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I have a question about Arizona gun laws. Where I live, NC, the Sheriff is the one who signs/issues gun permits. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has been on television slandering everyone and blaming anyone he can. He had previous run-ins with Jared Loughner for making threat. Is this Sheriff the one responsible for issuing Loughner his permit to purchase the firearm used in the assassination attempt and murders?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Nashville attorney on Friday challenged the authority of Davidson County's sheriff to exercise law enforcement functions belonging to federal immigration officers. The lawsuit filed by Elliott Ozment in Davidson County Chancery Court contends a charter formed nearly 40 years ago stripped the sheriff of all law enforcement authority and transferred it to the Nashville Police Department. The charter was later upheld in a Tennessee Supreme Court case, the lawsuit said. Ozment said the charter nullifies a contract the sheriff signed with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency delegating law enforcement functions to the sheriff....

Well, using the very same standard the left wing, and their corrupt media partners have used to smear and slander Sarah Palin, all evidence says yes, Barack Øbama may have very well inspired radical Marxist Jared Lee Loughner to commit mass murder. As we reported earlier, Loughner has been fixated on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, one of the many victims, since at least 2007, long before the Tea Party was formed, or anyone knew who the hell Sarah Palin was. Of course, seeing as how Loughner is against everything Sarah Palin and the Tea Party stand for, it’s highly unlikely he...

Welcome to the 5th installment of the FR Weekly Cooking Thread. Looking for something new to make or made something new that came out great? Would you like to share a tried and true recipe for fellow FReepers to add to their 'go-to' recipe stack of Family favorites? Here's the place to share and explore your next favorite recipe.

Reagan re-election campaign's famed 1984 TV commercial... I can remember this playing on TV like it was yesterday. And back in late Summer/Fall 1984, I had the pleasure of seeing Reagan speak live twice... once just once 100 ft from the whistle-stop tour's platform. He ended his speeches in those days with "you ain't seen nothin' yet!"- while going on to bring our country 8 of the best years it's ever seen... [YouTube] Video/more at Reaganite Republican  Have a great weekend, FReeper patriots~ More Gipper's Greatest features -here-

Administrators at California State University’s Fresno campus may have been so anxious to pass the federal DREAM Act that they did not question the legality of the actions of the Student Body president promoting it, a self-described student activist claimed.

...Of the three agencies charged with administering different facets of labor-employer relations, none has been more blatantly pro-union than the NMB over the past two years. Founded in 1934, the National Mediation Board is charged with overseeing labor-management disputes in the railroad and airline industries. The three member board—currently comprised of two former union officials and a Bush holdover—showed its true colors soon after its members were assembled. In its first major decision, the NMB ruled that transportation unions only needed to receive a majority of votes cast as oppose to a majority of all workers votes for the union...

A new move by the Obama Administration may actually move education reform further than No Child Left Behind ever did. “Civil rights advocates are blasting new federal legislation that allows states to classify teaching interns as ‘highly qualified teachers’ and regularly assign them to schools with mostly poor, minority students,” The Washington Examiner reported on January 5, 2011. “The amendment to the federal No Child Left Behind Act was signed Dec. 22 by President Obama as part of an unrelated spending bill.” “The measure nullifies an earlier decision by the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals that California illegally...

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

010 was a year in which American influence waned, as others stepped in to the vacuum. While we did nothing to prevent Iranian development of nuclear weapons, the Israelis introduced a computer virus that perhaps set back Iranian ambitions by two years. We ended the year with an ill-conceived START treaty that ensures Russian dominance with tactical nuclear weapons. What will President Obama's foreign policy be in 2011? Here are 11 predictions you can take to the (world) bank. 1) President Obama will bow deeply to a falafel stand owner, mistaking him for a wealthy Gulf Emirate potentate. Upon being...

Now here’s an interesting lesson into the act of civil disobedience. Bomb the Pentagon, lead a domestic terrorist group that was responsible for 30 bombings, destruction of property and deaths, and suggest that you cannot rule out committing additional bombings, you become a folk hero of the radical left, a close confidant of a sitting president, and hold a position as a professor in higher academia. Alternatively, give your country nearly 18 years of unblemished military service as a high ranking military officer until you request proof that the orders you are given are, in fact, made by someone with...

...The appeal brought on by business owner, Nick Sprayregen, would have been a much needed challenge to the dreadful 2005 Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London which ruled the government may use the power of eminent domain to expropriate property for private to private transfer under the ambiguous title of “economic development." As a result of the 2005 decision, the government’s power of eminent domain has become almost limitless, providing victimized citizens with few means to protect their property. Several states have independently passed legislation to limit their power to eminent domain, and the Supreme Courts...

...Brown has been quite vocal in his support for the dreadfully mis-named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would force public ballots upon laborers voting for or against unionization. This is the devious initiative known as Card Check. Apart from overriding state laws and handing even more power to radicals in the current administration, Card Check would open a door for large-scale voter intimidation, a tactic often used by union bosses to supplement their dwindling membership. It seems as if, in Brown’s mind, the freedom to vote as one wishes should be held only by people like himself: we are...

All four of the formally declared candidates for the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC) have confirmed their participation in the Monday, January 3 debate at the National Press Club. Hosted by Americans for Tax Reform and The Daily Caller, the debate will begin at 1:00 p.m. ET. As of today at Noon, the formally declared candidates are Saul Anuzis, Maria Cino, Reince Priebus, and Ann Wagner. The event details are as follows: When: Monday, January 3, 2011 from 1:00 pm – 2:30 p.m. ET (Doors open at Noon). Where: National Press Club (529 14th St. NW), 13th Floor,...

The Associated Press might actually be onto something in its education coverage. “An Associated Press-Stanford University Poll on education found that 68 percent of adults believe parents deserve heavy blame for what’s wrong with the U.S. education system — more than teachers, school administrators, the government or teachers unions,” Donna Gordon Blankenship wrote in an AP story that went out on December 12, 2010. “Only 35 percent of those surveyed agreed that teachers deserve a great deal or a lot of the blame.” “Moms were more likely than dads — 72 percent versus 61 percent — to say parents are...

There's been a bunch of great recipe threads lately and a few FReepers thought it would be great to have a weekly cooking thread....so here it is! For this charter thread it would be great to dish out one of your favorite recipes for fellow FReepers to enjoy. Do you have a great recipe planned for the upcoming week or looking for one? Hopefully this thread will get the cooking juices flowing. Planing on making this a weekly thread with post starts on Sat/Sun

Professors still believe that the woes that afflict higher education can be solved through federal intervention. “Data should be collected on employment rates, salary information, and in acknowledgement that income is not a complete measure of a school’s return, alumni satisfaction rates,” Harvard’s Bridgett Terry Long writes in a December 2010 report published by the Center for American Progress (CAP). Most might agree on all of the above but Long wants the feds to do it. “The role of the federal government would be threefold,” Long writes in the CAP report, which is entitled “Grading Higher Education: Giving Consumers the...

"President Barack Obama passed a tragic milestonetoday as the military announced the death of the 1,000th solider to die since he took over as Commander in Chief. Army Sgt. First Class James E. Thode, 45, of Kirtland, N.M., became the 1,000th soldier to die since Obama took office. He is survived by a wife and two children. SFC Thode died Dec. 2 at Sabari District, Khowst Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1457th Engineer Battalion, 204th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Salt Lake City, Utah..." Complete coverage at...

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