If you want to know who Republicans in Congress value, look at who they protect and who they let die. By any reasonable standard, America has taken a very wrong and very tragic path. Our children are dying from gun violence: why don't Republicans in Congress give them the same concern we do our police and soldiers, who also face gunfire?

Imagine your 5-year-old child singing in school, to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star:

Lockdown, Lockdown. Lock the door.
Shut the lights off, Say no more.
Go behind the desk and hide.
Wait until it's safe inside.

And then being stalked by another child, this one with, for example, a Sig Sauer 9 mm semiautomatic weapon designed for warfare. Imagine the call from the hospital or the police telling you your child or grandchild is dead by gunfire. That you'll never see him or her again. Ever.

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-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Attack on Pearl Harbor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2021: Facts And Quotes To Honor The Martyrs" by Suman Varandani.

Article: "FDR's 'Day of Infamy' Speech" by Jennifer Rosenberg.

Article: "Putin and Biden end high-stakes call as US poised to send fighter jets to Russian border" by Katie Harris.

Article: "How Many More Children Must Die for the 2nd Amendment?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Here's why the federal government can't study gun violence" by Erin Dooley.

Article: "The military spending debate" by Charles Koch Institute.

Article: "Party Control of the Presidency and Congress, 1933-2010" by Russell D. Renka.

Article: "WISQARS™ — Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System" by CDC.

Article: "Gun Violence Prevention" by Austin Sowa.

Article: "The State of America's Children® 2021: Gun Violence" by Children's Defense Fund.

Article: "More US school-age children die from guns than on-duty US police or global military fatalities, study finds" by Ray Sanchez.

Law: "S.397 - Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" by Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID].

Article: "Sole Senator Kills Gun Control Sneak Attack" by Chris Eger.

Article: "Health Care for Retirees" by Military.com.

Article: "The history of U.S. police deaths in the line of duty" by Lisa Desjardins.

Article: "How Much Government Spending Goes to Children?" by Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

Article: "Democratic Views on Gun Control" by RepublicanViews.org.

Article: "SIG Sauer P226 MK25 Naval Special Warfare Pistol" by Leroy Thompson.

Article: "A Guide to Combat Pay in the United States Military" by Rod Powers.

Article: "Republican senator blocks gun control law in wake of Michigan shooting" by Maya Yang.

Article: "Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33)" by VA.

Article: "The trickle-down trauma of school shootings" by Amy Joyce.

Article: "Michigan school shooting prosecutor suggests she will charge parents" by Griff Witte, John Woodrow Cox and Mark Berman.

Law: "Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act".

Article: "'Toddler takeover': Mitch McConnell unveils new GOP branding " by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Colt's Manufacturing Company" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Second Amendment to the United States Constitution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Annual defense bill stalled in Senate " by Ellie Kaufman and Ted Barrett.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "...To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years..."

Article: "I am an American Veteran. My fellow Americans, you need to get out of rural areas" by maxrandb.

Article: "Missouri's Second Amendment Preservation Act outlaws local enforcement of federal gun laws" by 60 Minutes.

Article: "Thomas Massie: US congressman condemned for Christmas guns photo" by BBC.

Article: "Selina Vickers on How West Virginia Democrats Voted for Bernie But Ended Up with Hillary" by Morgan County USA.

Article: "carjacker shot in portland" by Kale Williams.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after acquittal " by Kenneth Garger.

Article: "Lawmakers drop proposal to add women to the draft as defense bill headaches mount" by Connor O'Brien.

Site: Salem International

Article: "Frederick Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "War of 1812" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Congress Poised to Strike Provision Expanding Draft to Women Following Hawley Demand" by Josh Hawley.

Article: "Trump Investigation Enters Crucial Phase as Prosecutor's Term Nears End" by Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum, Jonah E. Bromwich and David Enrich.

Article: "New York's Attorney General Joins Criminal Inquiry Into Trump Organization" by Danny Hakim, William K. Rashbaum and Ben Protess.

Article: "'In vivid color': Liz Cheney says weeks of Jan. 6 hearings are coming" by Jon Ward.

Article: "President Carter pardons draft dodgers" by History.com.

Article: "Robert McNamara" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Committing Treason To Win The Presidency: How Nixon And Kissinger Prolonged The Vietnam War" by Richard Stockton.

Clip: Phone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and Sen. Everett Dirksen (R) 968. "Here's the latest information we've got... This is treason. ... "

Article: "Brother of JFK died in air crash over Suffolk during WW2" by ITV.

Article: "'What wannabe totalitarian, fascist dictators do': Alarm over DeSantis move to form his own 'personal militia'" by David Badash.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 4 section 4. "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence...."

Article: "How to stream Hamilton online and on TV around the world" by Benjamin Abbott.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Dick Cheney" by Wikipedia.

WV Progressives Calling on Manchin to Lower Drug Prices
- Troy Miller, Social Security Works - West Virginia Organizer

Article: "West Virginia Billboard Campaign Calls on Sen. Manchin to Lower Drug Prices by Voting for the Build Back Better Act" by Social Security Works.

Site: The Blue Ridge Breakdown.

Event: 9 Dec, 12:30pm ET: Morgantown, WV: "Seniors & Students to Hold Rally Urging Sen. Manchin to Vote for Build Back Better".

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "One chart reveals how the cost of insulin has skyrocketed in the US, even though nothing about it has changed" by Rachel Gillett and Shayanne Gal.

Article: "Prescription Drug Price Increases Continue to Outpace Inflation" by Dena Bunis.

Article: "MAGA moms meet Madison Cawthorn's challenge: Why right-wing women raise their sons as 'monsters'" by Amanda Marcotte.

Article: "Peace Corps" by Wikipedia.

Article: "House of Romanov" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2020 North Carolina's 11th congressional district election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Operation Desert Storm: 25 Years Since the First Gulf War" by Alan Taylor.

Article: "The American Civil War (1861-1865): Death and Casualties".

Article: "Matthew Frye Jacobson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Naturalization Act of 1790" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Wikipedia.

Book: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

Article: "Ludwig Müller" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cawthorn says he'll change congressional districts for 2022 election" by Charles Duncan and Reuben Jones.

Article: "American women voted overwhelmingly for Clinton, except the white ones" by Aamna Mohdin.

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