• Matthew McConaughey stood at the podium at the White House Tuesday and shamed Congress for being unable to agree on common sense gun measures. I doubt if lawmakers heard one word. Nowadays partisan compromise is about as welcome in Washington as Amber Heard in a bouncy castle.
• The National Football League issued a statement Monday declaring the NFL's total commitment to racial and gender equity. On cue, the next day the Carolina Panthers announced that they are hiring the league's first trans-gender sideline cheerleader. In a pinch she can also fill in at linebacker if needed.
• The White House continued a full-court press against Congress, urging lawmakers to pass a new assault weapons ban. The president told the nation the Second Amendment was not absolute when the Constitution was written in 1787, claiming you couldn't buy a cannon. Adding that, at the time, he tried.
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