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Police commanders have since issued a reminder to officers that "open carry" is the law of the land in the Old Dominion. In Virginia, as in many states, carrying a concealed weapon requires a permit, issued by a local court. But no permit is required to simply wield a gun in the open, a right reinforced by a state law that took effect July 1

Did any of you watch the entire Washington Journal show on C-SPAN yesterday? There was a leftist author named Daniel Levitas, who was promoting a book titled: "The Terrorist Next Door". Was the author discussing the terrorism of middle-eastern immigrants like Mohammed Atta, or the animal rights fanatics at ELF? No. That did not concern him. His book focuses exclusively on so-called "right-wing" extremists, of the sorts found in so-called "right-wing militias". Included in that group of right-wing terrorists, are anti-tax protesters, gun owners, those who thought Randy Weaver got a raw deal from the government, critics of Janet Reno's...

Another episode of the CBS sit-com Becker, which stars the liberal Ted Danson playing a doctor in a one-man practice in New York City, airs tonight on CBS. In last week's episode, upset by the closing of a "residential life" home for the mentally- challenged, "Becker" went to see the city's Deputy Director of Social Services, who launched into a lengthy rant about the evils of how tax cuts have reduced the amount of money available to government and will lead to "crappy schools which will turn out yet another generation of voters who are too stupid and greedy to...

A letter I wrote to MSNBC, we all should send similar letters to other treasonous media outlets-- There is an extraordinary level of liberal bias on your network. Why can't you sublimate you liberal partisanship in favor of the national interest? It would please the vast majority of Americans if you had a lonely reporter or commentator who ostensibly wished for an American victory. I know you want George Bush to be defeated in 2004, but must you try to turn public opinion against a just war? Why can't your reporters put their ideology on pause and just pretend for...

Even amid the sadness surrounding the tragic death of Dr Kelly, some people in and around the Government have seen fit to place the governors of the BBC under public attack in the past few days. The dogged independence of the board in the face of intense pressure has driven some political figures close to distraction, such has been their determination to influence the editorial decisions of Britain's most trusted provider of news and current affairs. Threats, veiled and not so veiled, from "government sources" to take revenge on the BBC by reducing its funding, removing its director-general, and changing...

Hardly a radio or television news broadcast transpired on Wednesday without prominent mention of the handful of hecklers who attempted to disrupt Vice President Dick Cheney's speech to the Commonwealth Club of California with shouts of "Cheney is a corporate crook." The media's near blanket coverage of the anti-Cheney chanters comes despite the lack of a single witness alleging any corporate crookery whatsoever against the VP. The stunt alone, it seems, was newsworthy enough for most editors. The Clinton administration, of course, never had to worry about scandal driven heckling. It's not that protesters didn't show up regularly throughout the...