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Obama cover-ups are frustrating
For me, the frustration began with Operation Fast and Furious. Eric Holder was excused by President Obama not to testify, and nothing was done to tell who was to blame. Why? Then came the big one: Our embassy in Benghazi. Ambassador Stephens was not told...Tags: Pompano Beach, Barack Obama
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Gun advocates should take aim at real scandals
Last month, I received emails from two people I know but who don't know each other: one a close friend and Second Amendment supporter, and the other a regular reader who sends me news items she believes the "liberal media" are willfully suppressing....
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Gun Control, Shootings, Barack Obama
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Rahall off and running to seek his 20th term
The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va.Nick Rahall landed his first term in Congress the same year Jimmy Carter won a four-year lease on the White House. Carter soon fell in disfavor with American voters and served only one term as president, but Rahall has kept his job in the House of...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Republican Party, Joe Manchin III, Mining, White House
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'Fast and Furious' series depicts post-racial America, plus fast cars
Diversity, as San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy explained nearly a decade ago, was an old wooden ship used during the Civil War. Which, of course, was way off. Ron, played by Will Ferrell in the 2004 comedy “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,&...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, The Hangover (movie), Johnny Depp, Entertainment Events, Golden Globe Awards
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New 'Fast and Furious' report finds DHS warning signs ignored
WASHINGTON — Even as they lost scores of illegal firearms in their Fast and Furious operation, federal ATF agents asked their Border Patrol counterparts not to pursue criminal leads or track gun smuggling in southern Arizona so they could follow the...
Tags: National Security, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Schwarzenegger, your He-Man days have come and gone
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesCOMMENTARY Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent decision to return as executive editor of Muscle & Fitness and Flex magazines makes one thing ...... -
Senate Judiciary Committee approves gun trafficking bill
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday to combat gun trafficking, the first firearms measure since the Newtown, Conn., shooting to move to consideration by the full Senate. The proposal, steered by committee...
Tags: Republican Party, Patrick Leahy, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, John Cornyn
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What does a 'secure' border look like?
Once, the mesas and canyons extending east of the Pacific Ocean held the most popular routes for illegal immigrants heading into the U.S. Dozens at a time sprinted across the border into San Diego, passing agents who were too busy herding others to give...
Tags: Brownsville, Pacific Ocean, National Security, Crime, Law and Justice, Migration
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Obama's new choice for ATF
President Barack Obama's recent announcement of a broad gun violence agenda included an interesting nugget of news: He has given up on his nomination of Andrew Traver to head the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Traver, who...
Tags: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Lobbying
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Focus on deranged, not their guns
Maryland's political MOB (Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Gov. Martin O'Malley and House Speaker Michael E. Busch) are now pushing for more gun control laws on law abiding citizens with the Firearm Safety Act of 2013. Maryland today already has...
Tags: Michael E. Busch, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Martin O'Malley, Personal Weapon Control
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2/21/2013-Get Serious About Gun Control
Here's an update on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. There isn't one. Well, there is one, but Congress has stripped it of a leader, cut down on the number of agents and choked its budget to the point where it's almost impossible to do its job....
Tags: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Assistant Atty. Gen. Lanny Breuer to exit amid criticism, praise
WASHINGTON — Assistant U.S. Atty. Gen. Lanny A. Breuer, who made his mark ramping up the prosecution of white-collar crime and overseeing the government’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill investigation, announced he is soon leaving his post as one...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Political Corruption, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Organized Crime, Justice System
May 16, 2013
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May 14, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
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Apr 26, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
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Jan 28, 2013
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Feb 21, 2013
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Feb 20, 2013
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Jan 30, 2013
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