First off, doesn’t any admission that a failure to exempt police officers from magazine size restrictions is a problem with the hurried-through anti-gun legislation (because, to quote one state senator, “you can’t give more ammo to the criminals”) suggest that the law itself is intended to make sure that only law-abiding citizens have less cartridge capacity in their firearms than do criminals?  And given that the police are second-responders (the

“Dear Casey, “My friend John is really in a pickle. First, he agreed to raise taxes on nearly every American in order to avoid being seen as raising taxes on every American, in a brilliant and savvy show of statesmanship. And now he’s being asked to increase the nation’s debt limit, even though last time he agreed to do so the US suffered a credit downgrade, and even though the

Turns out cracking the code is easy:  if it’s said or done by someone either on the right or by some group perceived to defend right-wing causes — like, for instance, taking action to prevent executive edicts that seek to replace a legislative process, or protecting second amendment rights — it is racist.  The particular verbiage doesn’t even matter.   Hence, “nullification” is code for “state’s rights,” itself code for “ain’t