Via Will Bunch over at Attytood, lawyers guns and money:
The Virginia Republican Party spent thousands of dollars on extra security to accomodate the desires of some guns owners to carry their weapons at the annual GOP convention in Richmond this weekend.
One party official estimated that additional security costs approached $35,000.
Now, why would you need extra […]

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As the father of a Cub Scout, the news of the four people killed by the tornado at the Boy Scout camp in Iowa is particularly frightening. It’s not like you sit in the cabins and watch the Weather Channel, right? And some of the kids were out hiking; just no escape. Terrifying.
This year may […]

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April or maybe May out there. Freaky for the second week of January. Stories this week blame it on La Nina, with Eric Horst of Millersville University insisting - as he always does - that none of this has anything to do with global warming.
But this graphic, from Millersville’s own Web site, is both telling […]

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