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Pine County Sheriff Robin Cole has drawn a line in the sand over President Obama's package of gun-control measures to be unveiled Wednesday: If the rules don't pass Cole's constitutional muster, he won't comply. In a politically charged pre-emptive strike against a set of legislative initiatives and executive orders that have already unleashed heated debate, Cole asserted Tuesday in a letter to his constituents that current state gun laws are sufficient while respecting the right to bear arms "which ... I believe is fundamental to our individual freedom." Neither the federal government, nor any federal official, can dictate mandates to...

Nobody would like to know the answer to that more than the French. But they must keep the Afghanistan example in mind Those days are over,” said France’s President Francois Hollande last month, when asked if French forces would intervene in the war between Islamist insurgents who have seized the northern half of Mali and the Government in Bamako. But the days in question weren't over for very long. Last Friday France sent a squadron of fighter-bombers to the West African country to stop the Islamist fighters from taking over the capital. “We are making air raids the whole time”,...

America's never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste Administration will strike again tomorrow with a series of restrictions on our civil rights when it comes to a Second Amendment the president is duly sworn to protect, not infringe upon.

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ALBANY — "We are fighting back," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said before signing a sweeping gun control bill at the Capitol just an hour after the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act was approved by the state Assembly. The measure expands the definition of banned assault weapons, creates a state database for pistol permits, reduces the maximum number of rounds in a magazine and requires background checks on all gun sales, including those between individuals. "You can overpower the extremists with intelligence and with reason and with common sense," Cuomo said Tuesday afternoon in the Red Room, which was filled with...

Smith County Republican Chairman Ashton Oravetz announced he will resign as of Friday because the GOP is “beyond repair.” “I can no longer in good conscience tell individuals to give any more money to the National or State Republican parties or vote straight Republican,” he said. After 33 years supporting the GOP, Oravetz said he will become more involved with Grassroots America – We the People, a local conservative political action committee, and other “liberty movement” groups, including the Tea Party, Constitutionalists and Ron Paul supporters. Oravetz said he expects an exodus by other GOP county chairmen. “I am not...

On Monday, the New Jersey state Senate, in a party-line vote, passed a bill that would exclude construction workers who are not a part of a union from doing work related to Hurricane Sandy cleanup and reconstruction in the state. According to RedState, New Jersey state Senate President Steven Sweeney (D), who also happens to be an Ironworkers’ union organizer, drafted the bill that would “expand union-only Project Labor Agreements” to “included Hurricane Sandy cleanup and reconstruction.”

BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) - The passage of the NY SAFE Act into law Tuesday has caused a stir for many New York residents. "The people who woke up this morning and found out some of the weapons they have or some of the magazines they have are now illegal," said Rus Thompson of TEA NY, a local grass-roots group focused on the Constitution and limited government. Many say the new law, which enacts some of the harshest gun restrictions in country, is an infringement on the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. A right that allows and encourages law-abiding Americans...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — On this, the one-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter has announced a code of corporate conduct — to be known as the “Sandy Hook Principles” — for gun and ammunition manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. The list of 20 principles includes stopping the sale, production, design, and conversion of assault weapons for use by civilians, and conducting background checks for all gun and ammunition sales or transfers. The mayor is asking all cities, states, and institutions that hold investments with companies involved in the firearms business to adopt the Sandy...

Looking for information on VPN, VPN Software Services and comments on the benefits thereof. I am tired of looking up a particular product and withing 10 - 15 seconds finding that site sending me emails and pop-up advertising. That scares the hell out of me. I don't like people keeping track of every site I choose to visit because our "Gub'ermint" has access to that information too. If there are any internet sites that are educational on the subjects, that will work too.

ORLANDO, Fla. — On Wednesday, the nation will hear President Barack Obama's plan to fight gun violence, and many gun advocates worry some of their rights will be taken away. Obama’s plan is expected to include banning assault weapons, limiting the capacity of ammunition magazines and enforcing universal background checks. Channel 9's Christopher Heath was there on Tuesday as Sen. Bill Nelson appeared with Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings to talk about the gun control measures he is prepared to support. If the president chose to go through Congress instead of using executive order, he'd have a tough sell, according...

<p>Syracuse (WSYR-TV) -- The goal of a new statewide database in New York is to keep guns out of the hands of unstable people.</p> <p>Mental health professionals are supposed to report patients who are considered a threat to themselves or others. Family therapist Theressa McMorris worries good intentions may be too broad since several of her clients could be considered temporarily suicidal.</p>

Germany’s Bundesbank is to repatriate gold reserves held abroad to tighten control and combat currency crises in the future, pulling a chunk of its holdings from New York and all its bullion from Paris. The move marks an extraodinary breakdown in trust between leading central banks and has set off ferment among gold enthusiasts, with some comparing it with France’s withdrawal of gold from the US under President Charles de Gaulle as the Bretton Woods currency system crumbled in the early 1970s. Handelsblatt said the Bundesbank will announce on Wednesday that it intends to relocate the gold to vaults in...

Praise government! Just hours after the federal bureaucracy went over the “fiscal cliff” on New Year’s Day, President Obama voiced approval for an emergency Congressional bill to save us all. Yes, ailing American families and businesses will pay more in taxes. But that’s what it takes for big government to avoid real budget cuts, for now. As soon as the beltway bandits raise the federal debt ceiling above $16.4 trillion in February, runaway deficit spending can continue unabated. Hallelujah! All sarcasm aside, American taxpayers are holding the brown end of the stick again. The media wants us to believe this...

Virginia Heffernan, Y! News: Thanks everyone for weighing in. These are crucial issues. I'll speak for myself: [snip] When I hear about violence, like in Newtown, I feel unsafe and worry that my kids are unsafe, but my mind doesn't go to arming myself or people at my son's school. It goes to the blind terror I feel around guns, especially in the hands of maniacs, but even when I see them on the hip of an NYPD cop. It goes to how lethal they are. And it goes to how I wish guns would disappear. So they and their...

FOURTEEN HOLY HELPERS   A group of saints invoked with special confidence because they have proven themselves efficacious helpers in adversity and difficulties, known and venerated under the name Fourteen Holy Helpers. Though each has a seperate feast or memorial day, the group was collectively venerated on 8 August. However, this feast was dropped and suppressed in the 1969 reform of the calendar. They are invoked as a group because of the Black Plague which devastated Europe from 1346 to 1349. Among its symptoms were the tongue turning black, a parched throat, violent headache, fever, and boils on the...

Allen West announced tonight that he is taking a new media job with PJ Media. Allen made the announcement during his interview with Greta Van Susteren. Michelle Fields and radio host John Phillips will join him in this new venture.

This is a brutal example of how far the struggle between muslims and catholics in Nigeria has reached. Muslims are determined to impose their 'religion' all over Africa as well as in other continents and countries of the world. Islam has but one goal: rule the world at any cost." "And where are the International Human Rights Organizations? Christians are burnt alive in Nigeria: a horrific Holocaust right in front of International indifference. As denounced by Father Juan Carlos Martos, on behalf of the Missionari Clarettiani, via del Sacro Cuore di Maria, Rome, Italy."

ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – An Adams County man is in shock after he says deputies shot and killed his dog. Jeff Fisher said deputies went to his house by mistake. He said when they opened the door his dog Ziggy ran outside and officers shot and killed him. Fisher said Ziggy was his best friend and can’t believe he’s gone.

I was in my neighborhood restaurant this morning and was seated behind a group of jubilant individuals celebrating the coming implementation of the health care bill. I could not finish my breakfast. This is what ensued: They were a diverse group of several races and both sexes. I heard the young man exclaim, “Isn't Obama like Jesus Christ? I mean, after all, he is healing the sick.” The young woman enthusiastically proclaimed, “Yeah, and he does it for free. I cannot believe anyone would think that a free market would work for health care. Another said, ‘The stupid Republicans want...