Wednesday link dump: Take your guns to town

• USA FIRST-CLASS FOREVER
• David Vitter doesn't have a great answer for why he let that guy who attacked his girlfriend stay on his staff for two years.
• Headline of the day: "Palin speech draws fewer than Nickelback concert in Wichita."
• Good news: Bobby Jindal says you can pack heat in church.
• The Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota has embraced the new austerity, which means being a tremendous asshole to working people for no real reason.
• Henry Kissinger: still a murderer.
• Hey kids, solve the mystery code in the U.S. military's new Cyber Command logo and win... uh, you will probably win a military tribunal.
• Here's another story about how horrible most local TV news is.
• And Fred Kaplan thinks Mitt Romney is a stupid liar.

Alex Pareene

Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of "The Rude Guide to Mitt." Email him at apareene@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @pareene

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