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Newsdump Update: US Sends More Troops, Armored Vehicles To Syria Following Recent Incident With Russian Military Police Six Bradley fighting vehicles and 100 soldiers sent into northeast Syria...... Fantasy news out there nowadays along with the real news that I like to post here...We led off with the story in Syria where Russian and American soldiers have played cat and mouse games and even "bumper cars".... The Republicans are backed by the energy industry in the US and folks like Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton pushing for sanctions on Russia and even a Democrat mixed in Jean Shaheen. She must...

An overhwelming vote in the House today to approve the spending of 484 billion dollars related to the coronavirus with most of it going into what's called a "paycheck protection program" for small businesses.... Five no votes on the legislation four of them Republicans Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado, Jody Hice of Georgia and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also voting no. Republican Justin Amash of Michigan voting present... The French Interior minister prefers to call the violence in Paris suburbs in recent days "sporadic tensions" not "riots"..... More developments from Idaho where mother Sara...

An Idaho woman was arrested Tuesday after police say she was violating city orders by trespassing on a city playground that was closed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. CBS affiliate KBOI-TV reports that 40-year-old Sara Brady, of Meridian, was arrested and charged with one count of misdemeanor trespassing. Following Brady's arrest, which was captured on social media, there were protests held at Meridian City Hall, KBOI reported. Station KTVB reported that roughly 100 people protested.

A public relations consultant for the Broward school district apologized Tuesday after a video surfaced in which she described critics of the district in the Parkland massacre as “crazies” and a reporter as “skanky.” Sara Brady, who was paid nearly $75,000 to assist the district after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, told an audience of public relations professionals last July that critics of the school district’s controversial Promise program, which allowed students who commit minor crimes to avoid jail, were “crazies.” She criticized an unnamed reporter who routinely covers the district as “just a jerk” and then...

The Brady Campaign is trying to scare the wits out of tourists planning a visit to Florida. This courtesy of the Scotsman.com: "IT IS Britain's most popular transatlantic holiday destination, attracting more than 1.5 million visitors a year with its sun-drenched beaches, theme parks and wildlife. But Florida's £30 billion tourism industry is under threat from a campaign launched by a gun-control group which warns visitors they could be killed. A series of alarming adverts, to be placed in British newspapers, warns potential tourists about a new law allowing gun owners to shoot anyone they believe threatens their safety."

NRA dials up heat on gun ban in (Illinois) SPRINGFIELD -- Fresh off its success at poking holes in a Wilmette handgun ban, the National Rifle Association has launched a new legislative drive to dismantle strong gun prohibitions in Chicago and test Gov. Rod Blagojevich's wavering commitment to broader gun control. Taking direct aim at Mayor Richard Daley's hard-line stance against the proliferation of guns, the NRA package of state legislation would allow residents of Chicago and other communities that ban handgun ownership to legally keep the weapons in their homes for self-defense purposes. It also would hold Chicago and...

The Second Amendment Sisters and Gun Nuttery tracks Right to Self Defense by year and state. http://www.gun-nuttery.com/maps/s_1986.gif http://www.gun-nuttery.com/maps/s_2003.gif http://www.gun-nuttery.com/maps/s_1986.gif http://www.gun-nuttery.com/maps/s_2003.gif *Now you know the truth about Right to Self defense trend in the United States*

America's number one anti-gun spokesperson Sarah Brady reveals in her newly released memoir that she purchased a high-power rifle in December 2000 as a gift for her son. "I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car and drove home," she writes in "The Good Fight." "It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat." Mrs. Brady bought the Remington .30-06 rifle, complete with scope and safety lock, at a Lewes, Del., gun shop, reported the New York Daily News. After her husband James was nearly killed in...

A gun rights group has asked the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to investigate whether a gun purchase by Sarah Brady, a leading gun control advocate, acknowledged in her autobiography, violates state and federal gun laws. The group, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, is up in arms over a claim Brady made in her book, "A Good Fight," in which she said she bought a .30-06-caliber rifle from a Delaware gun shop. Brady, head of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, wrote that she purchased the rifle for her son, but noted...