How the Dred Scott Decision and the Black Panthers provided America with its first meaningful calls for gun control. Originally broadcast on the David Feldman Show.
The Racist Origins Of Gun Control
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Ballroom Turns Violent After Eric Cantor Concedes Defeat
U.S. Congressman and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) goes down in flames.
It was bad enough for Majority Leader Eric Cantor that he lost tonight’s primary to a Tea Party insurgent, but things got ugly at his victory party turned wake.
After Cantor conceded and left the ballroom immigration activists broke in and began screaming for immigration reform. Police had to be called, but not before a Cantor supporter tossed a glass of wine at a female protester. Just because Cantor went down in defeat the GOP’s war on women continues. This from the Washington Post:
Then things became rowdy. A group of immigration activists suddenly stormed the ballroom, screaming and waving a flag. “What do we want? Immigration reform! When do we want it? Now!”A few Cantor supporters tried to block them, and there was pushing and shoving. One supporter threw his glass of wine onto a female protester. She swore at him in return.A hotel employee took the microphone to warn, in Spanish, that the police were on their way. The police did come, and the protesters left. As they walked through the parking lot afterward, a Cantor supporter shouted, “Get a job!”
Watch: President Obama Shames America Into Doing Something About The Gun Violence
President Obama, like most Americans, like most members of the NRA, is appalled by the rash of gun violence in this country. Today he stated what we already know, and that is no other developed country would put up with the frightening number of school shootings. Watch:
Watch: Glenn Beck Complains He Can’t Say The N-Word Or Call Somebody A Fag
Highlights from Glen Beck’s TV Show.
Glenn Beck this week talked with a street artist named Sabo. The two of them bemoaned the thought police forbidding them from even saying, “Fag is the new nigger.” I’m guessing Sabo is a street artist much the same way Nazis who painted “Juden” on Jewish owned stores during Kristalnacht were “street muralists.” Of course Beck then went on to say that Obama was no different from Hitler.
From Media Matters.
Senator Whoever
Eric Schwartz did this with all my friends!
Senator Whoever by Eric Schwartz from Eric Schwartz on Vimeo.
Iraq To Arm Its Citizens
Sounds insane when other countries do it.
Iraq PM says govt will arm citizens to fight militants (via AFP)
The Iraqi government will provide weapons and equipment to citizens who volunteer to fight against militants, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Tuesday. Maliki, in a statement broadcast on state TV, said the cabinet has “created a special crisis…