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Time has run out to stop conceal carry permits from coming to Saint Louis City and Saint Louis County. The excuse that there is no funding to cover the costs is no longer valid. Tuesday, Missouri senators gave final approval to a bill that passed in the house in March. Now a spokesman for Governor Matt Blunt says it's not a matter of if he will sign this new bill, but when. It will becomes law immediately. The conceal-carry law has resulted in a barrage of opinions from gun owners and those against guns getting in more hands. Despite his...

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SACRAMENTO -- A little over a year ago, I wrote that California's state government was in the worst mess I had ever seen. At the time, Gov. Gray Davis was paralyzed by the threat of the recall election. The Democratically controlled Legislature was out of control, making monumental mistakes like passing the politically unacceptable immigrant driver's license bill and acquiescing in the car tax increase. Since then, a lot has happened. Davis lost his job, and Arnold Schwarzenegger swept into office promising a whirlwind of reform and "action, action, action." But how much have things really changed? It's fair to...

IN his annual state of the union addresses, Ronald Reagan, as president, developed one particular device that tells us much about him, his presidency and why he was so liked by the US people and millions around the world. In each annual address to Congress, he would spend a few minutes focusing on three or four individual Americans, otherwise unknown, who had performed some act of heroism or generosity that embodied Reagan's universally optimistic view of the nation. It was the first rule of communications: humanise the story, and Reagan was its master. On one occasion he recounted the experience...

LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2004—Jody Eldred Productions today announced it has just completed filming and is in the final stages of production on an inspirational documentary called, “Changed Lives: Miracles of The Passion,” which will air nationwide Easter weekend. With rave reviews from Diane Sawyer on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country,” this one-hour T.V. special was shot in High Definition and documents the true stories of people whose lives have been forever changed by Mel Gibson’s incredible motion picture “The Passion of The Christ.” “I knew instantly that people’s lives were going to be...

MARINA DEL REY, CA (PREWEB) March 18, 2004 -- Jody Eldred Productions, a television and film production company in Marina Del Rey, CA is in the final stages of preparing a nationwide television special to air this Easter called, "CHANGED LIVES: MIRACLES OF THE PASSION." The documentary is telling the stories of people forever changed as a result of seeing the film. These visual testimonies will give powerful witness to the life-altering power of Jesus Christ as presented through this incredible motion picture. SEEKING VIDEOTAPED STORY SUBMISSIONS As part of this documentary, the Jody Eldred Productions is asking people to...

WASHINGTON - The White House appeared satisfied Friday with the new, toned-down language that Taiwan's leader announced for a planned March 20 referendum.   Originally, Taiwan's president, Chen Shui-bian, had pushed for a strongly worded, China-bashing vote demanding the communist giant withdraw nearly 500 missiles aimed at Taiwan. But with Washington fearing an upset of the delicate balance in the Taiwan Strait, that language prompted President Bush (news - web sites) to express serious concerns. Though Bush didn't specifically oppose the referendum, he warned that he opposed "any unilateral decision by either China or Taiwan to change the status quo."...

Elvis session 'changed music' Presley's session was credited with inventing rock and rollThe studio session for Elvis Presley's debut single has been voted the most pivotal moment in rock history. Mojo magazine readers named Elvis' Sun Records session in July 1954, when he recorded That's All Right, as the key world-changing moment in music. Bob Dylan's switch from acoustic to electric guitars in 1965 came second, ahead of the release of The Clash's debut single White Riot in 1977. Nirvana's 1990 tour was the most recent event in the top 10, at number 9. MOJO'S TOP 10 ROCK MOMENTS 1....