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Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day. I am not a New York gun control liberal, either. I support a shotgun for home defense, a handgun for limited conceal/carry, and an assortment of hunting rifles to balance West Virginia's exploding deer population (as evidenced by hourly collisions with cars). So, I am hardly out of the mainstream. But, the gun safety debate is B.S. This foaming at the mouth, Obamar is coming for the guns, Nanny Bloomberg is a bad billionaire, and most despicable of all,...

Vanity Fair writer Michael Lewis agreed to allow the White House to approve the quotations he used from President Barack Obama in his story about the president in this month's magazine. "Like other journalists who write about Washington and presidential politics, Mr. Lewis said that he had to submit to the widespread but rarely disclosed practice of quote approval," reports the New York Times. I venture to guess that during the Stalin administration the writers at Pravda could probably say the same thing. They agreed with their leader and knew what to write without much supervision. Or they would not...

 January 28, 2010Did JounoList take down Hillary? (Part 2)by NachumOnce the names became known, then it becomes easier to track obfuscation, obstruction, and collusion.  In a Newsbusters piece written by Jeff Poor called,  What is a HuffPo Blogger Doing in the Vaunted 'Helen Thomas Seat'?   We find bonifide JournoList member Sam Stein from the Huffington Post in the chair that Helen Thomas was forced from , because a video of Thomas' brazen Hatred of the Jews in Israel.  Sam Stein dutifully carries the water for the administration in asking about the recess appointment for the controversial Dr. Berwick to the...