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Gun control advocate David Hogg is urging fellow gun control proponents to fight efforts to arm Florida teachers for self-defense. His attempt to rally gun control supporters comes as Republican legislators in Florida seek to expand the state’s Guardian program to allow teachers to carry in the classroom for self-defense after volunteering for the program and going through the proper training. The Guardian program currently applies to school staff members but bans guns in the classrooms, which is the very place teachers and their students huddle and hide in the midst of an attack. Republicans want to augment the program...

I am boiling over at the picture cnn.com posted of Benjamin Netanyahu. And CNN wonders why it's in last place??

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday in or near the hearing room where General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker are testifying on the situation in Iraq, according to the U.S. Capitol Police. Four anti-war protesters were arrested for disorderly conduct. One of them, who was not named, is being taken to George Washington Hospital “due to complaint of injury” is also charged with assault on a police officer. According to the information from the Capitol Police, Sheehan and the other three were shouting in a hallway.

Senator John McCain on Thursday called for an immediate increase of 10,000 troops in Iraq, and said the “stakes are higher than they were in Vietnam” for US foreign policy. Conceding that there was an “undeniable sense that things are slipping” in Iraq, Mr McCain said “we need a renewed effort to win the home front. Without it we will lose this war as soundly as if we had lost on the battlefield...We must get Iraq right, as American stakes in the conflict are enormous”. Senator John Kerry has laid out an alternative strategy that would enable the US to...

Pot Advocate To Light Up at Police Station Today Canada’s Prince of Pot says he dares Kingston Police officers to try to seize his marijuana when he smokes weed outside police headquarters this afternoon. Marc Emery, the president of the British Columbia Marijuana Party and the country’s most prominent pot activist, will light a joint or smoke a bong – he hasn’t decided which – at 4:20 p.m. to protest Kingston Police’s policy of taking marijuana from anyone caught with less than 30 grams. “They have no right to do that. I don’t know how they can get it out...