A bridge too far: Was Sarah Palin’s crosshairs metaphor a political death threat?

The rat metaphor gets dissected. Ew! Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich pressed the right levers on the Observatory’s feed control panel, turning our scope downwards for the first time ever. In case you were tidying the bomb shelter, the Sucker State’s has-been lion has been bagged by rat catchers for soliciting bribes after several incriminating recordings [...]