Last night, in Lexington, Kentucky, a young woman by the name of Lauren Valle was assaulted outside a debate between Senate candidates Rand Paul and Jack Conway. She was approaching Paul as he made his way into the venue, in hopes of giving him an “employee of the month” award on behalf of the new […]
Tag Archives: political violence
“Don’t Tread on Me… Tread on Her” – the tea party gets violent
Reading the Iliad with my daughter
I had wanted to write about the Glenn Beck fan they call the Progressive Hunter, and his recently foiled plan to start a revolution in the United States by killing liberals in San Francisco, but I ended up staying up too late, reading The Iliad with Clementine. I know it might be a little out […]
Dateline Detroit
I don’t have a functioning television, so I didn’t see last night’s Dateline special on Detroit, but I’m watching clips now on my computer, and, from what I can see, Chris Hansen and his producers did a pretty good job of it. I know some people are are up in arms today over it, claiming […]
“See, the Democrats are violent too!”
With the news that a mentally ill man in Pennsylvania had threatened the life of Republican Congressman Eric Cantor, conservatives everywhere have begun jumping up and down, waiving their hands around wildly (imagine Arnold Horshack trying to get Mr. Kotter’s attention), and claiming that this definitively proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Democrats […]