An L.A. gun buyback gets 2,037 guns off the street.
If demographic trends continue, Republicans are completely screwed as a national party. Worse still, GOP voter suppression attempts may have managed only to make people really mad. "I continue to think — and I’m not alone in this — that Republicans sowed the wind with voter suppression tactics and reaped the whirlwind," says Josh Marshall. "Far from taking the edge off African-American turnout, which was the intent, it mobilized these voters to historic levels."
Time-wise, Republicans aren't giving themselves a lot of wiggle room for a last minute fiscal cliff deal. It's probably all for show, anyway. Here's a glimpse of your possible (perhaps likely) future.
The White House marks the beginning of the week of Kwanzaa. Kent Jones examines why a wingnut columnist thinks this is -- of course -- the worst thing ever.
Newly minted Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says climate change is "real and it is the most urgent challenge of our generation."
Marriage licenses for same sex couples will begin to be issued at the Portland, Maine City Hall at 12:01 am on December 29.
Not many in Washington seems to have the political backbone required to de-neocon FISA.
Nancy Keenan will step down as president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, one of the nation's largest -- if not the largest -- abortion-rights groups in the nation.
Finally, RIP retired Gen. "Stormin'" Norman Schwarzkopf. After the first Gulf War, Schwarzkopf was a hero on the right. But then he criticized Dubya's unilateral invasion of Iraq and conservatives dropped him like a hot potato -- mostly because he pointed out that it was unilateral, when Bush was trying to BS everyone into thinking the whole world was behind us. It'll be interesting to see how the wingnuts treat him now. Especially considering how absolutely right he was about Iraq -- and how absolutely wrong they all were.
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