David Frum's Blog, page 92

Shall We Dive into Sequestration?

The latest Frum-Shrum ponders the consequences of sequestration and the outlook of US economic growth.

Yet Another 'Grey Dawn' Shooting

This occurred today in Hamtramck, Michigan:

Tennessee Wants to 'Out' Gay Teens

If Tennessee's controversial 'Don't Say Gay' bill passes through the state legislature, teachers will have to report any 'suspect' LGBT activities of a child to his or her parents. Generally, any signs of a child being abused, depressed or suicidal must be reported by a teacher to parents and/or higher authorities. According to Tennessee, then, being gay is so abnormal, it must be reported so that such behavior can be thwarted. To add insult to injury, the propos...

China's Coal Usage is Blowing the Kyoto Protocol to Shreds

Remember the Kyoto protocol? That treaty to restrain greenhouse gas emissions, negotiated back in the 1990s, exempted China and India on the grounds that they were developing countries.

More 'Gray Dawn' Killings

Here's one from Huntington Beach, California, this very week:

Could Abolishing the Electoral College Help Republicans?

Nate Cohn dangles the idea at the New Republic:

Must Justice Kagan Recuse Herself from NLRB Case?

A lawyer friend points out:

Too Old for a Gun?

Another day, another casual gun killing - but thisone with a twiststraight out ofSouth Park's "Gray Dawn."

Quote of the Day

"Will there be fewer murders with tighter gun laws—the modest laws that might actually materialize rather than the grand ones that probably won't but will surely rev up the rhetoric and the hoarding—or only fewer or smaller massacres? Can we expect less violence altogether or merely less outrageous acts of violence? And if the answer is fewer catastrophes, fewer Auroras and Sandy Hooks, would that be a worthwhile accomplishment in itself? I think so. Horror and panic themselves are...

Clarify the Second Amendment?

Jeb Golinkin offers a thought for how to defuse the absolutist positions staked out by the gun debate: clarify the second amendment.