So, who’s up today?

A suspect is in FBI custody after a security guard was shot in the lobby of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian organization based in downtown D.C.

The guard — shot in the arm — is in stable condition at the hospital. But then there’s this:

Authorities found two loaded magazines with 15 rounds each in the suspect’s backpack, as well as Chick-Fil-A promotional materials, NBC4’s Jackie Bensen reported.

Our Fucking Idiot is either a rare Lefty Fucking Idiot, or profoundly unclear on the concept.

Security Guard Shot at Family Research Council in Downtown DC [NBC Washington]

Update:

A security guard at the Family Research Council was shot and wounded Wednesday morning after a scuffle with a man who expressed disagreement with the group’s conservative views in the lobby of the group’s headquarters in downtown Washington, authorities said.

Enjoy the Wingnut Hypocrisy Carnival, everybody!

Security guard shot at Family Research Council in downtown D.C. [WaPo]

“Moderates — and maybe, just maybe, the occasional liberal as well — should appreciate Ryan all the same, because he’s almost single-handedly responsible for saving the Republican Party from some of its own worst impulses.” [Ross Douthat, “Why Moderates Should Like Paul Ryan”]

Apparently Our Hero didn’t get the memo that the original Ceiling Cat is a drywall-dwelling fraud.

[via Know Your Meme]

hmm…bit curious they picked a foreign affairs/nat sec reporter to moderate Ryan/Biden debate. #gaming

— Mike Flynn (@Flynn1776) August 14, 2012

Breitbart editor Mike Flynn expresses full confidence in his candidate.

“Here’s what I fear will happen instead. The Obama campaign will not take the other side in a high-minded debate. Instead, it will relentlessly attack Romney-Ryan for plotting to ‘end Medicare as we know it,’ and for leaving the poor to go hungry without food stamps and suffer, even die, without health insurance. In the process, the Obama campaign will rule out not only the Romney-Ryan plans, but also less draconian reforms that might be part of a long-term solution.” [“Why Demogoguing Paul Ryan is Bad For Democrats”, New Republic]

“I get nervous when I start feeling too certain about something, and I feel pretty certain that Paul Ryan’s budget is a massive devolution of government responsibility masquerading as fiscal prudence. So I called Alan Viard, a tax and entitlement scholar with the American Enterprise Institute…” [Atlantic]

In 1982, the year after we graduated college, 26,173 Americans died in drunk-driving accidents — 60 percent of all automobile deaths that year, in a population of some 231 million souls.

A generation later — in 2010 — the drunk-driver death toll was down to 10,228, or 31 percent of the total carnage. In a nation that had swelled to 308 million.

Also in 1982, 32,957 Americans died from firearms, the vast majority homicides and suicides. By 2009, that had plunged to — well, 31,347. Certainly a reduction if you grade on the population curve, but not a two-thirds reduction.

We chose the starting date for a few reasons.

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