“Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX) has announced that he would be bringing musician and conservative loudmouth Ted Nugent to President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. ‘I am excited to have a patriot like Ted Nugent joining me in the House Chamber to hear from President Obama,’ Stockman said on his congressional website on Monday.” [Think Progress]

[NEWSER] – “Conservative activists and Nate Silver haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, but they agree on one thing: Karl Rove’s new super PAC backing establishment Republican candidates over Tea Party challengers is a bad idea. Of course, Silver’s argument isn’t ideological, it’s mathematical. The problem, he points out in a New York Times post, is that money isn’t what’s holding establishment candidates back.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXmrOt9LVm8

A black man with a gun! A black man with a gun!

What do we have to do to make the NRA enemies list … what do the AARP, the Children’s Defense Fund, and Hadassah have that we don’t? We hate the NRA! We hate gun violence! It isn’t fair! [Addicting Info]

When President George W Bush ran for re-election in 2004, Koch, a Democrat, crossed party lines to support him and spoke at the Republican convention. … Koch described himself as “a liberal with sanity”.

What more need be said?

Atlanta:

Police say that two people have been shot at Atlanta’s Price Middle School in an incident that took place Thursday afternoon. According to Atlanta’s NBC Channel 11, officers are on the scene along with medical personnel.

The two gunshot victims are alive, one adult woman who suffered minor scrapes and bruises, and a 14-year-old who is currently at Grady Memorial Hospital, sources say. The school is currently on lockdown and parents are being asked to stay away until the situation is under control in order to avoid confusion.

And in Texas, an ADA:

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