Month: October 2023

Despite sometimes negative reception on the campaign trail, former Vice President Mike Pence continued, always as a happy warrior, with his beloved wife, Karen, ever at his side. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images Sin City may have seemed like an unusual place for Mike Pence to concede. The 64-year-old, Reagan- and Scripture-quoting, teetotaling evangelical Christian never

Golden, a tattooed Marine veteran, has long drawn on his support for gun rights as one pillar of his image as a rebel Democrat who understands the heavily-armed and politically red swath of Maine he represents. He has broken with his party on several gun safety measures, including voting against an assault weapons ban last

More attention is on gun control legislation in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting. Minnesota has stricter gun control than Wisconsin. There were 648 mass shootings in America in 2022. This week’s shooting in Maine marks the 565th mass shooting this year, with 2023 on track to be the deadliest year on record for mass shootings. 

Topline In his first public comments on gun violence in the wake of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, President Joe Biden this week questioned the need for high-capacity assault weapons, including the high-power rifle used in the deadly massacre that left 18 people dead, though Democrats’ efforts to ban assault weapons and enact other

It’s hard for Americans in the 21st century to think about their guns as ordinary objects. When nightmarish events like the recent mass shooting in Maine occur, we retreat to reassuring positions in the culture wars. Gun “culture”is our collective, contentious effort to apply meaning to these inanimate things made of wood, plastic, and steel.

Miracles do still happen on occasion. Or, in the immortal words of sports broadcaster Al Michaels during the culmination of  the USA Olympic hockey men’s team’s seemingly impossible 4-3 victory against the Soviet Union on February 22, 1980, at Lake Placid, “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!”  Well, maybe “miracles” is a slight exaggeration, but it

In the wake of a mass shooting in his hometown of Lewiston in which 18 people died, U.S. Rep. Jared Golden announced his support for a national assault weapons ban, reversing a previous stance that he said had come from “a false confidence that our community was above this,” among “many other misjudgments.”  Golden, a

Hal Phillips We’re fine. That’s what I’ve been texting to dozens of friends and family, starting at about 8 p.m. Wednesday night. We live in Auburn, across the Androscoggin River, which separates our small city from our slightly larger sister city. As of Friday, there was still an active shooter at large, two days after

The term “RINO” didn’t begin to describe the level of contempt the so-called “conservatives” of ABC’s The View had for the ideology and people they purported to represent. In the wake of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, FAKE conservatives Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro spewed pure ignorance and hatred at any Republican (politician

Data from the Commerce Department showed that the U.S. economy grew at an astonishing rate of 4.9% in the third quarter. We also learned that in Lewiston, Maine, a single shooter killed at least 18 people, more people than died by gun homicide in Maine in the whole of 2021, and injured at least 13

Kentucky Values, a group affiliated with the Republican Governors Association (RGA), announced the launch of two advertisements backing Republican gubernatorial nominee and Attorney General Daniel Cameron in the home stretch of his race against Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY).  The 15-second advertisements released Friday, titled “Strong” and “Endorsed,” highlight Cameron’s efforts to fight the Biden administration

The mass shooting in Lewiston on Wednesday that claimed the lives of 18 people is drawing attention to Maine’s weak gun laws, with advocates and lawmakers arguing for firearm safety measures to prevent another tragedy.  Many of Maine’s political leaders have a complicated history on the issue, though, often opposing large-scale reforms and working with

Line chart and gun generated separately in DreamStudio AI, merged in Photoshoop The National Rifle Association is not in great financial shape, following years of scandals involving allegations of wild spending and a wee bit of alleged tax fraud by Wayne LaPierre, financial mismanagement, and a civil case brought by New York AG Letitia James

Ana Navarro weighed in on the ongoing search for the gunman who is still at large in Maine after a shooting at a bowling alley in Lewiston on Wednesday (Oct. 25) night. On this morning’s episode of The View, the co-host suggested nobody should feel safe in our country right now after the surge in

A host of celebrities have taken to social media to share their thoughts on the mass shootings in Maine that has left at least 18 people dead and several wounded. A gunman opened fire at restaurant Schemengees Bar and Grille and bowling alley Just-In-Time Recreation in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night before fleeing the scene,

Rep. Jared Golden, who lives in Lewiston, Maine, thought everyone should have access to assault-style weapons — until tragedy struck his own town. Now the conservative Democrat sees things differently. “I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war like the assault rifle he [mass shooter] used to carry out this crime. The time