How Gun Control Ends: Not With A Bang, But A Whimper
Here’s a hard truth: all the emotion and outrage and sadness that followed the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting may make almost no difference in federal gun control laws.
Here’s a hard truth: all the emotion and outrage and sadness that followed the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting may make almost no difference in federal gun control laws.
Secretary of State John Kerry has lost several heavy hitters to his opposing centers of power- the Vice President’s office and the National Security Council.
Although the President was directly involved in the government’s choice to enter the case, he is curiously silent on expanding the California ruling to states that don’t allow civil unions.
Paul Ryan’s in a bind. Even as he’s being touted as the great white hope for the GOP in 2016, he’s voluntarily strapped himself to the party’s fast-sinking position on the fiscal cliff as a member of House Speaker John …
Barack Obama and John Boehner traded opening bids on Nov. 9 in negotiations over the fiscal cliff.
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UK Foreign Secretary William Hague announced today that the UK will double down on the rag-tag Libyan rebel leadership in Benghazi, expanding the team of British military officers there and contributing telecommunications equipment and protective body armor to the rebel effort to topple Muammar Gaddafi.
But the effort is still …