Why are gun-death statistics inflated with gun-suicide numbers?

"I thought we had a right to die...." Obviously, one reason is: to get bigger numbers. But I think the people that lump gun deaths...

This gun control controversy is a real gift to Republicans.

It got them out of the morose election postmortem. Now, they're in their zone. Guns! — such invigorating shift from having to talk about...

Equal justice under the law — a proclamation in pictures.

Issued in 1816 in Van Diemen's Land, which is to say, Tasmania, in Australia, today's "History of" country .

Professor who teaches a course called Culture of Conspiracy...

... is denounced for "inquir[ing] whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place — at least in the way law enforcement authorities and...

"We knew the memorials can’t stand forever... And after being weathered... I mean, we had bad rain, we had a storm, we had wind, we had snow."

"So I knew the time was going to come where we really had to move the memorials. Not only because the tributes themselves start to look...

"We can’t go out and lock up all the socially awkward young men in the world..."

"But we have to try to prevent the unpredicted." Says a psychiatrist quoted in a WaPo article titled "Predicting violence is ...

"The attorney who said he would sue the state of Connecticut for $100 million after the Newtown school shooting is withdrawing his potential lawsuit..."

"... at least for now." Irving Pinsky, who said Saturday he was filing the suit as a way to improve school safety, told the Connec...

A conversation for the end of the year.

"Long before Erika Menendez was charged with pushing a stranger to his death under an oncoming train at a Queens elevated station..."

"... she had years of contact with New York City’s mental health and law enforcement establishments." She was treated by the psych...

Obama seems amenable to the NRA idea of armed guards in schools.

On today's "Meet the Press" : David Gregory asked him what he thought of having "armed guards at every school in the coun...

The notion that technology is the reason the murder rate has fallen by half.

"A deranged woman who told cops she detests Muslims broke into a maniacal fit of laughter as she was charged with a hate crime Saturday..."

"... three days after she allegedly shoved an Indian immigrant to his death in front of a Queens train." “Tell your client this is...

"Isn’t there something creepy about Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz having... 'asked his Washington-area employees to write "Come Together" on each customer cup today, tomorrow and Friday, as a gesture to urge leaders to resolve the fiscal cliff'?"

Asks Mickey Kaus. Did Schultz take a poll of his employees–sorry, “partners,” he calls them–before ordering pressuring asking them to join i...

"[W]e estimate the elasticity of homicide with respect to gun prevalence as between +0.1 and + 0.3."

Some numbers.

"I still have to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down and do what I like doing best: killing people."

Wrote William Spengler Jr., 62, after ambushing and killing 2 firefighters who arrived at a fire he set. “There was no motive in the note. T...

"The more I study the history of intellectuals, the more they seem like a wrecking crew, dismantling civilization bit by bit — replacing what works with what sounds good."

Writes Thomas Sowell , in a column called "On Christmas, Liberals Are By No Means Liberal." After watching a documentary about the...

What Obama said about mass murder after the Aurora massacre, at the second presidential debate.

This is interesting , considering what he's saying now, after the Newtown massacre, after reelection: We’re a nation that believes in th...

David Gregory, neatly tweaked...

... by Drudge (in Christmas colors): The links are: "Did David Gregory Violate DC Gun Law On National TV?" and "Mocks NRA C...

Are "lockdown" drills traumatizing schoolkids?

Catherine Crawford used to think so. [R]epresentatives from the Department of Education unexpectedly showed up and announced that they would...

Scenery chewing in the Theater of Outrage over Wayne LaPierre's unremarkable news conference.

Read the transcript of what LaPierre said , if you haven't already, so you know what the purveyors of outrage are characterizing for the...