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03 March 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Charles Pierce | Trade Wars Are Easy. Comedy Is Hard.  Charles Pierce, Esquire Pierce writes: "Apparently, sometime before dawn on Friday, Executive Time already was rolling in earnest with an assessment of one of the critical issues of the day: the performance of someone named 'Alex Baldwin,' whose career was said to be 'dieing.'" READ MORE Sig Sauer rifles on display. (photo: John Sommers II/Reuters) How the NRA Won the Obedience of the US Government Heather Timmons, Quartz Timmons writes: "The National Rifle Association's black-carpeted booth was packed last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Just days earlier, a school shooter in Parkland, Florida had killed seventeen people." READ MORE Activists rally to defend DACA in Washington, D.C. (photo: Andrew Stefan/RSN) The DACA Deadline That Wasn't Catherin

03 March 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOCUS: Joan Baez | How I Found My Voice as a Pacifist  Joan Baez, The Wall Street Journal Baez writes: "When I was 9, my father faced a moral dilemma. After getting his Ph.D. in physics, he took a job at Cornell University on a project to improve the bulletproof windows of fighter jets. But in the late 1940s, he wasn't comfortable working for the defense industry, given the horrors of the atomic bomb." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

02 March 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Wayne LaPierre Has Made a Fortune as CEO of the NRA. Here's What We Know About His Money  Brad Tuttle, TIME Tuttle writes: "Considering how wealthy he has become during his years at the helm of the NRA, LaPierre himself is arguably one of America's 'elites.' How much money does Wayne LaPierre make? What is Wayne LaPierre's net worth? Here's what we know about his money." READ MORE Russia's president Vladimir Putin and President Trump shake hands during a bilateral meeting on the  Trump Has Done Nothing to Stop Russia From Meddling in the 2018 Midterms Alex Ward, Vox Ward writes: "President Donald Trump has barely acknowledged that Russians meddled in the 2016 presidential election, and now it looks like he's doing nothing to prevent Moscow from interfering again." READ MORE Chairman of Icahn Enterprises Carl Icahn. (photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty

Unfunded (Low) Priority Lists Weekly Wastebasket | March 2, 2018 Just a few weeks after Pentagon spending received a big boost in the President’s budget, services are crying poor and whining to Congress about billions of dollars worth of items that were left out. Let’s look at the facts. The Pentagon got  $686 billion in the budget request . That’s tens of billions more than in they are getting for fiscal year 2018 which was tens of billions more than in FY2017. Yet, the Navy and now the Air Force are running to Congress to get even more stuff. You can be sure Army and the Marines won’t be too far behind. While completely outrageous, the lists are not altogether surprising or new. Except during the tenure of Defense Secretary Gates – who banned these type of requests – the so called “ Unfunded Priorities List ” have been around decades. We’re not buying it, but one could argue the need for this type of list when spending limits were slowing the gr

02 March 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOCUS: Armed 'Teacher of the Year' Opens Fire in School  Michael Daly, The Daily Beast Daly writes: "A considerable number of the Dalton students who were thrown into an understandable panic by the gunshot on Wednesday were quick to offer their opinion of the notion that Trump shares with the NRA." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

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Democracy Dies in Darkness     The truth behind the rhetoric     The NRA’s love-hate relationship with a database for background checks After the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla.,  NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch was on TV  lamenting that states don’t send all the required criminal and mental health records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Because of these gaps, she said, many people legally barred from buying guns can get them anyway. “It’s not federally mandated,” she said on CNN. “Politicians could change this today; they could change it tomorrow,” she said on ABC News. We did some digging and found that politicians did try to change this, 25 years ago, with a federal mandate. And they were blocked — largely by the NRA. The group funded several lawsuits challenging the Brady gun law, which created the NICS, and filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court arguing that the entire law had to be chucked or federal