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Regarding the latest articles in The News-Times on gun sales in Connecticut, I would like to offer a solution — a solution which will slow down the process and create jobs and provide additional funds for the police departments. The process is similar to buying a car. In order for a first-time buyer to purchase a hand gun or rifle there would be either a $500 to $1,000 fee or a 60-to-90-day waiting period. Whether it’s a big box retailer or independent gun dealer, an application would need to be filled out on who the owner of the gun would...

No, seriously...I'm gonna barf. Right now!!

With precious little time remaining until the election, last week I sat down to watch as much Fox News as I reasonably could over a 24-hour period. As one might expect with Barack Obama so close to the presidency, the channel is in full nuclear meltdown mode; I was afraid the stench of desperation would waft out of the television set and into my studio apartment. Fox is going ballistic for good reason: These days, absolutely nothing is going right--in both declensions of the word. The paroxysms I witnessed hinted at an answer to a critical question: What will the...

The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public comments this evening on environmental justice issues related to the agency's efforts to improve the New Orleans-area levee system to a 100-year level of protection. . . . The meeting will focus on potential effects that construction could have on racial minority and low-income populations.

Most of the controversies from the wild 2004 presidential campaign have long been forgotten. But one is coming back, the New York Times reported this week, and we're glad it is: Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee for president, is joining an effort to debunk the many attacks on his service in Vietnam more than two decades earlier. Kerry is a holder of three purple hearts, a bronze star and a silver star, all awarded in a four-month stint aboard Navy swift boats in Vietnam's Mekong delta.

The sun is rising over a house in the Berkeley Hills, and in its modest studio apartment, America's most compelling anti-war activist is making her bed, apologizing for the clutter and running late. Cindy Sheehan was up much of the previous night while emergency room doctors treated her daughter for a painful cyst, but sleeping in is out of the question. Soon a car will whisk her off to a Canadian TV interview, to be followed by a local TV interview, and finally, fixing spaghetti for her three adult children in Vacaville -- her home before the death of her...

Just when things looked like they couldn't get any worse for President Bush, here come the zombies to vote him out of office. They arrive courtesy of Joe Dante's Homecoming, a one-hour movie made for Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series that airs tonight and tomorrow and will be rebroadcast throughout December. One part satire of soulless Beltway insiders, one part gut-crunching horror flick, Homecoming kicks off when the flag-draped coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq burst open and the reanimated corpses of dead veterans hit the streets, searching for polling places where they can pull the lever for "anyone who...

Michael Moore is in the throes of foisting his vile film about GWB, Fahrenheit 9/11, onto unsuspecting audiences. Moore is being aided in this effort by assorted Hollyweirdo Christian-haters. Some are leaving their exclusive enclaves in Malibu to help hype the hate-filled film. Now we are pleased to announce that a documentary about Moore is in production and we are looking for story ideas. You can help the effort. Post here your story suggestions which might be incorporated into the film about Moore, keeping in mind the theme: Michael Moore: "I Live To Eat."