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Does anyone really need old family snapshots? Pictures of your child as a baby, or of your grandparents on their honeymoon have no monetary worth and nearly no practical value. What can you do with them, besides looking every few years. Would you be OK with government taking away by an arbitrary decree? We don’t need apples. Pears are close enough and can be used in the same recipes. Would you be OK with apple growing being prohibited? Nobody needs to read Jonothan Swift. Should the books be destroyed for their supposed advocacy of cannibalism? When we are robbed of...

The Department of Justice is executing a "Witch Hunt" against banks. Through the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, Attorney General Eric Holder is forcing banks to "relax their mortgage underwriting standards and approve loans for minorities with poor credit as part of a new crackdown on alleged discrimination," according to a published report by Investor's Business Daily after reviewing court documents. The DOJ has already extorted $20 million for weak and poor credit loans from banks that "settled out of court rather than battle the federal government and risk being branded racist." The DOJ admits another 60 banks are already under...

"SAFR"'s Annual Dinner Meeting features Second Amendment notables Alan Gottlieb, and Oleg Volk, along with Myrah Kirkwood and others. Two of America's strongest supporters of the Second Amendment will address the membership of "SAFR" to be held October 23rd. in Frankenmuth Michigan. Alan Gottlieb is the Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, and also is the Publisher of/ Gun Week/ and/ The Gottlieb-Tartaro Report. Alan is an active member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Alan edited the book, The Wise Use Agenda: The Citizen's Guide to Environmental Resource Issues and co-authored Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is...