Arizona Shooting

Today’s Morning Jolt begins by contemplating the speech, and the reaction: I Doubt I’ll Be Saying This Often, So . . . ‘Kudos, Mr. President.’ Here’s a morning jolt for you: Last night, President ...

Tim Pawlenty, Peter King, and Pat Sajak all feature in today’s Morning Jolt, but it begins with a look at an odd poll question: Inconvenient Conclusions Get Surveys Left in the ...

The Arizona shooting has been a disturbingly clarifying moment in our public life. Keith Olbermann, who once a night declares someone “the Worst Person in the World” — even the daughter ...

From the 1-11-11 edition of the Morning Jolt: Where’s Sheriff Andy Griffith When We Need Him? Say this for Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. He may have dropped the ball on numerous ...

Suddenly, 2012 has a new must-watch race: The election of sheriff in Pima County, Arizona. In 2008, Clarence Drupnik won reelection with 64.6 percent of the vote. After the shootings, Sheriff Drupnik ...

“I understand the idea that, even if Loughner had no idea who Sharron Angle is and even if he never saw Palin’s infamous cross-hairs map, it still makes sense to ...

Are we really to believe that if a politician poses in a photo, aiming a gun at a target, that they are ipso facto contributing to an atmosphere of hatred ...

It’s time for politicians to stop using violent imagery in their political rhetoric, holding guns and proclaiming, “I’ll take on Washington and this administration and get the federal government off ...

There’s nothing funny in today’s Morning Jolt. It’s just that kind of a day. I don’t want to live in a country where we all have to self-censor for fear that ...