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• Censored 1998 Saturday Night Live Segment About Corporate Control of Media

  One of the frequent gripes of this blog is that the US media has become consolidated into the hands of a few multinational corporations. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2011 DEBATE

• Astroturfing: How Right, How Pointless?

  A useful comment from Astroturfing: How Right, How Pointless?.There is only one area of debate which is vital to environmentalism: how to balance preventative... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2011 DEBATE

• Actor Using Prop Guns Shot with Real One

  The Toledo Blade reports Tracci M. King, 21, and friends had just wrapped up their shoot-’em-up flick at 9:15 p.m., in which they wielded realistic-looking toy... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2011 DEBATE

• The Four Rules of Gun Safety

  T = Treat every firearm as if it is loaded. Never assume a firearm is unloaded and never treat it that way, even if you watch as it is unloaded. Make it a... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2011 DEBATE

• Utah Boy Critical After Gun Range Negligence

  The Deseret News reports A 15-year-old boy was taken to the hospital Saturday afternoon in extremely critical condition after accidentally shooting himself in... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2011 DEBATE

• Grizzlies React to Guns-in-Parks Law

  

  The Daily Mail reports A man found dead in Yellowstone Park last week was mauled by a grizzly, a month after officials refused to hunt a bear in another fatal... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2011 DEBATE

• Clayton Cramer's K-Tel Classic

  Doctor Memory's Classic post about character assassin, Clayton Cramer from: http://blank.org/memory/output/cramer.html Of course, Cramer is more than willing... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2011 DEBATE

• NRA Dumps Law Firm for Supporting Gay Rights

  So much for Civil Rights: The National Rifle Association (NRA) announced on Monday that it would no longer use the law firm King Spalding due to the firm's... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Well, He Knew Where His Wife Was

  When officers knocked on the door,Johnny Bass answered and told them everything was fine at the home, police said. Police said the officers asked him where his... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Five Facts About Guns, Anger, and Violence

  Repost from All the Rage--Commentary and Resources on the Science of Anger (see--attribution--not my product, but reprinted by permission) Gun policy debate... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Chuck Norris and David Carradine in Action

  via Lagniappe's Lairwhere they really go for the fantasy. Get a load of this remark, apparently inferring that Chcuk and David were exchanging real blows. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Jury Nullification

  A repost from my blog There is an interesting movement out there called "jury nullification", which is where the jurors refuse to convict a person even if the... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Did Gun Control Cause the Black Plague?

  

  Does that seem like a stupid question? Not in the light of Unhinged comment here: And the million Irish starved by the UK during the "famine", that's OK too,... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Stupidity About the Warsaw Ghetto, Jewish Resistance, and the War on the...

  

  I am going to start with Democommie's reponse: Neither I or anyone else said that the jews of Warsaw weren't brave, resourceful and tenacious. They were,... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Blocking Firearms

  Some self-defence systems teach how to disarm people with firearms, in particular krav maga. Krav maga is the IDF method of self-defence. How To Disarm A Gun? Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Another Gun Violence Tragedy on the East Coast

  

  I'm guessing this man's daughter will grow up disliking guns; probably not thinking too well of her late father either. Because apparently natural disasters wer... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Iraq Veterans Against the War

  A long time ago, I belonged to The Viet Nam Veterans Against the War, even though I was only a Viet-Nam-Era veteran, no combat experience. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Domestic Murder and Suicide in PA

  

  The Richmond Times Dispatch reports Leonard John Egland, 37, a logistics officer at the sprawling military base south of Richmond, is believed to have killed hi... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Bad Habit - Offspring

  Drivers are rudeSuch attitudesBut when I show my pieceComplaints ceaseSomething's oddI feel like I'm godYou stupid dumbshit goddamn motherfucker! "I feel like... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 DEBATE

• Robo-Cop Redux?

  I had recorded this a few weeks ago to watch later, and later came around today while cutting up beans from the garden for freezing. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2011 DEBATE