the “do something” impulse, as politicians react to the latest headline and try to reassure voters that government can fix whatever problem concerns them, has resulted in some of the most awful stupidity in history, including Republican stupidity: Terrorists strike New York? Create a new government agency for airport security! Give the feds more wiretapping authority! Invade some foreign countries! And . . . how’d that work out for ya?

There’s Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre
— Megan McArdle

Consider the possibility that we really can’t “do something” in terms of dramatic new legislation, but rather that seemingly small adjustments — in terms of policy and practice, in terms of training, enforcement and investigation — could make a significant difference. I have sarcastically referred to “The Dangerous Lunatic Incarceration Act of 2013,” meaning to suggest we re-examine how we deal with mental illness, especially in terms of the policies (and misguided court decisions) of the 1960s and ’70s that we refer to collectively as “de-institutionalization.”

Da Tech Guy offers an interesting idea: Let retired law enforcement and military personnel serve as volunteer armed “sheepdogs” in schools.

My personal favorite quote of the day:

“I refuse to dwell in the madness and melancholia
inherent in the human condition.”

Whatever you do, if you’re feeling depressed or stressed, don’t watch MSNBC. This insane crap could drive anybody nuts.




 


Category: Crime, MSNBC

I’d Always Taken ‘Valley of the Shadow’ As A Psalm 23 Reference

Posted on | December 18, 2012 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

Joe Fein has an important post up about dealing with existential issues. Go read/comment/link.

Americans come in all manner of shades, sizes and ideals.
One of the first lessons I learned in NYC was not to stereotype anyone.
All I can hope for is that we are treated as individuals, not as a group.

If I may offer a positive, non-prescriptive observation, I’ve never heard of a major atrocity committed by someone who:

  • Got decent rest,
  • Took exercise,
  • Ate reasonably, and
  • Was active in some community of faith.

The possible exception that comes to mind is Charles C. Roberts, but even the extreme case gets at my point: be engaged. The well-reflected life is not lived passively, disconnected from those in the immediate vicinity*. The social and political order of the country depends upon Americans NOT being sheep. Progressivism wants to build some Orwellian/Huxlian paradise, where Statism supersedes the Judeo-Christian emphasis upon the individual/family as the unit of societal analysis.

The struggle to be who we are and carry out or individual destinies is really where life is located, at least from a temporal sense. So be about that. Sorry, I can’t pull a “Just do what I did.” My own path was unique to an introverted Navy brat. Though, to divulge a secret, taking a prayerful read through the Bible was life-changing. Especially Ecclesiastes, for whatever odd reason.

The alternative is to permit these political creeps to sell your liberty short on the market for political power, and then use that power to beat you down.

Fight the good fight, Joe.

*Significant medical barrier notwithstanding, obviously.

Category: Valley of the Shadow

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.18.12

Posted on | December 18, 2012 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
President Makes New Proposal To Narrow Gap On Cliff

Speaker Boehner walks back to his office after a meeting with the President

Obama’s proposal calls for $1.2 trillion in increased revenue, $1.2 trillion in spending cuts

Chief Nanny Bloomberg Appeals Again For More Gun Control
No indication Obama is listening

South Africa’s Zuma Faces Challenge For ANC Leadership
Deputy President Motlanthe aspires to Chairman’s post



POLITICS
Medal Of Honor-Winning Hero, Senator: Daniel Inouye Dies, 88

Senator Daniel K. Inouye, 1924-2012, RIP

Won Medal of Honor with legendary 442nd Regimental Combat Team during WW2; became Hawaii’s first Congressman and senior Senator

Former Massachusetts State Chemist Indicted

Pennsylvania, NJ Dems Call For Stricter Gun Control

Governor Haley Picks Rep. Tim Scott To Fill DeMint Seat In Senate

Obama Expected To Nominate Kerry To Succeed Clinton As SecState

Fort Hood Suspect To Appear In Court For Hearing

Hagel Draws Fire For His Position On Israel



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Remains Below $87 As US Fiscal Concerns Drag On; NYMEX $86.66, Brent $107.82
Stocks Advance With Commodities On Signs Of US Budget Progress
Morgan Stanley Fined $5 Million Over Facebook IPO
Farmers Worry About Dairy Prices As Deadline Nears, And Obsolete 1949 Ag Act Provisions May Be Revived
McDonald’s Might Be Open This Christmas
Clearwire Accepts Sprint Bid At $2.97/Share
Too Big To Jail? Critics Question Why Bank Execs Don’t Face Money Laundering Charges
Judge Denies Apple Request To Ban Samsung Phones
Celebrity Hacker Gets Ten Years For E-Mail Hack
Facebook Takes On Foursquare And Yelp With “Nearby”
IBM Predicts Computers That Embrace The Five Senses
Google, FTC Near Deal To End Probe
If Hulu’s Still For Sale, The Price Just Went Up



SPORTS
Titans’ Defense Delivers In 14-10 Win Over Jets

Jets QB Tim Tebow gets sacked by Titans LB Zach Brown

Tennessee’s defense forces five turnovers from Sanchez, sacks Tebow once

Linsanity Returns To The Garden

Cy Ya Later: Mets Trade R.A. Dickey To The Blue Jays

Red Wings’ Cleary: Nearly Everyone Will Vote To Disband NHLPA

Red Sox Sign Stephen Drew To One-Year Deal

Grizzlies Overcome Slow Start To Beat Bulls

Giants Sign Reliever Casilla To Three-Year Extension

Australian Quicks Secure Dramatic Test Win



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
It’s Official: Zooey Deschanel Divorced

Zooey Deschanel and ex-husband Ben Gibbard

Both waived claims for spousal support

Brooke Mueller Out Of Rehab

NBC Honchos Considering Jimmy Fallon To Take Over “Tonight Show”

Channing And Jenna Dewan-Tatum Expecting First Child

New Questions Surrounding Amy Winehouse’s Death

Ricky Gervais In Talks To Star In “Muppets” Sequel

TLC Delays “Best Funeral Ever” In Wake Of School Shootings

Britney To Bow Out Of “X Factor”?

Universal Sets “Skyfall” Scribes To Work On “Kojak” For Vin Diesel



FOREIGNERS
Reform-Minded PRC Shuns Stimulus
Speculation On Bashar Assad Exit Grows As VP Says Loyalists Can’t Win
Overwhelming Majority Of Diet Members Support Amending Japan’s Constitution To Allow Collective Defense
Park Geun-Hye On Verge Of Becoming ROK’s First Female President
PRC Detains 101 For Spreading Mayan Doomsday Rumors
Israel Approves East Jerusalem Settlement Construction
Cleanup Begins After Tornado Devastates Fiji
Berlusconi’s Love Life Lost In Translation



BLOGS & STUFF
Valley Of The Shadow: In The Crosshairs Of Stereotypes – Mental Illness, Being Goth, And Being Republican
Allahpundit: Obama Concedes On New, Higher Income Thresholds For Tax Hikes
Weasel Zippers: Obama Makes Fiscal Cliff Counteroffer
NRO Corner: Obama’s Counteroffer
Megan McArdle: There’s Little We Can Do To Prevent Another Massacre
Joanne Jacobs: “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother”
Doug Powers: Senator Dukakis? That’s A No
Twitchy: University Of North Alabama Boots Football Player For Racist Tweet About Obama
Gateway Pundit: St. Louis County Police Chief Says Arm The Teachers
Protein Wisdom: Going On The Offensive
Atlas Shrugs: US Ambassador Tells Georgia To Vote For A “Palestinian” State
Jawa Report: Fate Of Hostage Journalist In Syria Unknown
Larry Pratt: Eliminate “Gun-Free Zone” Regulations

Category: Live at Five

Dan Collins and His Son

Posted on | December 17, 2012 | 6 Comments

Childhood Onset Schizophrenia — a condition rare enough that the doctor had never seen it. Guess somebody had to draw the short straw.

Damn. Hard luck, Dan. Did I ever tell you about the time I went all-in with a full house, and the other guy turned over four of a kind?

When I was talking to Cynthia Yockey earlier she offered a suggestion that perhaps Adam Lanza was misdiagnosed, and that he had another personality disorder that was mistaken for (or hidden by) Asperger’s syndrome. It was an interesting theory.

All six of our children have been healthy so far, and for this we should be grateful. Dan Collins and his family should be in everybody’s prayers.

Category: Dan Collins

Patterico on Tommy Christopher and the ‘Wheelerization’ of Steven Crowder

Posted on | December 17, 2012 | 11 Comments

You really need to read the article that Patterico put up about how Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher went “all-in” on the claim that a Michigan union thug’s assault of Steven Crowder was a hoax:

I would love to know where Tommy Christopher got the idea that Lee Stranahan and Breitbart.com had something to do with the Crowder video. Just who are the “[p]eople familiar with Breitbart ‘News’ videographers’ penchant for misleading edits” who “immediately smelled a rat” due to the (non)involvement of [Lee] Stranahan with this video?

How curious a coincidence, and how amazing that Patterico — while the rest of us spent the past four days all up in the Connecticut shooting and aftermath — maintained his focus on the Michigan story. But I don’t think it’s entirely a coincidence. Remember what I wrote last week:

After yesterday’s incident in which labor union activists tore down an Americans for Prosperity tent in Lansing and sucker-punched Stephen Crowder, this headline zoomed up the Memorandum aggregation:
Breitbart Folks Appear to Fake Violence in Lansing
Huh? This was a decidedly odd piece of blogging: The claim that somehow the union thug clobbering Crowder was part of a right-wing hoax, based on such “evidence” as the event having been reported by “James O’Keefe’s buddy” Lee Stranahan — because, hey, if anybody at Breitbart thinks it’s actually news, that means it must be phony, right?
Also, the video was edited. Anybody who edits a video is obviously engaged in some kind of evil conspiracy.
What the hell is this silly gibberish? Are these people crazy?

Marcy Wheeler — who is Marcy Wheeler? And how was it that she got this same Stranahan/Breitbart meme about “deceptively edited” video that was ballyhooed by Tommy Christopher? Isn’t it interesting that Tommy also Wheelerized the Patrick Moran story?

Go read Ron Brynaert’s Pastebin file (which I found via Google by searching “Marcy + Wheeler + Rauhauser”) and notice that the names of Tommy Christopher (9 references) and Lee Stranahan (11 references) also occur in connection with the search for the still-mysterious “Jennifer George” angle on the Anthony Weiner scandal. “Alicia Pain” is also an element, along with the SWATtings of Patterico and Mike Stack.

Now go read Patterico’s post, which he projects as the first of a five-part series. Did somebody hit the “SMITE” button on his keyboard?

Category: Patterico

Still Crazy, After All These Years

Posted on | December 17, 2012 | 36 Comments

The loony bin, the funny farm, the nuthouse — it is not politically correct to refer to therapeutic institutions in such slang terminology, but this PC attitude of apologetic sensitivity toward the mentally ill doesn’t really help anyone, least of all the kooks themselves. If someone is dealing with clinical depression or paranoid schizophrenia, insensitive slang isn’t their biggest problem. It’s not even in the Top Ten.

Maybe you won’t take my word for it — hey, what do I know about being crazy? — but I’d urge you to heed my friend Lisa Graas:

Msgr. Charles Pope has written a personal story about mental illness that I recommend. He offers that people die from mental illness every day. His sister was among them. I have nearly been counted among them multiple times, having been put behind locked doors for my own safety. Mental illness runs in my family, and so, I am not the only person in my family who has spent time behind those locked doors. As Msgr. Pope points out, not enough people are behind locked doors for their own safety because too many people believe mental hospitals are “inhumane” ways to deal with the mentally ill. In reality, it is inhumane not to confine people who are a danger to themselves or to others.

Read the Monsignor’s story, and when you’re finished with that, go hit Lisa’s tip jar — every time someone hits her tip jar, an angel gets his wings.

 

Category: Lisa Graas

Furnishing Your Tidy Little Mind

Posted on | December 17, 2012 | 33 Comments

Just wrote a long e-mail to a friend who, in reaction to last night’s 3,000-word rant about the nature of mental illness, described some of the emotional issues experienced by relatives of those usually non-emotive people with Asperger’s syndrome.

Depending on the severity of the affliction, what happens in such cases is that people who have to cope daily with the problem end up adjusting their mental categories of “normal” behavior. This is true as much for other disorders as it is for Asperger’s. Friends and relatives of Lindsay Lohan grow accustomed to her patterns of behavior — the relapse, the binge, the crash, the rehab, the court hearing. They’ve coped with it so often it doesn’t really seem extraordinary to them.

I keep recommending Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations as a guide to understanding a lot of what causes these problems. Not every kook or weirdo or celebrity basket case is a narcissist, but whenever you see people who can’t ever seem to take responsibility for their own problems, there’s usually a narcissism issue somewhere in the vicinity.

Everybody’s got problems in life. There are few people so psychologically healthy that they couldn’t occasionally be diagnosed as kooky. My sarcasm is obviously pathological, and co-blogger Smitty has a fondness for obscure puns that clearly puts him in the abnormal range. Unfortunately, the National Institutes for Mental Health turned down my grant application to study the unusual proliferation of weirdos in the blogosphere, so the diagnostic categories remain hopelessly ambiguous.

Nor have I been able to find a publisher for my proposed book, I’m OK, You’re Kind of Weird, But Bill Schmalfeldt Is a Raging Sociopath.

These are just the morning wisecracks, kind of a warm-up exercise to begin another day of relentless sarcasm. TV news today is full of somber seriousness, and it’s driving me nuts:

“Special coverage of Our Nation’s Tragedy will continue, right after these advertisements for laxatives and car insurance.”

Networks pay millions of dollars a year for the services of news anchors who can pretend that what they’re doing is anything other than a carnival sideshow to sell the advertiser’s product. News for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Read — these lucrative televised spectacles inspire less cynical scoffing than they deserve. Nothing like a national tragedy to boost ratings, after all, and you know full well that the correspondent now peering grimly into the camera will be chuckling merrily with his colleagues as soon as the Breaking News Update is over. And why shouldn’t he chuckle? He’s getting paid handsomely to report this tragedy, and charges his travel expenses on the company AmEx card.

People who say they hate “the media” usually mean they hate TV news, a hatred shared by those of us whose medium is the written word. Another book I frequently recommend is Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, quite possibly the most important book you’ve never read.

The author, Neil Postman, was a man of the Left and you’ll find some characteristic liberal jabs in the text, but his larger point transcends partisanship or ideology: TV sucks, it is by its very nature an anti-intellectual enterprise, anathemic to rational discourse.

My problem is that watching this stuff — or at least having the TV in the room tuned to cable news while I’m typing, so that the chatter goes on, even though I seldom actually watch it — is more or less a professional obligation. Every blogger is a media critic of sorts, although in the hyperpartisanship of the Obama Age, liberal bloggers only criticize Fox News, whereas we conservatives are expected to aim at Liberal Bias.

News flash: Fox News sucks, too.

Even without liberal bias, TV news sucks. For a couple hours today, I suffered through Fox News Channel’s lachrymose coverage of Our Nation’s Tragedy, until the goopy emotionalism became too much and I switched the channel over to MSNBC — I Watch, So You Don’t Have To™ — because I’ve met Bill Hemmer, I like Bill Hemmer, and I didn’t enjoy my embarrassment at Bill Hemmer’s participation in this Plastic Grief Festival.

Change the channel and hate those MSNBC guys. It just feels better to hate them than to wriggle with psychic discomfort watching Fox.

TV is very much about emotion, and the show-biz aspect requires that the performers attempt to exemplify the appropriate mood, conveying by their expressions and posture and tone of voice how we’re supposed to feel about what is being reported. When they’re reporting mass murder, the anchors and correspondents and commentators are required to convey compassion as if they’ve got a monopoly on caring.

This display of empathy is annoying to any reasonably intelligent viewer, who understands that he is watching a performance, and that the people putting on this show are doing so because they are paid for it.

Chuck Todd and Chris Jansing don’t care more about shooting victims than you do. They’re just getting paid to act like they care more than you do. This is show business, after all.

You’re not supposed to point this out, and nobody on TV news will ever mention it. And we’ll be back with more cynical sarcasm, after this word from our sponsor, Amazon Associates!

 

 

UPDATE: Other than just a way to fill up the blog with content, generate traffic, and try to reap a little revenue, this is a type of media criticism we get too little of, namely the kind that focuses not on what is said or shown, but on the medium through which it is said or shown.

We don’t think about this enough: How is communicating via the written word different than communicating through sound and images?

Neil Postman thought a lot about that, and how the constant presence of TV in our lives has changed the way we think. Postman’s book The Disappearance of Childhood examined especially how television has shaped the lives of children. Considering as I say that Postman was a man of the Left, his insights and opinions on this subject are marvelously agreeable to common-sense conservative ideas about parenting.

Postman wrote these books before the rise of the multichannel cable TV phenomenon, DVDs, video downloads and online gaming, but what he writes about TV as a medium has a general value to understanding these newer developments in media culture.

Even blogging has its own inherent tendencies, so that it’s probably a bit jolting when I end an update by saying, we’ll be back after this word from our sponsor, Amazon Associates!

 

 

UPDATE II: John Hoge on the deranged gunman:

There are people who are mad, so completely bonkers, that they truly aren’t responsible for their actions. There are also folks who know right from wrong and who choose evil. Some of these may have a biochemical imbalance in their brain chemistry, but they still know what they are doing and choose not to moderate their behavior.

We’ll be back with further news updates. Meanwhile, MSNBC — which spent the entire year dwelling on (a) the War on Women and (b) the importance of taxing greedy rich Republicans like Mitt Romney — has become all-gun-control, all-the-time. It’s painful to watch.




 

UPDATE III: Returning to the subject of mental illness, I just got off the phone with Cynthia Yockey, who promises further discussion of (a) eliminating the veal pens known as “gun-free zones,” and (b) how to deal with kooks.

You may disagree with Cynthia, but it’s important to remember she’s what some ignorant bigots call a “lesbian,” afflicted with a condition that tolerant, sensitive and enlightened experts recognize as Penis Aversion Disorder. Don’t hate her. She’s a victim.

Speaking of victimhood, the effort to understand what caused Adam Lanza to commit this awful atrocity in Connecticut can sometimes seem like an effort to portray the killer as a victim in his own right. In truth, the murderous nutjob was always a creepy little weirdo:

At Newtown High School, Adam Lanza often had crises that only his mother could defuse.
“He would have an episode, and she’d have to return or come to the high school and deal with it,” said Richard Novia, the school district’s head of security until 2008.
Adam Lanza would sometimes withdraw, Novia said. “[He] could take flight … and it wasn’t a rebellious or defiant thing. “It was withdrawal.”
When people approached him in the hall, he would press himself against the wall or walk in a different direction, clutching his black briefcase.

We’ll be back with more news, commentary and arguably inappropriate sarcasm, right after this word from our sponsor, Amazon Associates!

 

 

UPDATE IV: Instapundit discusses “the instinct toward moral bullying and control coupled with appalling ignorance.” This could describe MSNBC programming today. Or any other day, for that matter.

It’s important to distinguish between (a) sarcasm directed at the media and (b) any disrespect toward the families grieving in Connecticut. For example, if Ezra Klein of the Washington Post says something heinously stupid — and predictably, he did — you can and should mock Klein witih every joke in your arsenal of ridicule. Ezra Klein is no more entitled to respectful discourse than is, for example, Adam Lanza. Klein is paid a six-figure salary by the Washington Post to serve as an in-house Democrat Party propagandist, and deserves all the mockery he gets in return.

Speaking of which, some ignoramus commentator on MSNBC’s Gun-Control Telethon (now in its fourth day) just spoke of the NRA as “the gun manufacturer’s lobby.” Thanks to the commenter who brings up this quote from Hunter S. Thompson’s book, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ’80’s:

“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”

No one could possibly argue with that. Except an ignoramus on TV.

UPDATE V: Once more, some of the best stuff on the blog is written by our commenters:

I studied at Bradford University, home to the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, and I got a bloody good insight into the psychology and sociological impact of televisionboth as a technology and a medium. I learned how the combination of high frequency flickering, soundscape and imagery combined to generate a mental state that bypasses all of the conscious and subconscious checks and balances to — in essence — reprogram the Id itself.
TV is dangerous. Really dangerous. Psychologically unbalancing.

The same commenter explains that I’ve incorrectly described the symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome. So I got it wrong, because I’m not “just a blogger,” but also a professional journalist.

A big part of what I try to do — and what Hunter S. Thompson so brilliantly did — is to demystify journalism, which is too often portrayed as requiring a species of gnostic wisdom to which only the Enlightened Priests of the Esoteric Cult have access. Once you’ve been inside the temple and met the supposed Wise Men, it’s hard to maintain that reverential attitude toward the cult and its putative wisdom.

 


UPDATE VI: When Neil Postman died in 2003, I was pleasantly surprised to be invited to write this for the British Guardian newspaper:

The influential American media critic Neil Postman would probably have appreciated the irony that his death, from lung cancer at the age of 72, quickly gave rise to tribute pages on the internet – if only because he never used the internet, did not own a computer or even use a typewriter. His 20 books and more than 200 articles were all written in longhand.
Postman was deeply suspicious of the common American belief that technology can solve all mankind’s woes. He was fond of asking about various innovations, “What is the problem to which this is the solution?”
A professor of media ecology at New York University, he was outraged that billions of dollars were spent in the 1990s to connect every American classroom to the internet: “Why? Is there clear evidence that children learn better when they have access to the internet? The answer is no.” . . .

Read the whole thing. The only occasion in my career when I’ve ever cashed a check denominated in pounds.

 

Category: Books, Crime, Culture, Media Bias

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.17.12

Posted on | December 17, 2012 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party Retakes Power With Landslide Victory

Former/future Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and LDP Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba chalk up another seat won by their party

LDP wins 294 of 480 seats, coalition partner New Komeito 31 for two-thirds majority; Japan Restoration Party takes 54, DPJ 57 (down from 230)


Gujarat’s BJP Boss Narendra Modi Confident Of Hat Trick
Third phase of polling in Indian state already under way


President Rejects Swap Of Higher Millionaire Tax Rates For Entitlement Reform
Fiscal cliff deal looking increasingly remote



POLITICS
Boehner Offers Debt-Ceiling Increase In Fiscal Cliff Deal

President Obama, Speaker Boehner

Speaker offers to push back debt limit fight for a year


Nevada: Odd Mix Of Right-To-Work State With Strong Unions


O: “These Tragedies Must End”

Newtown’s Own Gun-Control Measures  Couldn’t Pass

Bloomberg, McCarthy Beat The Drums For More Gun Control

Congress’ Failure To Patch AMT Could Lead To Delayed Refunds



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Prices Up Slightly On Signs Of Demand In US, PRC: NYMEX $86.88, Brent $108.17
Natural Gas Drops For Third Straight Week On Persistent Warm Weather
Japan, PRC Stocks Higher On Stimulus Hopes
Cisco Hires Barclays To Sell Linksys Division
Facebook, Google Release 2012 Trends
Apple Sells Two Mission iPhone 5S In PRC In Three Days
Samsung, Apple Duel In Enterprise Tech
Twitter Offered To Buy Instagram For $525 Million Before Facebook Deal
Apple Cut To Neutral By Citibank
Dell Quits Smartphone Business
Write Your Own FAQ: Valve Unveils “Game Guides” Beta



SPORTS
Tom Brady Almost Pulls It Off

Patriots’ second-half rally falls short as 49ers clinch playoff berth with 41-34 win

Cowboys Top Steelers In OT, 27-24

Dickey Deal Nearly Done

Lakers Finally Win One, Beat Sixers 111-98

Falcons Stomp Giants 34-0

Adrian Peterson, Vikings Run Wild Over Rams, 36-22

Bears’ Skid Hits 6 With Loss To Packers

NHL Files Unfair Labor Charges Against Players’ Union

Nationals/LaRoche Non-Update #3



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Dear Charlie: Sorry I Never Said Thanks For The $100K

Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan sends thank-you note and flowers to benefactor Charlie Sheen
Related: “She knows her life is out of control”

Kate Middleton Makes First Official Appearance Since Pregnancy Announcement

Kat Von D And Deadmau5 Engaged


Today Show Offers Pippa Middleton Role As Royalty Correspondent

Matt Damon Opens Up About Ben Affleck Gay Rumors

Frank Ocean: “I Told Y’All My Album Would Be The Best!”

ABC Developing Comedy Based On Justin Bieber’s Life

City Attorney PISSED After Amanda Bynes Skates On Hit & Run Charges



FOREIGNERS
Chavez’ Socialists Take 20 Of 23 Governor Seats
Abe Pledges No Compromise Over Senkaku Islands
Norks Observe First Anniversary Of Dear Leader’s Demise
Car Bomb Explodes Outside American Compound In Kabul
Syrian Rebels Take Loyalist Base At Aleppo
Lady Aristos Want Inheritable Titles After Change To Royal Succession Law
ANC Congress Faces Leadership Challenge Amidst Corruption Allegations, Scandals
Egyptians Appear To Back Charter, But Opposition Alleges Widespread Vote Fraud
Berlusconi Announces Engagement To 27-Year Old TV Presenter



BLOGS & STUFF
NRO Corner: Lanza’s Weapons
Althouse: Joe Lieberman On Censoring Pop Culture And Reporting “Troublesome” Young Men
Israel Matzav: An American Heroine
Weasel Zippers: Liberals Call For Murder Of NRA President, Members
Lonely Conservative: Boehner Agrees To Lift Debt Limit For A Year
Moe Lane: Buzzfeed Upset That NRA Not Rushing To Get Shooting Details Wrong – Like Buzzfeed
The Camp Of The Saints: Because…RAAAAACISM!
Atlas Shrugs: Pro-Sharia Thugs Attack Opponents Ahead Of Referendum
Legal Insurrection: Injecting Racial Politics Into The Newtown Murders

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