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What Type of Gun Used at NY Car Wash & Barber Shop?
The following is the Associated Press report on the standoff between police and the man who they say opened fire at a barber shop and a car wash on Wednesday in upstate New York, killing four. But as the gun debate rages, it’s interesting to note that the gun used by the killer was not…
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New Database Tracks Private Student Info
Parents and privacy experts are blasting a new national database that compiles personal student information for educational companies that contract with public schools. New York State officials, working with the city, have already uploaded students’ names, addresses, test scores, learning disabilities, attendance and disciplinary records into the inBloom database, according to the Daily News via…
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MLK and His Guns
Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. In fact, he even applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. A recipient of constant death threats, King had armed supporters take turns guarding…
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SEC Hits Illinois with Securities Fraud Charges
Illinois broke federal securities laws in misstating the true health of the state’s depleted pension funds when going out onto the bond market between 2005 and early 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday. … The finding of securities fraud doesn’t subject the state to any fines or penalties but amounts to a warning…
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Holder: Drone Killing Americans on U.S. Soil Legal
“It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States,” Holder replied in a letter yesterday to Paul’s question…
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FREEDOM License Plate Banned in D.C.
According to the official list of banned D.C. plate combinations, it may take some extra creativity to get your idea accepted by the city’s meticulous censors. The capital city’s DMV has a 53-page list of 26,993 license plate no-no’s that prohibit everything from praising the local baseball team to expressing disgust with the Internal Revenue…
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Druckenmiller: Old Stealing From Young
Druckenmiller, who is known to be media shy, told Bloomberg TV that he sees “a storm coming, maybe bigger than the storm we had in 2008, 2010” and it has to do with a demographic bubble. “But the demographic storm is just starting now. It reminds me of ’05 when people just extrapolated housing prices…
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Joe Biden Knows Nothing About Guns (or Women)
Ok, yes some of these ladies have poor form and would be fine with some proper training. But the truth is that an AR is far (FAR) easier to hold on target and fire than any shotgun on the market. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jafkVM-jnbE]
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John Cusack Interviews Law Professor Jonathan Turley
TURLEY: That’s exactly right. In fact, President Obama has not only maintained the position of George W. Bush in the area of national securities and in civil liberties, he’s actually expanded on those positions. He is actually worse than George Bush in some areas. CUSACK: Can you speak to which ones? TURLEY: Well, a good…
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