ED DRISCOLL: Racism And The Memory Hole at MSNBC.

TOM BLUMER: Cory Booker’s Food Stamp Falsehoods.

THE FACTS ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS:

Mass shootings are no more common than they have been in past decades, despite the impression given by the media.

In fact, the high point for mass killings in the U.S. was 1929, according to criminologist Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections. . . .

With just one single exception, the attack on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011, every public shooting since at least 1950 in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry guns.

Read the whole thing.

FORMER EDUCATION SECRETARY: Schools Should Consider Arming Employees.

Reportedly, some schools already are.

IT’S ALMOST LIKE OBAMA DOESN’T WANT A DEAL: Boehner Offered Millionaire Tax Hike.

ANN ALTHOUSE: “Funny the way the word ‘control’ troubles the proponents of gun control!”

It’s the “control,” of course, that they’re after. Hey, Mayor Bloomberg: What kind of guns does your security detail carry?

THE OPPORTUNITY MARS ROVER JUST KEEPS GOING AND GOING. “Opportunity landed on Mars in January 2004, for what was supposed to be a three-month mission. Yet the rover continues operating in good condition.”

GERARD DEPARDIEU GOES GALT: “I am leaving because you believe that success, creation, talent, anything different must be sanctioned.”