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<p>RANCHO CORDOVA (AP) - A 53-year-old woman who fired nine shots with two handguns to ward off an intruder said she tried to avoid hitting her furniture.``Priorities, right?'' said Carolyn Lisle of Rancho Cordova. ``It was one of those nights. I have a few holes in my glass out front.''</p>

As televised on ABC's 20/20 - January 23, 2004 - Lies, Myths and Downright Stupidity, By John Stossel Myth No. 3 — Guns are Bad VIDEO America is notorious for its culture of gun violence. Guns sometimes do cause terrible harm, and many kids are killed every year in gun accidents. But public service announcements and news stories make it seem as if the accidents kill thousands of kids every year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, fewer than 100 kids 15 and under are killed in gun accidents every year. Of course that's horrible, and...

Gun owner: I, not cops, got bad guy January 22, 2004 Three days after Christmas, someone broke into the DeMar family home in Wilmette through a dog door, stealing a television, an SUV and the keys to the home. The next night, Hale DeMar was prepared for a return visit. With his children upstairs, DeMar, 54, shot burglar Morio Billings, 31, in the shoulder and calf, police said. Billings was caught at a nearby hospital and charged with felony residential burglary and possession of a stolen car, authorities said. And, in a move that has drawn criticism, DeMar was cited...

In an effort to trim its high murder rate, Brazil's government has virtually outlawed possession of handguns in public by almost everyone, with the exception of police, soldiers, prison guards and security officers. The law, which took effect shortly before Christmas, is being hailed by opponents of gun rights as a bold new social experiment they hope will reduce murder rates. However, other countries that have tried this not-so-new type of "bold social experiment" have had unhappy results. · Nations that have severely restricted and banned firearms have seen their crime rates increase. The United Kingdom, after banning ownership and...

Police: Homeowner Didn't Have To Use Deadly Force Shooter Says 2 Men Tried To Rob Him POSTED: 9:54 AM CST January 13, 2004 UPDATED: 5:49 PM CST January 14, 2004 GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -- Police now say they think a shooter in Grand Prairie did not have to use deadly force. FeedRoom Homeowner Fatally Shoots Men SURVEY A Grand Prairie homeowner, with a concealed handgun license, says two men stormed his home and forced him to withdraw cash. He says he felt his life was in danger before he fatally shot them. Should he have been arrested on capital murder...

Police: Homeowner Didn't Have To Use Deadly Force Shooter Says 2 Men Tried To Rob Him POSTED: 9:54 AM CST January 13, 2004 UPDATED: 5:49 PM CST January 14, 2004 GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -- Police now say they think a shooter in Grand Prairie did not have to use deadly force. FeedRoom Homeowner Fatally Shoots Men SURVEY A Grand Prairie homeowner, with a concealed handgun license, says two men stormed his home and forced him to withdraw cash. He says he felt his life was in danger before he fatally shot them. Should he have been arrested on capital murder...

Am I 'Anti-American'? by Joseph Sobran Liberals used to accuse me of being an extremist radical right-wing superpatriotic cold warrior. I didn’t exactly enjoy having these labels slapped on me, particularly by Mom, but at least I could understand why some people used them. They were a caricature, which is an exaggeration of real features. Lately, though, I’ve been called some unflattering names by people I used to think of as my fellow conservatives. One, a radio talk-show host, has gone so far as to call me "anti-American." How did I go from being superpatriotic to being anti-American, or even,...

Why does Islam hate America? Posted: March 5, 2002, 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Buchanan's latest book is here! "The Death of the West" is an eye-opening exposé of how immigration invasions are endangering America . Both autographed and unautographed copies are now available at WorldNetDaily's online store. © 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Despite Sen. Trent Lott's demand that we all fall in behind the commander in chief, the Senate has a constitutional duty to debate the wider war the president has begun to pursue. Far from being unpatriotic, such a debate is the quintessence of patriotism. In World War ...

Bush's Continuity Of Operations Plan Casts An Ominous Shadow Lee R. Shelton IV Are you a conspiracy theorist? Have you long been a critic of big government? Amid reports that there is a "shadow government" operating in secret, are you enjoying that rare but pleasurable sensation known as vindication, or are your palms sweating profusely while you desperately search for a secure phone line to call Fox Mulder and Art Bell? Yes, it´s true. The Bush administration has dispatched a shadow government of about 75 to 100 senior civilian managers, and it is currently operating out of an undisclosed location ...

Bush's Continuity Of Operations Plan Casts An Ominous Shadow Lee R. Shelton IV Are you a conspiracy theorist? Have you long been a critic of big government? Amid reports that there is a "shadow government" operating in secret, are you enjoying that rare but pleasurable sensation known as vindication, or are your palms sweating profusely while you desperately search for a secure phone line to call Fox Mulder and Art Bell? Yes, it´s true. The Bush administration has dispatched a sh

Family sues over raid Authorities arrested sons without reason, Pueblo parents say By Karen Abbott and Dick Foster, News Staff Writers A Pueblo family has accused law enforcement officers of bursting into their home with guns, wearing black masks and all-black clothes, kicking the family dog and arresting their two college-age sons without reason or explanation. The sons, 19 and 22, spent two days in jail and were released without being charged, according to the family's lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Denver U.S. District Court. The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado filed the suit on behalf of Dan and Rosa ...

Courting another Beirut bombing Posted: February 22, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc. It was the greatest mistake of the Reagan presidency. Yet, President Bush seems about to repeat it. In 1982, Reagan was persuaded to place U.S. Marines between Israelis and Palestinian fighters holed up in Beirut. The Marines went ashore to ensure peaceful passage of the PLO out of Lebanon. It was a mission limited in scope and widely welcomed. After landing, the Marines kept the enemies apart as Arafat and his Palestinians embarked for Tunis. In three weeks, the Marines were back aboard ship, ...

Pentagon: We Won't Lie NewsMax.com Wires Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002 WASHINGTON – A top defense official vowed the Pentagon would never lie to the public despite the creation of the controversial "Office of Strategic Influence," the nerve center for a new breed of centralized information, deception and propaganda campaigns that will flow from the Pentagon to influence enemies and friends alike. "We have an enormous stake in our credibility, and we are going to preserve that," said Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith. "When DOD officials speak to the public they tell the truth. Despite some of the ...

“Government spending and economic growth are actually the primary determinants of whether there will be a surplus or a deficit. If federal spending had risen no faster than the rate of inflation, there would have been surpluses in 28 of the 32 fiscal years since 1970.” — W. James Antle III

There Is A Conspiracy By Chuck Baldwin Toogood Reports [Wednesday, February 20, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST] URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Once again, a reader's letter intrigues me. He writes, "I find everything you say about a coming New World Order and One World Government extremely difficult to believe. For one thing, while you yourself obviously display no hate towards anyone, most other conspiracy theorists are anti-Semites." He further wrote, "An intelligent man such as yourself would do well to distance yourself from these loony theories." I will quickly acknowledge that unfortunately there are a significant number of conspiracy theories promulgated by people ...

Charley Reese: Bush’s ‘war’ will prove expensive Published Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:17 AM CST The war against terrorism is going splendidly, President Bush says. In the long run, that will be proven false. The reason is quite simple: You can’t eliminate terrorism by eliminating individual terrorists. The death of every terrorist creates new terrorists. As long as the reasons exist that spawned terrorism in the first place, new generations will take up the fight. I hesitate to bring up something that is apparently so inconsequential to most Americans as the Constitution. It does, however, forbid a president from unilaterally ...

Can You Imagine What This Nation Will Look Like In Another 50 Years? Top of Form 1 Toogood Reports [Wednesday, February 6, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST] URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ We hear much today about the American dream. By "the American dream" most people mean buying a big house, driving an expensive automobile, or accomplishing some great feat. However, this was not the dream envisioned by the Founding Fathers. Remember that, for the most part, America's founders gave up their material wealth and substance for something they considered of far greater worth. This hedonistic generation knows little of the kind of ...

In Oval Office, ideology subject to change By David M. Shribman, Globe Staff, 2/5/2002 ASHINGTON - George H. W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination in 1988 with an unshakable antitax vow, only to agree two years later to raise taxes to fight the deficit. Bill Clinton criticized the Republicans' policies on China only to continue them once he was in the White House. The American presidency has many qualities, but predictability is not one of them. So, in truth, no one should be surprised by two recent surprises from President George W. Bush - his warm embrace of a ...

U.S. commanders ordered killings of Korean refugees: BBC documentary U.S. military commanders repeatedly ordered the indiscriminate killing of Korean refugees in Nogeun-ri and other parts of the nation during the early days of the 1950-53 Korean War, a team of BBC documentary producers said yesterday. Senior U.S. army commanders sanctioned killings of Korean refugees, including women and children, by using phrases such as "shoot all refugees," "all refugees are fair game," and "refugees will be dispersed by all available fire, including artillery," according to a press release by the British broadcaster. BBC will broadcast a documentary film, titled "Kill 'em ...

U.S. Helps China Destroy Ourselves, Dissident Wu Says Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Monday, Jan. 28, 2002 Editor’s note: This is the conclusion of NewsMax’s exclusive interview with Chinese dissident Harry Wu. See part one: China a Terrorist Threat to U.S., Wu Warns U.S. cash has directly and indirectly gone into Chinese weapons aimed at the U.S., dissident Harry Wu told NewsMax.com. As an example, he cited the Chinese purchase of Russian missile destroyers. Russia, which was financially unable to maintain the weaponry, was only too happy to accept the offer of $2 billion for it. Originally designed by the old Soviet ...