I’ve spent my day following and updating the story on the shooting in Arizona that killed Judge John Roll and five others (including a 9-year old child), leaving Representative Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition with a gunshot wound to her head. This is Keith Olbermann’s special comment tonight, which followed a press conference with Pima [...]
A commenter on my post about allowing evil to be called good has asked me to blog my outrage about Arizona’s new immigration law, Chicago’s violence, and threats to our liberty. Gladly. A preface: I don’t believe violence is an answer. Ever. That means I don’t agree with violent responses no matter how angry a [...]
What moved some misguided wretch to do this horrible deed may never be known to us, but we do know that such acts are commonly stimulated by forces of hatred and malevolence, such as today, which are eating their way into the bloodstream of American life…What a price we pay for this fanaticism…If we really [...]