The United States Navy has named a new Littoral Combat Ship, and Spencer is displeased: So. You’ve got a clunker — a floating Bradley Fighting Vehicle — that you’ve invested much of your future in buying. Might there be a national hero and symbol of resilience to name it after? Maybe a member of Congress, […]
Tag: Gabrielle GIffords
Jack Shafer’s column about speech in the wake of the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords conflates several different claims into a broad argument about free speech. Some of these c
Gabrielle Giffords. Update: Sarah Palin and gun fetishism. We can only imagine what would happen if the shooter turned out to be a young Muslim. Since he appears to be a white guy it’ll be proba
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