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(1918 Bolshevik Poster by Alexander Apsit reads "Citizens, hand over your weapons!") Why I gave up my guns • A former firearm enthusiast explains his personal epiphany Late one night in the spring of 2008, I was jolted awake by the sound of yet another a burglar trying to break into my Atlanta home. We’d already had a series of scary close calls, but this time I was ready: I had staged my shotgun and a box of shells in a broom closet right by the back door, next to the umbrellas. While my girlfriend called the police, I...

Josh Marshall Pounds the Table As Joe Wilson's credibility has collapsed, David Corn has been silent. Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman has gone back to attacking his old employer. But Wilson has one defender left: blogger Josh Marshall, whose efforts to keep alive the Valerie Plame kerfuffle increasingly remind us of Mike Kinsley's defense of monkeyfishing. We beg your indulgence as we quote Marshall's latest posting on the subject in full, though in two parts (the bracketed explanations are ours): There's been a rush of egregious commentary about the Niger uranium story in the last couple days. And one point...

The debate on Iraq continues to obscure and ignore the obvious - no country can colonize another without resistance. And by resistance, I mean violent resistance. Nobody should be surprised by a regular civilian mob brutally lynching four American mercenaries working for Blackwater USA. Frantz Fanon (in The Wretched of the Earth) taught us that the psychology of the colonized would force them to manifest their anger and humiliation in violent ways. What occurred in Fallujah was the logical outcome of a people oppressed, angered, humiliated and feeling powerless to evict the foreign interlopers in their midst. Would we act...