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Murderers with poisonous ideologies have taken the lives of innocents once again. And the response is the same as it always is: Politicians turn to the proven solution of creating yet more felonies to criminalize law-abiding gun owners. Won’t it be fun to imprison an elderly widow who transfers her husband’s old shotgun to a neighbor without a background check? Or give a felony record to a young worker who has a rifle the bureaucracy classifies an “assault weapon” because it has one of those deadly adjustable stocks? Almost all guns are sold by licensed dealers, who are required to...

Photos of Saikat Chakrabarti in a T-shirt with the image of an admirer of Adolf Hitler resurfaced days after Ocasio-Cortez quoted Eva Peron, a figure who was linked to the Nazis via her husband. Media outlets are again questioning why Saikat Chakrabarti, who serves as chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), wore a T-shirt in a December 2018 video with an image of Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose was an Indian political figure who admired the Nazis, met with Adolf Hitler and Holocaust-mastermind Heinrich Himmler, and lived in Berlin from 1941 until 1943, during the height of World...

In a letter to then Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev regarding his role in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro reflected upon the possible use of nuclear weapons during the U.S.-Soviet confrontation, “It was my opinion that, in case of an American invasion [Cuba], a massive and total nuclear strike would have to be launched.” Given Castro’s affection for nuclear weapons, it should come as no surprise to observers that the aging terrorist has befriended Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Just last week, Ahmadinejad, a recognized anti-Semite and human rights violator, threatened unspecified retaliation against the West unless it...

New government guidelines claim to “guarantee religious freedom”. But, apart from the odd new element, they reconfirm minute control over people, places and activities. Rome (AsiaNews) – With a highly detailed list of 48 rules and norms, the government of China has published new regulations on religious personnel, place and activities that will come into effect on March 1, 2005. The new guidelines, which appeared in Xinhua last December 18, replace the 1994 regulations for the administration of religious places. The first chapter affirms the state’s commitment to “guaranteeing religious freedom and harmony between religions and in society”. The text...

It had the face of Frankenstein and the hands of a werewolf. Outfitted in jeans and flannel shirt, the creature - stuffed with crumpled newspaper - hung by the neck on a homemade gallows outside a home in the Allendale neighborhood. To its owner, "Bob" was a Halloween decoration. But to Omali Yeshitela, it was a racially charged symbol of hate. On Tuesday, as police officers on the scene scrambled to contact the homeowner at work, Yeshitela and others from the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement tore the dummy down. "There is no history of hanging ghouls in this country...

Fresno State plans conference on tactics of environmental activists. By Jim Steinberg The Fresno Bee (Published Friday, January 17, 2003, 7:46 AM) A scheduled conference on revolutionary environmentalism next month at Fresno State has prompted Clovis police to advise concerned car dealers to consider hiring extra security. California State University, Fresno, emphasizes that the Feb. 13-14 conference is designed to consider the phenomenon of environmentalists' increasingly militant tactics, not to advocate those tactics. The university describes the conference as an examination of "a growing movement toward 'direct action' tactics, such as arson and property destruction, by environmental and animal-rights activists."...