If that’s not a rhetorical question, Obama “refuses to go after the liars and criminals in the Bush administration” and, I will add, assists the liars and crooks in the banking and fossil fuel industries because they are his true employers and have been from the beginning.

If you were unaware or have forgotten, during the 2008 campaign Obama promised to filibuster the FISA Amendments Act if it included immunity for the telecomm companies that helped the Bush admin commit thousands of felonies when they were spying without warrants on our communications. He not only didn’t filibuster the bill, he voted for it.

That you have found articles proposing second shooters and false flag work to undermine the 2nd Amendment does not, in the least, mean that the ideas are valid. The Internet is rife with conspiracy theories that have little to no valid evidence. Unfortunately, naturalnews.com is center of that sort of thinking.

You should note that the articles about James Holmes and Jared Loughner are both from naturalnews. Additionally, witnesses are notoriously unreliable and the article you link doesn’t deal with the elimination of second shooters and other suppositions being ruled out due to normal investigative processes. It just puts out the suspicions and leaves them there.

It says, “the media are scrubbing any mention of a second gunman,” but it gives no evidence of “scrubbing.” How does the naturalnews know there is “scrubbing.” It doesn’t say. Plus, it says there NOT being a second shooter “holds about as much water as the ‘lone gunman’ explanation of the JFK assassination” without noting that NO ONE has ever proved a second shooter. It is merely another conspiracy that has never been confirmed. So, indeed, it holds as much water, because it is valid, whereas the “second JFK shooter” is not; it’s unproved.

watstearns, it is way past time for you to learn the scientific method, logic, and that correlation is not causation (i.e., that because B happens after A does not mean that B was caused by A).

Thank you, David. You have been an important part of the blogosphere and will be missed.

I, for one, will not say “I told you so” if you do come back, but I will be delighted.

Kevin, you quote film director Peter Bogdanovich, but he is not a psychologist or a sociologist. His opinions are no more valid than yours or mine.

As to the rest of your article, having worked at a psychiatric hospital where frontline staff often took down violent, psychotic patients and never used weapons, why haven’t police departments developed procedures to trap and disarm people with knives. They almost always kill them (see Eleanor Bumpers).

Kevin,

It’s been a privilege following your work since Open Salon. You rock!

‘All is needed is a change in govermin administration with all the changes in “agenda”, “philosophy of government” that shall suddenly.’

Why do you think a change of regime is necessary. It’s happening under Obama.

With your vague comment, it is impossible to know anything. This seems out of character for you eCahn. Please give us some actual info to back up the snark.

Thanks.

Chinese report on Human Rights Record of United States in 2011 chinadaily.com.cn http://bit.ly/NrPU5G

While functionally NATO is an arm of the US, its name is actually the NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Great article, Kevin. Thanks.

Also, the poverty level is the same in every state except for Hawaii and Alaska. Costs of living are significantly different.

When you call Todd a “journalistic whore,” you are only half right. What’s journalistic about him?

Obama has plenty of fight to counter his supposed base. Remember the threats he brought against the Progressive Caucus when they threatened to vote against further military spending?

He has never fought his real allies, the Republicans and the Blue Dogs.

Good summary, Kevin. I look forward to your continued excellent work.

Bill

The Pope HAS his own army: the Swiss Guard.

They’re in Colorado, which doesn’t have marriage equality. So, unless they were married somewhere else–and Colorado wouldn’t recognize it anyway–the Wikipedia entry is unsurprising.

Cameron Todd Willingham Execution: Rick Perry’s Role Deserves Scrutiny http://huff.to/qolZcR

That’s the headline, but the reality is that Perry not only knew Willingham was innocent, he covered it up in order to murder him.

“There is no reality behind these numbers any more”

I suggest searching on GDP, inflation and other such questions along with “Paul Krugman” if you want some legitimate answers. I don’t agree with your complaint. Though we are being screwed with, the answers are available.

“In answering the first question posed to him, about the estate tax, Obama pivoted again to compromise, arguing for a middle-road approach between reinstating the estate tax and doing away from it, permitting a $7 million exemption that he said would protect most family farms.
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“As at the Atkinson event, there were no notably hostile questions.”
http://bit.ly/oWl2NZ