In 2009, Marie Moore, pictured above, took her son Mitchell to a Florida shooting range and rented some guns. While Mitchell lined up, Marie killed him with a single shot to the head, then shot herself. She'd had a history of mental illness. She's one of many such Americans who have killed with rented firearms.

Ted Cruz, Princeton '92 and creepy bathrobe enthusiast, is really tired of all these nancyboys who run the military, insisting that there must be political reconciliation and trustbuilding to forge stability in Iraq. Is he gonna have to go over there and bloody up some jihadi ass himself?

Mark Finkelstein, a NewsBusters editor dedicated to "COMBATING LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS" who "spent ten days in Iraq" once, has a scoop: MSNBC host Chris Hayes was really sexist on the air last night. Which is true, if you don't know who Girl Talk is. Mark Finkelstein does not know who Girl Talk is.

You don't need Tor. You don't need super-secret encryption. And you definitely don't need a background check. Getting firearms online, fast, without any legal fuss, is pretty easy. In fact, a new report concludes plenty of domestic abusers and violent felons are getting guns that way.

Police in Pennsylvania are combing the Poconos for a rage-affected, cop-hating 31-year-old prepper and shooting enthusiast who "doesn't miss" after he reportedly ambushed two state troopers at their barracks, killing one and injuring another.

ISIS is bad. If you're a really devout evangelical, ISIS is really bad. If you're a really devout evangelical and believe everything you read, you may have thought a certain recent rumor about an ISIS higher-up was true. Viral debunker Hudson Hongo will now set you straight.

Reporters and pundits have noted how the new U.S. Iraq operation lacks much legal pretext, both internationally and domestically, for several weeks now. Which means it was time for crack reporter Eli Lake to write something up, too. With an extra heaping of hypocrisy.

Somali pirates? That's so 2009. Singapore is the new hotspot for theft and murder on the high seas.

Did you hear Barack Obama say last week that the U.S. would "not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq"? You may think that precludes U.S. foot troops from potentially leading Kurds and Iraqis in direct combat with Islamic State fighters. Don't think that.

"State Rep. John Bennett, Republican from Sallisaw, will discuss the history of Islam, Mohammed, the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, ISIS and threats to the United States at 7 p.m. Monday at Western Sizzlin restaurant in Sallisaw." L'America!

Ha ha ha, these guys.

"A PhD was nice, but if you couldn't get the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee on the phone, what did you really know about what was going on in Congress?" Take some time today to consider how much more money Ezra Klein makes than you ever will.

Life ain't easy for a young woman named Isis. Which is why she's launched a campaign to get people to stop calling the Iraq/Syria terror group "ISIS." She could use her given name, Teresa, but "People don't know me as Teresa, they know me as Isis," she said. "If I do that, then the terrorists win."

Steve Southerland, a tea partier in a tough battle for his Florida congressional seat with the daughter of a Democratic ex-senator, caught criticism last week for hosting a closed-doors men-only fundraiser. But he told reporters today that he's no misogynist, because he knows how ladies do love negligees.

The enlisted ranks of the U.S. armed forces are pretty diverse. The officer ranks of the U.S. Army are not. For instance, there is one black colonel—one—running an armor, infantry, or artillery brigade in the world's premier fighting force this year.* Is this a problem? Hell yes, it is.

Armed Floridian George Zimmerman, who previously used some of his numerous guns to kill black teen Trayvon Martin and menace Zimmerman's then-girlfriend, has been accused of getting into a road-rage confrontation with a driver and threatening to kill him.

Three architects of the failed Iraq War strategy have written up a strategy to defeat ISIS that "will require as many as 25,000 ground troops in Iraq and Syria." Sadly, the document doesn't say "PEW-PEW PEW-PEW BOOOOM" when you open it, and it evinces no familiarity with Clone Wars.

Now that America's long war is getting longer, it's worth getting some outside perspective on what that war's all about, with all its twists and pitfalls. In short, it's worth asking George Lucas.

Under "epically smarmy grandstanding pantomimes" in the dictionary, see Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who punked a conference crowd last night with some off-teleprompter shit-talk in order to score some points with his base of support on Twitter.

America's favorite Irrelevant Grizzly Mom reportedly screamed "Don't you know who I am?" and had to smooth things over with local police after her whole damn brood got involved in a physical fight at a "snowmachine" party last Saturday night in Alaska, multiple sources say.