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Mitt Romney's flip-flops

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Bill Adair , Louis Jacobson - May. 18 (Fact Check) - For the 2012 presidential campaign, we're using the Flip O-Meter to assess the statements of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This article includes links to the Flip-O-Meter items we've published on Romney. We'll update it as we publish more in the future.

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Corporate Lobby Group Retreats Under Pressure

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Dan Froomkin - Apr. 17 (News) - WASHINGTON -- The American Legislative Exchange Council, the controversial corporate-sponsored lobbying group whose push for "stand your ground" gun laws and voter ID legislation ignited...

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ALEC, Walmart and Trayvon Martin?

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Lauren Feeney - Mar. 29 (News Analysis) - What does Walmart have to do with the tragic death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin? The answer starts with Florida’s 2005 Stand Your Ground law, promoted across the country as "model legislation" by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC — "a corporate-backed organization that has managed to keep a low profile even as it exerts vast influence," as Paul Krugman of The New York Times explains:

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Super Tuesday guide: Finding truth in the attacks

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Becky Bowers - Mar. 04 (Fact Check) - As 10 states prepare to vote on Super Tuesday, here’s PolitiFact’s guide to the multimillion-dollar ad blitz. With the field down to four Republican contenders, campaigns and super PACs are attacking their opponents with hot-button allegations about supporting Planned Parenthood, Obamacare and even Nancy Pelosi that are designed to strike fear in the hearts of Republican voters. There's been some piling on. We've seen several examples where two (or more) candidates have made the same attack. The one candidate who hasn't been attacked much: Ron Paul. He's has been busy attacking others — but we didn’t find ads attacking him. ... >>More

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Norway Mourns 91 Dead in Twin Attacks

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Jul. 23 (News Report) - "He was shooting people at close range and starting to shoot at us. He stood first 10 metres from me and shooting at people in the water," he said. "When I saw him from the side yelling that he was about to kill us, he looked like he was taken from a Nazi movie or something. "He tried everyone, he kicked them to see if they were alive, or he just shot them.

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Arizona Lawmaker Pointed Loaded Gun At Reporter's Chest

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Alexander Belenky - Jul. 12 (News Report) - Arizona state Sen. Lori Klein (R), a gun-rights champion, keeps a loaded raspberry-pink handgun in her purse, and during an interview with Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, she took it out and pointed it at him.

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New Report: U.S. Encouraged Gun Sales to Drug Cartels, 70% of Seized Mexico Guns Are From U.S.

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Some 70 percent of guns seized in Mexico from 2009 to 2010 came from the United States, according to a new report from three U.S. senators. The report finds Mexican drug cartels are arming themselves with U.S. military-style weapons and urges a strengthening of U.S. regulations to stem the flow of guns to Mexico. It comes as lawmakers are holding hearings into a once-secret government plan to encourage U.S. gun shops to sell thousands of guns to middlemen for Mexican drug cartels. The operation, called "Fast and Furious," focused on using middlemen to gain access to senior-level figures within Mexico’s criminal organizations.

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NRA Takes Aim at Obama's Re-Election

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By James Hohmann - May. 01 (News Analysis) - 'Liberals are frustrated with Barack Obama for not aggressively pushing gun control, but you wouldn't know it from the National Rifle Association's annual meeting. With no clearly preferred Republican candidate among the 70,000 people who descended on the convention center here this weekend, Obama's name came up more than any other.' James Hohmann, Politico

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Border agents unwittingly freed suspects near border with weapons from federal sting

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Center for Public Integrity - By John Solomon, David Heath, Ricardo Sandoval Palos - Mar. 24 (Investigative Report) - The episode — confirmed by the Center for Public Integrity through interviews, internal agency memos and court records — highlights major gaps in the U.S. war on Mexican gun and drug cartels: America’s frontline agencies aren’t always coordinated fully and often feel powerless to arrest suspected gun runners in the absence of tougher federal laws.

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Extremist Killing Is as American as Apple Pie: Murders Grow on the Far Right Four Decades After Martin Luther King - Truthout.com

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

truth-out.org - By Stephan Salusbury - Jan. 16 (News Analysis) - The landscape of America is littered with bodies. They've been gunned down in Tucson, shot to death at the Pentagon , and blown away at the Holocaust Museum , as well as in Wichita , Knoxville, Pittsburgh, Brockton, and Okaloosa County, Florida. Total body count for these incidents: 19 dead, 26 wounded. Not much, you might say, when taken in the context of about 30,000 gun-related deaths annually nationwide. As it happens, though, these murders over the past couple of years have some common threads...

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Are More Gun Laws for Mentally Ill Off Target?

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Jan. 13 (Special Report) - Attempting to do so, though, has never particularly proven to improve public safety. And if anything, says Paul Appelbaum, director of the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry at Columbia University, channeling so much attention toward the mentally ill distracts us from the much larger problem of gun violence and further stigmatizes the mentally ill who are rarely responsible for it.

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Rachel Maddow: Sharron Angle Ad 'The Most Overtly Racist' Of 2010 (VIDEO)

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rachel Maddow - Oct. 25 (News Analysis) - Rachel Maddow sharply criticized Senate candidate Sharron Angle on Sunday, saying that the Nevada Republican aired the "most overtly racist ad of this campaign season."...

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Inside Gun Shows: Frightening New Investigation Into Illegal Guns Sales

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Digby - Oct. 08 (News Report) - it's still necessary to highlight the fact that guns are saturating our society and the natural consequences of doing such a thing. Mayor Bloomberg has conducted an investigation into illegal gun sales that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end:

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Man Carrying Semi-Automatic Assault Rifle And Pistol Outside Obama Event (VIDEO)

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Lila Shapiro - Aug. 17 (News Report) - This is the third report in a week of someone bringing a gun to an event where the President was speaking. Last Tuesday a man was arrested before Obama's New Hampshire health care town hall for carrying an unlicensed loaded gun. Also outside the New Hampshire town hall, a man was seen with a (legal) handgun strapped to his leg, holding a sign referencing the famous Jefferson quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." UPDATE: The Associated Press is now reporting that there were actually about a dozen armed people among the protesters in Phoenix:

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Gun Rights Advocates Hope to Flip Red-State Dems on Sotomayor

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By David Weigel - Jul. 14 (News Report) - For Republicans and many movement conservatives, the key moment of the first day of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings was not the blistering opening statement of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee who bulldozed through the most controversial parts of her record. It was the jokey, resigned statement of Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), who regretted that President Barack Obama had given the Senate a candidate who could not be stopped.

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Longtime White Supremacist Opens Fire at DC Holocaust Museum, Killing Security Guard; Shooting is Third in as Many Months Linked to White Nationalist Groups

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzales, Amy Goodman, Leonard Zeskind - Jun. 11 (News Report) - It was the third recent shooting involving a gunman with ties to the white nationalist movement, following last month’s slaying of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and the shooting of three police officers in Philadelphia in April. We speak with one of the nation’s leading researchers on right-wing hate groups, Leonard Zeskind, author of Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. Zeskind has been closely monitoring white nationalist and anti-Semitic groups for over thirty years.

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Sonia Sotomayor versus the Second Amendment

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Volokh Conspiracy - By David Kopel - May. 26 (News Analysis) - Judge Sotomayor's record suggests hostility, rather than empathy, for the tens of millions of Americans who exercise their right to keep and bear arms.

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Shotguns, AK-47's and Your National Parks

Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Christopher Hayes - May. 21 (News Analysis) - Republicans don't mess around when it comes to taking advantage of parliamentary tactics. It's time for the Democrats to respond in kind. Perhaps Harry Reid simply isn't up to the job at hand.

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Analysis: Guns, “chukas,” and the states

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

SCOTUSblog - By Lyle Denniston - Apr. 23 (News Analysis) - “Second Amendment law,” a federal appeals court remarked earlier this week, “remains in its infancy.” But, only about a year after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gun rights in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Justices could soon be faced with one of the most significant issues left undecided by Heller.

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Sorting out the truth about guns in Mexico

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By David Adams, Robert Farley - Apr. 17 (News Analysis) - With growing violence on the U.S.-Mexico border fueled by powerful drug cartels, officials from both countries have been repeating a shocking statistic to suggest this isn't just a Mexican problem.

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Gun Control Advocates Call for Stricter Laws After Spate of Mass Shootings Leaves Nearly 60 Dead

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Roxane Kolar, Amy Goodman - Apr. 09 (News Analysis) - A spate of mass shootings across the country, from Binghamton, NY to Carthage, NC, has left at least fifty-seven people dead since March 10th. In the wake of the violence, gun control advocates are calling for stricter laws across the nation. We speak with Roxane Kolar, executive director of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence.

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More Young Girls in Dallas Arrested for 'Cheese' Heroin - NAM

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - By Al Dia - Feb. 07 (News Report) - More young girls have been arrested in the last two years in Dallas county on charges related to "cheese" heroin, a highly addictive mixture of so-called black tar Mexican heroin and crushed over-the-counter medications that contain an antihistamine, according to Al Dia. Dallas officials say that up to 139 female minors were processed for having consumed "cheese," the highest number in the last few years.

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Some Issues Key to Party Identity Have Been Shunted to the Side in Denver

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Congressional Quarterly - By Drew Armstrong - Aug. 28 (Special Report) - While immigration, gay rights, gun control and trade have roiled the national debate over the past few years, at the Democratic convention they are taking a side stage -- or no stage at all. Red meat on such issues, which are dear to liberal hearts, has fallen victim to the party's success in the 2006 election and the story line that grew out of it: that moderate Democrats defeated Republicans in many conservative districts partly by taking positions on those issues that were atypical of the party.

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Leading Gun Control Activist Exposed as Gun Lobby Spy

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By James Ridgeway, Barbara Hohlt, Amy Goodman - Aug. 04 (News Report) - Mother Jones magazine has revealed a well-known activist in the gun control movement is actually a secret spy for the National Rifle Association and the gun lobby. Over the past decade, the woman, Mary Lou Sapone, managed to become active in almost every single major gun violence prevention organization. Sapone, who went by her maiden name Mary McFate, helped organize the Million Mom March in 2000 and oversaw the lobbying efforts of States United to Prevent Gun Violence. We speak with investigative journalist James Ridgeway, who helped break the story, and Barbara Hohlt of States United to Prevent Gun Violence, who knew and worked with Sapone.

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A constitutional right to a gun

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

SCOTUSblog - By Lyle Denniston - Jun. 26 (News Analysis) - Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one's home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession. Although times have changed since 1791, Justice Antonin Scalia said for the majority, "it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct."

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