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NRA: Our Elephant Gun Owned by A Guy Who Shot A Baby With An Elephant Gun is a "Treasure"

6 December 2013, 4:05 pm by: Dave Gilson
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In addition to fighting furiously to keep guns in our warm, live hands, the National Rifle Association celebrates guns pried from cold, dead hands in its National Firearms Museum, "one of the world's finest museum collections dedicated to firearms." The…
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Is the CIA Taking Cues from Hollywood?

6 December 2013, 3:31 pm by: Pratap Chatterjee
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This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.…
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Friday Cat Blogging - 6 December 2013

6 December 2013, 2:55 pm by: Kevin Drum
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Today we have a statesmanlike pose of Domino on the stairs. Why? Because that's where she was when I hauled out my camera, and that's where she stayed when I started clicking away. This dynamic explains about 90 percent of catblogging. Actually, it might…
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November's Jobs Report Is Good, But Many Americans Are Still Struggling

6 December 2013, 2:51 pm by: Erika Eichelberger
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The economy added 203,000 jobs in November, according to new numbers released Friday by the Labor Department. The unemployment rate dropped to 7 percent—the lowest level in five years. But many Americans are still struggling.…
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Joyous Tidings on the Good Governance Front!

6 December 2013, 2:11 pm by: Kevin Drum
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Today brings some surprisingly positive news on the governance front:…
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The Worst Reactions to Nelson Mandela's Death

6 December 2013, 12:27 pm by: Asawin Suebsaeng
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Yes, some of the reactions to Nelson Mandela's death have been less than ideal. As a few have pointed out, the comments on, say, this National Review blog post or Sen. Ted Cruz's Facebook page regarding Mandela (the guy was a commie, racist murderer, yada…
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Bill Bratton is a Great Choice to Head New York's Police Force

6 December 2013, 12:18 pm by: Kevin Drum
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I got an email yesterday from a reader asking what I thought about Bill de Blasio appointing Bill Bratton as New York's new police commissioner. After all, I've written that reduced lead exposure is most likely responsible for New York's big crime drop in the…
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Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in November

6 December 2013, 11:09 am by: Kevin Drum
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The American economy added 203,000 new jobs in November, but about 90,000 of those jobs were needed just to keep up with population growth, so net job growth clocked in at 113,000. This is slightly better than the rate we've seen all year, but only slightly.…
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What Kind of Crazy Anti-Environment Bills Is ALEC Pushing Now?

6 December 2013, 11:06 am by: Mariah Blake
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The American Legislative Exchange Council may be hemorrhaging members and grappling with a funding crisis, but that hasn't hampered its ambitions. In 2013, the conservative outfit, which specializes in generating state-level legislation, launched a multi-front…
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Now There's a Zombie Drone That Hunts, Controls, and Kills Other Drones

6 December 2013, 10:50 am by: Dana Liebelson
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When 27-year-old Samy Kamkar—a security researcher who famously made one million Myspace friends in a single day—heard the announcement on Sunday that Amazon was planning to start delivering packages via drone in 2015, he had an idea. He knew that…
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