“No society that regulates firearms suffers from the absence of any liberty at all, save the liberty of lunatics to murder their neighbors as they choose.”—Adam Gopnik, “Charleston, and the Next Time” (via newyorker)
Jeb Bush had quite the op-ed in the New York Post this morning. It didn’t make today’s cover, or the homepage, but we’ve pasted it for you below. Jeb makes more than a few claims about his expertise in education, but clearly this needed some #Fact checking. Jeb’s greatest education hits just got remixed.
“Nine people were shot dead in a church in Charleston. How is it possible, while reading about the alleged killer, Dylann Storm Roof, posing darkly in a picture on his Facebook page, the flags of racist Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa sewn to his jacket, not to think that we have witnessed a lynching?”—David Remnick on Charleston and the Age of Obama (via newyorker)
Tax day doesn’t sting much if you live at the gilded edge, according
to new data on how the top one-hundredth of one percent and the top
one-thousandth of a percent of all filers pay their income taxes. People
who make tens of millions of dollars enjoyed falling income tax rates
and ballooning wealth for a decade as middle-class taxpayers floundered.