The shooting of a Republican leader in Congress and others by a disturbed left-wing attacker at a baseball practice in northern Virginia early Wednesday morning brings to mind all sorts of problems in America: the viciousness of our politics, the absurdity of our public rhetoric, the prevalence of violence.
It'd be easy for conservatives to play the same game so many liberals have played in comparable events — to play up the shooter's work as a Bernie Sanders-for-president volunteer, that he was a fan of MSNBC and CNN, that he hated President Donald Trump and hated Republicans and wanted higher taxes on rich people. His actions weren't really an attack on Congress; they were an attack on Republicans.
A battle over whether students about to join the military can wear insignia on their gowns during graduation at a Connecticut high school next week is raging on social media, but school officials are holding firm.
Several students in Ledyard, Connecticut want to wear shoulder cords representing their branch of the service. According to some parents, the students got the cords from their military recruiters with the advice that they could wear them over their gowns during their graduation.
