GOP USA 05/29/2014

Violent video games and mass murder A question to ponder: Are we – not the gamers – the ones blurring the differences between fantasy and reality when we deny any connection between violent video games and mass murder?

Frightened Residents Storm Myrtle Beach City Council Meeting It was standing-room only in Myrtle Beach City Council chambers Tuesday afternoon as hundreds gathered to express their anger regarding the high level of crime in the city during Memorial Day weekend. Three people were killed and seven injured in five confirmed shootings over the weekend, and Myrtle Beach Police Capt. David Knipes said there were several more reports of shootings or sounds of gunshots that were unconfirmed.

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A Ticker-tape Parade for Treason? “For the foreseeable future,” says President Obama, “the most direct threat to America at home and abroad remains terrorism.” Yet his remarks at the United States Military Academy Commencement Ceremony included no acknowledgement that NSA traitor Edward Snowden has made this kind of terrorism more likely. And there were no demands for Moscow to turn him over to U.S. authorities to face espionage charges.

Imprisoned U.S. Marine Andrew Tahmooressi fires Mexican lawyer Tahmooressi, a U.S. Marine, was arrested two months ago after he said he mistakenly took three guns across the border into Mexico. He said he had no intention of crossing the border and was originally told he could turn around to return to the United States before he was arrested.

Speech Police Hitting Bars These Days A joke on a sign at a Texas bar that made a favorable comparison between domestic beer and domestic violence didn't leave anyone laughing.

The VA Provides a Window into the Future The problem with the U.S. Veterans Affairs giving inferior and delayed care to veterans is a good window into the future of Obamacare. Both the VA and Obamacare suffer the endemic problems of a government-run single-payer system (aka socialism) -- no choice of doctors or hospitals, no insurance companies, broken promises, lengthy waits and bureaucratic cover-ups.

Will Gay Bars and Bathhouses Become National Monuments? The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. Jewell plans to announce the initiative on Friday at New York's Stonewall Inn, which was made a national historic landmark in 2000. Stonewall is widely regarded as the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement. In 1969, a series of riots took place outside when police raided the Greenwich Village bar and arrested patrons and employees, citing morals charges.