Congress Should Push For Mandatory Gun Insurance

What an outstanding idea!

Congress Should Push For Mandatory Gun Insurance

Update #1: In ten states you are more likely to be killed by a gun than a car.

Update #2: Liability Insurance for Guns Skips a Step—You Need Liability First

Update #3: More posts on the subject -

A California bill would make gun owners pay for gun violence by purchasing liability insurance

Should Gun Owners Have To Buy Liability Insurance?

Are the GOP's problems Obama's fault?

Jonathan Chait:

It’s certainly true that Republicans are undergoing some internal strife right now over the tax issue. Daniel Henninger, also on the Journal editorial page, mourns that the president is “dismantle[ing] their party by letting its most basic conservative principles disappear.” But how this is Obama’s fault, I can’t quite figure out. It was Republicans who elevated the unpopular cause of low income tax rates for the rich to a sacred principle, built an entire party theology around punishing even the slightest dissent from that principle, and then enacted the sacred agenda through a rickety budget mechanism that caused it all to expire after a decade. That was a bad idea. Since Republicans are at least considering how to rebuild their party at the moment, my advice would be to do something else next time.

It's really hard to calculate the rate of inflation

Matt Yglesias has an excellent blog post about calculating the rate of inflation.