Click here for an article by Digby at Hullabaloo entitled "The Village lives. (And it's as silly as ever)."
Jim VandeHei of Politico (or as Charlie Pierce calls it, Tiger Beat on the Potomac) wrote a nonsensical piece calling for some ridiculous third-party coalition fronted by, as he suggested, Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Bloomberg. Digby joins in the general derision the article was accorded, and mocks VanderHei's comparison of the "War on Terror" with World Wars I and II, which pretends that "militant Islam" is an existential threat to Western civilization.
The article contains a striking graph, that unfortunately I was unable to reproduce here, entitled "Deaths from terrorism and gun homicide, 2001-2011." Since that black swan, 9/11, American deaths from terrorism have averaged something like 15 a year (my ballpark guess, not Digby's). American gun homicides, on the other hand, have run between 11,000 and 13,000 per year in that same period.
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