How Does This Happen?

A man has shot himself to death very near to the White House. How does this happen? How did an armed person get so close to the White House, when the entire DC area is a “gun-free zone?”

Mass Murder in DC, Where Guns Are Already Banned (Open Thread)

Another “active shooter” incident in Washington DC.  The shooting took place inside a building at the Navy Yard, where a shooter stood at a railing on the fourth floor, picking off people who walked through a cafeteria atrium, four stories below.

Abner Mikva, Obama’s “Respectable” Socialist Mentor

President Barack Obama and his latest Supreme court nominee Elena Kagan have a friend in common -prominent former Congressman and Chicago lawyer, Abner Mikva.

Trevor Louden, New Zeal Blog

Posted By Newssleuth

 

Abner Mikva

Fresh out of Harvard law School Elena Kagan clerked for then Judge Mikva in Washington DC in 1986-87. In the 1990s Obama, Kagan and Mikva were all on the Faculty of the University of Chicago Law School.

Obama’s relationship with Abner Mikva is long and deep but has been subject to little scrutiny. After all, Abner Mikva is no radical, he is a highly respected “liberal” and Chicago elder statesman.

John Patrick Bedell

By: Renee and Leza

John Patrick Bedell was shot dead after pulling a gun and firing at the Pentagon.
I am reading some reports that he was a right wing extremeist, and unstable. His parents warned authorities earlier of his behavior. Who was he really ?