Current events

Hmmm. Looks like there's an effort to get some "total ban on handguns" momentum. Here's an AP Enterprise piece on Richard Nixon:

Welcome to the first DST Monday of the year. Why is it such a bad idea? After Indiana finally joined the herd in 2006, two California economists did a study:

Dumb:

Of course he's absolutely right, but it's not as if this is a new phenomenon or a trend that can be easily reversed:

Beretta to Maryland: If you pass that gun law, we just might leave.

Spurred by the Newtown massacre, Maryland is poised to pass one of the strictest gun control laws in the country. 

We haven't had a Jimmy Carter update in a long, long, time, so let's dive right in. Jimmy is beside himself with grief over the passing of that great humanitarian Hugo Chavez:

Dear God in Heaven, does it never stop?

During her Google Hangout today, First Lady Michelle Obama reminded the audience that dogs need a proper diet and exercise, just like children do.

The First Lady admitted that President Obama liked to tease their own dog, “Bo” for being lazy, but that they encouraged her girls to take him on walks.

Remember how some people were saying the only thing wrong with the stimulus was that it wasn't big enough? Well, that's how I feel about the sequester:

Credit rating agencies are shrugging off sequestration, saying the U.S. government will need to do more to reduce the deficit if it wants to prevent a downgrade of the nation’s credit rating.

So, Clint Eastwood does a Super Bowl ad that seems to support President Obama and the auto bailout, and conservatives call him a traitor. Then he does his "empty chair" act at the GOP convention, and they love him again. Then he is identified as one of the 100 Republicans signing a friend-of-the-court brief in favor of gay marriage, and he's on the naughty list again. And the lesson is:

Dennis Rodman, buffoon of the day year: