interesting things
“Half of all the mass shootings in the history of the United States have occurred since the assault gun ban expired in 2005.”
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/11/bill-clinton-thinks-high-capacity-clips-are-nuts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Arizona’s Joe Arpaio is back in the news—this time, he’s sending armed ‘posses’ to protect Phoenix school kids. Terry Greene Sterling on why the sheriff’s plan is truly terrifying.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/09/arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-to-send-armed-posses-to-protect-schools.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
A self-driving car. A device that tells you you’re eating too fast. Space-age innovations from the Consumer Electronics Show.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/08/ten-coolest-products-from-2013-international-consumer-electronics-show.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Conservatives scoffed at Clinton’s illness. Lauren Ashburn on the backlash—and the backtracking.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/02/hillary-clinton-haters-hammered-for-mocking-her-illness.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Pew says the U.S. birth rate has dropped 8 percent. Is the reason more abortions, more birth control, or less sex? By Kent Sepkowitz.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/03/is-less-sex-or-more-abortion-to-blame-for-fall-in-u-s-birth-rate.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
The woman at the center of the Petraeus investigation nearly became an agent herself. By Michael Daly.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/16/paula-broadwell-fbi-agent.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Small world! Paula Broadwell, Petraeus’s “other woman,†lives just blocks away from Rielle Hunter. Diane Dimond on the tony Charlotte neighborhood caught in two national scandals.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/12/dilworth-charlotte-mistressville-u-s-a.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Who’ll be in the new Cabinet? A look at picks from Kerry to Podesta—and the GOP options. By Eleanor Clift.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/09/obama-s-next-inner-circle-who-will-fill-the-new-cabinet.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
60 years ago the founders of Penguin and Random House contemplated a merger, but now their successors are going forward with one. There’s no other choice.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/09/why-random-and-penguin-must-merge-and-when-they-almost-did.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Obama’s success with Cuban-Americans reveals the perils of the GOP’s anti-immigration stance, says John Avlon.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/09/obama-s-strong-support-among-cuban-americans-underlines-demographic-shift.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29