When the strong are so weak...

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Miserable tatter of background checks

The shooting death of Charles Albert Poland Jr. and the kidnapping of a young boy named Ethan were completely preventable. There is no way Jimmy Lee Dykes should have been permitted to possess firearms:

Mr. Dykes, who has lived in a travel trailer here for about two years, has a troubled past, including arrests on charges connected to drugs, drunken driving and, in Florida in 1995, unlawful display of a firearm. On Wednesday he was due in court in this county, accused of shooting at a neighbor in a dispute over driving on his property.

Everyone who knew Dykes knew he was bad news.

Neighbors of Mr. Dykes generally kept their distance, which he made easy. He frequently made violent threats to anyone who wandered onto his property, once even beating a neighbors’ dog to death with a lead pipe. He would sometimes sit watching and holding a rifle when young children played in a nearby yard. Late into the night he would dig in the backyard of his travel trailer or patrol his property with a flashlight and a long gun.

Now Poland is heroically dead, Dykes has been justifiably killed by the FBI, and Ethan has been rescued.

But Alabama won't rethink its gun laws, and the NRA won't rethink its crazy, extremist position against closing the gun show and private sale loopholes in the miserable tatter of current background check law.

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From the realitea party

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Then look at the rest of a very good week:

• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday

Republicans have lying. Democrats have mockery. We liberals need to use it even more.

Fly, little ones, fly away

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A stimulus Perry can believe it

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Class warfare - the winners

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Dy-nasty!

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Twitterverse

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Welfare for the deserving

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Legend management

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Rent to own?

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Come in with our ideals and change the world

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... and then we forget - or rewrite history.

Joke's on me

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Still the cost of war

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WIngnut hyperbole

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Truth hurts

... but the truth is not torture.

Waterboarding is.

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It's a long story

Self-deceit usually takes a while.

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Centurions

Garry Trudeau was once the finest journalist working in America. Only recently has Jon Stewart bumped him to number two.

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Propaganda shrine

Wouldn't a George Duhbya Bush memorial oil well be more appropriate?

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CINC that flattop

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