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Isn't it funny that in 2005 Congress enacted a law, under heavy lobbying from the NRA and the gun industry, that gives gun manufacturers and dealers broad immunity from being sued? Which other industry enjoys such an immunity? Nothing unusual about it at all. It is appropriate under the Commerce C...

The NRA and its members, without many exceptions, are insane....

Also, regarding this Halligan thing: you're going to get filibusters on the basis of gun-nut-enthusiasm when you try to legislate gun-control reforms.I agree with you, and I'm sure that the NRA was lobbying hard against her nomination, but as far as the lawsuit that would have made gun manufacturers...

The D.C. Circuit is considered the nation's second-highest court, but it now has more vacancies than any other circuit court. Gone are the days when Republicans ran around insisting on an 'up or down vote' for one of George W. Bush's judicial nominees. It's called politics, and the Democrats shoul...

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Obama Withdraws Caitlin Halligan's Nomination To D.C. Circuit CourtThe White House officially withdrew President Barack Obama's nomination of Caitlin Halligan to serve on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. A statement issued on Friday comes after repeated attempts to confirm the former New York stat...

Admit the obvious, i.e. that they made a mistake, and promise to be less sanguine about foreign military ventures in the future.Yeah....okay.It's not like the same people are talking about bombing Iran or anything.ROFLMFAO...

In all fairness, what do they have left? Admit the obvious, i.e. that they made a mistake, and promise to be less sanguine about foreign military ventures in the future....

And then, too, the pretense that we invaded Iraq to "free the iraqi people" is a claim that not one heterosexual male on earth would ever make. The ludicrousness of the My Little Pony explanation is too effeminate, too entirely lacking in manhood, too attached to childish and romantic notions for a ...