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Dangers of gun registration: 'The Belgian Corporal' June 21, 9:15 AM · Paul Valone - Charlotte Gun Rights Examiner  I’ve never before reprinted articles from elsewhere. I am forwarding this one, from the late Neal Knox, whom I considered a friend and mentor, not only because it contains an important message to all who advocate gun registration as a “reasonable” measure, but because it contains insight into why Neal became a leader in the gun rights movement.   It is reprinted with permission from The Firearms Coalition, the group Neal started and which his sons, Jeff and Chris, now...

It is a bad sign when the Iranian government would rather execute it's people, than recount all of the votes to keep the peace. It makes a person think that the Iranian government has something to hide.

Mary Lou Forbes was a traditional Virginia gentlewoman. Her hint of a Southern accent and her friendly, hospitable and gracious manner were suggestive of the Northern Virginia in which she was born and came of age. That was a smaller, less bustling, but more neighborly place than the sprawling suburbia of today.

New York – Saturday, July 4, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at South Street Seaport and Pier 17

A strong, gutsy, bold, stand-on-principles hero, Governor Palin, in her own modern day version of High Noon. Sheriff Palin rode into America Town on a white horse with conservative guns blazing and saved a dead McCain campaign. She brought hope to weary and battered conservative town folks and gave them a reason to vote.

Middle East news giant Al Jazeera has gained its first big foothold in the U.S. TV market. Now it has to overcome perceptions of bias. At the headquarters of the Al Jazeera news network in Doha, Qatar, staffers were getting ready for the big news event of the day: Barack Obama's speech in Cairo. "Watch, he's about to announce he's converted to Islam," joked one of them. More Arabs watched Obama's speech on Al Jazeera (the name means "the island") than on any other news network. The Arabic language channel boasts 53 million viewers--CNN has 70 million in the U.S.--while...

Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) said Sunday he has no plans for further delay in certifying the results of the state's disputed U.S. Senate election so that Republican Norm Coleman can pursue a federal court challenge. Pawlenty told CNN that he would abide by whatever ruling the Minnesota Supreme Court makes in the contest, where Democrat Al Franken appears to have an upper hand. "I'm prepared to sign [the certification] as soon as they give the green light," Pawlenty said. “I’m not going to defy an order of the Minnesota Supreme Court. That would be a dereliction of my duty."...

CAIRO — The rancorous dispute over Iran’s presidential election could turn into a win-win for Arab leaders aligned with Washington who in the past have complained bitterly that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was destabilizing the region and meddling in Arab affairs, political analysts and former officials around the region said. The good-news thinking goes like this: With Mr. Ahmadinejad remaining in office, there is less chance of substantially improved relations between Tehran and Washington, something America’s Arab allies feared would undermine their interests. At the same time, the electoral conflict may have weakened Iran’s leadership at home and abroad, forcing it...

June 29, 2009                         Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles                             Mass During the Day       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Acts 12:1-11 In those days, King Herod laid hands upon some members of the Church to harm them.He had James, the brother of John, killed by the sword,and when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jewshe proceeded to arrest Peter also.-It was the feast of Unleavened Bread.- He had him taken into custody and put in prisonunder the guard of four squads of...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty says a climate change bill making its way through Congress is misguided. In an appearance on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning, the Republican governor said he shares the goal of reducing pollution and emissions. But he says the best way to do that is through conservation, more fuel-efficient vehicles and improving base-load power with nuclear energy. Pawlenty says the cap and trade emissions regime in the bill would send U.S. jobs to other countries.

Doctor says he did not inject JacksonCalcutta News.Net Sunday 28th June, 2009 Michael Jackson's doctor has labelled reports he injected the pop icon with a powerful painkiller prior to Jackson’s death as false. Speaking through his lawyer, Dr. Conrad Murray, told the Los Angeles Times he did not administer the narcotic drugs, Demerol or OxyContin. Dr Murray explained that Jackson was unconscious and not breathing when he entered the bedroom at Jackson’s Holmby Hills mansion in California. He said he checked for a pulse, which was only weak. He then started administering CPR. The LA Times said the account provided...

Here are some of the moves Congress and the White House are considering that could sap business profits, at least in the short term. Democrats argue many of these steps are needed to protect the country's long-term economic health. TAX THE ... Rich. Democrats plan to allow most Bush-era tax cuts for couples earning more than $250,000 to expire at the end of 2010--a $615 billion tax hike over ten years that boosts the top rate on salary and interest from 35% to 39.6% and the top rate on capital gains and dividends from 15% to 20%. (Two provisions limiting...

So the House of Represenatives has passed the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, and the issue now heads to the Senate. In his weekly address on Saturday, Pres. Obama urged the Senate to pass the measure. What were his reasons? Basically those that are irrelevant from a sound public policy perspective: green jobs and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. First, I've never really bought into the "dependence on foreign oil" issue. I think it's mostly rooted in politicians appealing to what Caplan would call an anti-foreign bias among the American public. With regards to the green jobs, it's nonsense to consider...

Anti-gun book reviews hide an agenda June 26, 7:51 AM · David Codrea - Gun Rights Examiner  Courtesy Oleg Volk, A Human Right I wasn't going to say anything about Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson's new book Guns, Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea. First, because I've seen the ideas they're promoting and I think they're...mistaken, and secondly because I see no reason to publicize efforts by people who are working to subvert my rights. Besides, I've engaged with Horwitz before, and quite honestly, I found him to be...disagreeable. I'm being polite. The idea that the Framers did not view...

A potential White House contender in 2012 staked a claim Sunday to rehabilitating the Republican Party in the wake of extramarital affairs by two leading Republicans that have damaged the GOP's family-values image. "Any time you have leading figures who are engaged in behavior that is sad and troubling and hypocritical, other people are going to look at that and say, 'Hmm, they don't walk the walk.' And so the words and the actions don't ring true," said Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn. "It certainly hurts the brand." Pawlenty added: "I think I can make a contribution, in a positive way,...

Recently, Palin, 45, made international headlines for engaging in an absurd feud with talk show host David Letterman and excoriating an Alaskan blogger for doctoring a photo of her special-needs son, Trig. But under the librarian hairstyle is a surprisingly athletic and fitness-oriented individual (Editor's note: I disagree with Sarah Palin politically on practically every issue. This article discusses her diet and fitness regimen, not her politics). To keep in shape, Palin, a mom of five, is an avid runner. "Conventional running is my sanity," she has said. "I usually write my best speeches and letters [in my head] while...

Calling it the most crucial issue for this generation, Governor David Paterson (D-N.Y.) said he will not permit the legislature to adjourn for the summer recess until it votes to legalize same-sex “marriage” in the state. “For too long we have suppressed a fundamental human right to wed the individual of our choice if that choice deviates from the heterosexual normativity that has straight-jacketed our society,” Paterson complained. “This channels homosexual love into dangerous promiscuity. Legalizing same-sex “marriage” will bring the stability of family to these relationships. It has got to be our top priority.” Paterson brushed aside critics’ contentions...

Starting June 30th, United States armed forces will remove themselves from a direct role in the guarding and oversight of Iraqi cities, signaling the beginning of the end to the years-long presence of America’s military within the country’s metropolitan centers. Though they will still be “on call” in a support role, it is believed that these troops will begin a rotation out from Iraq altogether and that — for the most part — Iraq’s own armed forces and police agencies will step into the breach and take responsibility for their own homeland defense. It also remains an open question among...

While the White House contended on Sunday that Iran's president wasn't in charge of his country's foreign policy and said his criticism of Washington was little more than "bloviations," US officials stressed Washington is still interested in dialogue with the Iranian leadership. ...Axelrod, said the US remains open to meeting, alongside its European allies, with Iran in Paris in an effort to curb Teheran's nuclear ambitions.... ...Axelrod stressed that the Obama administration's willingness to hold diplomatic talks with the Iranian leadership was not to be regarded as a reward. "Let's be clear that we didn't meddle in the election in...

“No one’s going to save us dude. It’s up to us and us alone.” These are the words of a text message I received from a fellow conservative upon the revelation that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had disappeared for a few days to spend time with his mistress in Argentina. After the cumulative disaster that were the 2008 GOP primaries, conservatives desperately thought that, for once, we might have an ardent conservative – particularly a fiscal conservative – run and actually capture the White House in 2012. And this was not your garden-variety, self-proclaimed “conservative” Republican who interpreted conservatism...