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...

Senator Jon Kyl (R - AZ) made a remark recently which has won over many late night talk show hosts, with Kyl being the victim of the jokes. In a floor speech on April 8th, Kyl stated the following, "Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don’t have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does." Survey says? Not even close. The actual number? 3%. That's right; Kyl was off by just 87%. [1] That's more "off" than Charlie Sheen with prostitutes in a hotel room doing coke. Kyl then got himself into further trouble when CNN's Don Lemon read a statement from Kyl's office, which read, "His remark was not intended to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, a organization that receives mi...

Senator Jon Kyl (R - AZ) made a remark recently which has won over many late night talk show hosts, with Kyl being the victim of the jokes. In a floor speech on April 8th, Kyl stated the following, "Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don’t have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does." Survey says? Not even close. The actual number? 3%. That's right, Kyl was off by just 87%. That's more "off" than Charlie Sheen with prostitutes in a hotel room doing coke. Kyl then got himself into further trouble when CNN's Don Lemon read a statement from Kyl's office, which read, "His remark was not intended to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, a organization that receives millions ...