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Joe Biden repeatedly has claimed that AR-15 rifles need to be banned in America – part of his gun control agenda – because "the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun." But it turns out that like his wild and false claim that certain weapons were banned from private ownership at the ratification of the Second Amendment, he's wrong about this too. A Field & Stream study on the "Five Fastest Rifle Cartridges," in fact, listed five products. They include the .220 Swift, a 40-grain round that moves...

On the occasion of the death of President Gerald Ford, anti-American activist Cindy Sheehan released a statement today blaming Ford for the war in Iraq and the "deaths of over 3000 American soldiers" in the conflict.Sheehan, whose son Army Spc. Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq in 2004, wrote about Ford on BuzzFlash.com, a leftist website.Sheehan has become the face of the antiwar movement since she started stalking President Bush at his Crawford, Texas ranch in August, 2005. She is currently in Crawford, as is President Bush.After writing the obligatory condolences on his passing, Sheehan ripped in to Ford:Usually, burying...