At last, Congress has passed its something’sbetter-than-nothing package of gun-safety legislation. Though the vast majority of Republicans voted against the extremely modest law, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) assures us that they are “committed to identifying and solving the root causes of violent crimes.”
The speed at which the teachers in our public schools went from being heroes who quickly adapted to pandemic isolation to villains causing longterm emotional stress for young people has been mind-numbing.
For decades, a significant faction of the Republican Party has been playing the long game with an eye on overturning Roe v Wade and ending abortions. It may not have even seemed a reality, so much as a means of driving supporters to the polls time after time with the false hope of eventually having all the political and judicial pieces in place.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), one of two Republicans on the House Jan. 6 committee, recently made public a letter mailed to his home threatening to kill him, his wife and his five-month-old child.
The right-wing political world is still reeling after the arrest of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog who was leading a surveillance team of six CBS Late Show staffers in the Longworth House Office Building.
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