Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

It was 1720, and Paris was completely mad.

The city’s brand new stock exchange, located at the ultra-swanky Hotel de Soissons, swarmed with citizens of all stripes looking to get rich.

Stocks were still a novel concept back then, and the allure of getting rich overnight was so appealing that people lined up for hours to buy shares.

The most popular was the ill-fated Mississippi Company, whose share price frequently rose up to 20% in the course of a single morning.

Several days after releasing a historic front-page Op-Ed calling for gun control in the aftermath of the San Bernardino shooting, the NYT decided to actually do the analysis to find out just what it is that drives gun sales.

Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

The three quotes below sum up my views on the chart below. 

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” - Aldous Huxley

 

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” - Aldous Huxley

 

“Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences” - Robert Louis Stevenson

TPP? Don't let these "conservative" politicians pretend they are for anything except rigging the rules for the giant corporations and billionaires that fund their campaigns, and hire them at lucrative, obscene reward-salaries after they leave office.

Everyone agrees – other than ISIS and a handful of crazies – that we have to stop the epidemic of mass shootings  (mass shootings have skyrocketed under Obama; 5 of the 12 deadliest mass shootings in history took place during Obama’s first term alone).

President Obama plans to introduce – through executive action – a gun ban on those on no-fly lists.   So does the governor of Connecticut.

Sound like a no-brainer … stopping terrorists from having guns?