The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Are you still having trouble persuading someone that gun control legislation, especially expanded background checks, isn't such a bad thing after all? Well, if so, hopefully this blog will help. Adam Yahiye Gadahn is an al Qaeda translator and spokesperson, who was born in the United States. He left the U.S. for Pakistan in 1998 and has been reported by the FBI as a member of al Qaeda since 2004. On June 2nd of 2011, Gadahn released a video, which urged followers to attack targets inside the U.S., and added the following: "America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms. You can go down to a gun show at a local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle without a background check and most likely without having to show an identification card. So what are you waiting for?" When a member of the terrorist group al Qaeda urges fellow terrorists to take full advantage of America's weak gun laws and specifically cites the backgro...

I discusse d this the other day after seeing a rather sensationalistic AOL headline which read, "Secret Memo: Gov't Can Kill Ameri cans." Of course, wh en reading the actual article, it det ailed that this was legal when thes e "Americans" were members of terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda.  Well, it doesn't app ear as if fa r- right Republicans ar e the only ones paranoid that t he federal government is going to hunt them down. Far-left Democrats are joining the p aranoi a party as well. MSNBC contribut or Ra chel Maddow, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, and others have come forward about being a little freaked out about this memo and how the federal govern me nt can kill Americans.  While I think an investigation into the matter is warranted, I think people are taking the sensationalistic headlines far too literally. It's not like the memo said the following types of Americans were at risk of getting killed by the federal government: - People...

It seems as if, upon seeing the post-convention poll bounce President Barack Obama received when the week began, Republicans have gone a little cuckoo, and just when I feel they can't sink any lower with their commentary, I'm yet again proven wrong. Former Vice President and current front-runner in the battle for creepiest-guy-in-the-world status, Dick Cheney, started things by letting it be known on Monday - a day before 9/11 - that President Obama took sole credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. This, of course, wasn't true, and the timing of it all couldn't have been more insensitive - unless he had said it a day later, of course. On 9/11, Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, joined the party. Four hours prior to the attacks in Egypt and Libya, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo released a statement basically stating that all religions (including Islam) should be respected and shouldn't be discriminated against. This was in response to some protests whi...