With the news of the shootings at the Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and with the movie theater shooting near Denver, Colorado, I wonder what we are becoming when people can't enjoy a night out at the movies or a day of prayer in our religious homes. There is absolutely no reason for actions such as this.  And though gun control will likely get into the debate, that is not what this is at this time.  Instead, we as a nation and a community are left to grapple with what has transpired.

With the news of the shootings at the Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and with the movie theater shooting near Denver, Colorado, I wonder what we are becoming when people can't enjoy a night out at the movies or a day of prayer in our religious homes. There is absolutely no reason for actions such as this.  And though gun control will likely get into the debate, that is not what this is at this time.  Instead, we as a nation and a community are left to grapple with what has transpired.

To the regular Paulites, it probably doesn't come as a surprise that Ron Paul calls the latest Iran sanctions an act of war.  Paul is not quiet about his belief in non-interventionism.  But it may be surprising to some that he considers economic sanctions "weapons of trade," arguing that sanctions set the stage for war:

Often the issue of “regulation” is implicitly framed as “people who want no regulations” versus “people who want copious amounts of regulations,” but there is a very large middle-ground where most people will agree that some regulations are good, and that we must work together as a community and a country to understand how best to apply those regulations.

Sunday morning, around 25 were injured in a shooting that occurred at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee. The number comes from Parminder Kaleka, whose brother-in-law was in the Sikh Temple, and used his cell phone to speak to her while inside the temple.

The Associated Press reports:

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Astrological Sign: Cancer

Term of Presidency: 1974-1977

Party: Republican

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The State of Vermont is once again defending its police in court against charges of taser abuse, but this time the taser use was fatal for a disoriented, unarmed artist suffering the after-effects of an epileptic seizure.