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The gun control fanatics in Congress are at it again, capitalizing on the public’s media- and government-induced fear of terrorism and contrived anecdotes to promote their watch list and gun control/gun-grabbing measures for all Americans. In early May there was a hearing in the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs that gave perennial gun-grabber [...] Mere suspicion doesn’t warrant violating rights Months before he loaded his SUV with propane tanks and fireworks and drove to Times Square, police say, Faisal Shahzad went to a firearms store and bought a rifle. It was found in his other car at JFK International Airport, where his name showed up on the no-fly list [...] Sen. David Vitter, R-La., whose support for gun rights has earned him support from the National Rifle Association, is considering whether to buck the organization and back a bill barring people on the U.S. terrorism watch list from buying guns. “The recent attempted bombing in Times Square by a naturalized citizen has added a new, troubling [...] Two years ago this June the United States Supreme Court said the 2nd Amendment to the Bill of Rights was an individual right to own guns unconnected with service in a militia. Today, in Washington D.C., Los Angeles Policed Department spokeswoman Sandy Jo MacArthur testified before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in support [...] Broad assertions of executive power haven’t even been limited to the last administration. Instead, we’ve seen the powers of the president expand, with the Obama administration asserting the right to assassinate American citizens without any due process or finding of guilt [...] Surgeons are putting exploding breast implants into female suicide bombers that are nearly impossible to detect, The Sun, the British tabloid, reported. – [source] This is the first time in British tabloid history that The Sun has taken a stand against very large breasts. The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world’s hottest chili. After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized “bhut jolokia,” or “ghost chili,” to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday. The bhut jolokia was accepted by Guinness World Records in [...] The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security contractors involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday. Biden’s announcement after a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shows just how diplomatically sensitive the incident remains nearly three years later. Blackwater security contractors were guarding [...] The deaths of seven CIA employees in Afghanistan probably will not be the last. The U.S. isn’t pulling back on covert operations to hunt terrorists there and in Pakistan and will go on taking chances on human tipsters to help. In fact, the United States struck back at militant targets in Pakistan on Wednesday with explosives [...] Obama sent Holder to detail his support for a national gun owner registration scheme and authorizing the government to ban firearm possession for any person by merely adding that person’s name to the terror watch [...] |
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