What if the NRA hadn't endorsed Johnson?
The gun lobby gives the seal of approval to the RoJo campaign for Senate. Now Johnson becomes immune to the Feingold attacks on gun rights.
View ArticleWMC and NRA to start ad campaigns
Ad buys worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in Southeast Wisconsin indicate the importance of the gubernatorial election to conservative groups, such as WMC.
View ArticleCitizen Dave: Idea of the Week... ban handguns and automatic weapons
The answer is not more silence and even more modest proposals. The answer is not to make nice with the radicals in the NRA. The answer, for those of us who want to end the gun carnage, is to make bold...
View ArticleCitizen Dave: Where's the left's equivalent of Paul Ryan?
No other way to say it: Paul Ryan is a right-wing extremist. His budget plan would essentially turn back 80 years of national consensus and replace Franklin Roosevelt's America with Calvin Coolidge's....
View ArticleCitizen Dave: The NRA is a paper tiger
It may not surprise you to learn that I am "not" a member of the National Rifle Association. But it would surprise the NRA. During the fall election campaigns, so mercifully behind us now, I received...
View ArticleCitizen Dave: What's the NRA got to do with it?
The National Rifle Association has been mercifully and appropriately silent since the mass gun murders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. They should stay that way.
View ArticleCitizen Dave: Gun murders continue, and the NRA takes itself out of the...
Since I last wrote about guns, just before Christmas, the carnage has continued. Among the dozens if not hundreds of what are accepted as run-of-the-mill gun deaths in a typical week in America, two...
View ArticleCitizen Dave: The truth about the gun lobbies, or how the NRA is a paper...
Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to reveal his gun control proposals Tuesday. Based on the reporting I've seen as of today, I'm not optimistic. But my pessimism probably isn't about what you would...
View ArticleCitizen Dave: Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn puts Lindsey Graham in his place
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn is getting widespread praise for standing up to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) yesterday at a hearing on a bill that would ban assault weapons. Flynn deserves...
View ArticleCitizen Dave: I pressed the wrong button
As a politician, I went out of my way not to offend people. As a blogger, I don't mind offending powerful folks who I think are taking the world in the wrong direction, like the NRA and the Vatican.
View ArticleCitizen Dave: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-NRA)
Make no mistake about it. Ron Johnson doesn't represent Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate. Most days he represents some other alternative universe. Yesterday he represented the extremist National Rifle...
View ArticleCitizen Dave: Boston bombers were 'law-abiding' until they weren't
Can we finally get over the National Rifle Association's nonsense about "law-abiding citizens?" The brothers who are all but certain to have committed the awful bombings and other mayhem in Boston did...
View ArticleAfter Charleston, more idiocy from the NRA
A board member of the NRA blames victim for opposing concealed carry proposal.
View ArticleCitizen Dave: Idea of the Week... ban handguns and automatic weapons
The answer is not more silence and even more modest proposals. The answer is not to make nice with the radicals in the NRA. The answer, for those of us who want to end the gun carnage, is to make bold...
View ArticleCitizen Dave: Where's the left's equivalent of Paul Ryan?
No other way to say it: Paul Ryan is a right-wing extremist. His budget plan would essentially turn back 80 years of national consensus and replace Franklin Roosevelt's America with Calvin Coolidge's....
View ArticleCitizen Dave: The NRA is a paper tiger
It may not surprise you to learn that I am "not" a member of the National Rifle Association. But it would surprise the NRA. During the fall election campaigns, so mercifully behind us now, I received...
View ArticleCitizen Dave: What's the NRA got to do with it?
The National Rifle Association has been mercifully and appropriately silent since the mass gun murders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. They should stay that way.
View ArticleCitizen Dave: Gun murders continue, and the NRA takes itself out of the...
Since I last wrote about guns, just before Christmas, the carnage has continued. Among the dozens if not hundreds of what are accepted as run-of-the-mill gun deaths in a typical week in America, two...
View ArticleCitizen Dave: The truth about the gun lobbies, or how the NRA is a paper...
Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to reveal his gun control proposals Tuesday. Based on the reporting I've seen as of today, I'm not optimistic. But my pessimism probably isn't about what you would...
View ArticleCitizen Dave: Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn puts Lindsey Graham in his place
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn is getting widespread praise for standing up to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) yesterday at a hearing on a bill that would ban assault weapons. Flynn deserves...
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