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President Barack Obama may never have fired a gun but he is turning out to be one of the best firearms salesmen in American history. I've sold probably four times as much in the last six months as I have in 20 years combined," said Cliff Hunter, owner of Tommy Bronson Sporting Goods in Memphis. "Hand guns and the tactical weapons, they're absolutely off the charts." Most of his gun sales used to be for hunting, or personal protection in a city riddled with crime. But just before the November election, anxiety that Mr Obama would win and enact a...

(AP) — WASHINGTON - Barack Obama began on Day One of his presidency to "reboot" America's damaged relationship with the world's 1.5 billion Muslims. With this week's Mideast trip and long-promised speech in Cairo, he takes a perilous leap into the effort. It's a big gamble. As Obama prepares to leave Washington on Tuesday for stops in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, followed by a jaunt through Europe, the president and his advisers see an urgent need to try to reverse animosity toward the U.S. felt among Muslims around the globe.

It was Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan's first major address since facing down cancer. It was in Barack Obama's backyard—his hometown of Chicago. Farrakhan, perhaps the nation's most potent symbol of antisemitism, told a Chicago crowd of 20,000 that Obama is America's next savior. "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better.... This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed." Farrakhan compared Obama...

The best you can say about this year's primary season is that it is interesting. Complicated to the point of being inscrutable might be a better description.The Republicans by late 2007 were so dispirited by the Bush legacies that their field of candidates was a has-been and several never-was-or-never-will-be types. The Democrats, smelling a sure win, attracted a pack of at least six qualified candidates eager to make the kill. Their only question was who will win, not will we win. Fast-forward to today. The Republican primary is over. Sen. McCain is on a mop-up mission to finish off Gov....

"I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud ap-proach to Israel, then you're anti-Israel, and that can't be the measure of our friendship with Israel," leading Democratic presidential contender Illinois Senator Barack Obama said Sunday. "If we cannot have an honest dialogue about how do we achieve these goals, then we're not going to make progress," he said. He also criticized the notion that anyone who asks tough questions about advancing the peace process or tries to secure Israel by anyway other than "just crushing the opposition" is being "soft...

“I heard from an Army Captain who was the head of a rifle platoon; supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. As a consequence, they didn't have enough ammunition, they didn't have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current Commander in Chief.” – Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) (Washington DC) Vets for Freedom questions the recent comments by Senator Barack...