Must be election season…Despite the desires of the NRA, Dubya plans to support a continued ban on assault weapons. I’m sure he can just have Ashcroft vacate it later.
Category: Gun Control
Freedom of the…oh, never mind.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia accepts a free speech award…while muzzling the press. War or no, the blatant examples of conservative doublethink lately are getting outrageous. In loosely related news, the FBI track down a long-lost copy of the Bill of Rights. Think they could let Ashcroft take a gander before they return it to NC? The Attorney General seems to have gotten caught up somewhere around the Second Amendment.
Bellesiles Misfires.
What’s worse than stealing other people’s sources? Making them up in the first place. Historian Michael Bellesiles is forced to resign from Emory after a commission finds he falsified materials in his Bancroft Award-winning Arming America.
Misery Index.
For the first time in ten years, crime goes up. Ah, the Dubya era…remember when the Dems were meant to be “soft on crime”? Of course, that was before the GOP allied itself with the gun nuts.
The Minister’s Wayward Flock.
How you like them apples? Even conservatives are sick of Ashcroft. And so, it turns out, are many of are his underlings, who are clashing with him on gun checks.
Ashcroft for Guns.
The lost NRA Ad.