The mayor of Moore provided an estimate of the total cost stemming from Monday's tornado: $2 billion — a sum that's about a quarter the size of Oklahoma's state budget. It would make the Moore tornado the third-most costly in American history.
Numerous media outlets are reporting on shortages of ammunition. Paired with a recent Homeland Security procurement request, rumormongers have claimed the government is buying up ammo. That's not true. And the numbers make that clear.
Let no one ever intimate that we Americans can't be as flippant about threats to bomb things as Kim Jong-un. Senator Jim Inhofe and the Buffalo Bills' Stevie Johnson have gotten in on the act.
He's the first member of Congress to visit the CIA to view photographs
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