violence

This morning, an armed man shot and wounded a security guard at the Washington office of the conservative Family Research Council. The Washington Post reports:

As a segue to talking about gun control in a speech at the National Urban League in New Orleans, Louisiana this evening, President Obama added context to the movie theater mass murder last week in Aurora, Colorado. " Every day, in fact, every day and a half, the number of young people we lose to violence is about the same as the number of people we lost in that movie theater," President Obama said.

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Yesterday, over at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent accused "Tea Party conservatives" of having a "ridiculous hissy fit over Jimmy Hoffa:"

Via Claire Berlinski, I see that things in the Ivory Coast are starting to get bad. Really, really bad:

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg put his ignorance of the situation and the suspect to great use last night jumping to conclusions that might earn him a long-jump spot in the London Olympics if he decides not to put his dough toward a presidential run that year:

American Homicide
by Randolph Roth
Harvard, 672 pp., $45