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A new story by Brooks Jackson on the FactCheck.org website once again shows that FactCheck cherry-picks “facts” to suit its anti-NRA, anti-gun, anti-self-defense agenda—an agenda that the American people do not share. The story claims an NRA advertisement on Barack Obama’s votes against a pro-self-defense bill is misleading because (Jackson claims) Obama did not vote for a “general repeal of the right of self defense.” Of course, that’s not what the ad said. The ad referred to a case where Wilmette, Ill., homeowner Hale DeMar was prosecuted for owning a handgun—a fact that was only discovered after he used the...

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Despite assurances to the Bush administration and U.S. congressional leaders that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas would not seek reconciliation with Hamas, a series of reports over the past week indicated that he may be doing so. Abbas has maintained a firm public line severely critical of Hamas' armed conquest of the Gaza Strip in June, but several Arab newspapers last week reported that representatives from Hamas and Abbas' Fatah faction were holding talks at locations throughout the Middle East with the aim of bridging their differences. Speaking to The Jerusalem Post prior to arriving in Israel...