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Attendees at the Big Piney Sportsman Club’s gun show this weekend at the Mountain View Family Youth Center shared their thoughts about a revamped gun bill submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives in January. U.S. Representative Bobby Rush, a Democrat from Illinois, first submitted a version of the gun bill (H.R. 2666) in 2007. The bill went to House’s Committee on the Judiciary and was referred to the Subcommittee on Crimes, Terrorism and Homeland Security. The bill never made it back to the House of Representatives floor. Rush has submitted a new version of the bill (H.R. 45) entitled...

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Walk by the netbook display at Best Buy and you're likely to hear cooing and exclamations of how cute the little laptops are. But take one home and you may realize your new baby just can't do the same things that a standard notebook can do. Netbooks are just about the only thing these days that are generating any excitement in the hardware space. The form factor is appealing to many, for sure. With about a 10-inch screen, these are much smaller than the standard-sized notebook, and certainly much lighter, and quite a bit less expensive, too. Some are as...

Hoping to save a strained medical system $6 million a year, Contra Costa County health officials announced a plan this week to exclude adult illegal immigrants from primary care services. About 5,500 undocumented adult immigrants are now eligible users of the county's Basic Health Care Program, which serves low-income residents who cannot obtain any other health insurance. A plan presented to the board of supervisors would make nonurgent county care inaccessible to illegal immigrants, with the exception of children and pregnant women. Also on the proposed chopping block is a $2.6 million program providing health care for inmates of the...

RENO, Nev. — Interstate 80 remains closed over the Sierra today as heavy snow continues to fall in the mountains, creating treacherous driving conditions. The main route between northern Nevada and California was shut down Tuesday because of multiple spinouts and white-our conditions. A 76-mile stretch from the state line to Applegate, Calif., was still closed early Wednesday. U.S. 50 over Echo Summit also was closed for avalanche control.

President Barack Obama, flanked by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., makes remarks on government contracts reform, Wednesday, March 4, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. President Barack Obama arrives to deliver remarks at the Interior Department in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama speaks alongside British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 3, 2009. Brown will press Obama for details on his plans to fix the ailing U.S. financial sector in talks on Tuesday that...

No, talk radio may actually save the business, say two analysts.

(IsraelNN.com) The two leading Republican Congressmen, backed by at least one Democrat, have demanded an investigation into United States President Barack Obama’s choice of Saudi Arabia-linked and longtime anti-Israeli Chas Freeman as Obama’s top intelligence official. Minority Leader John Boehner and party whip Eric Cantor, six other Republicans and one Democrat, Congresswomen Shelley Berkeley, wrote a letter questioning Freeman’s financial ties. President Obama has named him as the chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). Freeman is a former American ambassador to Saudi Arabia and past president of the Middle East Policy Council, and Arab lobby formerly known as the...

Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House. .... The seeds were planted in October after Democracy Corps, the Democratic polling company run by Carville and Greenberg, included Limbaugh’s name in a survey and found that many Americans just don’t like him. “His positives for voters under 40 was 11 percent,” Carville recalled with a degree of amazement, ... "I hope he fails,”...

In his campaign and inaugural address, Barack Obama cast himself as a moderate man seeking common ground with conservatives. Yet his budget calls for the radical restructuring of the U.S. economy, a sweeping redistribution of power and wealth to government and Democratic constituencies. It is a declaration of war on the right. The real Obama has stood up and lived up to his ranking as the most left-wing member of the Senate. Barack has no mandate for this. He was even behind John McCain when the decisive event that gave him the presidency occurred — the September collapse of Lehman...

THE alleged abduction and gang rape of a woman was dismissed as harmless fun by a female defence lawyer in a Bahrain trial yesterday. Three men accused of the attack should be acquitted because young people often commit crimes for "fun", without criminal intent, said lawyer Fatima Al Hawaj. The men, aged 19, 20 and 21, are accused at the High Criminal Court of snatching a Filpina off the street as she walked home from work at night, last September. They allegedly drove her to an isolated area in Askar, gang raped her and then abandoned her, after stealing her...

(Application on site) http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2009/03/from-carlos-labs-have-you-ever-wondered.html Now of course you should never play with matches, let alone a nuclear bomb. If you have a bomb, you are a terrorist, and I hate you. This map is just for fun, to go along with the nuclear bomb testing video posted below. Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? With Google's Maps framework and a bit of Javascript, you can see the outcome. And it does not look good. The list of weapons contains bombs of historical significance - but what happens with modern, nuclear-assertive...

The lawsuit -- filed in Boston by the group Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) on behalf of several homosexual "couples" and three individuals -- asks a federal judge to declare unconstitutional portions of the measure which places the traditional view of marriage into law.

http://www.politicallore.com/writers/alexander-nobles/is-this-the-second-great-depression/568 Video included Jim Rogers recently stated “The U.S. Is in serious trouble. The people in Washington have no clue what is going on. For two years this has been brewing and for two years they have been making mistakes. So, the U.S. Is going to have it’s worse economic time probably since the 1930s.”…

During the course of the recent political campaign the public began to realize that in most cases, Journalistic Integrity is a thing of the past. Media consumers were exposed to some of the most blatant skewed reporting since William Randolf Hearst's NY Journal helped to create the Spanish-American War with Biased Reporting. Sometimes the biased reporting does not involved skewing a story one way or another, sometimes they just hide the the news. This is what the Press does with most reports that put radical Islam in a bad light. It might be due to an over active "political correctness"...

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday promised vigorous and personal involvement in stalled Mideast peace efforts and criticized Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem as "unhelpful." Clinton also displayed strong public support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian Authority is the "only legitimate government of the Palestinian people," she told a news conference, standing next to Abbas. On Tuesday, Clinton met with Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. The hardline leader opposes the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel and supports the expansion of Israeli settlements on war-won land...

"Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course." --George Washington, Farewell Address, 19 September 1796

(CNSNews.com) – Free health care provided to illegal aliens detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement needs to be investigated and improved, some members of a congressional Homeland Security panel said on Tuesday, despite testimony that the number of detainee deaths is way down and that health screenings have saved lives. Capt. Jose Rodriguez, director of the U.S. Public Health Service's Division of Immigration Health Services, testified that each individual taken into ICE custody is given a verbal health screening and is tested for tuberculosis within 12 hours. Dental exams also are provided, and women ages 10 to 55 are given...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday criticized what he called President Barack Obama's "unconditional" support for Israel, saying he was following the same mistaken policies as the Bush administration.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a $6.7 million jury award to a musician who lost her arm because of a botched injection of an anti-nausea medication. The court brushed away a plea for limiting lawsuits against drug makers. In a 6-3 decision, the court rejected Wyeth Pharmaceuticals' claim that federal approval of its Phenergan anti-nausea drug should have shielded the company from lawsuits like the one filed by Diana Levine of Vermont.... The decision is the second this term to reject business groups' arguments that federal regulation effectively pre-empts consumer complaints under state law. A Vermont jury agreed with...