WEASELZIPPERS.US 6 Hours Ago Return Of The Zombie Legislation: Dingy And Biden Meet To Discuss Resurrecting Gun Control Bill Give it up, gun control is dead. Via  Politico : Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to meet with Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin in the next week to discuss the possibility of reviving the Senate's dormant gun legislation. Reid told reporters Tuesday afternoon that he had spoken with Biden on Monday and the two will meet in person next week. Reid also spoke with Manchin (D-W.Va.), a key architect of a failed background check amendment along with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). The Nevada Democrat didn't tip his hand as to whether the Senate will try to pursue another gun bill after the efforts collapsed in April and Democratic leadership shelved the bill. Return Of The Zombie Legislation: Dingy And Biden Meet To Discuss Resurrecting Gun Control Bill http://weaselzippers.us/2013/06/04/return-of-the-zombie-legislation-dingy-and-biden-meet-to-d...

 NEWREPUBLIC.COM 8 Hours Ago In Virginia, Another Sign of the Shifting Politics of Gun Control by  Alec Macgillis Have you heard about the weird stuff going on in the lieutenant governor's race in Virginia? No, I'm not talking about the Republican nominee, the  African-American preacher E.W. Jackson , who has said that gay-rights groups have "done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did," said that the Democratic Party has "an agenda worthy of the Antichrist," and called the Affordable Care Act "slavery-care." I'm referring to the oddity on the other side, where the two candidates running in next week's Democratic primary are trying to outdo each other on gun control—support for it, that is. Chalk it up as yet another sign that, as I  argue in the magazine's current issue , the politics of gun control are changing, even if the bill to expand background ch...

 NEWS BUSTERS 6 Hours Ago MSNBC Anchor Says Republicans Weren't Sent to D.C. to 'Just Hold Hearings' by  Paul Bremmer MSNBC continues to disparage the scandals that have plagued the Obama administration the last few weeks. On Sunday's  Weekends with Alex Witt , the host brought on former Democratic staffer Jimmy Williams and former RNC chairman Michael Steele to reluctantly discuss the scandals once again. Of course, rather than focus on the substance of the controversies, Witt fell back on the concern that she and many others in the liberal media have often expressed: " [D]oes this have the potential to derail the president's second-term agenda?" The president's agenda is always the victim of these scandal investigations in the minds of the press, at least when there's a (D) following the president's surname. Williams, being the Democrat that he is, brushed aside that question and riffed on another favorite left-wing talking point – Republican...

 REDALERTPOLITICS.COM 4 Hours Ago Obama losing support with voters over his gun control proposals by  Jack Butler President Obama is continuing to lose support among the American voters over his gun control proposals, according to a new study by Rasmussen Reports. According to the study , which was released Tuesday, 46 percent of likely voters consider the president's handling of issues related to gun control to be poor – the highest it's been since Rasmussen began asking the question back in January. Only 37 percent of voters say that his handling of gun control policies have been excellent or good. In addition, 53 percent of men and 54 percent of voters who consider themselves not to be Republicans or Democrats believe that the president is poorly handling issues related to gun control. This represents a near-flip of the results from Rasmussen's earlier studies on the subject, in which  45 percent of likely voters  ranked the president's handling of gun control iss...

 REDALERTPOLITICS.COM 4 Hours Ago Obama losing support with voters over his gun control proposals by  Jack Butler President Obama is continuing to lose support among the American voters over his gun control proposals, according to a new study by Rasmussen Reports. According to the study , which was released Tuesday, 46 percent of likely voters consider the president's handling of issues related to gun control to be poor – the highest it's been since Rasmussen began asking the question back in January. Only 37 percent of voters say that his handling of gun control policies have been excellent or good. In addition, 53 percent of men and 54 percent of voters who consider themselves not to be Republicans or Democrats believe that the president is poorly handling issues related to gun control. This represents a near-flip of the results from Rasmussen's earlier studies on the subject, in which  45 percent of likely voters  ranked the president's handling of gun control iss...

 PAT DOLLARD YOUNG AMERICANS 4 Hours Ago Pro-Lifer Tells Congress IRS Made Us Promise Not To Protest Planned Parenthood by  Jake Hammer Jun 4, 2013Jake Hammer Excerpted from  LIFE NEWS At a hearing today over the Internal Revenue Service and how it targeted conservative and pro-life group, the head of one pro-life organization provide details about  how the federal agency discriminated against it.  Sue Martinek, President of the  Coalition for Life of Iowa,  explained to the House Ways and Means Committee that her pro-life group "is a grass-roots, low-budget public charity founded in 2004, to provide prayer, education, and related activities about the sanctity of life from conception to death." "Throughout our history, we have organized and sponsored educational forums and engaged in peaceful prayer activities," she said. When the group sought nonprofit status, she said, "The IRS's questions centered on our educational activities, potential political a...

 PAT DOLLARD YOUNG AMERICANS 4 Hours Ago Another Democrat In Bloomberg's Anti-Gun Group Arrested by  Jake Hammer Jun 4, 2013Jake Hammer Excerpted from  FREE BEACON Another member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun lobby Mayors Against Illegal Guns was reportedly arrested on Monday. Carrboro, N.C., Mayor Mark Chilton was arrested during an anti-Koch brothers protest at the North Carolina Legislative Building,  Raw Story reports:  Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton was one of 151 people arrested at the North Carolina Legislative Building on Monday to protest what they said was an overreach by the Republican-controlled state government. For weeks, protesters have been participating in civil disobedience as part of "Moral Mondays." North Carolina NAACP president Rev. William Barber told the crowd that the agenda of conservative lawmakers was being driven by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and billionaire brothers David Koch and Charles Koc...

 THEHILL.COM 4 Hours Ago Boston bombing suspect aspired to join anti-Israeli movement in Gaza - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room by  Jonathan Easley By Jonathan Easley - 06/04/13 07:12 PM ET Tweet Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev hoped to join an anti-Israeli movement in Gaza, but ended up joining Chechen rebels in Dagestan because he didn't speak Arabic, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) told The Hill in an interview on Tuesday. Cohen and a group of five other lawmakers returned Monday from a trip to Russia, where they met with the head of a Russian counter-terrorism unit, the director of the Committee for State Security (KGB), and other national security officials. The congressional delegation sought answers to why Russian warnings about Tsarnaev failed to capture the attention of U.S. authorities. "It's tough, I don't know if they dropped the ball or we dropped the ball, but hopefully we'll work together better going forward," Cohen said. Tamerlan Tsarnae...

 BREITBART.COM 3 Hours Ago Rick Scott Vetoes Bill to Give Illegal Immigrants Driver's Licenses by  Matthew Boyle by  Matthew Boyle 4 Jun 2013, 4:43 PM PDT post a comment "Florida is home to immigrants of many nationalities, who add to the cultural fabric of our great state, and whose productivity and hard work have contributed to our economic turnaround," Scott said in his official letter to Florida Secretary of State Kenneth Detzner announcing the veto. "Still, our nation struggles with immigration issues every day, as Americans seek to reconcile the fact that at one point our families were immigrants who came, as many do today, to work and live the American dream with the fact that the federal government has failed at enforcing the nation's laws on this topic." Scott went on to detail the inconsistencies of immigration policy coming out of Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security and President Barack Obama's administration at large. ...

 HOTAIR.COM 3 Hours Ago Sebelius: I can't suspend the lung-transplant rules for a dying 10-year-old posted at 8:01 pm on June 4, 2013 by Allahpundit Portrait of a bureaucratic nightmare: A little girl's dying from cystic fibrosis and has three to five weeks to live  unless  she gets a lung transplant before then. The good news is that adult lungs can be modified for a child her age in a way that'll save her life — except that, because she's only 10, she's not eligible for them. The "adult" list starts at 12; everyone younger than that goes to the children's list, where lungs are much harder to come by. The question is, does Sebelius have the authority to suspend those age limitations and make the girl, Sarah Murnaghan, eligible for an adult transplant? I honestly don't know the answer. Murnaghan's parents say Sebelius's authority is clear; Sebelius herself claims that HHS's lawyers have told her  she can't do it . A life hangs in th...