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Gun Safety Group Announces Seminar In Wake of School ShootingJan 19, 2011 Gardena, CA - A Southern California-based gun safety group has announced its intention to host a week-long seminar in Gardena following a school shooting Tuesday that left two students in critical condition. According to an LA Unified School District spokesperson, the shooting occurred when a gun inside a backpack accidentally discharged. "We've heard enough rhetoric demonizing guns, and it's time to take responsibility," said Kevin Lohman, organizer for the local group called Gun Safety Awareness. GSA was formed earlier this month, consisting mostly of members from the California...

Gardena, CA - A Southern California-based gun safety group has announced its intention to host a week-long seminar in Gardena following a school shooting Tuesday that left two students in critical condition.  According to an LA Unified School District spokesperson, the shooting occurred when a gun inside a backpack accidentally discharged. "We've heard enough rhetoric demonizing guns, and it's time to take responsibility," said Kevin Lohman, organizer for the local group called Gun Safety Awareness.  GSA was formed earlier this month, consisting mostly of members from the California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA). "We need damage control, before yet another...

Additional Program Eliminations/Spending Reforms Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings. Save America's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings. International Fund for Ireland. $17 million annual savings. Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings. National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings. National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings. Hope VI Program. $250 million annual savings. Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings. Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually. U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings. Woodrow Wilson Center...

On 31 January 2011, the Council of Foreign Ministers of the European Union will meet to discuss measures to implement a resolution that promotes and protects religious freedom. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini - along with the Foreign Ministers of France, Poland and Hungary - asked Catherine Ashton, the High Representative for EU Foreign Policy, to schedule this matter. During the past two years the Italian government has requested the EU to do something to prevent the persecution of Christians around the world. These efforts resulted in an Action Plan that would monitor the treatment of religious minorities everywhere. Mr....

1. Do you believe that the MSM for the most part leans politically more to the left of the ideological spectrum than to the right? A. YES B. NO C. I DON'T KNOW/NOT SURE 2. Do you believe that the MSM for the most part is in the tank [has favorable opinion] for President Barrack Obama? A. YES B. NO C. I DON'T KNOW/ I JUST WATCH ACCESS HOLLYWOOD 3. Do you believe that the MSM for the most part has the capability to damage and/or destroy a politician's chance of running for higher office effectively by no fault of...

According to CBS News, a documentary has been produced about the youthful Martin Luther King's summers in Simsbury Connecticut, working on a tobacco plantation. Students attending MLK's alma mater, Morehouse College, were offered jobs to help pay tuition. At the time Morehouse College, Atlanta, was the only all-male historically black institution of higher learning in the United States. The student jobs were on a tobacco plantation, up North----in Simsbury Connecticut. At the age of 15, then again at age 18, MLK came to Simsbury to work. The charismatic MLK was elected religious advisor by the student workforce. He said later...

Second run of this poll. Follow the link to vote if you have not already done so. Results will be posted Friday. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2659845/posts

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The state of Louisiana is asking a federal appeals court to let it list just one of two adoptive gay parents' names on their child's birth certificate. A full panel of 16 judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday in the case of parents Oren Adar and Mickey Ray Smith. They now live in Florida and adopted their son after he was born in Shreveport in 2005.

For Immediate Release Contact: Garren Shipley (540) 686-1138 Senate Democrats Kill Transportation 'Lockbox', Right-to-Work, Other Common-Sense Bills in Less Than an Hour -- Also vote to kill Repeal Amendment resolution -- It might be some sort of record. Legislators have spent entire careers in Richmond and been in the position to kill common-sense, conservative legislation only once or twice. And then they would think long and hard before following through. But on Tuesday, the current crop of Senate Democrats managed to wipe out no fewer than FOUR such pieces of legislation IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. During Tuesday morning's meeting...

So sad to hear but he had a great life.

For Immediate Release Contact: Garren Shipley (540) 686-1138 Democrat Roscoe Reynolds Lets 'Castle Doctrine' Bill Die Without So Much as a Word -- Legislation that would protect homeowners who use deadly force to protect themselves during a home-break in - RPV Chairman Pat Mullins issued the following statement on Reynolds' inaction: "When I was told that Roscoe Reynolds let SB 876 die in his committee, I simply couldn't believe what I was hearing. The last thing a homeowner in Virginia needs to be worried about when they're facing down an armed intruder is 'Will he be able to sue me...

Scott Brown has taken a stand that most people would not find to be courageous. Whatever Mr. Brown’s motives are concerning his seating at the state of the union address, it should serve as an example for the country. We will never keep our freedom unless we come together and make the hard decisions necessary to implement fiscal restraint in Washington. “I’ll sit where ever they put me. I don’t care,” Brown said at the Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in Boston. “That’s the type of attitude we need to have not only in Washington but here in our local...

Speaking on ABC’s Good Morning America Tuesday, Gingrich said a string of Palin’s recent statements indicate she needs to “be more careful and think through what she’s saying and how she’s saying it.” “There’s no question that she has become more controversial,” Worthless DeDe Scazzafaza supporter!!!!!!! Need to be careful who he supports

KABUL, Afghanistan (Jan. 17, 2011) — An Afghan National Security and International Security Assistance Force vehicle-interdiction mission targeted insurgent smuggling routes in Kandahar and Helmand provinces yesterday. Multiple intelligence reports led the joint force towards a vehicle thought to be used by insurgents to smuggle material, narcotics and weapons around the area. As they moved to stop and search the vehicle, the vehicle stopped and three occupants exited and attempted to run away. As the combined force secured the vehicle and moved to clear the surrounding area, they were fired upon by two of the men. After gaining positive identification,...

KABUL, Afghanistan (Jan. 17, 2011) — Numerous insurgents were killed, wounded and detained by Afghan National Security Forces and ISAF during separate clearing and security operations in southern and eastern Afghanistan over the past 24 hours. In Helmand province, during a security operation, coalition forces spotted from an ISAF outpost several insurgents emplacing an IED in Kajaki district. After gaining positive identification, coalition forces engaged the enemy position with mortar and small arms fire, killing one insurgent and dispersing the others. In the same province, combine forces from an ISAF forward operating base observed several insurgents planting an IED in...

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown said this morning he’ll take part in the bipartisan seating at President Obama’s State of the Union address, urging that people need to move past the “itty-bitty letter” signifying he’s a Republican at the end of his name. “I’ll sit where ever they put me. I don’t care,” Brown said at the Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in Boston. “That’s the type of attitude we need to have not only in Washington but here in our local political system where people need to forget about the little itty-bitty letter behind my name and other people’s names...

The Rage of the Plantation Owners The Left Is Desperate That It Is About to Lose Everything by Jack Wakeland Editor's Note: The left's attempt to "deftly pin" the Tucson shooting on the Tea Parties has failed. The American people aren't buying it, and now that the trial balloon has been deflated, President Obama has rejected it. So now the story has shifted to the question of why the left would attempt the libel in the first place, and stick to it so long in the face of contrary evidence. In short, as Daniel Henninger puts it, the question is...

Eric Fuller (shooting victim) has been arrested and charged with threatening a Rrepublican representative & a Tea Party member at event today. He is the same shooting victim who claimed Beck, Palin, etc caused shooting last Sat.

Now, his hope to make open carry legal in Arkansas is coming under fire. Janie Lewis is actively involved in the Sebastian County Democratic Party. She travels frequently and holds a concealed carry permit for her own safety. “Yes, I feel safer with it,” Lewis told 5NEWS. However, Lewis doesn't see the need for open carry. "If you had open gun carry it might be like, ‘Okay I've got a gun you've got a gun. I can see your gun, maybe I'll just shoot my gun,’" Lewis speculated. State Representative Denny Altes filed HB 1051 nearly a month before the...

From Tritter: Michael Steele drops out of RNC chair race, saying: "It's very clear that the party wants to do something different." - NBC Story developing....