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Today on Morning Joe, former US Army general Stanley McChrystal spoke out about the need for reasonable gun regulation.  Have a look:Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyWell said....

Our collective response to the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy has been predictable. Americans' collective response to tragedy is both a testament to the better angels of our nature and a large part of the problem. These kinds of events strike at the very core of our soul and hit a chord so deep into what frightens us individually as people and collectively as a nation. So, before we begin any sort of debate we must...

An open letter to Facebook user 2nd Amendment, and other gun advocates on Facebook and other social media who advocate unfettered gun ownership:I appreciate the way some of you have respected the tragedy that has been visited by us by senseless gun violence after taking down your inflammatory posts such as the one about how teachers who can't handle a weapon shouldn't be trusted with our children. Honestly, that post and similar ones are some...

My latest on HuffPo.  http://this-small-planet.com/2012/lets-talk-about-gun-responsibility-and-accountability/...

The right-wing freak-out over all things Obama continues. This time it's the president's Thanksgiving address yesterday. The headline at The Daily Caller reads:Obama Thanksgiving address: Calls to unite behind WH, doesn't thank GodThen in the opening paragraph that changed from "unite behind the White House" to "unite behind him." Uh, no he didn't. This is what he said:"As a nation, we've just emerged from a campaign season that was passionate, noisy, and vital to our...

My latest on the pending BP criminal settlement that could occur as early as today:  http://this-small-planet.com/2012/circle-of-trust-at-bp-did-not-include-the-government/...

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I'm so glad the election is over, but couldn't they give us at least ONE day of rest before talking about the 2016 election? They aren't going to so, FINE. There are some take-aways we need to pay attention to going forward. By 'we' I mean us regular citizens, not the pandering/lying/sleazy/self-serving politicians who already have their teams of strategists at work on their next plan to manipulate the public. Let's start with these 7...

It became apparent fairly early in the evening last night that the Republicans were going to get thumped.  As state results began to march across the map, with major battleground states turning blue, and Tea Party candidates losing, Republican hopes waned.  Their plan simply didn't work.  The hundreds of millions of billionaires' money didn't work.  The politics of division didn't work.  The Tea Party revolution of 2010 failed. Despite almost unanimous prognostication that the race...

Just for fun - What do you think the electoral college split will be?What do you think will be the final split in the Senate?I predict Obama will win 290- 248.  I believe Obama will win the swing states Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Nevada, Colorado, Wisconsin and Iowa.  I believe Romney will win Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina.I predict the Senate will split to the Democrats 53-47.  I believe Democrats will win the close Senate...

I'm not really surprised by the Houston Chronicle's endorsement of Mitt Romney for president. After all as the opening sentence of the editorial states, the endorsement of Obama in 2008 was the only time in 44 years that they endorsed a Democratic candidate. But at least their endorsement could have been based on something connected to...you know...reality. Maybe that was expecting too much. The opening paragraph hits on something that is an often-repeated Republican talking...

If this election has shown anything it is that both parties are campaigning hard to attract the middle class. Both sides acknowledge that the middle class has taken it in the teeth over the past several years. Of course, both sides have alternative views as to why that happened and what needs to be done about it. This so far is normal in terms of elective politics.Let me say this, I believe Mitt Romney and...

"It's not the way that you say it when you do those things to me, it's more the way that you mean it when you tell me what will be." --HeywardI often get Paul Krugman and Thomas Friedman confused, so I can't remember who addressed the now infamous 47 percent first, but it is clear that the statements weren't as much gaffes per se, but Freudian slips. The statement most telling wasn't made by Mitt...

Over the weekend, the conservative blogosphere freaked out over an art print being sold by the Obama campaign.  The image was a free hand likeness similar to an American flag, with the Obama logo in the upper left corner.  Conservatives screamed that it was a "desecration" of the flag, even though it's not a flag at all.  Here's said offensive image: The fake outrage campaign worked, of course, and the poster no longer appears on...

The DNC just posted a video that's devastating to the Romney campaign.  Have a look: Is this the beginning of the end?...

Buried in Mitt Romney's speech in Virginia yesterday in which he toned his criticism of President Obama over the consulate attack in Libya was this little tidbit:"Romney criticized Obama for reductions in defense spending and the potential deep cuts if the White House and Congress can't agree to a budget deal by the end of this year and sequestration ensues."Ever since FDR, we've had the capacity to be engaged in two conflicts at once," Romney...

http://this-small-planet.com/2012/shell-begins-drilling-in-the-chukchi-sea-the-details/...

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2012/09/hbc-90008829...